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The real title of the article is: Privacy Law Update: Colorado Privacy Bill Becomes Law: How Does it Stack Up Against California and Virginia? It is good to see that some states are taking action about privacy.
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Comparison of recent privacy laws in three US states(adlawaccess.com)
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Overall I found it a set of fairly decent articles about a serious problem. It is probably caused by a combination of factors. The author the potential problems of contaminants. We are all exposed to lots of contaminant that our ancestors w
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I happen to like the Harry Potter series. Yes, they are children books. There was a point when I wondered if it was worth reading the next one, but once I started reading it was immediately really fun to read. The movies are also amazing. M
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What's interesting is that some of it happens to be written in Haskell.
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AFAIK speed is only a real issue in the financial sector for very few applications. For most of them the database is the bottle-neck not the programs. Also, security is generally important in this sector. Both C++ and Python do not have a g
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This was a complicated operation that had many difficult steps. If any of these steps would not have worked, the entire project would have failed. Just pointing at one of these step as the most important does not show much appreciation of t
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The NSA is an agency with a yearly budget of approximately 10 billion dollars. There are not many companies that can match that.
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Social engineering can be highly effective. However, from what we know about the NSA, especially from the Snowden leaks, it appears to be mainly a technical agency. It seems likely that the NSA does not use social engineering on a large sca
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A security audit is still useful when you have sources to the program. There may still be some intended or just accidental security problems with it. Having the sources makes such an audit a lot easier to do.
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Even better, the NSA provides the sources which you can compile yourself: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/releases
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A decent article about human like robots, and why they do not live up to our expectations. But in the industry there are several robots that have a good performance, but they don't look humanoid at all.
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If you ask a group of people if they are OK with having cameras in their toilets and bedrooms that could be watched by strangers many people would not agree. Many of the current surveillance proposals are trying to something very similar. I
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A lot of malware already specifically avoided attacking Russians [0]. But in a some sense they are just like other start-ups, when something fails just try something different. It seems likely that they have enough money to do that. [0] ht
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Dinosaurs are only one of the many groups of reptiles that have ever existed. It is normal use in biology to classify species in the same group as the group of their ancestor species. So, whether you like it or not, humans are mammals and p
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My comment got down-voted. Sometimes, it happens. But the current title in isolation suggests an important and wide ranging topic. The article which some nice ideas is only applicable to Rust, but does not really deal with other issues abou
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This might not be as far fetched as you assume. Large farms in the Netherlands are already required to have some filtering systems for reducing the output of Nitrogen-based compounds.
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For you it is obviously not news, but for other people it probably is. For me, HN is about learning something new, not just for learning about something that happened in the last 24 hours.
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42 happens to be the answer to the "Universal Question About Life, The Universe and Everything". [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_th... PS: I get it that some people will down
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If you want to be able to read a language you must be familiar with the script that it is written with. Some languages do not even have a notion of letters. In Japanese a basic notion is the Kanji (and there are really many of them). There
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In the Arabic script letters change their form depending on the letters before and after[0]. It is a lot easier to understand this when you try to write the letters by hand. [0] This is also true for all handwriting in a cursive style. It c
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I really wished that my country had used the Arabic script, which goes from right to left. I am left-handed, which means that your hand and pen obscure the last part that you have written. Consequently, my handwriting is pretty horrible. I
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One thing that I would like to see is a clone of SciHub that allowed new submissions. SciHub is not accepting submissions because the founder is waiting for the results of a process in India. This could take many years. Of course, the perso
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From what I know, in my country it is not at all uncommon in research grants to have a portion of the funds allocated to publishing the results. It is usually also in the interest of the funding agencies, because it is a form of PR for the
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I hope that Scihub will continue to exist. There are a lot of important papers that have been published in traditional journals. Scientific work is generally based on previous work. Having access to these papers is also important for future
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Scientists can be excellent communicators. It seems unlikely that any serious journal would hire editors that were not able to write clearly.
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Security is important to banks. But for a good security analysis you need to know these systems work. It seems a reasonable request from the Bank of England to get that information.
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Although I fully agree with the sentiment that bats are very interesting animals that should be fully protected, the article provides no evidence that COVID-19 is not descended from a bat virus. After all it is closely related to SARS, for
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There should be more testing like this, also for other packages and languages. In many case there are many packages with a similar functionality. Having solid testing helps when selecting which package to use.
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The problem that I always have with Markdown is that there is no real standard for it. Every system seems to have its own version.

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