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by Permit 5y ago
> (Maybe Google could start by paying Wikipedia for some of the traffic they generate). What does this mean? You think Google should pay for people who are sent to wikipedia.org after a Google Search? Or you think Google should pay for t
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by Permit 5y ago
> Being a "good boss" includes being able to draw a line in the sand somewhere. A "bad boss" is one who thinks "the company" can pay for everything "just because" is doing the themselves, their emp
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by Permit 5y ago
This article is talking about two very different things: 1. Using video/audio of a person to make statements about their personality. 2. Using video/audio of a person to identify them. The former seems as though it’s largely pseud
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by Permit 5y ago
On the second half, I saw a quote from C.S. Lewis (here on HN[1]) which I thought captured the same sentiment well: Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story
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by Permit 5y ago
Your account may very well be biased but it astonishes me how many HN commenters are willing to chime in while knowing next to nothing about what actually took place. I know next to nothing and as such would typically hesitate to comment. O
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by Permit 5y ago
> How poorly you are informed about international politics? > How naïve you are! Why the hostility? I've asked a handful of questions in good faith and another commenter politely corrected me on a few issues I was not aware of. I
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by Permit 5y ago
The China sanctions do not appear to have been enacted, but the Russian ones in response to the attack on SolarWinds do. Thanks for the links!
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by Permit 5y ago
> You can refer to Huawei case. I have only surface-level knowledge, but wasn't this case because Huawei was selling components to Iran? Or was it related to spying?
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by Permit 5y ago
> I still wonder, what happens if other countries like China, Russia spy on other governments and are disclosed? They will be embargoed by US. Does this happen? Has China faced sanctions after spying on US citizens or stealing trade secr
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by Permit 5y ago
How much will this affect average oil/gas consumers in the EU? Weren't the Yellow Vest Protests[1] started in response to increased fuel prices (in that case, in the form of a tax). Presumably this will increase prices? Or will we
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by Permit 5y ago
> Under GDPR, a website doesn't need to ask for permission to have necessary cookies which enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. I am not convinced this is true. See: https://l
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by Permit 5y ago
> If you instead treat user data like a security liability > minimise collection > anonymise things early > remove data promptly when no longer needed, > make it easy to audit what data you do hold These (and others) are the
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by Permit 5y ago
> I don't send cookies or keep personal data, so why do I need to worry about them? Can you share your website/service?
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by Permit 5y ago
> Forcing a “duty of care” responsibility on organisations which operate online will not only drown small and medium sized companies in administrative tasks and costs, it will further accentuate the existing monopolies by Big Tech. I oft
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by Permit 5y ago
This is often repeated and I think it's probably true, but I wonder if there's even more to it than this. Presumably there is some subset of the population that *really is* having much better lives than another subset of the popul
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by Permit 5y ago
> But as the father of a kid with Asperger Syndrome, and as someone with a likely diagnosis myself (according to neuropysch testing), It's not immediately obvious to me how this relates to the article. Can you elaborate? Is "fi
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by Permit 5y ago
A small discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27178589
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by Permit 5y ago
Do those articles relate to low quality regions of Google Maps satellite imagery? That’s the connection that would be interesting in the context of the original article.
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by Permit 5y ago
This reads like a thoughtless, knee-jerk reaction but I think there is opportunity for you to expand on your comment and guide the discussion to an interesting place. Who is “they” in this case? What war crimes are hidden by low quality sat
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by Permit 5y ago
> We need to have such open source applications available to us without fear of telemetry sharing with ad companies. Do you pay for audacity?
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by Permit 5y ago
> a) it introduces private healthcare decisions, a legally fraught topic they do not want to deal with. Weaponizing (perhaps too aggressive a word) private health decisions feels weird to me. The OP didn't mention any health concern
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by Permit 6y ago
> Paypal growth held a 1:1 correlation with online prescription drug scam (or online prescription crime rings, depending who you ask). This correlation is about as compelling as these ones: https://www.tylervigen.com/spur
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by Permit 6y ago
How many transactions/day is Lightning handling? I recall this same discussion in late 2017. Have they managed to successfully get people using it yet?
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by Permit 6y ago
> Digital advertising, frankly, sucks from the advertiser's point of view. What advertising does not suck from the advertiser's point of view? How are metrics gathered that demonstrate these forms of advertising work?
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by Permit 6y ago
I haven’t seen it asked so I’ll go: Why? I never imagined Trump and Levandowski being connected in any fashion. Does anyone have any insight into why Trump would pardon him?
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by Permit 6y ago
Thanks for the correction, I didn't know this!
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> He's been giving his money away for many years now and strangely is still one of the richest men in the world. My understanding is that most of his wealth is held in MSFT stock which has increased in value by over 4x since 2016.
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by Permit 6y ago
> Covid test just satisfies your curiosity, because you're going to be isolating anyway This might be your personal bubble speaking. I have two non-tech friends (EMT and a labourer) who contracted Covid and both of their workplaces
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by Permit 6y ago
I'm trying to better understand Shapeshift's business model. How do you make money?
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by Permit 6y ago
I am not American and I have not condemned (or supported) "shit China is doing". I was just trying to gauge your personal opinion so I could better understand your comment.

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