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by QAPereo 9y ago
You still require an audience which understands you, believes you... otherwise you do what you just said for vaccines, and you still get anti-vaxxers. Besides. 90%+ of your audience just flipped to the channels which tell them what they wan
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Absolutely, and there needs to be a statutory value placed on PII so that the Equifaxes of the world will have to be insured, and insurers will perform due diligence. Until then...
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That’s an excellent point, but I’d say that death during childbirth has always been recognized as a bad outcome. I’m not so convinced that the same can be said for the history of music before the modern mass market. I don’t think that the h
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The laws around PII breaches due to carelessness are largely nonexistent in the US. Laws around insider trading have had more than a century to develop their pointy end.
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Well, then I guess the CEO is going to prison, and someone at the SEC is going to make their career on this.
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We Have Reached Peak Pharma. There’s Nowhere to Go but Down(undark.org)
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The Giant, Under Attack(nytimes.com)
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Whereas most music is clearly the muses working through mortal souls, right? Come on...
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I understand what you’re saying, but I’m not a software developer so it may not hit as close to home as you hope. Having said that, I would point out that programming isn’t an art, but engineering. You’re not performing, you’re building som
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Or to rephrase, it took sobering from the cocktail of illegal drugs to realize what had happened. Or it took getting away from the people who allegedly raped her to, etc. The risk of coercion is real, and much of the reason for the jurispru
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For the vast majority of history, musicians were not some of the wealthiest members of society, far from it. Music has traditionally been “near free” and only ceased to be during a brief period necessitated by tech. That period has long si
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It’s an endless boon to piracy, which should have largely died if not for the rampant greed and incompetence of publishers.
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Yeah actually kidding aside, why not that? Maybe the idea is that robots are more like insects than fish, but that seems a bit exotic imo.
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I think if you consent to go to the sex party, you consent to physical romantic activity, you consent to taking the drug knowing your context and what the drug will do, and then you consent to sex throughout the experience, it's hard
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/08... Just for one example of how individuals were indeed singled out. Same with each example given, I’d recommend studying the history of this a
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In prior cruises in the Atlantic, the firm has, according to Josh Broussard, its technical director, managed to scan 890 square kilometres a day using six autonomous submarines. With eight, Mr Broussard thinks that the new mission will be
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by QAPereo 9y ago
That’s essentially the same argument which was levied against the Gutenberg press, and the home telephone, the crossbow, and virtually all significant advances which served to empower more people at the expense of hierarchy.
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A hiatus? Really? ‘80’s: The Satanic Panic ‘90’s: Crack and Rap ‘00’s: Video Games ‘10’s: OMGZ Teh Internet!
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Just because it’s new to you, doesn’t mean that moral panics somehow didn’t exist before the internet. More importantly as with the case of sexual harassment and assault, the internet can offer a platform that doesn’t necessarily require
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The most common IoT device security failings of 2017(pentestpartners.com)
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I like this kid... I bet we’re all playing her games within the decade.
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That really depends on who they are, what the oversight is, what the penalties are, and how likely they are to be enforced.
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by QAPereo 9y ago
My knowledge of American poetry is abysmal, but this sounds intriguing. Do you know of any good starting points to read about her work, and her life?
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As far as I know you either believe Baum, or believe that he fabricated the quote. While that’s possible, given his standing as a journalist and the fact that he hardly needed such a quote to make a career, you can draw your own conclusions
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by QAPereo 9y ago
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. It’s slow and it costs, but there are good reasons for the trials required to demonstrate efficacy.
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“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after th
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Trash cans these days tend to be rubber or plastic, so it’s no challenge to a rat. Rats can chew through pretty much anything short of concrete and solid metal, with teeth which grow continuously. They need to chew, to file their teeth, so
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You’re certainly not wrong, and the endless parade of press releases and aggregators of press releases are indeed, terrible. Having said that however, I’ve never come across a site as popular and worthless as Phys.org (edit: in this space a
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For example, when I listen to my doctor, do you think I'm only evaluating the merit of the medical reasoning? Are doctors in the habit or routine of providing their medical reasoning? That might not be the best example given the numb
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Why do we always declare war on things we know we can’t possibly beat? Drugs... rats... terror... might as well declare war on entropy and human nature. Rats will be here long after we’re gone, and until then we’ll never be far from them; s

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