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by Quanttek 7y ago
> individual “data rights” have led to unintended consequences; “privacy protection” seems to have undermined market competition; That opening paragraph already speaks to the over-elevation of the market over any other concerns. So it pe
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> Violence is one of the most basic interactions between organisms on the planet. Not only between societies (so that an Uber driver earning $30,000 can be in the top 1% globally), but within societies (the threat of violence is what mak
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Not to be snarky, but before writing such a comment you should probably read the article: > Every New York City Transit employee gave the same description of the “surfer” they saw riding the back of the train or darting across the tracks
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by Quanttek 7y ago
I've noticed that myself as I'm analyzing influential public statements with regards to the Rohingya for my Bachelor thesis on their discrimination and genocide. Unfortunately, Facebook was one of the biggest channels for dehumani
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by Quanttek 8y ago
Are there any good, preferably open source, alternatives to Evernote/OneNote? I like Markdown but plaintext is not enough as I need support for pictures, tables, ...
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I'm no expert but regarding your question on precision: afaik the longer the plus code is, the more precise it gets
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by Quanttek 8y ago
The "making it simpler" for users is definitely only an excuse for Mozilla to not pay for the servers anymore. Kinda disappointed as uploading was a dry useful way to share in, high quality screenshots. I can't fathom that it
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Neo-Nazis Bet Big on Bitcoin (and Lost)(foreignpolicy.com)
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Can Ethiopia’s Long Love Affair with Boeing Survive the 737 Max Crash?(nytimes.com)
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Thank you! I reached out
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How do you get an account there?
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I'm on mobile, so I can't provide you the full run-down. In short, I feel like the main problem is an understanding of "development" that may agree with popular conceptions, the UN, and the concept used by economists. Ho
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by Quanttek 8y ago
Stupid question, but what does gross profit mean here? How can the costs be so high to provide one more gumroad installation?
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MacKenzie Bezos and the Myth of the Lone Genius Founder(wired.com)
1 points by Quanttek 8y ago|0 comments
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Elite Law Firm’s All-White Partner Class Stirs Debate on Diversity(nytimes.com)
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(I'm not sure why the mods changed the title as it's quite important to note that this is is an op-ed by Katarina Barley, the German minister of justice)
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We Can't Just Assume that Facebook Will Do Its Best(zeit.de)
220 points by Quanttek 8y ago|91 comments
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Have you looked at Citavi? It's the software many German universities offer. While it's PDF annotation system/knowledge database is awesome (elements of different types linked to locations in the PDF, categorizable and taggab
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Are you sure you're not conflating IDs with passports? Though, yeah, in Germany at least it's quite easy to replace passports
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The hack is clearly politically motivated, targeting all but the far-right parties (i.e. AfD is conspicuously missing) and left-leaning public figures. The data is often highly personal, including iCloud dumps, private photos, emails, and m
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by Quanttek 8y ago
Can anyone please tl;dr what's so special about Grin and how it achieves that?
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Your apps/schedules don't tell you the platform? Here (GER & NL), they always tell you the track - be it official apps or the paper schedules - and all waiting areas are on the platforms themselves. Utrecht is the only excepti
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All Your Patient Data Are Belong to Us [CCC; English Sync Available](media.ccc.de)
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Here in Germany - and I believe most of Europe - these calls are illegal and that works perfectly. I have never gotten a robocall on my life and am still free to phone around as much as I want. (Not sure how exactly they are regulated. If t
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by Quanttek 8y ago
A guy on the internet doesn't get constructivism. More news at 11! Constructivism is, in any of its manifestations, never a normative theory. Rather, it tries to describe how reality or certain concepts come about. Instead of saying
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Crazy thought here: You can like subsidies for certain industries (e.g. renewable energy subsidies that are supposed to aid a restructuring of the power supply market towards reducing emissions, are time-limited, and decentralized) while di
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by Quanttek 8y ago
From the politico article: > Facebook also regarded these partners as extensions of itself because they committed to abide by its privacy guidelines, according to the Times report, and therefore the company felt it did not need users&#x
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How the CIA Trains Spies to Hide in Plain Sight(wired.com)
131 points by Quanttek 8y ago|76 comments
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Of course it does. That is the whole point of the article. By clicking on a targeted ad, the info used to target you can be and also is very much transferred. Just imagine a string attached to the ad URL containing the characteristics of th
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Thanks! I've considered it before but not sure anymore why I did not choose it. Though it probably relates to the fact that we are a small volunteer project with insecure funding (i.e. currently none) that tries to keep a records datab

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