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by Quanttek 8y ago
Hi William, how does your statement fit with the fact that one of your products is literally selling transactional data? https://plaid.com/products/transactions While I'll assume this is only of the customers of a
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by Quanttek 8y ago
For those interested: In Europe, banks are forced to provide fintech companies access to customer data when the user consents to this under its "open banking" initiative https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/25&#x
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by Quanttek 8y ago
Very sad about this. I was searching for a good online, collaborative database, where I can define clear schemas and provide certain views on it, for a small, public database a few friends and me are working on. Fusion Tables seemed to fit
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How Facebook’s P.R. Firm Brought Political Trickery to Tech(nytimes.com)
36 points by Quanttek 8y ago|8 comments
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Analysis of 10,000 studies on marijuana supports only 3 medical benefits (2017)(qz.com)
3 points by Quanttek 8y ago|0 comments
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by Quanttek 8y ago
Full report [PDF]: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/binaries/rijksoverheid/document...
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Microsoft’s enterprise products covertly gather personal data on users(thenextweb.com)
247 points by Quanttek 8y ago|131 comments
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by Quanttek 8y ago
Can anyone explain to me what exactly it means that BGP routes "leaked"?
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Facebook’s war on free will(theguardian.com)
29 points by Quanttek 8y ago|2 comments
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by Quanttek 8y ago
Does anyone know a similar app not geared so much for developers? i.e. (also) interlinking nodes with full markdown support (incl embedded images) or even files, a good search over all of them, preferably WYSIWYG-y (like Typora)
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by Quanttek 8y ago
Thanks for the helpful reply! I brought up local storage because people were talking about some kind of sync and it sounded like the browser's storage would be used
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by Quanttek 8y ago
It's not really clear to me how the data is stored. Is it confined to the Edsu server I use akin to Diaspora and applications connect to it? How do I migrate my data or switch providers? Is it lost if the server or my localStorage goes
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by Quanttek 8y ago
PayPal is a profit-oriented company, not the "left" - whatever that boogeyman means. A company that doesn't want to support one of the most vitriolic, hateful platforms on the internet. Speech has consequences and can turn vi
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by Quanttek 8y ago
It would've been interesting to run a regression on the results, seeing if the writers were actually the largest contributing factor. Additionally, that graph with the average expected ratings should have the actual ratings in there fo
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by Quanttek 8y ago
Twitter pictures on threadreaderapp.com don't load with Firefox's tracking protection enabled
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Read 147 pages of complaints about Elon Musk from Tesla investors(theoutline.com)
2 points by Quanttek 8y ago|0 comments
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by Quanttek 8y ago
As a reminder, GDPR requires opt-in for any non-essential data collection. With Cookiebot I can't even opt-out of non-essential (e.g. marketing) tracking
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Why do so many websites use Cookiebot when it is clearly not GDPR-compatible?(screenshotscdn.firefoxusercontent.com)
4 points by Quanttek 8y ago|1 comments
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Expert witness relies on his controversial theory to help abusers avoid prison(newyorker.com)
17 points by Quanttek 8y ago|0 comments
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> The cluster of sensors, bolted underneath a chassis like a skid plate, can scan 10 feet beneath the ground to reveal soil, water, roots, and rocks. Once WaveSense has scanned an entire roadway, it creates a map of the subsurface strata
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by Quanttek 8y ago
Exactly: The countries signing the convention agreed to its binding force but, except for fines, the ECtHR doesn't have direct to order countries. That actually foes for most judiciaries: Courts generally can only order governments to
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by Quanttek 8y ago
However, note that the ECHR basically redefined torture in Selmouni v France, stating that the standards for torture can increase over time as we advance. The convention is a "living instrument which must be interpreted in the light of
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Variable Fonts Arrive in Firefox 62(hacks.mozilla.org)
2 points by Quanttek 8y ago|0 comments
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by Quanttek 8y ago
I have to issues with it: The write-up seems very one-sided as can already be noticed in the language (1) and the paper, as others have pointed out, is not much of a good scientific paper (2). It seems like the whole controversy was enginee
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by Quanttek 8y ago
How has your experience using it been like and how does it facilitate note-taking?
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by Quanttek 8y ago
One problem for me: the text always fills the full width of the window even though that quickly becomes ineligible. I haven't found a way yet to fix that
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Ask HN: Good alternatives to OneNote?
3 points by Quanttek 8y ago|0 comments
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by Quanttek 8y ago
Didn't they change that quite a while back?
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by Quanttek 8y ago
There was a project like that (though it failed): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec
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Loopy Ideas Are Fine, If You’re an Entrepreneur – Critical Analysis of Hyperloop(pedestrianobservations.com)
2 points by Quanttek 8y ago|0 comments

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