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by Quanttek 7y ago
Even if he would remove the vitriol in his comment, arguably it is still a pretty bad comment: Each sentence has no factual basis but is purely based on far-flung allegations and they still manage to make massive leaps of logic between each
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by Quanttek 7y ago
Wow, I don't even know where to start. You are right that the alleged relationship is actually the most interesting part of the story. Because it shows what's so wrong about the user base's reaction: Without any merit - remin
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It is true that WMF should have communicated the reasons for the ban better and worked more closely with the community. However, I do not understand the extreme upset. From what I understand, he was an extremely toxic element of the communi
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by Quanttek 7y ago
> Female scientists are 16% less likely than men to get a high score on their grant proposal, and new research suggests word choice might be the reason why. [...] > According to the researchers, women used “narrower” words that are “h
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Female scientists less likely to get a high grant proposal score due to wording(mitsloan.mit.edu)
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by Quanttek 7y ago
Your comment is very misleading. You are referring to a statement by a *Tesla spokesperson: > “Tesla provides owners with clear guidance on how to properly use Autopilot, as well as in-car instructions before they use the system and whil
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Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation [pdf](researchgate.net)
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Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee [Book](nyupress.org)
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That sounds like a nice setup! I unfortunately have an Android but would you mind telling me the name of the plugin?
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Agreed on the lack of a smooth experience. Re interopabiltiy: This mainly relates to the usual fact of markdown flavors/extensions and there, for example, being no mobile app with the same exact flavor of markdown
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Unfortunately, I have a Windows computer and, as a student, find such monthly subscriptions quite financially unbearable
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Arguably, tables or pictures are not readable in raw Markdown. While Markdown is already readable, such rendering makes it much more readable.
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by Quanttek 7y ago
I really like the project but I struggle with the fact that almost all Markdown editors, even note-taking applications, only offer you a rendered view separately from the file you edit. When I am taking notes, they should be rendered where
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Academics and students should take blogging and social media seriously(blogs.lse.ac.uk)
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That's a typo. It's a 2019 paper. See the link elsewhere in the thread
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> first you exclude 'non-western' nations, and by doing so acknowledge that there are factors besides gun ownership rate that influence gun death rates Of course, they are. If you live in an active conflict zone or in a country
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In most other (Western) countries, "2+ shot in one incident, excluding the perpetrator(s) , at one location, at roughly the same time", would be seen as a mass shooting and probably reach national media. There's a reason why
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by Quanttek 7y ago
Crucial quote: But in one of the first empirical studies of the impacts of behaviorally targeted advertising on online publishers’ revenue, researchers at the University of Minnesota, University of California, Irvine, and Carnegie Mellon Un
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Behavioral Ad Targeting Not Paying Off for Publishers, Study Suggests(wsj.com)
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Also, think about the fact that there is a Wikipedia list for mass shooting in one country this year . Most countries don't even have a list of mass shootings, let alone one for each year. The Utrecht tram shooting was for weeks in
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There have almost been as many mass shootings in the US as days this year(en.wikipedia.org)
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Martin Steiger also responded. Addendum 2 in his blog article [1]: Tonight, on 29 May 2019, ProtonMail responded to this article with a blog post entitled „Response to false statements on surveillance made by Martin Steiger“. (This article
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by Quanttek 7y ago
Stupid question but how can they perform interventions when the data is de-identified? I could see how that would work on a community level but not on an individual level
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I actually like this but there are a lot of similar services that make it easy to send GDPR requests with less such biased framing and without the abusive intent. The arguments brought forwards against GDPR tell you probably more about the
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When Russia Seized Crimea in 2014, a Crackdown on Tatar Muslims Ensued(foreignpolicy.com)
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I'm in total agreement with you (see my original comment)
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Not really. The GDPR stipulates a right to be forgotten [1] with the following exceptions: > 3. Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to the extent that processing is necessary: > (a) for exercising the right of freedom of expression and
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by Quanttek 7y ago
That is true in theory but it is not (solely) what is at stake here. Here, we are talking about the cost of regulations, and these do eat into the profits of companies. To some extent, these costs could also hurt competition (assuming the
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In general this might be agreeable. But in these cases these are not direct unintended consequences of the legislation but rather consequences of companies failing to do their due diligence when implementing GDPR. It would be like companies
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by Quanttek 7y ago
> Given GDPR took a complain-investigate model Ironically, when GDPR came into effect so many on HN were spreading fake news that companies would be litigated to death by users. Of course, to remove that possibility and ensure only legit

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