SenAnder

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by SenAnder 3y ago
To circumvent the paywall, disable javascript and visit https://web.archive.org/web/20230924203123/https://www.thena...
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They're forbidding even attempting to keep any secrets from the government. "In a way that will allow you to maintain privacy"
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> Nobody is hindering you on reselling your device. Use your legitimate access to wipe the device and unpair it from Our iCloud account and then you can resell it. And its parts can then be re-used in other Apple devices?
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That's why Apple gives the consumer an authorization code that they can use when re-selling their phone, to unlock its parts and permit their re-use. Since thieves don't get that code, it protects phones against theft and allows r
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They also still talk about Jack the Ripper. I couldn't imagine a worse metric than "starts a conversation". The Mona Lisa started far more conversations after it was stolen - did getting stolen make it better art? But if the
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More insidiously, they also hide that censorship is even taking place. If they were honest, the review section would be closed, stating "This is where content that violates Google policies often appears. To prevent this, we have disabl
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> Then in 2016 a counter terrorism law was passed and it sounds like they ISPs/telecoms are required to store everything for 6 months and it merely has to be requested by “authorities” (guessing beyond just the FSB) without a court
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Why do you assume the government didn't do anything? If anyone on those committees was paid or influenced by the NSA/CIA, they would not have disclosed it.
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It "feels OK", stripped of context, but nevertheless results in your industries slowly withering and getting taken over by their new Chinese competitors in what used to be their home market. If you remove uniforms from a soccer ma
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Looking at supermarket (or any) prices, publicly posted, in-store or online, is not remotely grey market.
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And cameras are used by stalkers as well. But when a prolific photographer, growing rich off their trade, tries to control what others are allowed to photograph, I won't assume they're doing it out of concern for my well-being. I
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And this is why scraping is under technical and legal attack. To maintain their panopticon, where they see all, while you get only a pinhole view of, in this case, the economy.
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On the other hand it didn't require any sort of scientific proof or popular uprising for ugly modern architecture to displace other styles.
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> Patterson, who is now working with residents to reclaim their homes, says that most of the Green Valley Ranchers he’s met who have been foreclosed upon recently are working-class homeowners of color, many of whom speak English as a sec
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People finally realized we're in the danegeld era.
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> Like I said, Python or any other language can fix this issue by changing the entire mindset of how documentation is built. Please, please, I beg of you, in the name of all that is holy, do not push for SEO bloat in documentation!
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Government staff and cabinet [1] and 50% of all donations to Democrats, and 25% to Republicans [2], are not obviously relevant to US policy? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37473807 - Despite your "clear minor
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> Running Python securely on a local machine is a really hard problem. We treat all Python code in the workbook as untrusted, so we execute it in a hypervisor-isolated container on Azure that does not have any outbound network access. I
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No. The suggestion is that there is a reason for this variance of success. The reason being that they share this agenda item with another group, explaining why they triumph here while they have only middling success elsewhere. In your own
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Their success in these areas is at best contested and limited - abortion is legal in the vast majority of US states [1] and the US army officially endorses LGBT pride parades [2,3]. It is not remotely comparable to the decades long, unquest
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You seem keen on implying this is limited to "the current administration's staff", but that's just what we happen to have data on. Unless proven otherwise, it's reasonable to assume this over-representation is the r
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Those Christians are also against abortion and homosexuality, but they've had far less success on those topics - school prayer was removed, and replaced with LGBT flags.
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It's unlikely this is a momentary phenomenon. It's hard to find data, but this over-representation is not new. Looking at a single, albeit important, political post, in the 53 years since 1970, the chair of the Federal Reserve has
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Part of the answer is simply that a large fraction of the US government is Jewish. E.g. according to the White House, their staff (everything from stenographers and secretaries, to labor relations representatives and foreign policy experts)
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Why you should test private methods: To make sure they work correctly. This may be significantly easier than testing the public methods that use them. Why you shouldn't test private methods: Because the implementation might change, obs
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Fine, but that's missing the point. The prohibition of radio jammers is not censorship, other policies are.
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Underpopulated? Did the environmental movement flip in Canada, and they're now trying to get rid of their vast, pristine wilderness? The Canadian people are crying out to turn their forests into Hong Kong?
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The usual deflection is that because spam and child porn still get banned, 4chan actually is moderated. Which is like saying that the FCC censors radio because they don't allow radio jammers.
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> These units don't get built at all without immigration since that's where much of the labor pool is coming from. There are plenty of countries with negligible immigration and without housing crises, so this is clearly false:
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I'm confused. Are Birmingham taxes levied in absolute units of currency, not as a % of income? Because if it's a % of income, then inflation is irrelevant, no?

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