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All that seems trivial to type but less than trivial to implement.
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Where would this ”responsive democracy” be built? Libya, Somalia or some other zone of low governance?
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The headline is very different from the article. At the heart of these issues is Shein’s aggressive business model. Comparisons to fast-fashion giants like H&M miss the point: it’s more like Amazon, operating a sprawling online marketp
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by adolph 5y ago
I’m confused about this. Isn’t the possession of a Covid passport a public declaration regarding part of one’s medical record? Let’s say your friends go out to do covid passport things and you always decline—they are going to know you are u
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Wouldn’t it make sense for that to be public information from the getgo?
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Agreed, maybe something expressed in human learnable non-code procedural notation.
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Does "Green" have the same set of meanings in Germany as in the US? Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder . . . served as the chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005, during which his most important political initiative was Agenda 2010. As
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Frankly you are great at knocking a strawman down. Jonathan Mayer likely has some motivation for those efforts. I made no claim to the motivation being remunerative or not. Do you have an alternative hypothesis of a motivation other than pr
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> how I should approach sending emails like this in the future Don't. It's that simple. I look forward to your reply without undue delay and at most within 45 days of this email, as required by Section 1798.130 of the Californ
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I suspect Meyer's work is in part preparatory to lawfare in order to force websites to pay for lawyerly services. The letter is akin to a fire insurance company knocking on doors while carrying a torch. "Of all tyrannies a tyranny
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In the US, "People, elected and held accountable by citizenry at large" found that banks were "too big to fail." They did not restrain "the power of the actors in [the market] in check." What makes you think it
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"meta" good faith != good faith > why folks are so up in arms about this The implicit legal threat is similar to the harm described in the Prenda saga: https://arstechnica.com/tag/prenda-law/ It is wr
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Punctuation based "syntactic ambiguity :" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_&_Leaves The title of the book is a syntactic ambiguity — a verbal fallacy arising from an ambiguous or erroneous gram
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Sofar I think Amazon has failed at developing Alexa as a platform. As an anecdote, my kids enjoyed playing trivia and a Zork-style games. The method of play though tends to dominate a space unlike them using an iPad for similar. https:&#x2
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System 6 or gtfo. 7 was a RAM hog; 8 and 9 were lipstick on 7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_6
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33 Thomas Street (formerly the AT&T Long Lines Building) is a 550-foot-tall (170 m) windowless skyscraper in Tribeca, Lower Manhattan, New York City. It stands on the east side of Church Street, between Thomas Street and Worth Street.
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Disbursed: 3,500,000,000,000 Stolen: 100,000,000,000 or 2.8% of disbursed Recovered: 2,500,000,000 or 2.5% of stolen Arrested: 100 or $1B per arrestee Criminals have stolen close to $100 billion in pandemic relief fu
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by adolph 5y ago
You don't have to send a doctor's note to your granny to skip holiday luncheon? That's just anarchical.
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make_it_decision = (BOM < consumer_value); See also: https://www.engadget.com/2006-07-24-pure-digitals-new-dispos...
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Bug bounties probably act as a price discovery mechanism on the part of bug finders. They should also have a negative price premium bye to decreased risk.
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Maybe try sudo !! https://xkcd.com/149/
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Oh yeah, I had a whole c-rat can of pound cake once and it took me a week to eat. I kept it in a garbage bag in the fridge since I didn’t have a ziploc that big.
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Looks like some interesting hardware for ~$60 at the bookstore. Generous RAM and flash, bluetooth and zigbee. Sibling comment has the root instructions. https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-reviews/32.
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That would be some Gattaca level paranoia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca
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I just updated straight from macOS Catalina to Monterey, and one thing that's really bugging me is the Microphone Usage indicator in the top right corner. I have this app called "Background Music" to help amplify the otherwi
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I don't think this is necessarily an alternative to Postman. It is more like an alternative to Fiddler or other mitm network traffic analysis tools oriented around 80/443 HTTP. The best alternative to Postman is curl coupled with
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> tax purchases out of existence NYPD officers approached Garner on July 17 on suspicion of selling single cigarettes from packs without tax stamps. After Garner told the police that he was tired of being harassed and that he was not se
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> rescue workers who need to scoop up what remains of a person riding a motorcycle without safety gear If it is an obvious death, it is a crime scene until proven otherwise. The police and coroner take care of things in this case. The a
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> If you are in the bottom, say, 10% in these factors How do you know if you are in the bottom 10%?
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> a company the size of tiktok Is made up of smaller teams composed of individuals who may or may not take shortcuts and make good decisions on behalf of their company. If the choice is between "executive said 'hey use this ope

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