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by akersten 5y ago
This is misinformation. There is no such requirement. "Content neutral public utility platform" is not a legal concept and no similar concept is alluded to in CDA S230. Stop spreading this confident lie.
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by akersten 5y ago
> Also, gross revenue from sale of personal data is straightforward to measure and verify: How much did you get paid for the data? I really wouldn't say that it's straightforward at all. How much money would you guess Google (o
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by akersten 5y ago
Weird. I thought all the apps were already reviewed and approved by a specialized and trained committee before being blessed with a space in the App Store. What could we possibly need this button for?
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by akersten 5y ago
As more and more states create their own legislation in this space, I've got a great startup pitch: Taxjar, but for each municipality's data laws - caters your Privacy Policy based on visitor IP (with requisite geolocation disclai
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by akersten 5y ago
> patent trolls or even rightful patent owners What's the difference? But seriously, if it takes trolling through the code to determine that Twitch's math violated their special way of doing math that no one else should get
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by akersten 5y ago
At a certain point, it makes more sense to have a family tree diagram with alphanumeric labels for every possible relation cardinality referenced to self, and just encode those as an enum like ContactRelationA4, ContactRelationB1, etc. And
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by akersten 5y ago
That kind of thing is a gold mine for data harvesting. Automatically: for each comment from a certain state, go through their commenting history to map opinions on whatever you care to search for on a state-by-state level. Way cheaper and f
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by akersten 5y ago
There is extreme value in knowing who your most-prospective marks are. If you had a population of 1,000 people, and had to sell something (read: convince to vote a certain way) to 400 of them, wouldn't you like to know the subset o
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by akersten 5y ago
> And the the simple fact is that Google shouldn’t track you if you’re using incognito mode on its browser. What is absurd is seeking a remedy where Google is compelled to further couple their ecosystem so that now only Chrome users are
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by akersten 5y ago
Yeah, the plaintiffs really need to lose this case. "It doesn't do what I imagined it did based on my uneducated misinterpretation of a brand name and refusal to read what the product clearly states every time I use it" is su
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by akersten 5y ago
> Being therefore self-evidently invalid without needing external information beyond its text, the notice certainly doesn't impose any takedown obligation stemming from the DMCA even if GitHub wants to stay within the DMCA safe harb
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by akersten 5y ago
As I scroll through the wall of heat transfer equations and long-winded extrapolations of how some derived formulae can be used to predict a temperature rise in a specific contrived scenario.. I can't help but wonder if the paper is at
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by akersten 5y ago
> An engineer can write the description, but only the lawyer can write the claims. If anyone needs a one-sentence rationale why the entire concept of a software patent should be invalid, here it is.
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by akersten 5y ago
You can also do this in Firefox directly from the right click menu
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by akersten 5y ago
This looks awesome . I'm so glad they re-used the & syntax popular in many compile-to-CSS languages. Between this and CSS variables, I might not even need SASS in my toolchain anymore, which would be amazing. @nest looks extremely
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by akersten 5y ago
I'm not understanding the "fill it from left to right with true on the specific amount of cents [and if it fits perfectly, you found a solution]." Isn't finding that "specific amount of cents [e.g. which choice of i
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by akersten 5y ago
Shit like this boils my blood. Policymakers should focus on writing laws that actually help people instead of muddling around with technology they don't understand. If anyone doesn't understand just how ridiculous a proposal to re
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by akersten 5y ago
Reading that placates my concerns a little . The bot API community's reported morale deflation after the NDA-sealed meeting mentioned in the Gist kind of trounces it though. I've got a sinking feeling that the ultimate vision for
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by akersten 5y ago
In case any Discord employees are reading this: please don't remove the ability for bots to read message_content , or make me jump through verification hoops either. Reading raw messages is absolutely crucial for moderation bots and, w
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by akersten 5y ago
> When asking an innocent question to Mason, the Project Manager of the Bot & API team, about whether my bot could connect to the gateway without being verified, he responded rudely and called me a "martyr" with an unnecess
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by akersten 5y ago
Can I print that QR code and stuff it in a safe to scan 3 years from now, or does it expire? It isn't clear from the export screen.
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by akersten 5y ago
On the other hand for those of us who relax at home over the weekend, that would be entirely normal. I hope leisure without a digital tether isn't so unheard of that it becomes suspicious automatically.
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by akersten 5y ago
Well, the problem is at some point (maybe the can-spam act) there was a nebulous requirement for "one click unsubscribe." So rock, meet hard place. On mobile or I'd look up the law. I suppose a link and then a button press co
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by akersten 5y ago
I hope that one day, no one needs their jobs and everyone is like Jean, only working because they want to. Right now the employee/employer relationship is more like indentured servitude. And a lot of managers like it that way, beca
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by akersten 5y ago
I might be going gray and crazy here, but surely you intended to ask: "why would anyone choose to re-invent the entire browser stack in Canvas instead of using the amazingly powerful, documented, understood, accessible, and performant
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by akersten 5y ago
> It’s a blatant copyright violation. That's debatable. As a matter of public interest and safety I say it's fair use to post the news article here.
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by akersten 5y ago
> Look at a Facebook ad in your browser's web inspector, for example. The "Sponsored" tag is made up of 31 different randomly named span tags. https://imgur.com/a/AHZL8ko Tangential, but I love the
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by akersten 5y ago
This is all behind a huge, neon-flashing-lights asterisk of "for now." How long until they try to machine-learn based on that database? The door's open.
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by akersten 5y ago
As it should be sparked! Apple is asking its engineers to create spyware and deploy it on millions of devices. "Concern" is majorly understating my feelings right now.
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by akersten 5y ago
Just for perspective. Real-estate investing: * Buying up a limited resource with the intent to sell it to someone else later * Often is good land that could be used by someone else to create value instead * Lots sit unused for years waiting

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