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by alex_c 5y ago
>Facebook failed to provide crucial details about its "Cross-Check" program that reportedly shielded millions of VIP users from the social media platform's normal content moderation rules, according to the company's o
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by alex_c 5y ago
On a side note - does HN feel more "downvotey" lately? I feel like I'm seeing more comments that are grayed out but seem perfectly civil and reasonable. Often they're back in the black soon after, but I'm sure the
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by alex_c 5y ago
This change was noticed and discussed in June, when Apple (quietly) added a clause to the App Store guidelines. We notified our clients back then. Details were very vague at the time and now we know when it will actually start being enforce
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Agreed… and it’s too late to fix it now. Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/
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Sort of... They are used at scale to share and ingest data between services, for things like recommendations, etc. But it is messy, a lot of the ontology is more or less the same but every company/database does things slightly differe
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Music metadata (Musicbrainz, AllMusic, etc...) comes to mind. The data is usually more important than the ontology itself, and the ontology is not really consistent across the entire industry, but it's a somewhat relevant example.
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Missing part of that quote is "This issue was caused by our own change and not related to any third-party DNS software and services." Seems refreshingly honest to me. Slack screwed up, it's not anyone else's fault, but
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The last few years have shown me how many people are willing to believe utterly stupid things, and how easy it is to make people turn against each other. I knew this in the abstract, but watching it happen in real time is something else. T
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This is pure, distilled, 100% evil. I love it.
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What is the definition of "win-win" that you are against? I'm not familiar with Jim Camp, but the term is vague. The linked article to me mainly seems to argue that: - the side with a better BATNA has more negotiating power (
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Nothing would make me comfortable doing so, any more than sharing my bank credentials with a 3rd party for example. The only question is whether the benefit or necessity of doing so outweighs my discomfort. I think the discomfort is a go
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Funny enough, that basically describes traffic in Vietnam.
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I used to play Eve Online. I wasn't anyone important, but all the drama, intrigue, constant conflict was fascinating - it was fun just to participate and watch. Just to "be there", so to speak. The biggest ships cost thousa
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No you are right, reported cases alone can't tell the full picture. Mandatory testing can skew the numbers and probably undercounts vaccinated people. Same if vaccinated people are significantly more likely to be asymptomatic and the
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That unvaccinated people are higher risk of getting and spreading Covid? I agree, although I'm not sure what is the significance of the 4:1 ratio. Ontario's numbers suggest a risk ratio closer to 7:1 or 8:1 right now.
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You mean the 50%? You're right, my math was lazy. Edited to 40%.
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OK, I'll bite. Ontario had 554 new reported cases of COVID yesterday. Of these cases: - 319 were not vaccinated (213 of these were 12+ and therefore eligible to be vaccinated) - 56 were partially vaccinated - 136 were fully vaccinated
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May as well throw it straight in the ocean, skip all the extra steps…
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Does this apply to cryptocurrencies?
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Most towns do, occasionally - overflows happen. Article is from 2018 but I assume nothing has radically changed since then. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ont-enviro-report-1.4...
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"I haven't purchased new Blizzard products since the Hong Kong censorship debacle" I don't think Blizzard has released any new products (other than game updates) since then anyway, so I expect most people can say the sam
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Only thing that comes to mind is South Park's "We're sooorrry" clip. This sentence in the Dec 2020 article says it all, doesn't it? "They were seen as one of Australia's most significant archaeological re
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After having a kid, I learned many surprising things about parenthood and about myself. One is the absolute joy of watching my little one do... pretty much anything. It's an infinitely more powerful drug than anything social media or
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There's only so much you can do with an area like this as a "destination", without being embedded in a healthy community. However attractive the area is, if you have to make a trip you'll only go there infrequently. Lar
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What if marmosets lived on the Moon?(economist.com)
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Here's a similar study for Ontario, breaking down efficacy based on variant: https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaCoronavirus/comments/oe6ajn/c... Two observations: * as the top comment points out, the co
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Funny you should say that, as there is a direct line connecting player pianos in the 19th century to copyright law in the 21st: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_license
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>What empathy? Feels like this sums up so much of our world, it's scary. Anyway. Main issue is with "mutual consent", or more specifically, negotiating power. A contract negotiated between two parties with similar amounts
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Not grandparent commenter, but I don’t. I switched to the logged out, default experience recently. It’s so user hostile it’s been pretty effective at curbing my Reddit addiction and making me waste less time on that site.
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>Figuring out how to park on a hill to deter cat theft Can you explain this one?

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