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With a big difference: Instead of the state deciding how much to equalize and who the recipients should be, rich cities preempted that and set their own equalization contributions unilaterally. In the process, instead of deciding on the equ
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Yup. One place where this binary gets problematic is what's called "loitering munitions" - basically a cruise missile that stays up in the air for a while looking for targets, and when its sensors pick something up it hits li
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A quibble - these objects are not just hypothetical. We have images and other evidence of some particularly large ones. It's the exact rules that are hypothetical.
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"Insiders" are a very broad set of people, including low-level bureaucrats and motivations can include profit. To pick one of the more likely scenarios: if a government worker sold a database on the open (criminal) market, there&#
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by azernik 5y ago
Yup - especially because student unions (in the labor-union sense, not in the faux-government US sense) are the norm in many places abroad rather than an exception.
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No
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The ban on draftable men leaving is a Ukrainian rule, not a Polish one.
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For historical reasons, the Secret Service does both VIP protection and prevention of financial fraud. They were originally the Treasury Department's enforcement arm. After Lincoln's assassination, the federal government realized
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Evolution is also a constant fight for food calories, and modern societies have escaped that struggle. Judging the dynamics of technological societies by those of evolving organisms is a common and extremely misleading trap.
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Or that it does, and advanced civilizations just don't need that much energy.
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More: For "be X times more/less likely to have babies" they use the per capita birth rate, which is strongly affected by age distribution, as opposed to the age-adjusted Total Fertility Rate. For "spend X% more/less
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Whereas in Israel, a national ID number is treated as just that - an ID number. You put it on every single contract you sign, on most bureaucratic forms, &c, and it's used to match up individual identity rather than names. On many
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The title is editorialized; the phrase in quotes ("fight big tech") appears nowhere on the linked page.
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It is trivial to circumvent. And countries and ISPs still do it all the time, because most consumers are not capable of even the trivial step of changing DNS servers. e.g. in the UK blocking is usually just implemented by DNS filter.
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I don't know where you're getting that IP-level filtering is the only way to "actually implementing URL filtering" - if they're talking about URL filtering as a feature of a new DNS infrastructure, then the most lik
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Probably not "overtly" in the sense that there's no written law against it; quite overtly in that Cooley's refusal was likely based on some specific line in its ethics handbook that said this was an improper request.
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The corruption isn't about hurting or helping Tesla. It's about Musk using his personal power and influence over Tesla to deter (the employees of) regulatory agencies from investigating him like any other citizen.
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And all those American tools would not work without East Asian (mostly Taiwanese and South Korean) hardware. Tech is global, and that doesn't mean every part of the industry is everywhere.
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The parent comment used those exact words ("consulting with local entrepeneurs") as a reason not to implement GDPR. I was pointing out that this is did not convey the clean-and-efficient image they had in mind when framed that i
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Because the same author wrote a review of that ran on the same day, and seems to have written this as a companion piece to the review. https://www.vox.com/culture/2022/1/10/22872347/station-eleve...
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The point of hosting the data in Europe is that the law can intervene before that data is re-shared outside of Europe. (And to be frank, the NSA is not the target; the GDPR has lots of exceptions for intelligence agencies.)
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Changing the law to suit "local entrepreneurs" is, politically, seen as the same thing as changing it to suit any other lobbyist. The software industry's interests are not seen as politically "cleaner" than those of
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The US generally has much longer prison terms than most of the rest of the world. Compared to sentences for crimes of different/lesser severity in the US , more than 10 years is completely sane and, indeed, fair. If you have a problem
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That was only one of the reasons given in the Federalist Papers for its inclusion; the other is the need to be able to throw around pardons as a bargaining chip in quelling rebellions and civil disorders. The post-Civil-War pardons are a cl
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During the purported early use of their technology, they were also taking full-size blood draws for "validation" against existing machines, i.e. the results were actually from off-the-shelf full-sample-size machines.
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Blerp
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A date 6 months in the future is not invalid or off; it is a normal input that the program is expected to receive in the future. Fuzzing would be testing the date parser by passing it '25-44-2021' to see what breaks.
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Your desktop Linux distro is not the scary case here
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The direct copyright is covered by the satire exceptions. If you want to argue that copying the legalese is different, it's going to be on those confusion grounds, which IIUC aren't a copyright concern.
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You're acting like this is an impersonal, natural event. It isn't. Fate didn't choose kstrauser. An irresponsible academic sent an email blast to people who were not relevant to his study, without making even token efforts to

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