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by badRNG 5y ago
It might be more accurate to say that the marketplace of ideas isn't all it's cracked up to be. It has failed to be the utopian dream some hoped it would.
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by badRNG 5y ago
Not even touching on the false equivalency, this has to be one of the most tone-deaf and upsetting comments I've seen on HN.
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by badRNG 5y ago
The article (and I'm not sure how accurate this is) seems to be claiming the houses themselves are in violation of DesignBasics' copyrights: >Now, with these simple, vague floor-plans (not full architectural drawings!) out ther
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by badRNG 5y ago
One regrettable thing that seems to happen here a lot is that pedants will swarm to address some relatively irrelevant misunderstanding made in a genuine question relevant to the article without ever addressing the question being asked.
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by badRNG 5y ago
Similar to if someone does something they aren't supposed to in a business, they aren't immediately charged with breaking and entering or trespass.
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by badRNG 5y ago
I think we are confusing two concepts here. The officer's actions were unauthorized on a system he was provided access to. He didn't gain unauthorized access to a system, he failed to follow the rules on a system he already had
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by badRNG 5y ago
> This is a policy violation, and maybe that should be illegal in some way or have consequences. Sure, and usually policy violations that matter do involve civil consequences (e.g. litigation to recover damages) but not handing out felon
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by badRNG 5y ago
> Also, I'm not sure where people are getting that Amazon is bad at privacy. Oh, I dunno, profiting from selling law enforcement nearly unrestricted access[1] to their existing IOT offerings as part of what they call "the new n
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by badRNG 5y ago
Here is the text in question: > "The ACIC will use the new powers outlined in the Bill to focus efforts on understanding and gathering intelligence on TSOC groups who are using encrypted communication platforms to conceal their cr
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'No legitimate reason' for everyday public use of encrypted platforms(itnews.com.au)
10 points by badRNG 5y ago|5 comments
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by badRNG 5y ago
That's great for the 4% who want this. However, it might be a bit more user friendly to default to the no tracking option (due to the overwhelming support for that option,) and allow users who want tracking turned on to manually enable
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by badRNG 5y ago
> and letting violent criminals out Of all the problems we face, insufficiently low incarceration rates aren't one of them.
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by badRNG 5y ago
> What I don't get is the arrogance of every side about this subject. We have no answers. We have no understanding. The government seems to be about to admit as much. But the true believers are sure, and the true debunkers, yourself
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by badRNG 5y ago
> but even then I think the reddit admins were hell-bent on shutting down any subs they didn't personally like. Or shutting down subs that might make the site advertiser unfriendly.
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by badRNG 5y ago
IANAL, but since you aren't actually in court, nor are you benefiting financially from the situation, couldn't you just...lie and say you don't have the contact information of anyone you sent it to? Or hell, just lie and say
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by badRNG 5y ago
> Please provide to the public, in an expedited manner, all information necessary to identify all proposals of known-vulnerable code from any U of MN experiment. The information should include the name of each targeted software, the comm
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Engineer reports data leak to nonprofit, hears from the police(bleepingcomputer.com)
2 points by badRNG 6y ago|2 comments
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Resentful employee deletes 1,200 Microsoft Office 365 accounts, gets prison(bleepingcomputer.com)
5 points by badRNG 6y ago|1 comments
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Beigeness, or How to Kill People with Bad Writing: The Scott Alexander Method(eruditorumpress.com)
1 points by badRNG 6y ago|1 comments
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CEO of Sky Global encrypted chat platform indicted by US(bleepingcomputer.com)
1 points by badRNG 6y ago|0 comments
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by badRNG 6y ago
You can use this line of thinking to justify any war crime that doesn't involve killing the adversary. "Well, we could've just killed them, better we dragged them to a black site to be tortured instead." A scenario where
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by badRNG 6y ago
Let's say you are mistaken for a wanted robber and arrested and later acquitted or have the charges dropped, when that record is expunged, there is a legal duty for the government to destroy all records related to that arrest. If they
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by badRNG 6y ago
There's a difference between an algorithm maximizing engagement even if it means pushing you to read outrage articles and folks on a subreddit saying negative things about politicians you like.
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by badRNG 6y ago
The fact that individual employees have little negotiating power with a large business is one of the conditions that give rise to collective bargaining agreements and unions.
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by badRNG 6y ago
> This is unusually damning to veganism-as-it-is-practiced if not to veganism itself. I don't think a sample size of 21 is especially damning. Nor do I think that the study's authors would come to that conclusion either.
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by badRNG 6y ago
Just to add to this, the US has long held an antagonistic relationship with the International Criminal Court (ICC), and has shielded and acquitted war criminals as recently as last year. Are we going to blame American civilians for this beh
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by badRNG 6y ago
I have a 1W laser. Aiming it at your hand and turning it on will immediately cause a painful burning sensation. I've never used it without goggles, but it will burn dang near anything you point it at. The average laser pointer for a pr
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by badRNG 6y ago
I think the concern is best understood with products like Chrome, AMP, and Android, not these ephemeral ventures Google typically likes to do.
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by badRNG 6y ago
I do think the moderate conservatives to have a little bit of work to do as far as political theory goes in this area, specifically the synthesis of the positions "companies should not be allowed to fire employees for far-right beliefs
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by badRNG 6y ago
I mean, they could just devalue the in-game currency. Purchasing said currency would be cheaper, and in game items would be more expensive. It'd be a short-term disruption, but ultimately it wouldn't cost the company much directly

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