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by ballenf 5y ago
I read the comment to be working hard is what brings satisfaction. Some people really enjoy hard work and aren't doing it just as a means to afford leisure.
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by ballenf 5y ago
Cool way to see and judge phallus build quality.
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by ballenf 5y ago
Prosperity. It's more painful and fear-inducing to lose something you have, so the more you have the stronger the allure of laws that are sold as reducing your risk of loss.
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Medical Students Practice Pelvic Exams on Anesthetized Women Without Consent(youtube.com)
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by ballenf 5y ago
Conversely, I would question whether you can iron without a mountain backdrop. Really calls into question whether those crisp lines on your clothing are the result of true ironing or just pressing something hot against them.
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by ballenf 5y ago
Walt Disney looked at Disneyworld/land as ideally break even. Sad how they both lost the battle for vision to the accountants. Disney parks now feels like a nightmare game with IAP at every turn. You grind through ride lines or can pay
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by ballenf 5y ago
Pretty similar youth for me. But one question I ask is whether my adulthood is easier because of the pain I experienced as a youth. Whether I can handle harder emotional situations now as a result. Not a reason to allow bullying, just that
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by ballenf 5y ago
At this point most students learning about that number assume it's misspelled when first introduced and incorrect the teacher.
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by ballenf 5y ago
I'd expect a few groups to have a person who passed on the cookie, leaving two each for the others.
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by ballenf 5y ago
Or they clicked on a trending topic on the wrong day. Or they read an article about one twitter group bashing another twitter group and clicked on one of the tweets. There's no path from toxic Twitter to constructive Twitter, but there
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by ballenf 5y ago
The ecological impact of this shouldn't be ignored. Imagine the number of iPhones that are activation locked due to oversight of owners before disposal. They are much more likely to become e-waste. Possession as the primary indicator o
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by ballenf 5y ago
No one's asking for a free car. They're asking for a stop to major companies lying to the public. To stop harvesting people's data under false pretenses. I think citizens can and should demand those things from companies that
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by ballenf 5y ago
People shouldn't underestimate how many of ingredients that allow that to be true have been eroding away in the last decade or so. I don't think the resilience we've witnessed in the past to centralized control is a guarantee
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by ballenf 5y ago
If you work for a large company or a small company using most payroll processing services, your pay is probably easily retrievable by any creditor. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/11/how-to-opt-out-of-equifa... E
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by ballenf 5y ago
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/11/how-to-opt-out-of-equifa... Your pay history is probably sent out to all your creditors, unless you've opted out.
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by ballenf 5y ago
I thought it was "let's put it in the backlog".
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by ballenf 5y ago
> this person actually is a customer That's the reason the "you're not the customer" line is just a distraction. It totally misses the point that Facebook doesn't have customers any more than any other first wor
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by ballenf 5y ago
I'd never heard of Exodus Cry mentioned in the thread, so looked at their website. They seem to have made themselves a target of accusations from Pornhub as a result of the NYT article. Here is their statement on the site that addresse
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by ballenf 5y ago
I'd honestly believe such pressure came from US domestic intelligence or law enforcement agencies just as easily as from China.
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by ballenf 5y ago
Is it theoretically possible that photo filter effect could raise the false positive rate to make the 1 / a trillion number off by several order of magnitude? Could be either malicious or accidental (less likely presumably).
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by ballenf 5y ago
> ... remember that the Systemic Stability Principle is completely false, and just happens to be a false belief that it’s often useful to hold. A system being stable in the past doesn’t mean it’s stable now, and evidence that the Systemi
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by ballenf 5y ago
RSS isn't easily surveilled. RSS apps download feeds but that doesn't mean an eyeball could have seen any particular item. You could do custom trackable links and charge for clicks, but charging for impressions would be much harde
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by ballenf 5y ago
Absolutely true that keeping surveillance measures private is key to their successful deployment. Then several years later you can mock the critics by pointing out it's nothing new and they shouldn't be so dramatic.
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by ballenf 5y ago
I think the "confusion" was 100% intentional. That the two features (iMessage scanning & on-device spying pre-upload to iCloud) were intentionally released at the same time to make the whole thing harder to criticize in a soun
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by ballenf 5y ago
The author felt nothing like a true believer. At least not compared to coverage from MacRumors or other mainstream media sites which keep mindlessly vomiting up the "but Google's been doing basically this for ages, so it must be h
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by ballenf 5y ago
One defense of this point is that I see developers writing Typescript code with the constant hinting/intellicode from IntelliJ and somewhat blind to the readability of the naked code. You get this tight coupling of code and editor&#x2F
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by ballenf 5y ago
Probably easier to slip a "naughty" image that doesn't contain a minor into the image database. An image that resides in a target's iCloud storage. Or soon will. Then it would take a super high level human reviewer to de
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by ballenf 5y ago
Article references the debunked claim that the Wizard of Oz was an allegory about the gold standard. Or was that debunking debunked? Hard to keep up.
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by ballenf 5y ago
If we don't own the phone, we have no basis to insist on a search warrant before a search. So moves to make it obvious that Apple really owns the phone and we're just pushing buttons on it, undermines any efforts to establish lega
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by ballenf 5y ago
I wonder if there will be "reality" tv shows about data hoarders one day. Probably have to wait for data to be easily visualized with VR or AR. In fact, I really love the idea that I could have to walk to a particular room in orde

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