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YouTube said it was serious about hate speech. Why is it still full of it?(gizmodo.com)
4 points by bbatsell 7y ago|0 comments
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by bbatsell 7y ago
I am trying to assume good faith, but I confess to being incredibly confused by this post. I just skimmed the last two months of Troy’s tweets (which constitutes quite a few — he is prolific) and couldn’t find a _single_ one that matches up
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Listen to TurboTax Lie to Get Out of Refunding Overcharged Customers(propublica.org)
171 points by bbatsell 7y ago|44 comments
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Shotspotter Found Phantom 'Gunshot' to Justify Officer's Deadly Force(techdirt.com)
2 points by bbatsell 8y ago|1 comments
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Facebook silently re-enables firehose for surveillance firm(fastcompany.com)
4 points by bbatsell 8y ago|1 comments
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by bbatsell 8y ago
I think you might be conflating macOS and iOS. When you enable FileVault (macOS full-disk encryption), you are given the option to upload a recovery key to Apple tied to your iCloud account. To my knowledge this is not offered with iOS.
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by bbatsell 8y ago
> Trump and his campaign tried to claim he was kidding. He was not. At that same press conference, minutes later, I asked if it gave him "pause" to ask a foreign government to hack into the emails of any American citizen. He sa
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by bbatsell 8y ago
The contract in question was, in fact, with a totally separate company ("ECS Federal") with confidentiality agreements. The Google execs, in contemporaneous emails, knew from the beginning that it would be opposed and did their ut
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by bbatsell 9y ago
As an independent agency, the FCC is required to have two members from a minority party, and when a spot opens up, a new member is traditionally given to the President by the minority party. (Pai was Mitch McConnell's choice.)
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by bbatsell 9y ago
> Today he got fired from everything that he's involved with. The apology was career suicide. I'm obviously not familiar with the exact situation, but I'd be willing to bet money that he had received word that it was going
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by bbatsell 9y ago
No. The iPhone 8 Plus screen size is roughly comparable to the iPhone X, but since the bezels are gone, the iPhone X is significantly smaller in physical size. You can see size comparisons here: https://www.imore.com/iphon
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by bbatsell 9y ago
They do. The partial second floor overlooking mission control is the SpaceX cafeteria.
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I'm a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you(vox.com)
13 points by bbatsell 9y ago|4 comments
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This Is Almost Certainly James Comey's Twitter Account(gizmodo.com)
34 points by bbatsell 10y ago|7 comments
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by bbatsell 10y ago
Clearing up some serious misconceptions here: 1) Austin did not ban Uber or Lyft. The city council passed an ordinance that required a gradually increasing percentage of rideshare drivers pass an FBI-approved fingerprint background check. (
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by bbatsell 10y ago
That is pricing for 1st Generation, which is a whole different product that does not support Postgres. The pricing for Postgres is here: https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/pricing#pg-pricin... (
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by bbatsell 10y ago
I think it might be valuable to reflect on why your immediate reaction to "push them into positions of influence" is to think that women are unqualified to be there and they must be receiving "special advantage" if they
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by bbatsell 10y ago
The headline really undersells the story. The New York Times has internal Uber documents, confirmed by multiple Uber employees, showing that Uber lied to the public and to regulators by falsely claiming that a self-driving Volvo running a r
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by bbatsell 10y ago
Lynching is named after the brother of the man for whom Lynchburg is named.
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by bbatsell 10y ago
A completely independent group, led by Alex Halderman (who is 100% legit), has come to the same conclusion and is quietly demanding that voting machines in certain suspicious states be forensically audited: http://nymag.com/
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by bbatsell 10y ago
George W. Bush was president during her entire Senate career (save one day, technically). When Obama was elected, she became Secretary of State.
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by bbatsell 10y ago
(Kinda gross Hannibal spoilers below) There's an episode where a man's skin is flayed off his back and turned into metaphorical wings, which are then used to hang him from the ceiling. In depicting this from behind, you could orig
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by bbatsell 10y ago
You are confusing Cloudfront and Cloudflare.
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by bbatsell 10y ago
Soyuz returns three human beings in circumstances that could generously be called "very cramped". It carries no cargo. The Russian cargo vehicle is named Progress, and it does not survive re-entry.
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Former Uber Worker Claims Company Investigator Illegally Entered Her Home(buzzfeed.com)
3 points by bbatsell 11y ago|0 comments
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by bbatsell 11y ago
To be clear, the wingbox is, by far, the strongest part of a plane, but it's the most devastating if you can compromise it. (And its primary design goal isn't to account for explosive loads coming from the fuse.)
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by bbatsell 11y ago
> I'm NOT for backdoors I think you've just learned that you are, in fact, for backdoors. A backdoor doesn't become any less of a backdoor when it's only used against bad people.
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Mudge leaves Google to start “CyberUL” agency at White House's request(recode.net)
3 points by bbatsell 11y ago|0 comments
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by bbatsell 11y ago
> I'm not a lawyer, but if he wants to argue that he's innocent or that the law is unconstitutional, it seems like the courtroom is the right place to make that argument. You should know that he would be legally barred from doi
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by bbatsell 11y ago
The current holding comes from the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals and is in Oracle's favor. Unlike other regional Courts of Appeal, the Fed Circuit's decisions are binding nationwide because the court has subject-matter jurisdic

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