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by bskap 7y ago
The site itself has not been, but the library used to build the map of cross-references is https://kythe.io/
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by bskap 7y ago
> name, address, political jurisdiction, gender, date of birth, voting record, date of registration, and registration number Voting record in this case means which elections you voted in, not who you voted for. It is explicitly illegal t
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by bskap 7y ago
In much of the US, voter registrations are considered public record by state law. For example: https://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=29A.08.710 Israel may have a similar law but I don't speak Hebrew and I
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by bskap 7y ago
Does that account for data centers getting built primarily in areas with easy access to renewable energy? I suspect the fuel mix for your average Amazon data center to be considerably greener than running the same power rig out of your home
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by bskap 7y ago
Having seen the employment agreements for both, I can confidently say that Google's clause is the same as Microsoft's. Microsoft may be less strict about enforcing it, but the language was the same.
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by bskap 7y ago
With a work profile on Android, I can temporarily disable all of my work account stuff with the push of a button. It may not be as physically satisfying as throwing the phone in the bottom of a drawer for a week, but the vacation experience
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by bskap 7y ago
Doesn't look like it. The article mentions that it's a deal with the department of corrections, and that WVDCR is getting commissions from the program.
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by bskap 7y ago
Most of these tunnels are being built in heavily populated areas where surface space is at a premium. You'd have to tear down thousands of apartments and offices to make any meaningful progress on a cut and cover tunnel inside a city u
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by bskap 7y ago
It's probably more commonly known among people who have taken government classes since 1992, since it's basically proof that government classes can have a real impact on public policy.
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by bskap 7y ago
It's not a GPL problem. It's a GPLv3 problem. Most likely the anti-tivoization clause. Linux, like the old version of Bash that Apple is shipping, is licensed under GPL v2. I suspect Microsoft is also very careful to make sure the
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by bskap 7y ago
That also only works if the patient can choose a different provider. If the only anesthesiologist authorized to assist in the only in-network hospital in the area equipped to do a particular urgent surgery charges an arm and a leg, there&#x
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by bskap 7y ago
Some of the markets they're applying for seem a little questionable. Looks like they're trying to claim far more than just social network. * Downloadable e-commerce computer software to allow users to perform electronic business t
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by bskap 7y ago
English and its ambiguous grammar... I mean when the founding fathers designed the electoral college, they wouldn't have been concerned about it taking power away from minority groups. In addition, the people in rural areas today who a
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by bskap 7y ago
That assumes that "only appeals to cities" is the only type of populist that we need protection from. The electoral college does nothing to protect against things like "only appeals to white people" or "only appeals
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by bskap 7y ago
Ok, but why do that for railroad crossings and not any other type of dangerous crossing? Should we have these apps announce every stop sign, traffic light, and uncontrolled intersection you travel through for safety reasons?
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by bskap 8y ago
That was a bit of a mess. Technically, no carrier at the time had a "real" 4G network, according to the ITU- only LTE-Advanced and WiMAX 2 met their definition. Since the ITU had declared that Sprint's WiMAX network and Veriz
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by bskap 8y ago
Worldwide it's less then 1/4, but for obvious reasons, its market share is much higher in wealthier countries. From a brief search, it's 46% in the US, and has the majority in a handful of European countries including the UK
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by bskap 8y ago
Most of the time, you're trying to solve different types of locks: key locks, 3 and 4 digit combination locks, combination locks with letters, directional locks (not going to say always try the Konami code, but there's a good chan
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by bskap 8y ago
Not all 14 of them are Republican. Delaware has two Democrats, and Vermont has one Democrat and one Bernie Sanders.
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by bskap 8y ago
> In the absence of the authorisation referred to in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1, Member States shall provide that an online content sharing service provider shall not be liable for acts of communication to the public or makin
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by bskap 8y ago
Who you voted for is private. The fact that you voted is public- anyone can get that from the state, no need for you to volunteer it.
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by bskap 8y ago
Wouldn't they also need access to a device that already synced your passwords? That essentially switches your computer to be the second factor, albeit one that's more easily compromised with malware. And if they already have malwa
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by bskap 8y ago
LastPass doesn't support U2F at all. They only support the Yubikeys in the less-secure one-time-password mode.
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by bskap 8y ago
Calculating costs here is tricky. Do you only include the cost for Google running running the Play Store infrastructure itself, or do you also include the costs of developing and running Google Play Services? What about the costs Google has
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by bskap 8y ago
The problem is with the incentives: if the recipient of a DMCA request doesn't immediately take down the target, they become liable for any copyright infringement. While Google would probably win if it came down to a lawsuit, the two o
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by bskap 8y ago
Oh, it's certainly a sell out. I'm just saying it's not a sellout to Starbucks. It's a sell out to the dairy industry.
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by bskap 8y ago
It's milk-based drinks that are excluded, not Starbucks specifically. So it doesn't apply to things like chocolate milk, milkshakes, or milkshakes with a small amount of coffee in them.
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by bskap 8y ago
Pet dogs can do it to, if they have a reason to (like their owner taking too long to get them to the dog park: http://komonews.com/news/local/seattle-dogs-rush-hour-ride-o... )
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by bskap 8y ago
What measure are you using for "much more common"? According to the OECD data, the US is 7th for percent of population 16-64 with a post-secondary degree, and Luxembourg is the only western European country ahead of the US (the ot
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by bskap 8y ago
The acronym was coined in 2013 to describe the best-performing tech stocks at the time. Microsoft's resurgence hadn't really happened yet. The acronym was so convenient that no one's updated it except to add Apple (which didn

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