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by ckastner 8y ago
The article makes an interesting case for the influence of short sellers on Tesla's stock and calls out some specific hedge fund managers. However, even if these "bad actors" (as the article calls them) do indeed influence th
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by ckastner 8y ago
> Because they relate to the trees as live beings with intimate ties to surrounding people and other creatures, the Waorani aren’t alarmed by the notion that a tree might scream when cut, or surprised that harming a tree should cause tr
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by ckastner 8y ago
Yep, and that's the argument that the registrar made in this case, and the court agreed. Edit: Well, technically, the court agreed that you cannot be compelled to provide this information. However, I don't see why not one could
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by ckastner 8y ago
By your logic, I can personally consider myself invited to any party, as long as a random person (even one who has no connection to the party) on Twitter invites me to said party. That tweet might have motivated me to join the party, and I
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by ckastner 8y ago
I did read the discussion first, and my common sense interpretation of the question was whether someone of relevance to the event asked.
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by ckastner 8y ago
While factually correct, I assume that one is contractually obligated to provide valid details, and then, not doing so would then be a breach of contract.
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by ckastner 8y ago
> the conversation following the tweet I linked is more than sufficient to prove to you that it was others asking him for help That's technically correct, a random stranger on the Internet asked for help. Has anyone actually involv
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by ckastner 8y ago
> ICANN can't do the sensible thing and just discontinue whois Note that this is not about discontinuing WHOIS, but discontinuing the collection of the "technical contact" and "administrative contact". The domain
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by ckastner 8y ago
Even if that were true (and I'd challenge the variety of species and plants, see [1]): what, objectively , is the problem with that? Furthermore, even if the pace and breadth of current extinction were that dramatic, isn't the ar
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by ckastner 8y ago
I already conceded the survability aspect ("except in cases where the changes affected our food supply").
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by ckastner 8y ago
> You see that now. But in 1985 most people thought email was silly, if they knew about it at all. > Why replace the mail? The mail is fine. It's only when you look back on it, with modern eyes, that you see how great it was.
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by ckastner 8y ago
I never understood why such changes -- dramatic as they may be -- were seen as a cause of concern, except in cases where the changes affected our food supply. Humans may be responsible for the decimation or outright extinction of entire spe
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by ckastner 8y ago
Incredible. It is obvious that they will not be able to show intent beyond reasonable doubt as to this "crime" (they even acknowledge it is just a model), proceeding regardless is just farcical. Amusingly enough, they labeled it &
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by ckastner 8y ago
Excellent, objective analysis. The financial arguments speak for themselves, but the personal arguments hit the nail on the head, I believe: > With a story stock, it is imperative that you have a CEO who not only is able to get the mark
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by ckastner 8y ago
Link to the email on the Python-Dev mailing list: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2018-July/15423...
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by ckastner 8y ago
> For the first time, Model 3 production (28,578) Interestingly enough, the Bloomberg model 3 tracker's [1] estimates appear to have been quite accurate: 2018-03-31: 12,383 2018-06-30: 39,872 ====== dif
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by ckastner 8y ago
> The biggest problem is that most of the interesting private data is actually about relationships between multiple private individuals. If you're having a conversation with a friend on Whatsapp, is that conversation property of yo
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by ckastner 8y ago
> The regulator interprets the gap. Technically, it will be the courts who (ultimately) interpret the gap, and it's worked so far for other standards like 'beyond reasonable doubt' . Courts have a tendency to be less capr
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by ckastner 8y ago
They could acquire them purely as an investment that generates returns. A dividend, or whatever.
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by ckastner 8y ago
I realize that with Coinbase's rumored financial success, this might be a sound investment... but I really do hope that their intention is not to use the Facebook platform to push crypto. Hawking their user's data is taking it far
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by ckastner 8y ago
The worst offender I've encountered is imgur.com, where "click here to manage your privacy settings" brings you to a page with literally hundreds of advertisers. About half are on "allowed" by default. If you want
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by ckastner 8y ago
Page 14: [edit: number corrected, thanks] > As the screenshots below illustrate, the Facebook GDPR popup requires users to go into “Manage data settings” to turn off ads based on data from third parties. If the user simply clicks “Accep
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by ckastner 8y ago
This is fantastic news! Based on this information, I conclude that nuclear fusion is probably only about 20 years away.
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by ckastner 8y ago
That's a good point... Zimbardo could claim that anything but the agreed-upon safe words were to be understood as part of the act they were hired for. Then, I imagine that it would be very hard to show beyond reasonable doubt intent
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by ckastner 8y ago
From the article of that HN discussion: > “Now, okay,” Zimbardo corrected himself on the phone with me. He then acknowledged that the informed consent forms which subjects signed had included an explicit safe phrase: “I quit the experim
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by ckastner 8y ago
Indeed, at least to a certain degree. You'd expect a CEO being fired over such a technicality to at least fight back, instead of fully cooperating.
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by ckastner 8y ago
Relationships among employees are very hard to keep concealed -- especially so when you're in a very exposed position, as a CEO is. At some point, somebody is going to notice something. If this is the case, then I'm pretty sure th
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by ckastner 8y ago
Not a question, but some advice: you might want to add a sentence or two to that page describing what Standuply actually is or does.
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by ckastner 8y ago
Yeah but in this case, this is not a goal, but the goal everyone both inside and outside has been monitoring closely now. It could be bullshit, it could be a PR stunt... but to what end? We're going to find out the real number on A
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by ckastner 8y ago
You mean like someone who has the freedom to go where they want , do what they want ? Indeed, they would probably be sitting on the beach of their own private island sipping cocktails made by their butler. They would probably not be usi

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