crystalmeph

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by crystalmeph 10y ago
That's an interesting legal point. I wonder if they could avoid trouble by proving that two or more employees were campaigning on exact opposite sides of an issue - e.g. employee A participates in a rally for more gun control and emplo
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
The Techcrunch article is framing it as an "escape hatch," but offers no evidence that Thiel actually purchased it for that reason. He may have purchased the NZ citizenship for tax purposes, or so he could buy this "sensitive
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
Yes, they were required to accept it. They are collecting taxes for the government (I'm not sure if the VA DMV is directly run by the government, or is a contractor doing business for the government, but it doesn't make a differe
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
Oh man, I thought I searched that list fully before posting. Thanks! I edited my post to be an expansion of that item, rather than a new addition.
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
On the plus side, the site works fine with NoScript with just the Google properties whitelisted.
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
>>It's sad that you seem to think that we need to "accept" man-made disasters. There will never be a completely safe man-made system. For example, when designing a system for Functional Safety[0], none of the applicable
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
"[USNS] Bowditch had stopped in the water to pick up two underwater drones. At that point a Chinese naval ship that had been shadowing the Bowditch put a small boat into the water. That small boat came up alongside and the Chinese crew
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
This guy was actually a customer, he had made several purchases that were locked up in his account. With Google Play, every user is at least a potential paying customer, so there's really no excuse for this lack of customer service. I
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
>>But ultimately, it's worth remembering that it's hard to build a good system with bad raw materials. If people are interested in falsehoods and echo chambers, their social media will reflect that. I wouldn't phrase it
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
Not everyone's, but certainly high value targets would have more of their email stored long-term than say, yours. Legality of the NSA accessing the US SoS' emails aside, I'm sure some intelligence officials somewhere woul
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
What other source did you get this information from? How are the 3 emails on Weiner's device tied to the Clinton investigation? This NYT article just has an anonymous "federal official" saying "thousands" of email
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Protection This court's jurisdiction seems to set it up in direct conflict with family members who have power of attorney to care for ailing relatives, as it appears that the
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
To be fair, according to this article, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others have explicitly denied allowing government officials direct access to their servers. However, due to the secrecy requirements of the law, we cannot know if they did
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
In the "Exploitation and Public Announcments" part of the linked article, it says that this vulnerability was discovered in the documents leaked/hacked from the Equation Group, which appears to be a group either within or ext
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
The Chinese talk about maybe sending a man to the moon, and they've launched a couple of these space stations, but they've only done 5 crewed launches since 2003, and the last one was 3 years ago in 2013. It seems like China is d
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
I sort of agree. To be clear, I don't think they should be charging extra and calling something "truffle oil" if it's got no truffle molecules in it, or "olive oil" if it's actually some other kind of vege
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
$40,000 each seems like a lot for an instrument there's not that much demand for, and is likely itself an impediment to further adoption. Is there something about the construction of this instrument that justifies this kind of price be
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
I don't think mcjon was suggesting that interviews for technical positions frequently veer off into discussions about literature. Rather, I think the experiences you are "supposed" to get in a traditional 4 year university ed
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
>>..isn't that what happened with Japan? First they just copied American TV and Radio designs.. That's correct. My dad worked in international sales for a company that makes industrial equipment, from the early 1970s until
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
PhantomGremlin may be referring to Google's personalized search results[0]. This can be turned off though, either through account settings or opening a private window, I think. However, it seems you can't shut off location-based
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
Microsoft Smartscreen says it's been reported as a phishing site. However, if I strip out the URL parameters and just go to http://avc.com/2016/06/best-seed-pitch-ever/ , there's no problem. It&#x2
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
This should not be downvoted. I'm getting "This website has been reported as unsafe" on IE11 on Win7 x64. Even if it's a false positive, it's disconcerting to see this on an article linked from the front page of H
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
To be clear, I don't believe my tin-foil conspiracy is true, and honestly it doesn't matter one bit to me if Craig Wright is the inventor of Bitcoin. That said, I never said that his "absence of evidence that he is Satoshi&qu
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
Tin-foil, but if I were Satoshi and wanted to remain anonymous, and some journalists started snooping around, one way to shut them down would be to publicly post a "proof" that seems technical enough to get the reporters to run ou
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
I don't know. Is there anyone who isn't a politician or employed by the TSA who thinks the TSA is doing a job worthy of their funding? Even though you have to take it as a fact that the status quo is a powerful force in politics,
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
It's interesting that scientists talk about animals displaying "anxious behavior," rather than "being anxious," because we don't "know" what's actually going on in their minds. But we're pe
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by crystalmeph 10y ago
Yeah, it sounds like this is just a tool they're really getting a lot of use out of, so they have a giant "in-joke" that it's actually an employee.
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by crystalmeph 11y ago
TL;DR Overall women are still paid less than men, but recent college grads are actually getting more than their male counterparts, at least in some fields. Hopefully this is the beginning of a continued movement towards overall pay equality
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Young women are asking for (and getting) more pay than men(money.cnn.com)
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by crystalmeph 11y ago
Edit: I was very much under the impression that there were concrete regulations against private individuals using active guidance on model rockets, but after searching around, I can't find any such thing. Goes to show, trust but verif

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