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by curryst 5y ago
I was curious and that still didn't sound right to me, so I Googled it. It's a more sweeping set of changes, I think still aimed at money laundering. This seemed like a neutral summary of the changes, though it lacks any analysis
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by curryst 5y ago
I think it's related to wealth inequality. Social Security only taxes the first ~$150k you make in a year. If a million dollars is redirected from the poor to the rich, we lose Social Security income. In theory, that decreases the So
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by curryst 5y ago
I wondered why you had medical care and healthcare, they seemed redundant, but good on BLS for separating hospital costs and medical costs. That truly is granular.
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by curryst 5y ago
> Interesting, although it might require Gandalf as the secret father of Aragorn as well. It doesn't. Aragorn already descends from a Maia. The whole Numenorian royal blood line descends from Thingol and Melian; Melian is a Maia.
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by curryst 5y ago
No, they actually are different in Tolkien. In Tolkien, the universe was created by Ainur (supernatural beings) by singing a song in response to Eru (the "One God"). The Ainur who felt responsibility for the creation and wanted
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by curryst 5y ago
* Types that can actually restrict values. I think Haskell does this, but you should be able to express something like "X is an integer whose value is always greater than 1" and have the compiler implicitly perform a check when y
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by curryst 5y ago
There's might be some ancillary issue on the backend. Something like that they changed backup formats, but can't reformat the customer's existing backups because of E2EE, so they need the customer to power up their laptop so
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by curryst 5y ago
It's because government power has creeped to a degree where it's no longer feasible to inflict any kind of punishment, so accountability is impossible. We basically have the options of complaining on the internet, complaining in
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by curryst 5y ago
It's just not that dire yet. For one, the court hasn't ruled yet. This is purely LinkedIn's argument, and they're allowed to argue anything they want. They could argue that hiQ isn't allowed to access their servic
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by curryst 5y ago
It's not a fine, it's a bribe. I don't think I've ever heard of a jurisdiction where you pay the officer who is ticketing you.
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by curryst 5y ago
> what I believe should happen with abusive contracts is the courts should make them counter-enforceable. Meaning, all the rights and dignities the signature-demander wanted me to forfeit to them, and all the obligations and basic liabil
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by curryst 5y ago
I don't think it will. The pricing is still too high for it to become mainstream. I've worked at places that have those systems and it really does make debugging an incredible amount easier, but Sumo Logic is $93/GB for dat
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by curryst 5y ago
Even then, I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if Google was selling Chromecast viewing data and similar for Amazon. If not on the receiver, the client (likely your phone) may be reporting it. And then if not that, wherever you&#x
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by curryst 5y ago
The author does bring up l-meth. I'm taking them at their word that l-meth is an isomer of d-meth and is created in P2P synthesis, but that seems at least plausible. It doesn't seem to be common in the legal markets, and especial
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by curryst 5y ago
The number of people at the protest doesn't particularly matter. It's a proxy for people who are against the vaccine, and we have better data in the article: vaccination rates. > As of last Tuesday, the overall NYPD vaccination
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by curryst 5y ago
I wonder about the intersection between nuclear-armed countries and countries at risk of disruption. Isn't it believed that North Korea either can or will be able to shortly launch nukes in Asia? I think some people even believe they
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by curryst 5y ago
> That is, an employee violating an NDA for profit might be considered committing fraud against their employer. I don't think so. Fraud would require an element of deception. Corporate espionage seems like a more probable avenue.
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by curryst 5y ago
The easy thing to do would be to tank the value of water rights first. Taxes seem like an obvious option. I can't think of any constitutional reasons why they can't tax you for drawing from natural springs, else all new taxes wou
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by curryst 5y ago
> Information products are not like paperclips. Each piece of information is by definition unique, and its value to the consumer is predicated on that uniqueness. A piece of information is not unique. You and I can both know that 2+2=4.
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by curryst 5y ago
> basically ruin someone's life and make them almost unhire-able in their field. It will make them almost unhireable everywhere. Even outside their field, they're still a risk. They've now got a very public "trouble
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by curryst 5y ago
> A lot of us don't see ourselves as professionals, with our own ethical standards and responsibilities. We just do whatever a boss orders us to do, like minions or mercenaries. In contrast, I think that's precisely how we all
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by curryst 5y ago
I don't think the Dutch court has any authority with regards to your US citizenship. It would be a massive breach of national sovereignty if Dutch judges could strip Americans of their citizenship. They could prevent the Dutch banks tr
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by curryst 5y ago
Sealand would be of note here. This is basically that exact scenario. Dude buys an old oil platform, calls it a country and issues a bunch of passports. Debates abound over whether they should be accepted or not.
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by curryst 5y ago
Downtown housing stock tends to be old in most cities. It's prohibitively expensive to buy a building, tear it down, rebuild something bigger and hope that it's worth enough to pay for the above. It's cheaper to buy unused l
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by curryst 5y ago
I think "nigh" is meant to modify "owner", not "beneficial". I think the lawyer saying is saying that the KSA figuratively owns Twitter, and that Twitter benefits from that relationship. Golden handcuffs, bas
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by curryst 5y ago
I think that depends on the organization we're talking about. There exist organizations where spies getting in probably should be per se negligence. The CIA and NSA are indisputably in this list. We just don't punish them via l
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by curryst 5y ago
I see it rarely, but almost exclusively in games that feature exponential growth, like mobile idle games. Growth is so explosive that you typically entirely ignore the actual numbers, and you measure progress via orders of magnitude (i.e.
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by curryst 5y ago
> That being said, I think developers have made some things more difficult to understand than they should be. While people understand what an address is, calling it a URL adds an extra layer to learn (even if it is just terminology). URL
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by curryst 5y ago
Every time I look at this, my conclusion is that sudo is a great tool for limiting coworker access and a terrible tool for limiting adversarial access. This is one of those spots where "everything is a string" fails miserably. Sur
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by curryst 5y ago
I saw someone recommend screenshotting the PDF to images, then converting those back to a PDF to ensure that you've scrubbed all non-visible artifacts.

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