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by davorak 6y ago
> Sure enough, plenty of well-reasoned critiques exist from Jewish groups, Noam Chomsky (hardly an anti-Semite), Christopher Hitchens, and others. Are these armchair critiques? Or are these people/groups putting in serious effort to
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by davorak 6y ago
> This is a non sequitur. No one is suggesting removing knowledge transfer and communication at work. People are suggesting limiting the amount of political activism at work that's outside of the scope of what you were paid to do (t
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by davorak 6y ago
> And you can research and discuss those topics outside of work. In my experience in the USA it is common for conversations at work to be about family, kids, life experiences(good and bad), current events, etc. It is something people bo
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by davorak 6y ago
> but we simply can not afford to let those issues to be the entirety of our lives, I agree. The comments I have spent my time on in the comments seem to be taking things too far and complaining the issue is with the people on the other
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by davorak 6y ago
The phases I use in my response above explicitly often explicitly use the word politics. The people saying that are not being narrow with their definitions like you are here. So if people live their life having people around them using the
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by davorak 6y ago
Seems like a reasonable interpretation in my experience. I have definitely seen people told not to talk about what you might call controversial because it is political. Don't talk about your abortion and how it made your life better or
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by davorak 6y ago
Sure but I have not seen anyone advocating for that in this thread.
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by davorak 6y ago
Do you have a suggestion for how you would make a measurement like that? It seems like the experimental procedure would require definitions at least several layers deep, the control based on real names and experimental group based another m
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by davorak 6y ago
> The point to make here is that Youtube is NOT the New England Journal of Science and should not act like one for just one topic Nor is cnn, fox news, msnbc, etc. They all exercise editorial control over what goes on their channel howev
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by davorak 7y ago
> public doesn't mean the {composer,artists,...} give up their copyrights. Copyright law protects the original work of the composer and artists in your example. User profile data on Linkedin is not Linkedin original work. Additional
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by davorak 7y ago
Reading Groklaw when it was updating was amazing. I remember it as clear and concise writing that always seemed to illuminate the facts and angles to best grasp the topic/issue with. I wrote a thank you email to the author for all of t
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by davorak 8y ago
> No, but it empowers thousands of hateful business owners... I do not think deanCommie meant a legal empowering. Only that many will feel more justified in their hate and act on it to the detriment of society as a whole.
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by davorak 8y ago
> If the custom cake was an expression of free speech, forcing the baker to do so would be compelled speech. This overstates it some. The baker is not forced to run a business that sells cakes to the public. > The principle you use to
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by davorak 8y ago
>> .. and thinks it's because his being white/male makes him inherently better ... > could you clarify how you reached this conclusion about someone specific, I have seen/heard of this in academia. The specific case
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by davorak 8y ago
> Well meritocracy means we will try to select and give influence/recognition based on merit. When someone tries to push an idea like "let's have more Asians" or "let's have more men" ... Isn't the
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by davorak 8y ago
I thought you would have to al least all the admins to agree to follow the GDPR so that data can be retrieved, corrected, and deleted on demand right?
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by davorak 8y ago
That is playing dice while dealing with potentially personal information though right? It depends on Bob using DHCP, that his DHCP switches often enough, and there are enough people on the same network that the link can not be made. The abo
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by davorak 8y ago
> IPs combined with other user data could be PII. 1) Bob signs up for a service and is logged 2) Bob than asks for his account to be deleted. Account details are deleted, but the ip logs are retained. 3) Bob signs back up for a new accou
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by davorak 8y ago
> And given your comments above, I'd put you in the company of "Hoover, Dyson, and Electrolux". Comments like this come across like a personal insult. For you an others, please refrain from such comments I see it shutting
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by davorak 8y ago
Yeah I was not clear. My intent was to talking about storing of a birthday vs storing a boolean indicating if the user was the age of majority or a boolean for weather they were 13+ for COPPA. Storing the value, rather than ephemerally proc
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by davorak 8y ago
> So once the account info is deleted, that link is broken. This another piece of DP legislation that has been subject to a great deal of FUD since most of the headlines just went with ‘court confirms IP address are PII’ and omitted ‘in
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by davorak 8y ago
Most server/frame works log ip address, but do not tie them to an account. If the account is deleted and the ip addresses are not than that seems like a potential violation as long as ip addresses are considered personal information.
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by davorak 8y ago
Some people are under the impression that ip addresses fall under "personal information". So if the user account is deleted and the associated ip logs are not deleted this would be a GDPR violation. Another potential violation wou
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by davorak 10y ago
Thanks for the citation, I had not seen that recent paper(2016). Pisin Chen and Hagen Kleinert say that De-Broglie-Bohm theory does not agree with experimental results or the rest of quantum mechanics. This is surprising since there evidenc
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by davorak 10y ago
> As far as I know not in the De-Broglie-Bohm theory As a physicist I am telling you should not conclude that the De-Broglie-Bohm theory is tell you anything different than what comicjk said. > The particle's characteristics ARE
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by davorak 11y ago
What is the incentive with staying with IE? Do they anticipate that the app might one day be used outside of the non-profit and therefore can not be written for Firefox or chrome?
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by davorak 11y ago
> The point is that the cost of the college grad is not a basis for economic decision making. The common assumption that ajmurmann and vasiliys are likely working form is that value has been retained during the ~20 years of investment an
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by davorak 11y ago
> This shouldn't be down voted, I at least down voted it because, the comment it was quoting from was supposed to be a "purely economic argument" and it acknowledged that most argument come from an emotional view point. Th
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by davorak 11y ago
Definitely better on my phone. Easier to read by far, but requires some side scrolling for most comments. Please keep.
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by davorak 11y ago
> Won't that just encourage more companies to do exactly what they are complaining about? It will become much harder for any company to argue the they are using grsecurity if they are not a sponsor since it is not public disseminate

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