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by deogeo 7y ago
The third party doctrine was always a disgusting mess. Sharing my information with entity A does not even remotely imply I'm okay with sharing it with B, and even less that A may be compelled to reveal my information against my and the
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by deogeo 7y ago
Imagine the reverse. Point your phone camera at a security robot, and get a list of names, faces, addresses, and current location of its owner, and the CEO and board members of its manufacturer.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> This finding underscores the importance of making source code widely available for full public scrutiny before, rather than after an election. And you are of course sure, when you cast your vote into a black box, that the correct sourc
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by deogeo 7y ago
Congratulations, you're an outlier. Do you think society will improve if we just hope hard enough more people turn out like you? It won't, or it already would have. Like it or not, we have to structure society for the people we ha
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Prosecutors commonly reduce the charge to get a guilty plea in a plea bargain. No, commonly , they pile on every charge they can think of and come up with some ridiculous sentence for a small crime, then offer to reduce it to somethin
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by deogeo 7y ago
By that logic, we should ban the internet altogether, and thus create more jobs for postal workers.
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by deogeo 7y ago
You skipped a few steps. If it's not the fastest, then other companies wouldn't go bankrupt, since they're offering something better. I.e. it would be the only option only if other companies bring nothing better to the tabl
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by deogeo 7y ago
> I was surprised to learn Of course you were surprised - the music industry doesn't like to advertise what a bunch of snakes they are, and media consolidation helps, so that what used to be common knowledge/stereotype, is now
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by deogeo 7y ago
Contracts she only signed because the music industry had all the leverage. A music industry that is filthy rich, and notorious for their exploitative contracts, so I wouldn't rush to their defense.
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by deogeo 7y ago
It should be noted that music label contracts are notoriously one-sided, and artists often make their labels millions without seeing a dime themselves.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> If two applicants were the same except that candidate A committed a minor crime 20 years ago, it is rational for me to prefer candidate B. If you lack any instinct to fight the power, yes. Personally, I would feel dirty, like a bootlic
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by deogeo 7y ago
Yep - they cut down some trees in my vicinity to make room for billboards.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Makes sense in a military context especially - GPS can be jammed.
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by deogeo 7y ago
To go to such extreme measures to avoid the glass-and-steel look... do you think architects will take the hint and switch to a different style? Ha ha, of course not! They will invent some contrived justification for why people are wrong to
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by deogeo 7y ago
To reduce distractions.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Do you have a source that says that's not how it happened? Or are you some kind of expert in Chinese bureaucracy, to be able to so confidently dismiss this scenario? Because if not, I'll put my trust in the journalists who actuall
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by deogeo 7y ago
Save your gratitude. There are many platforms that let you do that. The only thing special about Facebook is that they are the most popular - and they got most popular by muscling out those other platforms. If it wasn't them, someone
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by deogeo 7y ago
> In California, which in 2004 became the first state to offer paid family leave, new mothers who took it that year ended up working less and earning less a decade later. They averaged $24,000 in cumulative lost wages, it found. “I could
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by deogeo 7y ago
Of the many examples of China's influence on Australian universities in the article, this one is most egregious: Heng Tao Shen, who helped build the totalitarian surveillance architecture used by the Chinese government to monitor Uigh
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by deogeo 7y ago
Many things we hold very dear are artificial/somewhat arbitrary - that doesn't make them less valuable.
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by deogeo 7y ago
I disagree (depending on the case, I guess), but that's a matter of opinion. My answer was merely to explain the judge's actions, and was not intended as a comment on whether this particular sentence is just. If the judge believes
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by deogeo 7y ago
It won't be bug free, but it will be free of certain classes of bugs. That's the compelling reason for Rust - avoiding the many pitfalls and undefined behavior of C and C++. As for exactly which bugs (safe) Rust prevents, memory s
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Why not C/C++ which are already proven Proven as easy to introduce bugs and vulnerabilities with.
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by deogeo 7y ago
An excessive punishment is just as unfair as one that is too lenient.
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by deogeo 7y ago
He empowered her to choose her own justice, her own restitution. On a related note, I'm reminded of an article that examined the effect choice has on us, and that often, we're happier without it. One of the examples was even, I be
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by deogeo 7y ago
> In 1990, the census tracts that make up Mr. Katkuri’s Senate district were home to about 35,000 people — 91 percent of them white. Today, its population of 225,000 is just 64 percent white. A very rapid demographic change - but not tha
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by deogeo 7y ago
Lets say I'm only responding to that narrow reading, and am not objecting to a wider interpretation.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Imagine cars would record and forward to police everything said in them. We must hold Volkswagen responsible for the child abusers driving around rampantly, while they look the other way. We cannot allow the inside of a car to be a "la
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by deogeo 7y ago
> challenge the framing of people as "illegal" A brilliant rhetorical sleight of hand - the people aren't illegal - their act of immigration is. By this logic, we should refer to trespassers as "undocumented guests&
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by deogeo 7y ago
> the ways Haskell & Rust enforce program structure is a huge cost In my experience, it is the opposite of a cost - "worrying about types" doesn't slow me down. Instead, types help guide me, help reason about my code,

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