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by deogeo 7y ago
Another source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/29/what-lobb...
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by deogeo 7y ago
The occasional post on HN to the tune of "proprietary solution our company relies on just increased price by 10x - what can we do?" validates your feelings. When you rely on something you don't own, you are in someone else&#x
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by deogeo 7y ago
Depends on your definition of "the data". If they store all the data, split it in two, and you only count one half as "the data", and the other half as... something else, then yes, it can be both anonymized and de-anonym
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by deogeo 7y ago
It's bad for the US - that they have sinned does not mean they should be any less worried about someone else having power over them.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> If we're really concerned about this - get rid of the network connectivity. Iranian centrifuges had no network connectivity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
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by deogeo 7y ago
And that all the examples given of uneducated masses distrusting statistics just happen to align with the Guardian's pet causes is of course pure coincidence. Really, that's the perfect example of why statistics are distrusted -
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by deogeo 7y ago
I can't help but laugh. Make the slightest mention of statistics broken down by race, and the same publication that is despairing of how people no longer trust statistics, would be finding innumerable reasons why those statistics are
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by deogeo 7y ago
Humans have also been traveling since forever, yet the precautions for flying a jet plane are vastly different than if you're going on foot.
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by deogeo 7y ago
One aspect is the speed of evolution - as one species evolves, its competitors evolve just as much, making it difficult to dominate too much. This is a limitation that GM does not share - it can make genetic leaps in a few years that would
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by deogeo 7y ago
That's true - while I mostly don't buy the 'frankenfood' scare, I worry about the dangers to the ecosystem. For example a GM crop that is fungus/insect resistant, but the resistance is due to a herbicide/pestic
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by deogeo 7y ago
Yet golden rice was made mostly through state funding - patents aren't the only way.
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by deogeo 7y ago
If only we could use GM crops without handing control of the food supply to hostile corporations. It's only the irrational fear of GM that is strong enough to stand up to their lobbying - with the unfortunate side-effect of stopping al
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Menlo Park, an affluent, mostly white city of 35,000 To repeat from the previous time this was posted: According to their own source, Menlo Park is 70% white, but this includes Hispanics, who make up 18%. Assuming they were mostly coun
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by deogeo 7y ago
You would have strictly fewer rights if the code did not include the GPL. It lets you use the code with no restrictions whatsoever, provided you place no restrictions on your users. And if you don't like that, you're still free to
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Go ahead and publish it. I support your right to free speech. Do you? Even free-speech extremists such as myself and the US Supreme Court don't support libel.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Using copyright for control and censorship, instead of remuneration.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> It's entirely justified to criticize a company for doing entirely legal things. Especially a company that had such a large role in writing those laws as Disney did.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Key word missing from the title: some. It looks like Facebook has a filter to ban anti-vaccine ads, but like any filter, has false positives and negatives. That the article gives examples of only the false positives and negatives, and non
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by deogeo 7y ago
It's a higher number, but it's over a much larger area and time-span - all of Scotland, and 200 years. So it's expected there would be more cases. > this is the first I'd heard of the Scottish witch craze. That's
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by deogeo 7y ago
> The intensity of the panic rose and fell more than once over these 200 years [..] It’s unclear how many were executed. The interactive map includes data on the deaths of 123 people. Other sources estimate 300 to 2,000. So an upper esti
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by deogeo 7y ago
It's also part of the job of a journalist to not deceive their readers. But I guess we're going to let that slide, and demand public figures speak in such a way that is impossible to misrepresent or take wrongly out of context. As
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by deogeo 7y ago
> 3. Even if every error printed by the media was corrected That would be a huge step, and not some minor detail as you're trying to frame it. And they were not 'errors' - his statements were quite deliberately misrepresen
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by deogeo 7y ago
Are you also responsible for the deliberate misrepresentation of the things you say?
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by deogeo 7y ago
In fact, during that period, about a million Europeans were enslaved by Arabs [1]. But curiously , that's rarely brought up. In fact, it's even mostly been purged from wikipedia's entry on the Arab slave trade: "Muslims
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by deogeo 7y ago
I have proof that much less fiber than was paid for was laid down. I've linked it before, here's a few different links if you can't be bothered to click on the previous one: https://www.huffpost.com/entry&#x
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by deogeo 7y ago
> It's also disingenuous (and just factually incorrect) to say there is 'nothing' in return. They literally did not fulfill their contractual obligations, but thanks to lobbying, were forgiven.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Menlo Park, an affluent, mostly white city of 35,000 According to their own source, Menlo Park is 70% white, but this includes Hispanics , who make up 18%. Assuming they were mostly counted under white, this leaves whites as barely ov
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by deogeo 7y ago
> The policy was proposed in order to encourage the use of British Sign Language clapping during our democratic events, to make those events more accessible and inclusive for all I would imagine deaf people can recognize clapping just as
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by deogeo 7y ago
> more than one opinion on the subject. In my experience, the difference between publications isn't so much in the opinions they express, but in which stories they choose to cover. Go to reason.com for stories of government abuse of
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> I then looked at the public comment section and users there were discussing how to best gas as many Jews as possible in the US. I'm sure they cleaned up the site a bit since then, but this is a true story. Yet the founder, Andrew

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