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by diego 7y ago
No, Africa extends between 30 south and 30 north, roughly. Same latitude as the south of the US.
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by diego 7y ago
Calling this a war is the reason the saying "pick your battles" exists. Anyone who is a parent knows that kids always find ways to hurt themselves, there is no shortage of opportunities. Might as well make playgrounds safe, kids d
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by diego 7y ago
Were you paying with a credit card? In Argentina the norm is to ask for id when paying with credit card, and if you're a foreigner the default would be to ask for your passport.
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Scientific Jury Selection(en.wikipedia.org)
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by diego 7y ago
It’s not my definition. You’re twisting words. Location data is just not “anonymizable” at all because it’s always possible to combine it with other sources.
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by diego 7y ago
If you're going to nitpick like that, then no data is ever anonymized if it contains any information at all. When you start combining pieces of data, they all contribute information that helps you narrow down individuals until there is
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by diego 7y ago
Someone should invite that economist to a modern rock climbing gym. Then explain every piece of technology that made those wall designs affordable and commonplace in most major cities. Being able to train in state-of-the-art facilities, foc
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by diego 7y ago
Anonymizing does not mean that it has to be one-way. You can give other people an anonymized version of your data, but you can keep the key to deanonymize that data (and hand it out selectively). I don't know who is assuming that anony
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by diego 7y ago
It does, see my other comment. It means employees CANNOT deanonymize the data. If done properly, the key is off network and off premises, only retrievable with a lot of red tape.
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by diego 7y ago
No, it's not the same. It could be stored anonymized, and the de-anonymizing data is somewhere else, and it can ONLY be accessed with a court order. I don't know why my original comment is being downvoted, it's an important d
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by diego 7y ago
"With a court order, this data can be used to identify and track an individual... ... which means that it is stored de-anonymized in the carrier servers" No, it does not mean that it's stored de-anonymized. It means that it
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by diego 7y ago
The problem here is not so much Facebook (a company doing what companies do) as it is the regulatory system they fit in. This situation is unprecedented, as no single company had ever concentrated the media power Facebook has. Our legislato
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by diego 7y ago
The title makes it sound more nefarious than it is. The stats are simply "the percentage of users who agreed to share videos with you is X."
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by diego 7y ago
Censorship and deplatforming exist because companies have nothing to do with what was originally defined as free speech, and lots of us believe this is fine (including myself). If you want to take the phrase "free speech" and make
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by diego 7y ago
No need for the patronizing, almost obnoxious tone. I mostly disagree with what you just said, and not for lack of questioning. Current laws or not, you’re not entitled to the attention of others, and I don’t think you should be. If you wan
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by diego 7y ago
Right. Nothing to do with free speech.
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by diego 7y ago
Facebook has nothing to do with free speech. Free speech is "you don't go to jail for saying something." You're not entitled to a platform for shouting out loud.
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by diego 7y ago
It's still grasping at straws. The idea is to connect SF and LA, which are much larger than Taipei and Kaohsiung. In-between stops are a bonus.
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by diego 7y ago
That's a nonsequitur. The California coast is pretty dense, the rest of the state has large amounts of empty space and national parks. Nobody would build a high-speed rail through Yosemite or Death Valley.
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by diego 7y ago
And there is a good reason for more one-to-many pairings: more choices. Back in the day less desirable partners had more chances because of proximity. Today it's easier to search for partners (for the same reason it's easier to sh
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by diego 7y ago
I don't suppose it's a company that commits treason, rather an individual making a decision. If so, it may depend on the nationality of the decider. What if, say, the Twitter community manager for France decided to take down such
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by diego 7y ago
1) You're assuming this ONLY discusses the possibility of the US declaring war via tweet. The article clearly talks about ANY country that could declare war via tweet. 2) It specifically addresses the question of the US and Congress.
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by diego 7y ago
This is the type of title that I considered sensationalized. "Before I die" is a cliche only used to grab attention, because obviously there are no lists of books to read after one dies.
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by diego 7y ago
Do you really believe China depends on US soy to feed their population? Where did you get that from?
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by diego 7y ago
What would Wall Street care? All that matters is that a company goes public while there is still some (perceived, at least) upside for retail investors. If the main company of going public is to give investors / employees liquidity, th
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by diego 7y ago
Lots of people in China (more than you'd imagine) use VPNs. If you want to verify this is true, ask anyone who's used Tinder in China.
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by diego 7y ago
So many misunderstandings around this. For one, in the US we have free speech. That means that you can say anything you want, but you have to accept that you may lose customers for saying it. It doesn't matter if you believe that your
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by diego 7y ago
Failing is really the default for startups. A better question would be, why do you think you did not succeed. I'm guessing they simply did not make enough money, which is the norm. EDIT: if you read the article, they "failed to mo
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by diego 7y ago
Are they becoming more frequent or is the press mentioning them more often? Citations needed.
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by diego 7y ago
I question the assertion that this is expensive for spammers. The whole premise is that a spammer would not consider this worth the cost, and do something else with the computing power instead. Why? It completely depends on what the captcha

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