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by docdeek 7y ago
I know the article is about the US use case, but cities like London (in Europe) and Beijing (in Asia) fit most of the criteria you mention and are incredibly closely surveiled. I suspect that if someone wants to deploy mass survillance they
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by docdeek 7y ago
Always thought it was pronounced cob-serve.
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by docdeek 7y ago
Outline.com - in this case: https://outline.com/SAJ7yR
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by docdeek 7y ago
Honest question: how is this different to a website having a means for users to buy tokens, and then either give those tokens to another person on the site or trade them with another user? I can buy reddit gold and then gift that gold to so
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by docdeek 7y ago
There's a chance of running into problems when you try and define 'journalist', though. If a journalist is someone employed by a major news corporation then you are going to disadvantage the independent journalists with not m
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by docdeek 7y ago
The US-Saudi relationship is a strategic alliance. In this complex world there are few chances to ally with, support, trade with, or align with ONLY free and democratic countries. The US is aligned with the most free and democratic state in
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by docdeek 7y ago
Story here in Lyon, France, yesterday about a less-dangerous attack on the electric scooters: instead of cutting the brake cables, vandals are painting over the QR code instead. No QR code to scan means no useable scooter. Link in French:
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by docdeek 7y ago
Surely an enterprising person will do this. There’s a law in France regardiung the release of exit polls on the day of an election - basically, you are restricted from releasing these polls before the polls close so as not to impact people
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by docdeek 7y ago
The author mentions fencing, so can probably conclude that individual sports were allowed.
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by docdeek 7y ago
I learnt QWERTY as a kid/teenager in Australia. Arriving in France 13 years ago I was a bit lost tempoararily with the switch to AZERTY, almost to the point of seeking out a keyboard online to get back to a ‘normal’ keyboard. I stuck i
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by docdeek 7y ago
Wikipedia has a short page on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Japan–Korea_relatio...
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by docdeek 7y ago
I analyzed Carr's 'Twenty Years Crisis' in my doctoral thesis on realist theory in international relations. In addition to 'What is History?' this is a great read, with the underlying idea that you can't assume
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by docdeek 7y ago
In France the notice period is generally three months, though that can be negotiated if your company is not stressed about replacing you. Two weeks would be very, very unusual here, though.
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by docdeek 8y ago
> The catastrophe occurred in 2016 in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.
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by docdeek 8y ago
Understood - but most EU states would have a national ID card which would make them ‘known’ to their own government. Not sure if all include biometrics (I know that the ID cards here in France are not all like that, though passports today a
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by docdeek 8y ago
Why would it be limited to 350 million people - isn’t the EU around 500 million or more? Are children excluded?
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by docdeek 8y ago
For that example I would be thinking 60 x 25 = 1500 (4 x 25=100, so that's the simple part for me) and then 3 x 25 = 75, and add the two products.
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by docdeek 8y ago
The Indicator podcast from Planet Money covered this topic this morning. If I remember the conclusion correctly it was that these sorts of dual class stock deals were on the way out...except for tech firms.
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by docdeek 8y ago
*Airframe. I miss Crichton...
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by docdeek 8y ago
In discussions on reddit yesterday some people suggested this was merely a bad translation of ‘child rearing age’. If so, the bottom end (youngest) of 18 seems to make sense and is a lot less dystopian than it might otherwise read.
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by docdeek 8y ago
The core of the argument FTA: >>Wolfe did some digging into Footpath’s server logs, to see whether staff at Strava had been using Footpath. They had. “I discovered multiple accounts and dozens of routing requests originating from Stra
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Did Strava copy its mobile route builder from another app?(cyclingtips.com)
164 points by docdeek 8y ago|126 comments
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by docdeek 8y ago
Perhaps it is only anecdotal on my part but the Australian, French, and British media I've regularly consumed during my lifetime has never portrayed India as a failed state with crazy leaders heartset on nuclear war. I would imagine th
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Navy Files for Patent on Room-Temperature Superconductor(m.phys.org)
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by docdeek 8y ago
What happens when it goes further than people who encourage others not to vaccinate their kids or who spread the word about a flat Earth? If you decide to allow the government to determine what is truth and what is a lie, and then to punish
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by docdeek 8y ago
This is exactly right. Trusting a government to determine what is true and what is not, and enforcing that version of truth via shutting down certain speech and penalising those who speak it, is a bad idea. I’ve no problem with a government
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by docdeek 8y ago
Interesting that the article explains this is the same sort of sting that was run in NJ under Obama. Reminds me of those stories of police departments sending 'you won the lottery' announcements to local criminals who had to appea
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by docdeek 8y ago
A lot of French Tech in those photos - I suspect there’s a mix of ‘useless tech’ and ‘bad marketing copy in a second language’ behind that.
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by docdeek 8y ago
Clicked through the link to find: >>Increase your media coverage chance >>%10 percent of PR is about how to reach reporters, on the other hand, %90 percent of PR is about which reporters do you reach. ‍ >>We will search a
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by docdeek 8y ago
A nice list, though I think my favourite detective story would fail on at least one point; indeed, ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ by Agatha Christie succeeds largely because it goes against one of the rules. https://en.wikipedia.o

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