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What Is Mexican Food? A Nevada Court Has the Tricky Job of Deciding(wsj.com)
7 points by erehweb 5y ago|1 comments
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by erehweb 5y ago
High-risk is a term used in the GDPR itself - see e.g. https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/items/611236 from the European Commission
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by erehweb 5y ago
Large-scale data processing is considered high risk and requires appointing a data processing officer, according to https://www.osano.com/articles/gdpr-compliance-regulations . How large is large scale? Depends on the c
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by erehweb 5y ago
Also discussed in Adam Curtis's documentary "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_o... - available on Amazon, I think
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by erehweb 5y ago
Related to MasterClass generally - New Yorker article on the company https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/25/can-masterclas...
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by erehweb 5y ago
There's a lot of analysis on how to use a computer program to solve Wordle. Have people been able to use these to extract any suggested techniques for humans on easy or hard mode besides optimal first guesses?
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by erehweb 5y ago
I'm thinking more about just casually writing it down e.g. in an email or FB post - the word for this day was "MROEN" - where the reader could decode MROEN easily, but just knowing MROEN wouldn't leak information. And th
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Ask HN: Best way to encode Wordle words? rot13 is too revealing
8 points by erehweb 5y ago|15 comments
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Hotel concierge is probably a texting robot(wsj.com)
2 points by erehweb 5y ago|0 comments
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by erehweb 5y ago
You can see many of these 1-star or less reviews in the book, "I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie", available at Amazon and Powell's.
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by erehweb 5y ago
Was interesting that the writer says little about FB's mission and impact on the world - seems like it was not really important to them as a positive or negative. Perhaps part of this is due to writer's spending more time in tools
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How Much Are You Willing to Pay for a Burrito?(nytimes.com)
2 points by erehweb 5y ago|3 comments
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by erehweb 5y ago
Illiterate people deserve the right to vote too.
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by erehweb 5y ago
In the U.S. context, Black people were deliberately deprived of the right to vote for most of the country's history via seemingly-neutral requirements that were designed to stop their participation. Voter ID as proposed is an attempt t
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by erehweb 5y ago
There's a book I like called "Stumbling Upon Happiness", which says that people are generally happier with making changes than staying put - even if things go wrong, they are very good at rationalizing them. So that would arg
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by erehweb 5y ago
Article says "There’s no better way to see how someone performs at the job than having them actually do the job." and argues for a trial work period. Well sure, except the first part of any job is coming up to speed on the domain,
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by erehweb 5y ago
In 2018, the Department of Housing and Urban Development said that $117K for a family of 4 was low income in SF. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44725026
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Game Theory Changed Poker(wsj.com)
2 points by erehweb 5y ago|0 comments
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by erehweb 5y ago
Worth noting that waitstaff would have a lower minimum wage than cashier or shelf-stocker, with expectation that they make it up in tips, so it's not just social norm.
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by erehweb 5y ago
"It blew my mind how many business critical processes were managed with excel spreadsheets being shared via email chains." - this also blows my mind, given how many problems there are with Excel (e.g. formatting).
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Churches target new members, with help from big data(wsj.com)
1 points by erehweb 5y ago|1 comments
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by erehweb 5y ago
Since Caesar was also interested in cryptography the hacker tag fits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher
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by erehweb 5y ago
Our au pairs were some of the best money we've ever spent. The biggest cost is that you need to have the extra room / living space available for them.
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by erehweb 5y ago
Definitely a concern unless you're in CA. I do wonder if the newspaper industry as a whole would not be better served by allowing CA-style easy cancellation nationwide. Sure, you get more cancels, but you also get more people signing u
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by erehweb 5y ago
Cheap newspaper subscriptions. WSJ, Washington Post both had very low cost introductory subscription plans for 6 or 12 months, and I have a couple of local papers too. Sure, there's workarounds via archive or incognito, but at these pr
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by erehweb 5y ago
Mental health is health.
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American Workers Are Burned Out, and Bosses Are Struggling to Respond(wsj.com)
66 points by erehweb 5y ago|43 comments
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by erehweb 5y ago
You mean "Needless to day I didn't get the job"?
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In a hot market, you can buy a home with cash, even if you don't have much(npr.org)
4 points by erehweb 5y ago|0 comments
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It Would Cost $50B to Vaccinate the World, OECD Says(bloomberg.com)
11 points by erehweb 5y ago|19 comments

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