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by eridius 8y ago
This is a massive overreach. I would be pretty shocked if the people involved in this "research program" truly understood just how much access to their private data they were granting Facebook.
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by eridius 8y ago
Rich people find tax loopholes to exploit. Outright lying can get them thrown in jail.
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by eridius 8y ago
> Serving prison time for notifying people of a serious privacy breach doesn't seem to be a balanced approach. Except his crime wasn't "notifying people of a privacy breach". It was breaching that privacy . There w
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by eridius 8y ago
And if you type your password onto a keyboard and happen to be live-streaming your physical self on Twitch or whatever from an angle where people can see your hands, they know your password too.
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by eridius 8y ago
> Economists have studied the topic of most efficient tax rates, in terms of bringing in government revenue, and 82.7% is above the point where you maximize revenue, i.e. you would raise more money with a lower rate. I don't think
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by eridius 8y ago
They bought a reseller license for the purpose of snapping up and auctioning off high-value domains rather than acting like a traditional reseller.
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by eridius 8y ago
> Those fabled 90 percent tax rates only bit at incomes over $200,000, the equivalent of more than $2 million in today’s dollars. And the proposed 70% tax rate only applies to incomes over $10 million in today's dollars.
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by eridius 8y ago
This article declares that a 70% marginal tax rate on income above $10M/year is bad policy, but the only justification it offers for it being bad policy is that adding in NY state/local taxes would raise that number to 82.7%. So w
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by eridius 8y ago
I can only speculate but based on what you quoted, I would guess that TransferWise Inc. is only a licensed money transmitter in some states, and so must partner with a bank in the other states in order to function.
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by eridius 8y ago
If you use up your combined PTO on vacation, you don't have any left when you actually get sick. If you hoard your PTO in case you get sick, you don't get to enjoy vacations. There's a middle ground, but the spot where you dr
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by eridius 8y ago
The URLs contain a long random string in them, no? This makes them unguessable. Public-by-default seems to enable easy sharing of documents. I would hope that corporate plans would impose stricter privacy controls, but for personal use, bei
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by eridius 8y ago
> And browsers will unceremoniously delete IndexedDB, LocalStorage, and/or SessionStorage without warning under storage pressure. I get why it's doing this, but it strikes me as fairly user-hostile to react to the browser del
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by eridius 8y ago
That's cute, but wrong. Even the most law-abiding delivery company is going to end up with some parking tickets, so it makes sense to budget for them. You may as well decry the budgeting for legal as saying the company wants to break t
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by eridius 8y ago
Maybe for Dropbox, but the parent was speaking of this as a general policy.
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by eridius 8y ago
Seems like a great way for the vendor to send you debt to collections.
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by eridius 8y ago
Slices of ZST elements is indeed what I was thinking of, but is there anything actually stopping me from constructing a `std::slice::from_raw_parts(0 as *const u8, usize::MAX)`? What if I'm working on an architecture where the heap and
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by eridius 8y ago
While it's true that it doesn't panic in release mode, that's supposed to be an optimization and the correct semantics are what's implemented in debug mode. Besides, you don't want to write a program that only funct
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by eridius 8y ago
Funnily enough, that Rust code is actually buggy, because i is a usize and if i == 0 then i-1 will panic due to underflow. You'd have to write input.get(i.wrapping_sub(1)).unwrap_or(0) + input.get(i+1).unwrap_or(0) This also tec
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by eridius 8y ago
Further in the article > “We’ll say, ‘Listen, we’ve had stuff in the area. Would you mind giving us consent to take your DNA, so we can rule you out for committing any crimes?’” The way they're phrasing this makes it even worse. T
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by eridius 8y ago
Huh, I'm kind of sad that they left BuzzFeed, because it means I'm not going to run across any of their new videos while skimming through the BuzzFeed AppleTV app. In any case, the fact that Try Guys was popular enough that they f
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by eridius 8y ago
Agreed. A better solution here is to have a generic accessor on the Array that can return a default value for out-of-bounds accesses. There almost is one already, the two-argument version of fetch(), except that interprets negative indices
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by eridius 8y ago
Apps distributed on the Mac App Store can use platform-provided APIs to do IAPs, including subscriptions, just like on iOS.
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by eridius 8y ago
I wasn't aware BuzzFeed portrayed their quizzes as scientific in any sense. > Repackaging content is not curation by any stretch of the word. It is literally the definition of curation. > I don't agree that this is a case
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by eridius 8y ago
The dossier which BuzzFeed did not create themselves? I largely skipped news coverage of this besides vaguely knowing of its existence, but AIUI BuzzFeed's rationale is that it was newsworthy (being as it was a document that was circul
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by eridius 8y ago
No it wasn't. They said it "wasn't accurate" but declined to specify. Most people seem to think this means there are inaccuracies to the story, but the overall thrust of the piece is still true.
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by eridius 8y ago
tasty.co's footer says "A BuzzFeed Brand". BuzzFeed Video's Shows list still lists Try Guys.
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by eridius 8y ago
I don't work for them, nor do I have a financial interest in them. What I do have is a personal interest in the continued existence of the only journalism outfit that's actually managed to earn a recurring subscription¹ from me du
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by eridius 8y ago
You should try actually reading BuzzFeed before making blanket statements like that. BuzzFeed certainly does do a lot of listicles, but that's only a portion of the content they put out. If you want to talk original content, just take
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by eridius 8y ago
BuzzFeed News staff were finalists for the Pulitzer in both 2017 and 2018. What makes you think they "make shit up and repost other, more legitimate news sources"?
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by eridius 8y ago
> he/she BTW "they" has been used as a third-person singular gender-neutral pronoun for over a century, and it's superior to "he/she" not only in ergonomics but also because "he/she" do

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