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Court Throws Out Lawsuit Against Tor for Providing Anonymous Routing(reason.com)
3 points by finch_ 7y ago|1 comments
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by finch_ 10y ago
I'm surprised no one has brought up lead - childhood lead exposure leads to more rash behavior, and the drop in teen pregnancy starts roughly when the first children who were born after the removal of lead from gasoline and paint start
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by finch_ 11y ago
Incremental computation is an interesting idea, and could be very useful to big data processing. However, the particular incremental technique of self-adjusting computation has two big flaws: - There is a significant storage overhead due to
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by finch_ 12y ago
The car has many fewer limitations on its peripheral vision when checking hazards because it has dozens of sensors all over the car, as opposed to the humans' very limited eyesight.
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by finch_ 12y ago
Maybe these are personal problems? I use Google Maps on the web all the time, and have never seen it hang. As for finding directions: there's a search box, you type in an address, hit the 'directions' button that pops up, and
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by finch_ 13y ago
I agree with the overall point of the responses that Google isn't in fact evil to be doing this, but I want to disagree somewhat with one point - the idea that Google doesn't have any obligation to respect users wishes just becaus
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by finch_ 13y ago
To be clear, I'm not saying that Google should break the law. Instead, I'm saying that it's clearly the case that there are some bad laws in the world, and that its perfectly reasonable for companies to engage in advocacy to
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by finch_ 13y ago
So then I suppose Google should have just given in to the Chinese government's demands for censorship, or the US government's demands for access to private data?