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by forapurpose 8y ago
> Uber, however, warned that the bill will “lead to higher than necessary fare increases” Whenever their expenses increase, companies like to imply and threaten that they will pass along the increase to consumers. But that is deceptive:
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What Washington Post Employees Actually Think About Amazon(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by forapurpose 8y ago|0 comments
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I didn't say the things you disagree with, but I'll address your points: > not doing business with any non-democratic countries That would be a pretty extreme measure; I don't think anyone, or anyone respected, is calling
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Aside from the much more important core issues in the article, I found this bit interesting: > Because of those sweepingly invasive capabilities, Israel classifies the spyware as a weapon. The company must obtain approval from the Defens
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> We can't go to war ... There are many, many methods of leverage short of war. International relations happens all the time between every country on earth; only a tiny number of those interactions involves violence. In fact, a prim
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> Can you imagine being a software engineer and being okay with getting rich by developing technology to out dissidents and have them murdered by some of the most oppressive governments on earth? It's a great question. Sadly, people
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Look up Mike Kaply's blog; he covers it extensively and, AFAIK, knows the topic as well as anyone.
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Israeli Software Helped Saudis Spy on Khashoggi, Lawsuit Says(nytimes.com)
190 points by forapurpose 8y ago|139 comments
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Thanks. Where can I find out the credentials of who wrote that answer? Also, as I asked before, how do I know where this theory fits in the domain of accepted theories? > It has very high standards for answers (as you can see several tim
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Are you Indonesian?
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Who is the author? Is this accurate? Is it one guy's theory, a fringe theory, one of competing mainstream theories, or consensus? Certainly Reddit and the comment's length are not indicators of accuracy. They are indicators of an
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Thanks. I'll add the Washington Post's database of police shootings throughout the U.S.: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/police...
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How does a reader know that these statements are accurate and others are the misunderstandings or misrepresentations? Are you a pharmacologist? A fentanyl user?
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> real effects might be weak enough that they only make it through the first time (non replicative) publication process when chance makes the effect seem stronger than it actually is. That's hypothetical. What actually happened was
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by forapurpose 8y ago
That's been my understanding too, and I've seen security professionals say the same. But possibly, their advice was intended for likely targets, such as journalists, and not the general public. On the other hand, I'm not sure
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That begs the question, IMHO: Saying market analysis is nothing new is similar to the argument that police examining phone records is nothing new, therefore mass collection of metadata is not a problem. The changes in technology make the an
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> One thing that might not be totally obvious from this article and others is that although some effects clearly replicate, and others do not, there are some effects that seem to be in a grey area, where the effects are probably real but
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I haven't looked at this study, but prior replication studies have found that the effects were reproduced in almost every study, but that the effects were weaker in the replication than in the original study.[0] That raises different q
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It's not unique or unusual for dictatorships in general. The Soviet Union, for example, worked hard at indoctrination, as did Mao. Arguably, any propaganda is indoctrination.
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> A good predictor of whether the Chinese government would react to a group is the threat that group poses on the national integrity of China. I think the more accurate interpretation, which applies to authoritarian or totalitarian power
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by forapurpose 8y ago
I wonder what they would say if they were posting on HN. Here, people who lack money are usually the 'other' about whom we talk, often in stereotypes. But these are a large number of individuals, each with their own widely varying
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by forapurpose 8y ago
Ah, that makes sense. Well, I'd argue that the football coach adds zero to society - someone else could do the job and society would be unchanged. A more productive football coach only increases demand for productive football coaches.
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by forapurpose 8y ago
> I'd love to hear your rationale on that. I'm not sure what you are asking for: Evidence for the third paragraph? That's in the first two paragraphs. My economic theory of why the labor market works out that way?
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This is better than many U.S. states, where the highest-earning public employee is a football coach. But let's also consider that in private industry, a great many people in finance make more money than almost every professor. In almos
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by forapurpose 8y ago
For any set of boxes, there is a 50-50 chance that they will favor one or the other party. Given the geographic polarization of the parties, the boxes seem likely to heavily favor one or the other party. We can't distinguish the event
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What I mean is: > [People in dictatorships] may be less vulnerable [than people in democracies] to attacks from outsiders, but they are much more vulnerable to attacks from their own government. What the study is saying is: > Our rese
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I'm not sure what population the survey intends to look at; it's not Rust users because 25% of respondents aren't using it (per the first question). We don't know how the survey was conducted. We don't know if women
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We are strongly concerned with accuracy (correctness, completeness, consistency) on the network layers but I've been thinking that we need to apply the same emphasis to accuracy on the data layer. We'd never accept the data layer&
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They may be less vulnerable to attacks from outsiders, but they are much more vulnerable to attacks from their own government. It's similar to totalitarian governments; they might keep organized crime low, but they expose people to far
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How ‘Mr. Hashtag’ Helped Saudi Arabia Spy on Dissidents(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by forapurpose 8y ago|0 comments

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