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by ggggtez 5y ago
Yes, I'm sure this is done via word-filter. Historically, China doesn't provide a list of banned terms themselves, and companies have to reverse-engineer the list of prohibited terms. Likely Bing has a list of the most obvious ter
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by ggggtez 5y ago
I don't speak chinese, but "50 cent party" refers to paid online chinese trolls. I think it is written as 50美分派对 [1] 50美分派对 also finds no results on Bing, but plenty of results on Google. So it's not just tank man. The w
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by ggggtez 5y ago
Yikes. Let's try others... Google: Plenty of results DuckDuckGo: No results Wait, I thought DuckDuckGo said they are the "No Censorship" search engine, or something like that?
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by ggggtez 5y ago
It's almost as if textualism is just an excuse, and not actually a coherent legal view... I have mixed feelings on the ruling. It sounds to me like a crime did occur. But the CFAA is also overly vague... Without reading the details o
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by ggggtez 5y ago
Yes, but I don't think it's right to entirely ignore the point. Why are Mississipi and Alabama so high in the federal defense spending budget? [1] Each are spending more than $3k per capita, compared to the US average of $1772. I
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by ggggtez 5y ago
I think you're vastly overestimating how much domestic terrorists cause in terms of damage and loss of life. The 9/11 attacks are estimated to have cost $40 billion in insurance losses alone, not even including all the additional
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by ggggtez 5y ago
Yeah, I think since we're talking a 10-20 year time frame, they are vastly overlooking less obvious things like investing in the next generation in a broad way, rather than these tactical goals relating to theoretical conflicts. But se
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by ggggtez 5y ago
I think this is misinterpreting the figures. It's important to know that the US and Europe also collectively have higher populations, and are more interconnected (so their risk of contagion is higher than for small countries). And when
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by ggggtez 5y ago
There are more than 2 sides with nukes. A pre-emptive strike would not prevent all the other countries from retaliating. While first strike sounds good, don't forget that there are nuclear subs everywhere in the world, at all times
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by ggggtez 5y ago
Yes, that's what the article is about. China would launch their own defensive missiles, as well as offensive missiles at aircraft carriers in the South China Sea and nearby US landing strips. This is exactly the wargames that they are
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by ggggtez 5y ago
This is some very "hindsight is 2020" thinking. She knew there were cops at her place asking around for someone, and the next day she sees men attaching something to her car. How is she to know that they were state vs local police
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by ggggtez 5y ago
My hunch is that the could language is couching since it can be hard to know for certain of Facebook is storing the data or just doing something else. But I think the implication is that they at least were looking at it when they weren&#x
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by ggggtez 5y ago
My data is worth money, that's why they want it. If they take it from me without permission, how is that not stealing? And then isn't stealing obviously hurting me? Just because you don't know how much your data is worth, and
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by ggggtez 5y ago
Considering the people who installed the malicious device was the police, I think it's questionable logic. For many people, the police are an actively antagonistic threat, not protectors of safety. In this very case, they used legal
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by ggggtez 5y ago
I think the point is moot, since even if you thought it was a tracker, there isn't much reason to believe that you are required to act any differently.
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by ggggtez 5y ago
> Bitcoin requires so-called miners to do vast amounts of useless calculations finally someone calling it like it is
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by ggggtez 5y ago
> that other parents are making racist decisions hiding under a guise of choosing to move for safety In the context of this thread, which is about whether people leave cities under the guise of doing so for safety to excuse the real unde
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by ggggtez 5y ago
> practical applications are nil It's 80% of mass on the universe. You don't think that has applications in space travel? Maybe it doesn't effect your day to day life, but it's rather ridiculous to say there is no app
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by ggggtez 5y ago
2000-2018. Covid was 2020
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by ggggtez 5y ago
It seems recently they uncovered evidence that patient 0 never visited any wet markets. Among some other head scratchers. Fauci says it's a coin flip, 50/50 odds it came from a lab. More research is necessary, but it's worth
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by ggggtez 5y ago
While I've never had an experience that bad, I've certainly peer reviewed utter garbage from one Chinese professor, who was publishing something like 200 papers a year. I don't care how many graduate students you have, there
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by ggggtez 5y ago
And yet, just in the parent thread, just look at the comments of people talking about how they don't like cities because of the "hood-rats" and "wanna-be gangsters". The word choice should make you suspicious. When
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by ggggtez 5y ago
> Most Americans grow up in low density suburbs, move to hyper dense college towns for college, get a job in ultra dense cities Misleading if not factually wrong. [1] Just because some people move away to join cities, does not mean that
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by ggggtez 5y ago
> Former Motorola exec and entrepreneur Numair Faraz Rich tech assholes. There was other hints earlier in the article, including negging his rich friends while simultaneously humble bragging about how rich his friends are.
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by ggggtez 5y ago
>living with my lawyer and his family at their townhouse in New York City What the fuck? Who is this person? > Former Motorola exec and entrepreneur Numair Faraz Aha, so I'm reading a propaganda piece by someone with financial in
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by ggggtez 5y ago
I've seen a few myself. They probably don't hit as hard as when they were new, but certainly a few still hold up acceptably. Especially compared to some mass produced content today which is cringey and predictable.
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by ggggtez 5y ago
While this explains how the problem happens, they should still fix it. I do agree that people get overly outraged when it's likely an honest mistake by a minimum wage worker.
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by ggggtez 5y ago
That's not my experience at all. Maybe if you're a junior engineer, then you are told what to do, but generally speaking these companies have many senior people who have to decide for themselves. The idea that a company has money
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by ggggtez 5y ago
Yawn. It took 4 paragraphs before it even told me what it was, and even then I didn't understand it.
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by ggggtez 5y ago
No, you missed the most important part. Before they stopped pursuing the theives they already were the target of organized crime. Their security guards were regularly assaulted. The problem started long before the change in policy.

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