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by giaour 4y ago
School quality was sometimes used as a code phrase to communicate the racial makeup of a neighborhood, and there have been complaints filed under the Fair Housing Act about the practice[0]. A lot of real estate agents took the lesson that t
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Those payment instruments are generally subject to fairly low transaction limits due to the potential for abuse. Cash is the exception there, but it's extremely inconvenient to move or store large sums of cash and nearly impossible to
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by giaour 4y ago
My house still has a deadbolt like that, too. They were popular for a while, especially on doors with large glass panes (so that would-be intruders couldn’t smash the glass and unlock the door w/o a key).
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by giaour 4y ago
> as far as not getting out, any lock unable to be unlocked from inside seems like something should not be allowed to be made. ever. This would vary by jurisdiction, but locks without an unlock lever are usually prohibited by the fire co
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by giaour 4y ago
What you're describing is possible would be a pretty big shift for Twitter and would make it simultaneously less pleasant and less useful. Under the policy you propose that would comply with the new Texas law, a bot that automatically
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by giaour 4y ago
This has always been my experience hiring consultant teams. (Unless you're hiring a team from a consultancy that only has enough staff to field a single team, that is.) I'm not sure if this is specific to government procurement,
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The paper’s authors indicate that there is one image that is arguably CSAM (in addition to the hundreds of links to what is definitely CSAM): “Bitcoin’s blockchain contains at least eight files with sexual content. While five files only sho
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by giaour 4y ago
There is already child sexual abuse material stored on the Bitcoin blockchain[0], and no enforcement actions have been taken as a result. [0]: https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf
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This is a fairly jaded take, but my impression is that "blockchain engineers" often expect to be able to work pseudonymously, which implies that credentials and reputation are not as important as in other business domains. One con
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by giaour 4y ago
I have heard of six figure student debt, but only in the context of recent graduates of MD, JD, and MBA programs (all of which are very expensive and generally lead to lucrative careers). Have you ever actually heard of someone who amassed
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by giaour 4y ago
How long have you been working in tech? My degree (French literature) was also a hindrance for my first few jobs, but nowadays the responses are heavily weighted toward the "cool, they’re going to thrive with us because of their unique
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by giaour 4y ago
I never said anything Uber was doing was illegal. OP said that the fact that people choose to work for Uber means that Uber’s employment practices are therefore legal, because it was the employee’s free choice. I don’t think that’s a sound
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Economic circumstances limit choices, too (though not as explicitly or as definitively as Jigsaw). Most viewers did not see people choosing to participate in the squid game as a victory for economic free choice, but instead as a commentary
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No one is arguing that #2 implies exploitation. That would mean that everyone who has a job or has signed a contract is being exploited.
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by giaour 4y ago
That's my point as well. Twitter's terms of service allow automated users, so I have a hard time seeing how anyone would successfully convince a court that "users" under this law means "humans who write the content
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by giaour 4y ago
Not related to the Texas law, but the RNC has already filed FEC complaints accusing the GMail spam filter of censorship. So I imagine a creative Texas lawyer will probably try to make the case you're describing. https://www.
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The line between "user" and "bot" would get very murky very quickly. If you write a tweet and then use a bot to post it at a certain time of day, is your speech still protected, even if it was posted by a bot? What if yo
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by giaour 4y ago
It doesn't follow from your second point that Uber is non-exploitative. US law recognizes limits to the right to contract (e.g., one cannot agree to sell one's labor for less than minimum wage[0]), so the fact that some have chose
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by giaour 4y ago
> No it wouldn't. Indentured servitude requires someone to be indentured, which is immediately in conflict with OP's correct observation that no one is being forced to work. You're thinking of slaves. Indentured servants c
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Both GGP and indentured servitude's defenders argue that an economic relationship is, by virtue of having been agreed to by both parties, ipso facto non-exploitative. GP was not saying that gig work and indentured servitude are the sam
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by giaour 4y ago
Not sure if “goat load” was a typo, but I love it. Although you can put significantly less on a goat than you could on a boat.
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I don’t follow your logic. Isn’t the whole point of mixers that everyone can see dirty money go in, then the forensic trail stops?
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> I have one site where there is an auto-play 5 minute HD video on the homepage and it costs $70 a month for just that video. Are you serving the whole video file to every visitor? You might want to try using Cloudfront’s streaming suppo
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by giaour 4y ago
The scenario in which an AirTag in a car seat would help prevent a child abduction is extremely specific: the child would have to already be in the car seat and not subsequently moved therefrom , and one or more of the kidnappers would nee
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> When was the last time you saw a web server implemented with a HTTP-parsing library, instead of a framework for defining endpoints? This is not unheard of in languages that have an HTTP server and router built into the standard library
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by giaour 4y ago
The HTML/CSS/JS platform offered by modern browsers is very powerful and approachable, but the web's security model prevents most platform customizations. Browser-managed navigation, form submission, control appearance, etc,
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Crypto’s Core Values Are Running Headfirst into Reality(theatlantic.com)
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Why does the exchange need to be in on it? If it’s not a KYC exchange, they would have no way of knowing all the Sybil accounts doing the wash trading were being run by the same individual.
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by giaour 4y ago
> Health insurance companies know this and are legally forbidden to charge obese people more under the ACA. You make it sound like there is a specific provision in the ACA that says, “thou shalt not charge the obese higher premiums.” The
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by giaour 4y ago
You mean like those fools who choose to be born with the genetic marker for type I diabetes? How dare they!

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