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by glitcher 9y ago
Dozens compared to the many millions who wouldn't make such a switch doesn't feel all that optimistic.
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An open letter to the W3C Director, CEO, team and membership(eff.org)
110 points by glitcher 9y ago|5 comments
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by glitcher 9y ago
Individual consumers did not choose to be Equifax customers, and as far as I know there is no way for me to "opt out" and effectively have all of my data removed from Equifax (including all future data).
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by glitcher 9y ago
> “Once you have somebody's name, social, birth date, and address, you can go and open new accounts.” >The SSN shouldn't be the critical key in that list. Nothing in that list is secret.
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How magnetic oscillations of a comet became a new album of music(cdm.link)
1 points by glitcher 9y ago|0 comments
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EFF Asking Copyright Office to Protect Your Right to Fix, Study, Secure, Remix(eff.org)
1 points by glitcher 9y ago|0 comments
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Jennifer Granick TED Talk April 2017: How US Gov Spies on Protesters [video](ted.com)
1 points by glitcher 9y ago|0 comments
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by glitcher 9y ago
Define "valid" human emotion. And after feeling shame or embarrassment, if someone then transitions to feeling offended, is that somehow not a valid emotion? I can see Bill Burr's angle - just own up to what's yours, be
699.
by glitcher 9y ago
This is the correct answer. He doesn't care about the lottery system, the states, or the potential winners that didn't get their chance. But getting busted for the crime hurts everyone who cares about him. > all the people that
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by glitcher 9y ago
> getting large groups to agree on things isn't a scientific thing but a problem for society Sadly true on so many levels.
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by glitcher 9y ago
My confusion was a lack of knowledge about the photo and photographer, despite their fame. Thanks for the link.
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by glitcher 9y ago
Thank you, that is a very thoughtful recommendation.
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by glitcher 9y ago
I guess the problem is my personal perspective. IMO it is very important to openly discuss horrific events, but personally I don't need to see the last couple moments of someone's life about to end in order to have that discussion
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by glitcher 9y ago
The image at the top of the article was extremely jarring. My immediate thought was whether anyone in the image died, and then my stomach sank with the sense that the use of this image for the topic of fake news is exploitative and disrespe
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by glitcher 9y ago
A bit off-topic, but reminds me of the creative workarounds people tried when automated ticketing via speed cameras were first introduced in Arizona. One loophole was that if they weren't able to reasonably identify you in the traffic
706.
by glitcher 9y ago
Well there is now at least one highly motivated statistician out there to analyze the data you suggest. But how do you get the data to him?
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by glitcher 9y ago
Exactly. > The appeals panel said trademark loss to genericide occurs when the name has become an "exclusive descriptor" that makes it difficult for competitors to compete unless they use that name. Nobody can convince me that
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EFF Pioneer Award Winners(eff.org)
1 points by glitcher 9y ago|0 comments
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by glitcher 9y ago
Do not underestimate the lengths recruiters (or anyone in charge of hiring for that matter) will go to in order to paint a picture of who they think you are solely based on the social media content they are able to find (or not find) on you
710.
by glitcher 9y ago
optimization != scalability
711.
by glitcher 9y ago
Language nitpick (because maths): I realize when you say "isn't quite 4" you mean the solution is not quite equal to 4, but it could also be incorrectly interpreted as a solution that is slightly less than 4. 167820976/4
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by glitcher 9y ago
Testing out the Job Search functionality, there seems to be some room for improvement for returning more relevant results first. Doing a quick test against a keyword search for "developer", I would much rather see all results with
713.
by glitcher 9y ago
A quick search on amazon for "birkenstock", all departments, I get 1023 results. I wonder if Birkenstock is facing a giant game of whack-a-mole here.
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Oscilloscope Music(cdm.link)
1 points by glitcher 9y ago|0 comments
715.
by glitcher 9y ago
It is about Net Neutrality, the black bar links to https://www.battleforthenet.com/
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by glitcher 9y ago
The Alexa version :) https://xkcd.com/1807/
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by glitcher 9y ago
And when we hit 120 last week it was the last straw for my aging car battery! I had to get a jump and go get a new battery in the middle of the afternoon heat :( Now when some freak traffic accident takes out a power line to your neighborho
718.
by glitcher 9y ago
The article links to http://www.notchtherapy.com/ which looks very interesting. I plan on following the steps outlined there to create a custom notch filter for my tinnitus frequency. Has anyone here played with this techni
719.
by glitcher 9y ago
For a high tech vehicle with so many safety features built in, I don't understand why an automatic collision avoidance system didn't override the autopilot system and start braking well ahead of this high speed impact. Maybe this
720.
by glitcher 9y ago
Bit of a tangent here, but I don't get the relevance of the goat animated gif at the bottom of the article. Perhaps it was just for fun, or is there some deeper metaphor I'm missing?

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