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by gnode 9y ago
In my opinion, this is not a matter of health insurance. This is more comparable to a workplace injury. If I worked as a construction worker for instance, and suffered a debilitating injury or Asbestos poisoning because of the work, in a ju
902.
by gnode 9y ago
> The FAA does planes. They also oversee the launch and reentry of space vehicles, amongst numerous other roles. https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...
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by gnode 9y ago
> they'll just go to a country without regulations There may be some amount of regulatory tourism, but I don't think any countries for some time will be havens. All the countries with a commercial spaceflight industry have a ve
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by gnode 9y ago
> The idea that putting satellites in LEO is some sort of brand new never-before-done thing that deserves wide latitude for greenfield engineering is crazy. Hell, I've owned a GPS receiver for about 20 years! GPS (along with the oth
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by gnode 9y ago
Maybe this is something which cheaper space-launch could solve. If it were economical to send maintenance robots to fix dead satellites, then perhaps these tiny satellites could be allowed to self-track (using GPS). In the event that the sa
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by gnode 9y ago
Residency is what matters, rather than citizenship. I expect the practise when having multiple data policies will be to ask users which country they live in when they create an account. I doubt you would be able to expect the protections of
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by gnode 9y ago
> you _know_ you're being watched - makes life different, in some way, simpler. Arguably, what happens when people are aware of surveillance is one of the worst parts of it. Following the Snowden revelations, there were noticeable c
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by gnode 9y ago
> They should only target individuals that represent risk anyway. (if they were respecting the constitution) If they were respecting the constitution, they should only target individuals for which they have a warrant (assuming we're
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by gnode 9y ago
It works both ways. This is essentially what happened in The Big Short, although for profit, rather than hedging. You can purchase naked credit default swap options, whereby the issuer with insure debt which you don't own against defau
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by gnode 9y ago
My understanding is that they group the owners together, then issue CDOs such that some are paid before others. Those which are paid last have the highest risk, but the largest rate of return. If you believe house prices are safer than the
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by gnode 9y ago
> You can’t literally buy stock in a city, but buying a house is the closest thing imaginable. Maybe not accessible for the retail investor, but can't this be done by buying collateralized debt obligations? If you could be issued a
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by gnode 9y ago
I've always found the key to learning is to make the information relevant to you (although in most cases the information is relevant to me before I learn it). Personally, I don't find formal testing / deadlines have helped me
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by gnode 9y ago
The more expensive games (or bundles) often. I think this breaks the theory that people give more consideration to software purchases, as I would probably give more consideration to spending $60 on drinks. I think it's more about expec
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by gnode 9y ago
Interestingly, I find (at least in my case) this doesn't apply to games. I've often impulse bought games in the Steam sales for instance.
915.
by gnode 9y ago
Replace social drinking with impulse buys in shops.
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by gnode 9y ago
I imagine you could automatically score a tennis game, using the accelerometer in the watch (detect sudden impulse upon striking the ball, and communicate with your opponent's watch). I assume from reading the app description it's
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by gnode 9y ago
I've done it (Steam "in-home" streaming, over OpenVPN to AWS). It's works fairly well. Latency wasn't an issue for playing Skyrim, but for competitive multiplayer FPSes it's probably a no-go. You can tune the b
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by gnode 9y ago
This example is not entirely equivalent. My understanding is that the opinion of the court was that authorisation (for the definition of "without permission") cannot be decided based on method of access. I.e. if you have granted a
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by gnode 9y ago
That analogy would be more accurate if you also operated a cafe out of your living room, with a big "open" sign on the front door, and someone accidentally used your personal bathroom because you failed to stick a "private&qu
920.
by gnode 9y ago
It's not as straightforward as using a printed image; fingerprint readers are designed to detect only fingers, but it is possible to fool them: https://www.theverge.com/2016/7/21/12247370/police-fing
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by gnode 9y ago
> Seems like you'd need to prove the pills in question were the alleged substance? That may be true in order to convict him of dealing the ecstacy, but he wasn't. From the BBC article: > It [the dealer's house] was raid
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by gnode 9y ago
They've had problems in the past, based on the legitimacy of reverse engineering Windows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS#Internal_audit > Even if they abandon the project it's open source and work c
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by gnode 9y ago
Are they under fire for any particular known reason?
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by gnode 9y ago
The issue is more that due to highly asymmetric reporting, people wrongly estimate what the risks to themselves and loved ones are. This means that we don't act rationally in our own interests, to best avoid harm. I think most parents
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by gnode 9y ago
This would be useful information to have, but I don't agree that this makes the data meaningless. No matter when you are killed, and what by, your life has been cut short. Just because certain diseases (e.g. heart disease) mostly kill
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by gnode 9y ago
Disregarding the fact that Facebook is blocked by the Great Firewall, and virtually unused in China, serving internet ads on a national or township basis is easy to do with IP address based selection. This can be done without tracking users
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by gnode 9y ago
The audience for non-individual web ads is not the entirety of Internet users. For instance, when I make a search on DuckDuckGo my geographic location (although this is optional) and search terms provide a demographic that is useful for sp
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by gnode 9y ago
This is why I said "individually targeted". The TV advertiser doesn't know your name, age, gender, search history, etc.
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by gnode 9y ago
The article explains specifically that it's referring to advertising targeted on an individual basis, not targeted by location or context. The issue is that using personal information to present adverts is damaging to privacy. Non-indi
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by gnode 9y ago
My experience with most / all paid services has been grievance free. Admittedly in the case of Netflix I only use it on my smart TV; I have no experience of how it behaves on other platforms.

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