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541.
by gshdg 7y ago
Definitely an American thing too, and there’s no British ancestry in my family.
542.
by gshdg 7y ago
Ask which one person at FB is held ultimately accountable for privacy, by whom, and how they measure it.
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by gshdg 7y ago
And if you include all international airports as “borders” it’s even worse.
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by gshdg 7y ago
There are enormous swathes of land that used to be forested that no longer are because we cut or burned trees either to use the lumber or to clear the land for agriculture. Sure, in tens of thousands of years, trees would likely eventually
545.
by gshdg 7y ago
Replacing fossil fuels with nuclear helps prevent further CO2 emission but doesn’t mitigate past emissions. What’s already been released is enough to have already changed the climate and will continue warming the planet as long as it’s in t
546.
by gshdg 7y ago
Where can one donate to an organization that plants trees?
547.
by gshdg 7y ago
What organizations out there that plant trees can one donate to?
548.
by gshdg 7y ago
Not to mention information, time, value, and resource asymmetries. Or externalities.
549.
by gshdg 7y ago
Local renters != local property owners
550.
by gshdg 7y ago
The latter will still get rejected by a lot of software with crappy regex validation, fwiw.
551.
by gshdg 7y ago
Well, think of it this way: why should you necessarily be the one resentful that she’s pursuing a career rather than homemaking full time? Why shouldn’t she be the one resentful that you’re pursuing a career rather than being a full time ho
552.
by gshdg 7y ago
I’m in the US. Never had a notice period specified in a contract.
553.
by gshdg 7y ago
Company size, but also total taxable revenue. If your tax bill is $1B, spending $30K and a week of three employees’ time to set up a new legal entity to save 1% on your taxes is a great use of money. If your tax bill is $100K, that would be
554.
by gshdg 7y ago
Once you send they’ll be interpreted as clickable by the recipient’s email client anyway in 99.5% of cases.
555.
by gshdg 7y ago
Indexed where?
556.
by gshdg 7y ago
Maybe not deaths. But dehydration is a common contributor to urinary tract infections, which are rampant.
557.
by gshdg 7y ago
One that’s easy to ignore until it reaches fairly critical levels, or to confuse with the hunger signal.
558.
by gshdg 7y ago
They’ve banned discussion topics, not people.
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by gshdg 7y ago
Get ready for a wave of pedestrian deaths in Florida, then.
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by gshdg 7y ago
The infrastructure for that isn’t really financially feasible in rural areas. It also means you’re using potable water for things like bathing even when the well water is good enough for bathing but not drinking.
561.
by gshdg 7y ago
They don’t. You need to be able to read a cookie in order to track the user.
562.
by gshdg 7y ago
How would it track you across containers with the cookie when the cookie set in one container doesn’t even exist in another?
563.
by gshdg 7y ago
Containers don’t block cookies. But a cookie set in one container is available only in that container, not in other containers.
564.
by gshdg 7y ago
Only if you’re confident your ad blocker blocks them effectively. Also, it isolates cookies (so for instance, Facebook can’t tell you’ve visited sites that embed its share script if you visit them in a container where you never open Faceboo
565.
by gshdg 7y ago
It lets you sandbox your activity - for instance, preventing google from linking your activity for a work account with that from a personal account. It also adds some confidence that vulnerabilities won’t be used to track or crack sensitive
566.
by gshdg 7y ago
Now that we use the word “terrorist” for anything offensive or destructive, is it even a meaningful term any more?
567.
by gshdg 7y ago
Just because it’s technically feasible does not mean it’s legal or ethical.
568.
by gshdg 7y ago
Ask a lawyer? Many are written as if they do; how enforceable that is is beyond my knowledge.
569.
by gshdg 7y ago
It may depend on how you use the data — for instance, publicly sharing what you scraped is a clear copyright violation in many cases. And in some cases scraping is a violation of ToS. (Though who knows whether that’s ever been litigated as
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by gshdg 7y ago
I think the point is that feminine hygiene products are also a necessity and should be taxed as such.

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