identity-haver

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by identity-haver 7y ago
They probably don't want to publicize their methods, and they might not have to due to parallel construction -- we may never know what they've stopped. There's not a lot of oversight here: they're also spying on Congress
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by identity-haver 7y ago
It's from a healthcare startup that provides "proactive fertility" at-home tests and analyzes them combined with blood tests and other medical factors. It costs $159. Use case would be like if you're a 28-year old woman,
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by identity-haver 7y ago
I was pretty stunned that "in the majority of IVF cases, a woman cannot have a baby using her own eggs". Apparently 89% of women are also not aware of this. Does anyone know more about this? Here [1] it shows that at age 35-37, 30
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by identity-haver 7y ago
One part of me hopes that governments keep doing this every time there's as much as a bad mugging, so that people will stop relying on the ability of their government-controlled ISP and a US-controlled cloud platform to communicate wit
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by identity-haver 7y ago
If preventing "stochastic terrorism" was the reason they turned off social media, shouldn't they have done it before the bombs exploded, possibly even before any of the terrorists used it, and not afterwards?
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by identity-haver 7y ago
This might work even if women don't check in, as long as they are on the app. Besides, single guys mobbing an easily accessible bar where there are a lot of single women and scaring them all away within a couple weeks happens all the t
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by identity-haver 7y ago
Sadly, this may be true if the answer to "how are they going to make any money with this?" is anything but "make all the guys pay $5 or so a month".
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by identity-haver 7y ago
I am kind of playing devil's advocate. I don't think any of that is a good idea. You're basically gulaging people at that point, which would be a good comparison -- did those guys get their money back? There was a thing on HN
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by identity-haver 7y ago
Their conclusion is that the recovery is "the result of elite networks acting as an invisible safety-net". As a thought experiment, how could this have been avoided? One columnist [1] suggests that the core action is "the chi
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by identity-haver 7y ago
About 2-3 months ago they basically nuked Youtube's search and recommendation. This was associated with some bad press about those features coming up with "harmful content" like unapproved radical politics & conspiracy th
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by identity-haver 7y ago
The Norse of old would agree with you, where if you die a "straw death" outside of battle you don't get to go to Valhalla. But apparently if you stabbed yourself on your deathbed you still got to go to Valhalla?
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by identity-haver 7y ago
The term has existed, but was popularized and brought into the common discourse immediately after the 2016 election: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=f...
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by identity-haver 8y ago
If the current president couldn't pass a bill for his signature campaign issue (a $30B wall) when both chambers of the legislature were held by his party, Yang is probably not going to pass a $3T+ per year UBI bill when likely just one
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by identity-haver 8y ago
Whoever's left after several generations of this consumer technology will look at apps like this and the associated lifestyle the way humans look at snakes, open sores, and other dangerous, reproductive-fitness harming things today. Th
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by identity-haver 8y ago
There was a claim [1] that the G+ terms of service might legally prohibit them from doing this after the service is shut down. I haven't verified it. However, it's clear that for an archiving effort this big, people at Google are
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by identity-haver 8y ago
I don't think this is correct. They seem to be saying that they allow posting about nationalism and separatism, and white nationalism content was allowed under this umbrella, but now they specifically disallow white nationalism and s
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by identity-haver 8y ago
There's a lesson about political organizing in here, which is that whoever cares the most about controlling discussions is going to end up doing it, even if it costs them money. Whether it's being a government official or NGO exec
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by identity-haver 8y ago
I've heard that even if you flip the "algorithmic timeline" switch off, you still don't see a linear feed of everyone you're following. It's still filtered and manipulated, just closer to linear. Speaking of de
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by identity-haver 8y ago
Oh I know what it is, I just think it’s completely wrong to apply to Europe pre WWI. How a culture that explored and conquered almost the entire world had a “slave morality” because of the beatitudes or something was always baffling. What w
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by identity-haver 8y ago
I'm not really sure where to start here. There was more "excellence" in the Roman Republic and prior times than the following 2000 years of European history? This is a familiar critique that seems to conflate the modern self-
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by identity-haver 8y ago
For one, your ability to defend your self and your family has been partially abrogated. Now it depends more on physical strength and the wealth to live in a safe area with other defenses. Second, your ability to access the internet has been
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by identity-haver 8y ago
For anyone reading this site, the standardized testing regime in Texas is going to be a bureaucratic formality for the teachers and an afterthought for the students, where kids spend 2-4 days per year wasting time taking an easy test about
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by identity-haver 8y ago
My plan would be to send my kids to dual language programs. If you're a somewhat native Spanish speaker, you can claim to be Hispanic with a clear conscience. "Hispanic" is, legally speaking (for now), an "ethnicity&quot
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by identity-haver 8y ago
True, but that's a lot better than your CPU running a non-stop Java webserver / rootkit.
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by identity-haver 8y ago
For one it would be really nice to be able to have a computer without a highly insecure and backdoorable management engine inside its CPU, basically all x86 computers sold since 2010.
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by identity-haver 8y ago
Can you point us in a direction on this? I have never read a lucid attempt to describe the "anatomy of the psyche" on "psychonaut" websites, just a lot of people who may have had some personal experience of enlightenment
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by identity-haver 8y ago
Most discussion here is about how gun rights in the US aren't primarily viewed as being about hunting. That being said, there are legitimate reasons to use a semi-automatic weapon with a >10 magazine capacity for hunting. For exampl
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by identity-haver 8y ago
So we should just ignore the terrorist's clearly stated strategy, and then go right along with it?
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by identity-haver 8y ago
Is a "military-style" gun kind of like a "sports-style" car? Snark aside, this is some pretty weak reporting. Was their parliament or whatever involved at all? The article makes it sound like their prime minister can jus
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by identity-haver 8y ago
Someone at Facebook is going to have to train an "is streamer committing a mass murder" neural net now, kind of like the "is dude whipping out his genitals" ones that are already around.

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