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by jawns 3y ago
While this may appear to be an altruistic consortium of security-minded companies trying to help startups do the right thing, my skeptical take is that it's primarily a way to drum up business, which explains why the contributors list
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by jawns 3y ago
This is a bizarre post. It says nothing about what the papers filed actually mean. The papers are a proposed permanent injunction that both the publishers and IA have (mostly) agreed on, although the IA wants the injunction to only apply to
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Ask HN: Email solution for vulnerable user (moderation required)?
5 points by jawns 3y ago|2 comments
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by jawns 3y ago
I'm hung up on the title's use of the word elegant, which ordinarily has a positive connotation, to describe a very sad and deadly process. When something is elegant, it means we recognize something beautiful in its form, such as
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by jawns 3y ago
The incentives, unfortunately, are not so neatly aligned, and the NYPD arrest at the center of this lawsuit is a prime example. The officers were willing to make an arrest to retaliate against First Amendment protected activity because they
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by jawns 3y ago
One of the things I've noticed with Long Island Audit is that he treats people quite respectfully -- until they start talking disrespectfully to him. At that point, he does veer into name-calling ("tyrants" is a frequent ins
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by jawns 3y ago
Unfortunately, the police have seized on this stereotype to try to discredit all auditors, most of whom are not looking to provoke police or anyone else, but are merely trying to assert their First Amendment rights. In the NYPD raw footage,
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'First Amendment Auditor' Sues NYPD over Right to Record in Police Stations(reason.com)
85 points by jawns 3y ago|155 comments
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by jawns 3y ago
This is not a bad way to make your customers and maybe your manager happy. But is it enough to win a substantial amount of new business or propel your career upward? I'm not totally convinced. A counterpoint to this is Cal Newport&#x
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by jawns 3y ago
My comment was flagged, even though I was trying to provide context to explain why she experienced such a strong reaction to her SNL stunt. The parent comment and many supportive sibling comments remain unflagged, which leaves the impressio
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by jawns 3y ago
Even if you strongly agree with her criticism of the pope, the way that she expressed that criticism -- by deceiving everyone on SNL to pull off her stunt -- certainly branded her as a loose cannon in the industry. Unpredictability might e
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by jawns 3y ago
Here's the police chief's statement: https://www.facebook.com/Texascitypd/posts/pfbid0hYERpcvXS26... Here's the GoFundMe campaign for the guy's civil rights case: https://www.gofundm
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The Magical Math Behind Disney's Content Purge(levernews.com)
1 points by jawns 3y ago|0 comments
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by jawns 3y ago
What if they crossed out a few clauses and signed, and the employer never noticed. Are you saying that because they begin working for the company, that represents the company's tacit acceptance of the modifications to the contract?
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by jawns 3y ago
> It's the same company that created a new meeting to discuss wasted time in all the other meetings.... I've been in this kind of meeting. It was a 30-minute meeting instituting a rule that meetings should be 25 minutes by def
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by jawns 3y ago
Or A/B test it all against what actually leads to sales, and then use that. It might be the case that we think we want no fluff, but we're actually swayed more by fluff.
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by jawns 3y ago
A few years ago, I worked for a company that helped retailers infer user intent. And you would not believe the lengths that they would go to to infer simple things like sex (for clothing sites with male and female sections). I kept saying,
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by jawns 3y ago
Yes, I was being cheeky with my last line.
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by jawns 3y ago
I'm in a home team (not at Amazon) that wants to make our domain easier for away teams to work in. Aside from writing good documentation, what else can we do to make it a hospitable environment without it becoming a drain on our resou
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by jawns 3y ago
> An example of the cliché in use provided by Chaz Bufe is "the admonition given to Catholic schoolchildren to recite the Hail Mary or rosary to ward off 'impure thoughts'. The use of repetitive chanting by the Hare Krishn
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by jawns 3y ago
The post concludes that because Air France eventually agreed to compensate the passenger, they must have been lying to the passenger initially. I think it's more likely that they decided it would be cheaper to pay the claim than to con
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by jawns 3y ago
I would assume that most Microsoft employees receive both cash and stock compensation. While their cash compensation might be frozen, one would assume they'd be able to realize some upside from the equity side, if this is truly a landm
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Supreme Court Strengthens Religious Freedom Protections for Workers(time.com)
1 points by jawns 3y ago|0 comments
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Most Chemical-Resistant Material(guinnessworldrecords.com)
1 points by jawns 3y ago|1 comments
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by jawns 3y ago
> as we transform Search with new AI-powered capabilities, we’re not only continuing to focus on providing quick insights, but also connecting you to the people and perspectives that will help you understand what’s best for you It will h
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Ask HN: How do you highlight “talking people out of bad ideas” as a strength?
24 points by jawns 3y ago|13 comments
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by jawns 3y ago
Why would you expect anyone currently employed to be able to share code they've written? Presumably, their employer would not permit that. Oh, they should also be writing code in their free time, as a hobby? Well, maybe. Or maybe they
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by jawns 3y ago
Every version of ChatGPT that I have used, going back to the beginning of January 2023, has had a disclaimer appear when you first load up the page that specifically tells you, "May occasionally generate incorrect information." Th
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by jawns 3y ago
A while back, I created an online experiment, based on a 2020 study, that identifies dogmatic thinking. https://shaungallagher.pressbin.com/blog/dogmatism.html Without giving too much away, this tracks with the 2023 st
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by jawns 3y ago
I'm a longtime Delawarean. For context, Seaford, the city to which this would apply, is in a section of the state pejoratively known as "Slower Lower" Delaware. It's largely rural and largely conservative -- at least co

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