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by jevoten 5y ago
I believe reducing loss of privacy to only financial costs is the wrong approach. How will you quantify this cost when, for example, Drata runs some fancy ML algorithm on the gathered data, and starts offering employers a "unionization
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by jevoten 5y ago
Don't forget option C: Talk with all the other teams and present a united front, whatever you decide to do.
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by jevoten 5y ago
> As long as your ISP doesn’t block UDP packets Can you explain? I thought TCP was implemented on top of UDP.
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by jevoten 5y ago
Why should he need a business line? He's not using excessive bandwidth. The restriction imposed on him is completely arbitrary.
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by jevoten 5y ago
> I am a sample size of one and have not yet been the victim of a hate crime. But "hate crime" is very flexible. Lets look at something more objective - acts of violence: In 2012, blacks committed 560,600 acts of violence agai
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by jevoten 5y ago
Which practices that net neutrality forbade do we want? Which are taking place, so that they can be credited with the internet being "better than ever"? And of course, the effects are subtler than some apocalyptic predictions. An
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by jevoten 5y ago
But they also have access to solar, wind, and nuclear technology that were far less developed when the countries you are blaming were industrializing.
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by jevoten 5y ago
> Devil's advocate: it's probably not due to Good thing Google's feedback was so specific that they know exactly what they did wrong and how to fix it /s The next line is "if we told you what crime you're ac
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by jevoten 5y ago
> In fact, the average public rating of faces men submitted as their "four most attractive" was only 6.6 out of 10. A surprisingly in-depth article.
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by jevoten 5y ago
> The new pop-ups inside stores could help people become more comfortable with Clear’s biometric scanning Boiling the frog..
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by jevoten 5y ago
Full article: https://archive.md/MkQio
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Notre-Dame restoration slammed by critics as politically correct 'vandalism'(telegraph.co.uk)
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by jevoten 5y ago
Consider networking with your co-workers. You may not have much leverage on your own, but you do as a group. They probably don't like that clause either. But they also might not be aware of it, or how severe it is. Make sure they know.
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by jevoten 5y ago
> The report also did not make any moves to ban the use of end-to-end encryption, which has been criticised by some politicians and child safety advocates as enabling criminal activity. > Instead, it recommends that the use of encrypt
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by jevoten 5y ago
I'm surprised changing who has the right to vote in municipal elections can be changed by a mere City Council vote. I'd expect it to require a referendum, at minimum.
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NYC lawmakers pass bill giving noncitizens right to vote in local elections(cnbc.com)
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by jevoten 5y ago
> I assume it's because you can choose their add blocking DNS in the settings. Same thing happened to Nord vpn, they had to remove that feature from the playstore version. Does anyone have a source on this claim about NordVPN? Sound
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by jevoten 5y ago
> On 13 April 2019, two days after his arrest in London by British police, Le Monde editorialised: ‘Before we discuss the fate of whistleblowers battling secretive states, we must consider two self-evident facts. First, Julian Assange is
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by jevoten 5y ago
> I'd guess we here on HN are the people best equipped to prevent the worst. Best positioned , but how well equipped are you? Are you organized enough to collectively refuse such requests, or will you fall into the "If I don&#
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by jevoten 5y ago
> There’s one story that’s neat and clean and politically convenient to tell about my life. It goes like this: Poverty is the root cause of my problems (and those of my friends). With enough financial aid, and a good test score, anything
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by jevoten 5y ago
But that's just it - Riot's anti-cheat gets far fewer warnings than FOSS software, because MS has tilted the system to favor corporate entities willing to pay MS for certificates. If a "trusted developer" is one of the h
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by jevoten 5y ago
> So to further refine my question: can we recognize (visually or otherwise) strangers as potential relatives in some way by sense perception, if they are closer to us on the cone of ancestry? Like being able to tell someone's race?
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by jevoten 5y ago
> Malware is subjective Torrent programs get silently deleted, LibreOffice and other FOSS installers get big scary warnings [1], installing an open-source audio package pops up no less than seven warning screens [2], but Riot can insta
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by jevoten 5y ago
Are you being glib, or do you genuinely believe the OS should subvert its user to appease a different group of people? For many artists, not having their art copied would be an improved user experience, so should the OS prevent you from cop
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by jevoten 5y ago
> Birthrate-boosting programmes conflict with those for educating girls: the more educated women are, the fewer children they have. This is phrased as an inherent property of education, but how true is it? I argue that if educational sys
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by jevoten 5y ago
> unless real estate prices plummet to levels affordable to young couples without rich parents, you won't see birthrates in the west go up without heavy immigration from developing nations. Ironically heavy immigration itself pushes
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by jevoten 5y ago
> What even is "freedom of contract"? When people organize and collectively set limits to their exploitation, in the form of legislation (child labor laws, workplace safety rules, ability to join unions and discuss salary, limi
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by jevoten 5y ago
If I understood you correctly, you only hit water, nothing solid? That that was able to cause concussion-like symptoms makes me suspect you might have some other underlying condition that made you vulnerable. But I'm playing Dr. House
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by jevoten 5y ago
But what is broken is the disconnect between providing value and being able to earn a living from that value. More often than not, any "business plan" involves providing a worse product, because the product must be compromised t
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by jevoten 5y ago
Ah, sorry. I misunderstood you as talking about the problems of open source in general, but you were referring only to non-copyleft open source. In that case I think we agree.

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