kobeya

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by kobeya 9y ago
“Parallel construction”
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Warrants aren’t always required. Also, lack of a warrant just means the direct evidence they gather won’t be admissible, but it might lead them to new evidence. Also, it’s not just the police one needs worry about.
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by kobeya 9y ago
You make it sound nefarious. "Collecting" could be as simple as having a mis-configured webserver log that captures too much. Should a big company take measures to protect user data, and be penalized for breaches? Absolutely. Shou
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The police holds up the phone, pointing towards the suspect: Detective: "Is this yours?" _Suspect glances in the direction indicated, phone unlocks._ Detective: "Nevermind, I got it from here." ----- At least TouchID req
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There isn't a single fusion power plant that puts out more energy than it pulls in, other than the Sun. It's kinda hard to compare cost, safety, and portability of something that doesn't exist to something that does.
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The GDPR does not, as far as I'm aware, have safe harbor clause for startups and other small companies that end up collecting some personal information incidentally as part of whatever they are trying to do but don't have the reso
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Nope.
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The window of time in which a majority of the members of a society have been franchised in the history of human societies is fleetingly short, totaling the last 50-100 years.
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by kobeya 9y ago
But a degree in history would show you that yes, indeed you can marginalize half your population and be quite successful for a very long time.
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Way to make broad generalizations. Homosexuality is not illegal in Jordan or Bahrain, and socially tolerated in many other places.
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In journalism, yes.
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There are fewer and fewer http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/gold-miners-murder-...
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It's a safety issue. Suppressors do not work like the purely fictional "silencers" of the movies. They take a deafening, hearing-injury-inducing bang and turn it merely into a loud noise. Modern suppressors actually aid acc
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by kobeya 9y ago
This post would have been a lot better if he showed how to do a git subcommand that launched itself, which is where i thought he was going.
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They’ve always had their own backend.
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Also the audiobooks of Reynolds work are wonderful themselves. The narrator John Lee is a master of his art form: https://tantor.com/narrator/john-lee.html (Sadly he did not narrate Revenger, which is part of why I hav
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Large Photo or iTunes libraries? Video editing?
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Anything by Alastair Reynolds (but Revelation Space is a good place to start).
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It’s pretty easy to design nuclear reactors that are earthquake safe. I would think that an island nation like Taiwan with unreliable international relations would benefit from a locally supplied power source like nuclear. This is a world o
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I was also a NASA contractor for many years. My employer was the prime contractor but I worked with many subcontractors on my teams as well. Some of them had very stable careers that predated and outlasted mine, since work was available to
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by kobeya 9y ago
Add up those dumb things and you still get less health risk or property damage than you get from coal dust or oil spills or gas explosions, which is why they correctly say nuclear is safer.
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by kobeya 9y ago
It was theorized at the time. Much of what we know about nuclear safety was learned from accidents like this. Slotin was doing excessively dangerous and downright stupid even for the time, but let’s still be careful to only judge him by the
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by kobeya 9y ago
This is incorrect. Research homomorphic encryption sometime. It’s very inefficient though.
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by kobeya 9y ago
Homomorphic encryption is behind some crypto currency stuff like zcash, but that’s about it. It is many orders of magnitude slower.
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by kobeya 9y ago
The Irish company would be violating Irish and/or EU law in this example. This is a reasonable analogy for what is happening in this Google case.
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He may have meant “professional occupations” which means doctors, lawyers, accountants, etc.
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by kobeya 9y ago
If that were true they’d be making something more like the Pebble Time series of watches with week long battery life, essentials built in, and minimal API. Apple Watch is a battery hog, culprit number one being the sexy watchOS UI. If you w
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by kobeya 9y ago
Whataboutism. If people is bitcoin for other things, fine. What matters is the network is also available when and where it is needed.
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Why?
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People whose freedoms are challenged by authorities they didn’t consent to.

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