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by lilsoso 4y ago
Imagine Robert Mapplethorpe being fined $2,500 per photo by PayPal for obscenity: definitions drift over time.
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by lilsoso 4y ago
See https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full and search for 2,500, which reveals: "You acknowledge and agree that $2,500.00 U.S. dollars per violation of the Acceptable Use Policy
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by lilsoso 4y ago
The median income for the US is higher than the median income you provided for NYC, therefore it seems reasonable to assume your numbers are incorrect. I then provided rent prices for an expensive neighborhood of NYC to illustrate how a $10
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by lilsoso 4y ago
It's one of the textbook definitions of a recession from a first year college economics course. That is, it's a standard definition of a recession. For example, to quote the IMF: "Most commentators and analysts use, as a prac
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by lilsoso 4y ago
Your numbers for household income in NYC must be off, see the following sources: https://usafacts.org/data/topics/economy/jobs-and-income/job... https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ME
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by lilsoso 4y ago
Masks increasingly help less and less, for example see: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/sunglasses-and-face-mask-...
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by lilsoso 4y ago
Great project. Is the code for this project or similar projects available on Github? The unstated implications of all this are unsettling.
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by lilsoso 4y ago
Adam Curtis is great. I recommend even looking into his older material, such as The Mayfair Set (won a BAFTA Award in 2000). Another older documentary of his that I recommend is The Way of All Flesh (1997) which is a rather remarkable stor
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by lilsoso 4y ago
Could you explain how the tracking via the cell provider works with 2fa? Do you mean they have an idea of the services you use based on the phone number of the sender and perhaps the format of the message? Or do you mean they actually tie t
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by lilsoso 4y ago
It's also worth pointing out that tethered/hotspot data shared to the iPhone with a VPN enabled at the iPhone level will not travel through the VPN, but will rather leak your phone's IP: https://apple.stackexchange
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by lilsoso 4y ago
Would be nice to know which suspected data brokers are used to gather this information, in order to send them CCPA deletion requests. I've previously spent some time manually sending CCPA deletion requests to a variety of data brokers,
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You've essentially responded with the statement that all software has bugs: "every piece of software ever written and every piece of hardware ever built has bugs and has been hacked". The person you're responding to prov
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by lilsoso 4y ago
Very interesting. Is there a risk that installing Chrome plugins makes your browser fingerprint more unique? Isn't the list of installed plugin-ins checked?
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From my memory, Marc Andreessen had a series of somewhat recent tweets criticizing the American university system. However, all of his tweets older than say two months or so appear to be automatically deleted. Society in general is probably
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by lilsoso 4y ago
https://www.ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/Weinstein-GUI_N...
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People routinely comment on this site about how they enjoy engineering and challenging problems, and how they dislike jobs with meetings, or not enough work, or fluff. Those people, perhaps without realizing it, often enjoy 'being some
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by lilsoso 5y ago
Is this still possible? I thought the strategies for this were closed. The general method would be to open a cash back credit card with lucrative bonuses/incentives and then figure out a way to spend money on the credit card yet have i
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by lilsoso 5y ago
Marc Andreessen cares -- see his Twitter. These terms have caused a minor sensation on tech twitter.
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by lilsoso 5y ago
That's not quite accurate. Wonderland (TIME/MEMO) began as the first OHM-fork, however it was shifting into an actively managed investment fund. For example, there was a proposal for Dani to use Wonderland to takeover operational
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by lilsoso 5y ago
For young males, the risk of myocarditis strikes me as underappreciated. To quote the NYT ( https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/09/health/researchers-find-a... ): "Males between 16 and 29 years of age hav
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by lilsoso 5y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. I read about the offline "find my device" tracking feature once, which as I understand it works via some sort of Apple bluetooth mesh network, and I thought it applied to all devices with say recen
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by lilsoso 5y ago
Because it turns out that advertising networks and data brokers can de-anonymize the data with good success. How is that not tracking?
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by lilsoso 5y ago
The statistic from the NYT is estimated and you're missing the overall point. What % of children are admitted to Stanford? A sliver. What % of Stanford undergraduates make it to a "big law" firm? A small percentage. The specu
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by lilsoso 5y ago
The only point I care to touch on is the Adderall usage. Europeans, I think, would be shocked by the prevalence. From the New York Times: "In the 1990s, an estimated 3 to 5 percent of school-age American children were believed to have
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by lilsoso 5y ago
I'm an American who has worked in both the US and Europe and noticed differences. Here's a few quick thoughts on working in the US: - Do not talk about your salary. There are large disparities in income within the US and even with
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by lilsoso 5y ago
Saved you a click: nothing.
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by lilsoso 5y ago
So this means privacy on the internet is now gone? Can you recommend methods to avoid the tracking?
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by lilsoso 5y ago
You still don’t know if they’re feeding your data to an intelligence agency or data broker. For example, why wouldn’t China run a few top VPN companies — or at least compromise them? The benefit would outweigh the costs. So they shield you
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by lilsoso 5y ago
That seems like a great technique if it is correct. Seems obvious to me that many of the top VPN providers are operated by intelligence agencies or have ties to data brokers: they can afford to operate the services at an initial loss for th
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Ask HN: What to do when companies do not honor CCPA deletion requests?
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