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by lmkg 7y ago
If you propagate "some condition," that could allow dead-code elimination later on, especially if an if-statement uses "some condition" as a predicate later. This seems redundant in hand-written code, but keep in mind th
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by lmkg 7y ago
Since it's not clear from the title: the lawsuit is over a FOIA request related to the use of solitary confinement. The FOIA request was first filed in September 2017. According to the complaint, ICE pushed back the deadline to complet
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by lmkg 7y ago
> is it a good idea from a public health perspective? Keep in mind that many of these students would need to travel at the end of the term anyways. There are benefits to shifting that travel sooner in time, especially since they'
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by lmkg 7y ago
For a class I took on cybersecurity law, one of the readings mentioned procedures involved for LEOs investigating crimes of that nature. Among other things, the agent was required to use a specific locked-down computer with a custom web bro
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by lmkg 7y ago
Copyright law considers the importance of a sample to the work as a whole, in addition to just the size. Any arbitrary three-word phrase from the middle of a script is probably not copyright infringement. The most memorable line from the
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by lmkg 7y ago
You can meaningfully add or subtract degrees to a temperature reading, but you can't meaningfully add two readings together (unless you're averaging them!). There's a subtlety here: A temperature difference is actually a di
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by lmkg 7y ago
It's subjective. My experience is exactly the opposite. A pipeline of sequence operations is something I can skim at a glance, but a for-loop is a pile of code that I need to stare at before I understand what it represents. This does n
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by lmkg 7y ago
From the Google side: In traditional BigQuery, the answer to all three questions are related. You shard the files by partition key and put the key into the file name. You can filter the file name in the WHERE clause, and the query will skip
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by lmkg 7y ago
If the data is in Cloud Storage, BigQuery can query it in-place without loading it. BigQuery calls this an External Data Source. https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/external-data-sources My biggest papercut with using th
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by lmkg 7y ago
Google Analytics expert here. This is missing some fundamental ones: gclid and dclid. Those are the parameters that identify a specific click from a specific user on a specific ad placement . They are the keys that Google uses on the b
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by lmkg 7y ago
"Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malware."
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by lmkg 7y ago
This is definitely true. In fact, this can be exploited to extract sensitive/private attributes about the training data from the learned models. This may become an issue for, e.g., AI in healthcare. "Overlearning Reveals Sensitive
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by lmkg 7y ago
> Do you understand what licensing is? Nope, no one understands licensing. Which means that arguments grounded on "The user accepted the terms!" has a shaky ethical foundation. Not necessarily a shaky legal foundation, although
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by lmkg 7y ago
Conflict of interest may not generally be illegal, but it can be illegal under specific circumstances, especially if undisclosed. Especially things that get filed with the SEC. I would assume a lot of decisions made at the board and C-suite
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by lmkg 7y ago
ICANN is incorporated in California.
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by lmkg 7y ago
From the letter the AG sent: > *The Office of the Attorney General has the duty to supervise charitable organizations under [law#]. The [ICANN], as a registered nonprofit in California, is subject to regulation by the California Attorney
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by lmkg 7y ago
From the user's perspective, the funnel can have several stages before they even arrive at your website. E.g. becoming aware they have a problem, researching the problem in general and what approaches have been tried, deciding which ty
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by lmkg 7y ago
Well, making the cost artificially high can be a point in itself. Sometimes the concern about a technology is the ubiquity and scaling. But aside from that, to address your questions: 1. If there's a human in the loop, the human can be
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by lmkg 7y ago
In case you're not aware, it's a riff on an old Monty Python skit (RIP Terry Jones). An absolute classic, that one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE
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by lmkg 7y ago
God is real (unless declared integer).
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by lmkg 7y ago
There is a fundamental difficulty when trying to implement privacy: A limit on the disclosure of information is itself a disclosure of information. A good privacy design needs to confront this issue directly. Sometimes there's nothin
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by lmkg 7y ago
Data brokers are middlemen. Not the source (no direct relationship to the data subject), and not the consumer (derive revenue from selling data). If the process of selling data involves a daisy-chain of three middlemen companies, they'
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by lmkg 7y ago
The law has a lot of requirements for every company that collects data about you. It has additional requirements for companies that are data brokers. The quote you provided is about the former. The list linked in this post is about the la
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by lmkg 7y ago
CCPA's definition of selling data is both expansive, and a little vague. Google Ads (formerly AdWords) now has an API so that customers can disable possibly-sales-like features on a per-use basis if someone clicks "Do not sell my
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by lmkg 7y ago
If you use Google to search (or use Chrome or gmail or...) then you have a direct relationship with Google, meaning Google is not a data broker.
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by lmkg 7y ago
But test-based admissions can also be gamed. And the scandal that you cited has quite a few examples of that.
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by lmkg 7y ago
> * Is "browsing down" even possible under those circumstances?* Not a security expert, but based on their explanation of "browsing down," I think it's possible if the laptop is sufficiently locked-down. The is
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by lmkg 7y ago
> This means that it's plausible for a company which currently is doing shady stuff to legally continue doing so, as long as they can write up some fancy words to 'inform' and ensure that most people don't do the opt
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by lmkg 7y ago
As point of comparison: CCPA only applies to companies if they have either $25 million in revenue or data on 50,000 users (or derive half their revenue from sale of personal information, regardless of size). And to your point about sensitiv
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by lmkg 7y ago
DV360 (formerly DoubleClick) definitely does. Analytics uses first-party cookies for its core functionality. There are optional features where it connects to a third-party cookie from another Google service, e.g. connecting to the DV360 coo

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