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by lmkg 3y ago
MS would do the same thing they already did with wwwbing.com and binf.com: go through the arbitration process to get them repossessed.
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by lmkg 3y ago
A proxy for what ? What type of communication or persuasion are you trying to accomplish? clicks link Ooooh, you made a software named "hysteria."
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by lmkg 3y ago
Rust has aliasing guarantees. In theory, Rust code can pass noalias annotations to LLVM and become more optimized. In practice, it took years for Rust access these optimizations because the noalias annotations kept hitting codegen bugs in
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by lmkg 3y ago
This is about Incorporation By Reference. For example, ASTM (a standards body) published a safety standard for children's toys. This was just a book that they sell, named ASTM F963. Then, in 2008, Congress passed a law that all toys so
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by lmkg 3y ago
More likely around 96%. Don't neglect the Lizardman Constant.
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by lmkg 3y ago
I work as a web analyst (think Google Analytics). One time I ran an A/B test on the color of a button. After the conclusion of the test, with a clear winner in hand, it took eleven months for all involved stakeholders to approve the
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by lmkg 3y ago
Your employer should actually pay you more to WFH. Aside from saving them rent on the office space, you should be able to expense several office-supply things that they would have provided previously. Office chair and desk, internet bill
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by lmkg 3y ago
There are also entire industries that target low income individuals, such as diploma mills and payday loans. I can also imagine specific ads targeted at small business owners, or landlords. Either of those are easy to parse (imprecisely)
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by lmkg 3y ago
> If the person on the other line is willing to reveal their account to law enforcement, then wiretap should not be needed. If Facebook posts count as telephony , then this varies by state. One-party consent vs two-party consent. If you
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by lmkg 3y ago
Here's my completely-unsourced conspiracy theory: Someone is using ChatGTP to look for infringing content. DMCA notices are being sent on the basis of AI hallucinations.
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by lmkg 3y ago
> Isn't perjury the act of swearing to something that isn't true? Perjury is lying under oath . The statement must be made under oath to be eligible for perjury. And making a statement under oath is a formal process , dictate
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by lmkg 3y ago
> It's because the Reddit users that are actually bothered by this are unmonetizable and everyone knows it. The Reddit users that are bothered by this also include mods that use third-party tools for moderation activities. If those
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by lmkg 3y ago
> the idea that Silicon Valley succeeded due to a lack of noncompetes When people say "Silicon Valley succeeded," they're talking about Silicon Valley, the mythologized founding of the semiconductor industry in the 50&#x
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by lmkg 3y ago
Note that there is a process for the regulators from other countries to object to DPC decisions, and this process has been used in the past to increase the fines issued by the DPC to Meta. Ireland doesn't want to scare away tax revenue
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by lmkg 3y ago
> and the Pinkertons acted on their own Play Pinkerton games, win Pinkerton prizes. Or, less flippantly: everyone knows who the Pinkertons are and what they do. And the fact that everyone knows is, quite literally, the actual service
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by lmkg 3y ago
"Personally identifiable information" is a legal term with a legal definition[1], and location data is not PII. Companies think that PII is basically just your name because that's literally true: PII means name and government
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by lmkg 3y ago
Not exactly. In math, epsilon is basically "it's not zero, except when it is." When you're dividing , then it's close to zero, but still qualitatively not zero. But when you're multiplying or adding , the
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by lmkg 4y ago
Facebook has received 4 of the 5 largest GDPR fines to date. I would call that the opposite of ignoring them.
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by lmkg 4y ago
You are correct, but despite the article's misunderstanding of HIPAA they are covered by it. The incident is being investigated by HHS, as opposed to the FTC who dealt with the (non-HIPAA-covered) GoodRx incident from like yesterday. A
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by lmkg 4y ago
Indeed, a few clicks from the article arrives at the specific list: https://github.com/brave/brave-core/blob/master/browser/net/...
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by lmkg 4y ago
The linked article explicitly states that part of the fine is because the data sharing violates GoodRx's own privacy policy.
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by lmkg 4y ago
The thing is, HIPAA doesn't apply here. HIPAA doesn't actually cover "anything medical." It only covers (approximately) things involved in getting insurance to pay for medical treatment. GoodRx did not touch the consumer
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by lmkg 4y ago
There are some movements in the US to get federal privacy legislation (this is getting more likely now that 4+ states have local legislation). While a lot of the press coverage is about what types of data are regulated, the inside-basebal
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by lmkg 4y ago
Well if this is how the new cars are gonna be, I guess I'll just go ahead and teach myself to be a Car Guy so that the one I have now will run forever. It's not that I'm afraid of missing a payment. At this point I would pro
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by lmkg 4y ago
> Data can either be not-shared, shared to service providers with contractual obligations [...], or shared to service providers who may then use [...]. To follow up, this distinction is also made by both GDPR in Europe, and CCPA in Cal
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by lmkg 4y ago
The layoffs are rather sizeable. Even if only a small fraction go the start-up route, that could end up being a significant number of new start-ups.
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by lmkg 4y ago
> Google presents what its customers (people doing searches) want to see Google presents what it thinks people want to see , which it infers based on some number it can collect, like time-on-page, or scroll depth. The argument is that
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by lmkg 4y ago
Well, coupla things wrong with this article/headline. This decision is from the Irish data privacy regulator, DPC. They are "in charge" of this investigation because Facebook's EU subsidiary is in Ireland. They are not a
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by lmkg 4y ago
Here's the press release put out by the regulator that issued the fine, Press release: https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/data-protection-... The main thing is that WhatsApp changed some processing
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by lmkg 4y ago
A QA walks into a bar, orders a beer, pays with a $5,000-off coupon. Test passes

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