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by lmkg 7y ago
The big operative difference is that under the Control regime, the regulator decides what practices are acceptable. Under the Liability regime, the acceptability of practices depends more directly on their effectiveness (with more or less d
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by lmkg 7y ago
The trust will come from very stringent contracts (beyond the regular contracts that other customers would use), third-party certifications that the provider achieves, and the provider being covered by certain aspects of the regulations tha
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by lmkg 7y ago
Funny how this is cutting both ways. If you want it gone, expect to be disappointed... and if you want it preserved, expect to be disappointed.
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by lmkg 7y ago
But there are enterprise versions of Word, Excel, and a few others. And it's worth taking a look at what those versions add. By and large, being able to centrally manage and update from the IT department, and even being able to deplo
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by lmkg 7y ago
> In any decent organisation Yes, and in my physics classes I learned a lot about spherical, frictionless cows in a perfect vacuum. In the real world, the shape of cows is not a sphere, nor even a closed-form equation. And real organizat
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by lmkg 7y ago
The variable for Country should have been treated as a categorical variable, but was instead processed as a numeric variable. This mistake would be downright trivial to make in R. Just declare that Country is a Factor (which is the built-in
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by lmkg 7y ago
In speaking with an old friend of mine who is a hard-core libertarian, he told me that he generally prefers the free market over anything else, he does prefer the government run things when a monopoly is inevitable. The reason being, a demo
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by lmkg 7y ago
One of the key features of graph databases is to select one node, and then recursively 'chase' edges until you find another node matching some criteria. Other database models can have trouble representing chasing an unbounded numb
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by lmkg 7y ago
They are loans. Money is given to the banks, and then repaid (with interest, but a low rate and short time makes this marginal). The fact that the money is "created" and "destroyed" is the nature of the Fed. They don&#x2
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by lmkg 7y ago
You can tracking pixels to track per-user engagement. You can also use tracking links to connect the email address to website activity. As you say, it's possible to use these to track in the aggregate, but many platforms allow tracki
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by lmkg 7y ago
I'm not familiar with xquery, does it handle general graphs or only DAGs? Your mention of "objects and sub-objects" makes me think you're expecting a different use-case than actual graph databases, which deals more with
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by lmkg 7y ago
I assume it's a pun about pandas.
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by lmkg 7y ago
As a design choice, Rust prefers not to change the semantics of methods depending on the context, but instead to expose different methods. Arrays offer get_unchecked and get_unchecked_mut methods, which can only be called inside unsafe bloc
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by lmkg 7y ago
It says "50 US States and Territories." The most natural parsing is that 50 entities are investigating, and some of those entities are states and some are territories. It's possible to parse it as saying all 50 states as well
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by lmkg 7y ago
I don't see how you would "debug directly the rust code" without debugging the wasm binaries. Wasm is a compilation target for rust. To be clear: You compile rust directly to wasm, it's not like you compile your rust to
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by lmkg 7y ago
> The only reason this rule exists in the first place is because of different cards sharing the same name in non-English languages. I'm sure that's not the only reason. Some cards cards explicitly reference each other by name (
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by lmkg 7y ago
Google Analytics does not fingerprint. Hits are identified with a user either by a first-party cookie (called the Client ID), or with a user-id value provided by the site owner. The site owner could provide their own fingerprinting value as
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by lmkg 7y ago
The implications are more practical, rather than theoretical. As others have said, the theoretical implications are mostly for continuous spaces, which strings are not. From the practical side, there are a lot of algorithms designed to work
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by lmkg 7y ago
This has been a feature of Adobe Analytics for over a decade. Google Analytics doesn't currently offer this as a feature, but some enterprising individuals have explored how to hack it in after ITP 2.1 was announced.
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by lmkg 7y ago
There's an essay on social class breakdowns in the US, which used the term "Working Rich" to describe people like doctors, lawyers, engineers. I thought that was a much more useful term than "middle" vs "upper&
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by lmkg 7y ago
Depends on the rental company and the rental contract. A lot of renters want a credit card rather than a debit card, as assurance you can pay additional charges/fees/damages should they occur. In cases where I put down a credit ca
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by lmkg 7y ago
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it. -Richard Feynman (disputed)
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by lmkg 7y ago
I wonder what the economic ramifications of this will be. While the article mentions free volunteer sources, I expect that in short order we're going to see a large number of these books available from commercial vendors for cheap or f
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by lmkg 7y ago
The United States has bilateral copyright agreements with a number of nations. So... probably most of the whole world, but the actual reality is complicated. So complicated, in fact, that the number in "a number of nations" is not
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by lmkg 7y ago
IANAL, but I believe part of the issue is that breaching a hundred million records is one data breach, but exfiltrating a few thousand journals is one infringement per journal . In point of fact, the prosecutor on Swartz case (Stephen He
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by lmkg 7y ago
Apple announced a stock buyback last year: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/technology/apple-stock-bu... Microsoft announcing in 2016 an increase to their existing buyback plans: https://www
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by lmkg 7y ago
> My go-to example to explain this is very simple: Let's > say we reduce birthdate info to just your birthyear, > and geoloc info to just a wide area. And then I have > an pseudonimized individual who is marke
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by lmkg 7y ago
Hi Paul, thanks for being open about this. I have a big, important question. ICO, the agency in charge of enforcing GDPR and related legislation in England, released guidance earlier this month on the topics of cookies. One of the most nota
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by lmkg 7y ago
> it doesn't come right out and say that MS is considering > offering a full Windows SDK with a Rust API It's possible that the Security Response Team doesn't have the authority to dictate the priority of new
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by lmkg 7y ago
StackOverflow also had an outage a few years ago that was caused by exponential blow-up of a backtracking regular expression. https://stackstatus.net/post/147710624694/outage-postmortem-...

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