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by lmkg 4y ago
You seem to be misunderstanding. "Built right into the browser" means that it is a feature of Vivalid, which is a browser, like Chrome. This is the opposite of a page. It's not through the browser, it's built into
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by lmkg 4y ago
A few straight arithmetic questions, one about the alphabet, a few about parts of speech. These don't immediately jump out to me as cultured, although anything involving letters or grammar will be sensitive to the linguistic background
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by lmkg 4y ago
> I had to pass essentially an IQ test to get placed into those classes. I don't see why race has anything to do with it. Simply put, we don't know how to make objective IQ tests yet. The questions in IQ tests tend to bake in a
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by lmkg 4y ago
Also, because of Sturgeon's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law
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by lmkg 4y ago
The framing of the original question is ill-posed. It says that C treats 0 as falsey in a boolean context, but early versions of C did not have booleans . Thinking that C treats 0 as false is looking at it from a perspective deeply influen
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by lmkg 4y ago
The Right to Erasure is not absolute. There are a large number of reasons why they may not be required, or even allowed, to erase some or all of those data points. They are required to explain themselves. Per GDPR Article 12 Paragraph 4,
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by lmkg 4y ago
One of those brands has endured for over 125 years, is today worth over $18 billion dollars, and is the 36th-most valuable company in the world. The other is Coca-Cola. Pepsi gets an absolutely undeserved amount of shit[1]. It's one of
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by lmkg 4y ago
There are companies selling products which screen hiring candidates based on video of them talking. Ostensibly for determining personality traits or whatever. So yes, this literally exists in hiring.
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by lmkg 4y ago
I've worked as a consultant at various jobs, with billable expectations ranging from 55% to 85%. The largest company I worked for, which was a Big Four consultancy, had the highest billable expectation. But they also had entire departm
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by lmkg 4y ago
Aside from that 3.93 is slightly less than 4, it's odd that both employees were in their current position for the same amount of time. I.e. they were part of the same cohort. What was Twitter doing in June-ish 2018 that resulted in the
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Connecticut enacts Data Privacy law(iapp.org)
4 points by lmkg 4y ago|0 comments
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by lmkg 4y ago
Actually it's the other way around. The isEven package has one dependency, which is the isOdd package. I am literally not joking. https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even
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by lmkg 4y ago
It is, in fact, illegal to build things out of wood. Unless you adhere to a set of best practices called the Building Code.
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by lmkg 4y ago
This is unsurprising. The so-called "IP Anonymization" setting does not prevent Google from seeing the full IP address in the clear; it's just a configuration setting of what Google promises they'll do with the data afte
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Austrian regulator rules Google Analytics IP Anonymization setting is useless(noyb.eu)
12 points by lmkg 4y ago|1 comments
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by lmkg 4y ago
I'm reminded of some of Philip K Dick's later books, after he well and truly went off his rocker. He also believed in a false chronology, where around a thousand years were missing. Like Fomenko, this constructed history of his al
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by lmkg 4y ago
Quick refresher on context: Under GDPR, personal data sent from the EU to another country must have some level of protections in that country. By far the easiest option is an "adequacy decision," where the EU says "that cou
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by lmkg 4y ago
NSFW dad jokes are called uncle jokes.
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by lmkg 4y ago
If a dad joke isn't funny, a dad will keep telling the joke until it becomes funny. This will eventually happen. In the limit, the act of telling the joke becomes the actual source of humor. This type of meta-humor takes some age and m
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by lmkg 4y ago
It's a certain type of pun. Not all puns are dad jokes. Dad jokes are viewed negatively because they tend to be one-beat, shallow puns. Ones that could be understood by a six-year-old, so when your dad is still telling them when you&
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by lmkg 5y ago
It's actually an NFT of a screenshot of the first tweet. Note that for space reasons, NFTs do not generally "contain" their payload. The actual contents of the blockchain is just a URL of the screenshot. The URL points to a c
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by lmkg 5y ago
> Oooh, wait until they hear about CCPA... Actually Virginia has its own data privacy law now, modelled on CCPA.
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by lmkg 5y ago
Idempotence is usually used when talking about effectful code. Modeling the state as part of the input/output seems to run counter to that purpose, because that's how you create a pure model of an effectful program. It's use
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by lmkg 5y ago
The person who is leading this project and making it happen, Miguel Ojeda, is a long-term kernel developer. Whatever your experience might be of other RIIR evangelism, this project initiative is coming from an insider rather than an outside
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by lmkg 5y ago
I think some fields have certain canonical methods which are often impractical, but foundational. And the "real" methods used in practice can, with work, be seen as an approximation or limit in some case. Understanding that perspe
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by lmkg 5y ago
That's pretty funny, because a book I read about the Copernican revolution says that the prevailing attitude among astronomers during Copernicus' period was the exact opposite . Namely that Heliocentrism was not generally promote
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by lmkg 5y ago
I mean, if we want to run with the man analogies... The empty set is a valid set. Perfectly reasonable, and completely necessary in many cases. But the empty Group is not a valid Group. A Group requires an identity element, which means no
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by lmkg 5y ago
There's still room for ambiguity or disagreement, though. Just from the top-level: Does "biological sex" refer to chromosomal sex or to anatomical sex? By either definition most (all?) individuals will be closer to the no
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by lmkg 5y ago
Data can be both, in which case GDPR right still apply. Several GDPR fines have been handed down for processing business data about a person. Especially (but not only) data about sole proprietors/solo traders.
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by lmkg 5y ago
Unlike traditional banks with their burdensome regulations and gate-keepers, the permissionless, decentralized nature of the blockchain means that they can't get the money back.

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