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by loteck 3y ago
The number of US municipalities (cities/counties) using Palantir is very high. Be aware, this company and this individual enjoys success in part through your local taxes.
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Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service(proton.me)
12 points by loteck 3y ago|0 comments
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by loteck 3y ago
This story is not written by an independent journalist nor published by an independent news organization.
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Google Drive for Desktop Sync Issue(support.google.com)
4 points by loteck 3y ago|1 comments
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by loteck 3y ago
Hi, privacy and anonymity are different things. Named transactions can still be private.
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In Defense of RAM(404media.co)
55 points by loteck 3y ago|78 comments
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by loteck 3y ago
While I agree with your skepticism about imprisonment equaling justice, one element to consider is whether a victim of a crime can ever be "made whole." Even if a victim was to receive 100% material reimbursement, the act of being
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by loteck 3y ago
That number sounds high to me. Is your contention here that the technology to make this seamless and reliable experience doesn't exist, or are you agreeing with me that it's not trivial to implement?
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by loteck 3y ago
That's not "being real," that's being insulting (regardless of whether you're right).
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by loteck 3y ago
Proprietary telepresence systems have been around for a long time and they are good enough for keeping international relations going between country's governments, so they probably would be good enough for your company. They are more e
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by loteck 3y ago
What if I highly value privacy but also need to function in a world that often doesn't prioritize my values?
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by loteck 3y ago
Minutes after the proposed regulation was unveiled in May last year, Labrador Jimenez emailed his Commission colleagues: “The EU does not accept that children cannot be protected and become casualties of policies that put any other values
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by loteck 3y ago
I know someone in a similar situation who is joining an apprenticeship program for a unionized trade. Switching careers may not be ideal, but it sounds like it may be time for you to consider less than ideal options. If opportunities open u
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by loteck 3y ago
Fortunately many smart folks can anticipate major systemic issues that threaten to create exponential and devastating societal harms, and start working on them as early as possible. Would the following statement be you, in 1980? "Clima
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by loteck 3y ago
"I've got nothing to hide." Because nobody is trying to hurt you. [0] That you know of. Yet. [0] https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-exploding-messages
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by loteck 3y ago
Congrats! I hope everyone can see he actually found a job due to getting out and meeting people (in this case, he met a CEO while they were both cycling), who then became interested in his work due to the relationship he fostered.
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Twitter's free API and old Tweetdeck re-enabled(theverge.com)
2 points by loteck 3y ago|1 comments
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by loteck 3y ago
I wonder what the demographics of Bluesky are under their longish term strategy of invite-only, and I wonder what it says about the future of digital society. Given the history of invite-only societies, one or two particular outcomes seems
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by loteck 3y ago
This reply is a good example of someone whose perspective is utterly locked in to their own perceived personal threat model (which may or may not accurately understand their own actual threats). This technology, they think, is perfectly acc
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by loteck 3y ago
Very few commenters seem to realize that this decision affects only "States prohibiting recording without providing notice to or obtaining consent from the recording’s subjects when created in a place where the subjects lack a reas
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by loteck 3y ago
I was thinking this through as well but if you were Apple estimating this number, wouldn't you have already done the averaging math to arrive at an estimate of 5.5? Seems to me more likely that speed of Greykey brute forcing improved o
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by loteck 3y ago
For context, in 2016 Apple was claiming the six digit passcode would need 5.5 years of brute forcing[0]. Not sure if they still claim the same. [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02&#x2F
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The timing of computer search warrants when it takes years to guess the password(reason.com)
75 points by loteck 3y ago|70 comments
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SCOTUS declines to hear challenge to warrantless pole camera surveillance(aclu.org)
193 points by loteck 3y ago|115 comments
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by loteck 3y ago
What, Slack just gets a pass?
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by loteck 4y ago
My comments are about the quotation at the top, which appears in the article.
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by loteck 4y ago
> This is how the internet should be, free for everyone, without censorship and restrictions. I wonder if the author writes this content for free or if they expect to be paid. Given Ghacks' privacy policy where 12+ categories of p
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Ask HN: Is Slack ending their Fair Billing policy?
1 points by loteck 4y ago|1 comments
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by loteck 4y ago
Why isn't the inaccuracy of ChatGPT a more widely discussed topic on HN? Lots of excitement for responses that are often wrong when it counts. Best way I've heard it characterized is that ChatGPT is "dreaming" when provi
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by loteck 4y ago
What if it becomes clear across the industry that remote workers are first in line for convenience layoffs? Beyond reduced pay and benefit scenarios, I'm curious if reduced job security will be a price workers are willng to pay for WFH

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