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by lsiebert 8y ago
I honestly don't know, not a lawyer though I enjoy reading about legal issues from time to time. I imagine that if the recording wasn't made legally, you could at least get a court to order them to delete it, even if they weren&#x
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Strictly speaking (and I am not a lawyer, this isn't legal advice etc), if you set up alexa, you presumably consented to the TOS, but others who might use it might not have consented. That said, good luck getting a prosecutor to go aft
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Okay, so instead of letting the employee advance in their career, possibly earn more money because of increased responsibilities or skills, you want to pay them to sit idle? How does that help anyone? Anyway, isn't that just prohibitin
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Ten years doesn't even go back to when google bought dejanews's archive, in 2001.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
It looks like you want a non recursive file find with the ability to navigate up and down. Denite lets you move up with U and down with <Enter>, and you can use a custom filter or source to only display files in the current directory
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Unfortunately google is the only way to search old usenet archives from the web, since they bought out such archives. That search leaves much to be desired. Only the relevance search has results for usenet posts, you can't order by da
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by lsiebert 8y ago
The real value of wages for waiters has decreased significantly because of inflation. Though that's not really inflation's fault as much as a lack of meaningful wage increases.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
The Trump Administration also passed a law that affects companies that store data overseas so that they can get that data, after big companies fought such subpoenas.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
I mean that's what I think, but general consensus also doesn't write the law, unfortunately.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Like the article says, they jump, then flap, which is also what birds and bats do.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
I personally want the law to say that but: The FBI took a different view in a recent court case referencing the All Writs act of 1789 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d... but dropped it when
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by lsiebert 8y ago
If you scroll down, it's a jerry garcia quote, "somebody has to do something, it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us."
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by lsiebert 8y ago
You realize banks were foreclosing on people who didn't even have mortgages, or never missed payments, and often on mortgages they didn't legally own, right? https://theintercept.com/2019/03/13/kamal
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Losing money doesn't mean losing the underlying property. There were certainly some losers, but the vast majority of them were the people who lost their house, not the banks which foreclosed on them.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Property tax increases are regularly gamed using empty properties as examples. https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/11/property-tax-dark-sto...
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Wait, in your view the banks are the victims? Banks wouldn't have these properties at all if they hadn't screwed the pooch financially with mortages. I find it offensive that after taking people's homes and properties, an im
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by lsiebert 8y ago
No, they shouldn't. There are externalities that effect others, and the free market. For example, you don't want people doing things that poison groundwater for the neighbors, right? Anyway, letting property sit idle benefits the
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by lsiebert 8y ago
I had not, but then I was using a DSL for sql generation.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
I've used this to help sketch out a DB schema several times.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Facilitating crime is generally illegal as well as performing it. That's where you get things like (for example) conspiracy and aiding and abetting charges.
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Ask HN: Best Practices for End to End Crypto with Multiple Devices
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by lsiebert 8y ago
I co-run a small board game group in SF, and we have been using FB for years to organize events. I've considered moving to eventbrite or meetup.com, but the app buy in with FB and FB messanger means we can post an update or send an IM
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by lsiebert 8y ago
It's being released at RSA as open source, so it's more correct to say that it's not open source yet.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
I think they have both done harm, and don't really feel rating harms and minimizing the one that isn't #1 is a good thing. We can address both of them, simultaneously. Civilization is awesome like that.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
I believe studies have shown that wealthy people aren't dramatically affected by tax rates in terms of where they live. So this seems to be more about where people say they live. Per this, 98% of millionares don't move based on i
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Yeah, I know some women that are way better at unix then me. Heck I learned to program, to the extent that it wasn't auto didactic, mostly from women. Anyway, it's poor form to put gender into the mix of what good coding looks li
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by lsiebert 8y ago
The suggestion that Joy Rankin has a rose colored view of academics is amusing, since I bought her book after reading her article on how Michigan State sucked so bad she quit, or as she put it, fired the university: https://mediu
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by lsiebert 8y ago
You might enjoy reading his 1973 address to the naval academy. http://www.phrost.com/blog/society/the-pragmatics-of-patriot... I like his books, but I don't agree with his ideas.
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by lsiebert 8y ago
Citation please. I'm not describing total wars. Canada, for example, has had women in combat roles for 36 years, and not because they were fighting for the country's survival in the early 1980s. And even if your un-cited 10% figur
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by lsiebert 8y ago
I'll make an exception for infectious diseases... certainly getting rid of smallpox was, and eventually getting rid of HIV will be, a cause for celebration.

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