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E3 Website Contained Public Spreadsheet of over 2k Attendees’ Personal Info(onlysp.com)
2 points by luso_brazilian 7y ago|0 comments
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Rep. Gohmert Responds to Undercover Video of Google Released by Project Veritas(gohmert.house.gov)
7 points by luso_brazilian 7y ago|0 comments
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by luso_brazilian 7y ago
The actual rules is very impartial (btw, [1] should be the actual link): > Today, we're taking another step in our hate speech policy by specifically prohibiting videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimin
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by luso_brazilian 8y ago
Same here, made a print screen of the error message > https://imgur.com/a/mxgqTXH It says > There's a problem at our end. > Please try again. If the problem persists, please let us know using the "Se
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by luso_brazilian 8y ago
Interesting tidbit in another source [1] > Apple boss Tim Cook has blamed the US-China trade war as he warned of lower than expected quarterly sales for the iPhone maker. Seems like the US-China trade war is taking its toll on Chinese
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by luso_brazilian 8y ago
"Need" is too of a strong word. People doesn't need a $80,000 car that can go from 0-60 miles per hour in 1.9 seconds in a country whose max highway speed is around 75mph but they buy it anyway when they can afford it.
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by luso_brazilian 8y ago
> But it doesn't mean you get to harass people, send death threats, post people's private information (doxxing), and spread nude photos that were never supposed to be released. That is accurate and there are legal remedies for
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by luso_brazilian 8y ago
From the image itself, it seems Stripe was compelled instead of acting on their own volition > Please know, Richard, that it would be our absolute preference to continue working with your business, and this decision is in no way a refle
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by luso_brazilian 8y ago
> But is Pony doing something unsound? Absolutely not. It is totally fine to define 1/0 = 0. Nothing breaks It actually does break something, the symmetry between division and multiplication and the many pieces of code that assume
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by luso_brazilian 9y ago
Context for the significance of this article > Barack Obama's re-election team are building a vast digital data operation that for the first time combines a unified database on millions of Americans with the power of Facebook to tar
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(2012) Obama, Facebook and the power of friendship: the 2012 data election(theguardian.com)
2 points by luso_brazilian 9y ago|1 comments
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by luso_brazilian 9y ago
> Revenue in the recent period rose 2 percent from a year earlier to $731.6 million, buoyed by data-licensing sales and video advertising. I understand video advertising and if Twitter turns their attention to this area (after dipping th
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by luso_brazilian 9y ago
It is unfortunate that the course can't be taken anonymously and requires either a github login or an email and password. I understand the general motivation for that (a quid pro quo, an exchange of a bit of information for a valuable
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by luso_brazilian 10y ago
This had the potential of being a positive development brought by Trump's election: many behaviors by the US three letter agencies that were glossed over for the past 8 years (due to the party in power being "on the right side of
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by luso_brazilian 10y ago
From the article: > The strength of a defense based on the non-copyrightability of pornography rests on whether pornography promotes the progress of science and useful arts as prescribed by the Copyright Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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by luso_brazilian 10y ago
It reminds me of the XY problem [1] that plagues both our field and any other field where one can devise a solution to a problem without formalism or thoroughly understanding what's being solved. > The XY problem is asking about yo
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by luso_brazilian 10y ago
This cannot be stressed enough. There are plenty of behaviors that people, specially young people going through the "rebellious" phase of their lives, engage for the shock value, for the "I'm the only sane man among shee
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by luso_brazilian 10y ago
The part of the Net Neutrality debate that is so often disregarded (and probably the reason conservatives oppose it vehemently) is that it gives FCC (an unelected body of government, part of the executive branch) power to legislate. Not pas
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by luso_brazilian 10y ago
My theory (not substantiated in any provable way) is that: 1) there is an automated system recently implemented that suspends accounts that receive a set number of reports within a set period of time 2) jack's account is a constant tar
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Jack Dorsey, Co-Founder and CEO of Twitter, has been Suspended from his own site(twitter.com)
23 points by luso_brazilian 10y ago|5 comments
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2 killed in fiery Tesla crash near downtown Indy(theindychannel.com)
2 points by luso_brazilian 10y ago|0 comments
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by luso_brazilian 10y ago
Previous discussion of the original announcement (Jan 2016): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10884893 A decentralized way to authenticate users securely and privately would be an exceptional addition to the open intern
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by luso_brazilian 10y ago
The sad state of the internet and the world wide web, from a decentralized network envisioned to withstand nuclear armageddon [1] to a series of services so intertwined and full of single points of failure that a focused attack can take cau
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by luso_brazilian 10y ago
Your presupposition is that it is in Google's (and Youtube's) best interest to guarantee that videos are correctly allowed or denied based on the balance of copyright, trademark and fair use. It could very well be that their best
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Defends Peter Thiel's Support of Donald Trump(cbsnews.com)
17 points by luso_brazilian 10y ago|0 comments
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by luso_brazilian 10y ago
> Donations are often used as a way to make others ‘pay up.’ By giving the pneumonia vaccine away for free, pharmaceutical corporations can use this as justification for why prices remain high for others, including other humanitarian or
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by luso_brazilian 10y ago
From the article: > The "Paranoids," the internal name for Yahoo’s security team, often clashed with other parts of the business over security costs. And their requests were often overridden because of concerns that the inconv
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by luso_brazilian 10y ago
First first link is "live" in the sense that the panel changes based on the current status of the lander. The second link, that's the one that has all the panels.
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by luso_brazilian 10y ago
The XKCD already updated the live comic about this subject [1]. All panels are available at its sister wiki [2] In my opinion it is a beautiful work of art, pushing the limits of what the media allow the artist to do (the media in this case
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The Slashdot Interview with Ruby on Rails Creator David Heinemeier Hansson(interviews.slashdot.org)
3 points by luso_brazilian 10y ago|0 comments

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