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by matt4077 8y ago
> That's because advice doesn't solve anything. Action does. > And only you can do that for yourself. Aside from the continuing vacuity, and the rather oxymoronic nature of "Advice doesn't help"-advice, I&#x27
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by matt4077 8y ago
No, they're not saying that. Although there's a bit of merit to the idea, and it's part of the justification for choice of groups protected by anti-discrimination laws. Here's two more arguments: - When such profiling is
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by matt4077 8y ago
The ACLU seems like a worthwhile cause for actual advocates of free speech. And no, they don't only advocate for liberal causes. Campaign finance laws would be one area of policy where they have starkly different ideas than the politic
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by matt4077 8y ago
It may be useful to take people's actual behaviour into account, instead of starting from the assumption that they must be idiots. As it happens, no tool has been more successful at making this idea of "everyone being a coder&quot
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by matt4077 8y ago
All those explaining correlation-is-not-causation to scientists for the 500th time should take at least one semester of "You are not as smart as you think, nor are you very original, or know anything about the copious amounts of statis
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by matt4077 8y ago
The Mac experience is almost identical, except that the App Store has a GUI (although Linux distributions also have those these days, I hear). Apple regularly gets lots of grief here because people have been suspicious they want to shut dow
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by matt4077 8y ago
I don't remember "untrusted JS" being any sort of problem in the last, say, 10 years? Now I'm sure you can dig up some vulnerabilities, and a select few of them may even had (remote) exploits. But I've never run int
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Nobody’s Cellphone Is Really That Secure(theatlantic.com)
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by matt4077 8y ago
So, how does this "educational tool to secure organisations against phishing" differ from a tool to make phishing easier? Don't get me wrong: I'm all for people having the tools to protect themselves, and the ability to
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by matt4077 8y ago
That's a rather unnecessary ad hominem. What you should consider in your rage against trademarks is that they protect something far weaker than copyrights and patents. Trademarks are fundamentally exchangeable identifiers. They do no
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by matt4077 8y ago
I think both this discussion, as well as last year's Facebook/React Patent License brouwhaha (and Redis, more recently) would all be far better if people assumed good faith, and tried to actually get at the core of the problem. I
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by matt4077 8y ago
I mostly agree, but I think: > At best you could say it might has another name on it. ...does disservice to the influence she had (on Bill & the world) and shortchanges her contribution. Your point still stands, i.e. that the claims
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by matt4077 8y ago
I love how you're admittedly making stuff up that the article doesn't say, and then attack it for it. To be fair, I can somewhat see what causes your misinterpretation. The first sentence about Burning Man is She said he invited
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by matt4077 8y ago
It's a moral panic, not entirely unlike your urge to exact revenge from the political class.
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by matt4077 8y ago
No, actually. Even before GDPR, it was illegitimate to use a pre-checked checkbox, or any other process that required out-out from the user. This requirement was generally respected–I actually don't remember a single instance of it not
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by matt4077 8y ago
As you probably already know, a "rule" isn't the same a a "law". Even breaking a law doesn't usually lead to criminal prosecution because most laws are civil, not criminal. And, most salient, the relevant stand
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by matt4077 8y ago
I did not know that their motto is: > ‘Clean, Lean, and Mean’ And even after double-checking, I can only assume it's somewhat outdated, or outright irony. Because while I consider WP among the software that has done the most good
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by matt4077 8y ago
Come back when you have an example that isn't old enough to have finished high school by now. (And possibly one that doesn't also serve as illustration for the severe consequences even of errors of negligence.)
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by matt4077 8y ago
Anonymous sources do tend to be more trustworthy than named sources, actually. That's because accountability isn't just dropped. Rather, the publisher's and the reporter's reputation replace that of the source. And a jou
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by matt4077 8y ago
Could the link be changed to the original source, which is https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/us/politics/trump-phone-s... ? It's not just decent to reward those who actually did the legwork,
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by matt4077 8y ago
> That this gap occurred for eight years without any acknowledgement from Google, Alphabet, or the federal government suggests that it can happen again with no warning or oversight. This is Google’s Earth, not ours. Reading this senten
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by matt4077 8y ago
I remember a "MacGuffin" not to be some preliminary objective in a plot, but rather a meaningless, exchangeable objective that nonetheless is central to the plot. The Indiana Jones films serve well as examples: the specific artefa
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by matt4077 8y ago
> the level of satire a society can cope with, is directly proportional to the quality of democracy You're contradicting yourself: First, you deny that there are graduations in "freedom", saying it's all-or-nothing. B
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by matt4077 8y ago
Well, you missed the obvious one: Puma Writeup: http://eileencodes.com/posts/http2-early-hints/ PR: https://github.com/puma/puma/pull/1403
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by matt4077 8y ago
Just informing them of that possibility will render such evidence basically useless. Once video can be faked where it can no longer be detected, video just doesn't carry any more information than, say, "we got this anonymous lette
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by matt4077 8y ago
Of course it could. Almost anything "could". But it doesn't, as of right now. This exact discussion first happened when the original iPhone came out. It's been a decade+ now, and nothing has happened to your ability to r
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by matt4077 8y ago
Thank you for giving another example along that continuum. I admit that your example is in that gray area, and I have a hard time giving a definitive opinion on it. But, to reiterate the point: that does not proof that all such hypothetical
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by matt4077 8y ago
The President of France does not have a right to be forgotten, as people of public interest are exempt.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Of course you're still allowed to tell people what happened... To understand why some people argue for such a right, you need to appreciate that a report of your crime being the #1 Google hit for a search of your name is fundamentally
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by matt4077 8y ago
It's far below the rate overall, which is 60%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recidivism#Recidivism_rates There's also the problem that stigmatisation helps more or less no one, because it's unlikely that

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