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by matt4077 8y ago
Apart from the SVM-like attempt to find some strange characteristics that separate the rights you happen to like from those you don't, I fail to see how this little tale relates to a private publisher setting its own policy.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Contrary to popular opinion, politicians actually (used to) lie very rarely. For non-elected officials, such as the WH press secretary, it was even rarer. Yes, they'd deny comment, avoid the question, give a completely unrelated answer
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by matt4077 8y ago
Your conspiracy seems rather incompetent if they chose to use their money to silence their critics on some aspects, considering they financed that very investigation in the first place .
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by matt4077 8y ago
No, they won't. These terms just aren't used any more. That's partly because of the euphemism treadmill, and on the colonial history of these terms. More importantly: the real world does not conform to any such arbitrary diff
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by matt4077 8y ago
I'm pretty sure that it's the movement is a net positive for the world, because it attracts a different crowd (younger, STEM, etc) than altruistic endeavours traditionally do. The basic drive to empirically evaluate one's act
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by matt4077 8y ago
> Why did nothing ask me if I was ok giving Facebook access to my hardware? I'll let you in on a secret: Facebook is also controlling your graphics card, and CPU, and memory. Controlling as in "sending HTML that is then display
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by matt4077 8y ago
If you don't use these capabilities, they probably amount to less than a Megabyte increase in the file size of the binary, and the potential that you could be shown a dialog when a website asks for permission. I fail to see how this mi
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by matt4077 8y ago
So every time you let your spouse take your car you do a DNA test to make sure they haven't been switched with a look-alike? That's just a somewhat extreme illustration of how you, and everybody else, has to rely on heuristics to
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by matt4077 8y ago
It's a journalism startup much like ProPublica, i. e. taking on long-term projects with in-depth reporting. And take your anti-semitism elsewhere.
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by matt4077 8y ago
decent.
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Freedom to fail – or managing to succeed?(international.brandeins.de)
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by matt4077 8y ago
These labels are getting tiresome. There is not a single socialist state on earth today. It's completely out of the question that the US would ever become such a thing. The often-cited examples of Scandinavia are capitalistic through a
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by matt4077 8y ago
Remember that national income taxes are but a fraction of total government revenue. It does not include, among other things, consumption taxes (like VAT) which disproportionally affect lower-income people. Nor does it include social securit
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by matt4077 8y ago
Quite a way to prove their point...
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by matt4077 8y ago
Nobody "paid off the rating agencies". Or, more accurately: everyone did. It was standard practice for the rating agencies to be paid by those being rated. Now that's obviously not a terribly smart idea. But there's simp
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by matt4077 8y ago
Incarceration is supposed to protect the upcoming trial, from the accused fleeing, tampering with evidence or witnesses. It is not a punitive measure. Innocent until proven guilty, etc. So while it's fair to criticise the disparate a
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by matt4077 8y ago
It's also unfriendly, and not very cooperative, to dismiss the stated wishes and motivations of content creators to save clicking on a link. Similarly unfriendly is assuming bad faith, i. e. "most media sources don't [seek to
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by matt4077 8y ago
You should try the assumption of good faith some time. It generally leads to a happier place. In this case the data was from the time Google introduced the TPU internally , when the K80 was very much up-to-date. It also makes sense because
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by matt4077 8y ago
The problem with fines as an enforcement mechanism is that incidents are rare and big. Fines work when they are assured, fast, and high. But because the incident that triggers fines is not the actual behaviour, but only its later consequen
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by matt4077 8y ago
Banking seems to be doing pretty fine, actually. Can't remember any cases where customers lost money. So maybe they are doing something right. > the threat/worry of bad publicity Yeah , that hasn't worked for Exxon Vald
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by matt4077 8y ago
A food truck seems completely benign to you and me. But I bet if one decides to park itself right outside your window it can have a dramatic effect on your quality of life.
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by matt4077 8y ago
This reads like a complaint about vaccines because nobody has seen Polio in like a lifetime... Just as a reminder: Up until the early 20th century, any large city that wasn't home to a Molasses-based catastrophe had at some point burne
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by matt4077 8y ago
This discussion doesn't make much sense. Economics is the science of making organisations work. It doesn't come with rigid objectives; Those are inputs to the process. Now I'd be glad if the DOD accidentally let a pack of MBA
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by matt4077 8y ago
There might actually be a continuous spectrum of both morality and profitability of different actions... Google doesn't care about any possible humility of not getting a DOJ contract. Because nobody would notice, and those who do are m
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by matt4077 8y ago
Talk about sensationalism, and attaching specific changes in values to individual news..
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by matt4077 8y ago
Isn't "rule lawyering" just "lawyering", and its re-emergence in this (as professed above) rather successful community possibly an argument for its effectiveness in making complex social communities work?
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by matt4077 8y ago
The press release specifically said that they are not under any sort of order preventing any disclosure. And while it is indeed possible for the government to make you stay quiet, forcing you to lie is considered compelled speech , which i
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by matt4077 8y ago
The headlines are somewhat over-the-top, but none of those articles show examples of them deliberately making up a story. I wouldn't read it, because they seem to repeatedly overstate the possible impact of their stories. But if you wo
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by matt4077 8y ago
That argument is slightly lazy, in that it applies to far too many situations where it's obviously wrong... Looking both ways before crossing the street does not make my life controlled by some central entity, etc..
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by matt4077 8y ago
Well, the FBI famously DIDN'T manage to get themselves onto your "bad actors with power" list. Sometimes I think people vastly overestimate the skills and powers of the security services... And the analogy to backdoors doesn&

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