maxheadroom

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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> The same mentality can be seen in the West too. Most demonstrated, IMPE, by the phrase, " You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing hide. "
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20439425
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> ...and some weed could both strip you of your right to vote and put you in a for-profit prison. The repercussions are far more egregious than that: The right to vote can be stripped for life [0]. After you've "paid your due
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> The I-Team wanted to know how much of that money came from marketing firms, but the agency in charge of driver information estimated it would take 154 hours of research and cost nearly $3,000 for the state to give taxpayers an answer.
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
42?
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> Just point at the data. The extra layer of attitude doesn't sell your argument, but just distracts from it. I gave you the data, you did a cursory look over it, cherry-picked the data points you wanted, and then continued on with
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
Maybe @dang can help, here? :)
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> The US is a much more diverse population... Why is this always a fallback reference point? It is demonstrably false[0,1,2,3] and is continually regurgitated - as if the continued repetition would make it consequently true. There are
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
They have synopses and linked/related articles ("Relaterade Nyheter")[0] from different news sources and their archive goes back a year[1]. Given this, I'd be inclined to believe that it's curated. However , I hav
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
If you speak Swedish and care about Swedish news, there's a Swedish equivalent[0]. [0] - https://nyhetsnotiser.se/nyheter/
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> ...to dangers that in reality don't really exist in the first place or are so minuscule that you need sales people to market these. The security hysteria of the last decade is laughable, if it didn't cost us that much... I d
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> Is saving a few minutes worth handing over your most sensitive biometric information? The problem is that you've already handed this biometric information over; say, when you get a passport. There is no "opt-out" for
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> ...I would do it in English... Men du hade inte säga varför du skulle skriver detta på engelska. Till exampel, är engelska mycket bättre än svenska för som programmerarspråk?
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
What I take away from this is that the bar for warrants is either too low or there's something afoot in the law enforcement sector. 4 x 30 (just easy rounding) = 120 days against 149 individuals. This is not a small-scale surveillance
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> They have clearly found a “bug”... This depends on your definition of "bug". I think, in the classical sense, a bug is something that you understand both the cause and the resultant undesired behaviour and, as of consequence
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> The real impact is that the climate will change everywhere. Precisely. Not only everywhere but it will be a constant. Calling it climate change is probably a disservice because it seems to infer a binary (false ==> true) relationsh
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
From the very same link you provided (fetched via WebArchive[0], as FAO seems down right now): > However, deforestation is the second-leading cause of climate change after burning fossil fuels and accounts for nearly 20 percent of all gr
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
I would also like to add that some countries could contribute more by offering public transit infrastructure (like, at all - looking at you "deep south of the United States", where cities don't have any transit systems, w
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
Gives Firefox (via HTTPS Everywhere) a sad face. > Felkod: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN > cambridgecamps.paytrax.com
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
Incorrect. You're moving the goal posts. Let's stay on the topic-at-hand, yeah? The OC comment was: > I expect there would have been a warning given in that case before assessing a fine. To which your initial retort was: >
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> So, I assume that recording in public spaces is illegal in general and they make a specific exception to allow dash cams on the conditions mentioned? The act of recording isn't the problem but the retention of the data records. I
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> What makes you expect this? Unless you and I have read entirely different versions of GDPR, no provision of GDPR requires any warning of any kind prior to issuing fines. Edit: the downvotes on this are coming in fast. Because you are d
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
Correct, the immediate reply from the author was: > heads up that this is NOT from @amazonmturk! black hat SEO/shady reputation management techniques like this are strictly against amzn's policy. this is from a competing micro
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> The contractor is collecting information which is public I think that, maybe, you're confusing the Thomson Reuters situation[0] and this one. In this one, they're contracting the actual Title III intercepts[1] to be done via
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> No, African Americans have a unique culture in America, and whites are notoriously judgmental about it. The only reason you might find this "different" is if you don't consider Black culture to be legitimate. We call thi
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
>(OC) A law enforcement agency is procuring products and services with money from their budget, to carry out their work. (Quotes from (A) https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/2995/ice-payi... ) >(A
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> Another potential problem is producing fake confessions in e.g. criminal cases. The person who allegedly confesses would not sign the recordings, and the police's signatures are worthless if they are fabricated. To look at it fro
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> ...the more software you need to initialise the slower it is... Of course, part of that initialisation is self-tests, harkening back to the O.G. POST[0] days. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-on_self-test
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> The title is pretty shitty but you should at least click through before making a comment. Something, something, site guidelines about suggesting the commentor didn't RTFA. > I trust the NSA more than random contributors on the
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by maxheadroom 7y ago
> ...they do not provide as much benefits as coding (learning and reputation wise). I think that's because code reviews have changed from being helpful form of preventing you from stubbing yourself on your toe to, " Why would

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