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by mokus 7y ago
Is it even possible for this to be GDPR-compliant without even a way to opt out? I’m not very well-read in the subject, but I thought stuff like this had to be opt-in under GDPR?
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by mokus 7y ago
It’s especially weird to me when taken together with the fact that one or the other of our last three presidents was literally the reincarnation of Hitler according to about 75% of all the people I know... but everyone simultaneously seems
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by mokus 7y ago
And controlled burns. The land WILL burn - why would we NOT let it burn at a time of our choosing, such as the middle of the rainy season when we have the best control over it?
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by mokus 7y ago
One flip side of this is when undefined behavior in one library invalidates critical assumptions underlying the correctness of another, and tracking it down is a nightmare. I’d much rather, in general, get predictable and understandable sem
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by mokus 7y ago
It’s funny the kinds of falsehoods that people collectively believe. In CA, I can think of two widespread false beliefs about traffic law from when I was younger (no idea if they are still widespread). One is that it is illegal to drive bar
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by mokus 7y ago
I think it may be that while the field is more or less the same overall, the star no longer occupies as much of it so planets can get closer in where the gradient is steeper (and the tides can then rip the planet apart, giving us the chance
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by mokus 7y ago
It’s also somewhat common in the scientific community even in the US.
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by mokus 7y ago
A couple possibilities I can think of: * the list may be prohibitively large * it exposes to the bad actors exactly which of their scams is detected, so they can simply refine their methods until their sites don’t make “the list”
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by mokus 7y ago
For the moment magnitude scale, I believe the (typical; it doesn’t actually correspond directly to energy release) ratio is even steeper than that, at around a 32x factor for each point in the scale. So to equal the energy of a 7 you’d need
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by mokus 7y ago
Given that ignorance merely means not knowing, yes. Yes, that’s exactly how it works.
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by mokus 7y ago
It bothers me how many people think I’m psychotic when I express this opinion. Frankly, I don’t care whose content they are promoting - SOMEONE please put a fucking price tag on a service that plays exactly the content I select AND NOTHING
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by mokus 7y ago
Every time I’ve looked it’s fewer shows, though - last I checked it was only 3. They were popular ones but nothing I had any interest in, so I switched from Netflix (I was done waiting for them to let me turn off that horrid auto-preview mi
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by mokus 7y ago
IMO the “burden of proof” is a mostly vacuous concept to begin with, because it always and only ever lies with the party that wishes to change others’ minds.
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by mokus 7y ago
I didn’t ignore it, I called it a straw man. That’s the entire point of my comment. The argument you are calling “centrist” is not claiming there is a “truth somewhere in the middle”. It’s claiming there are plausible positions (concentrati
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by mokus 7y ago
This is a non-sequitur. The (apocryphal, IMO) “centrist” that’s saying everything is “between the two extremes” is not the same thing as someone saying “no, there’s actually more than 2 positions”. Your statistical example actually takes th
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by mokus 7y ago
There’s another (/r/nothingeverhappens) dedicated to the pattern of people failing to realize just how big the world is and how often the internet allows us to see extremely uncommon events. We are currently racking up about 245 y
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by mokus 7y ago
Where does $2.5/year come from? Other comments in this discussion have suggested that it would be more like $120/year in the US, or $25/year for a global average
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by mokus 7y ago
One difference, it seems, is that under the proposed law you couldn’t advertise your $3 service as “free”, maybe? Either way though, I’d be happy if it were just required that there BE an opt out even with a price tag. Google can then fina
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by mokus 7y ago
I would also like to know this. This is absolutely unacceptable behavior and I would be fuming if my device pulled a stunt like that.
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by mokus 7y ago
Does being unable to offer something justify mischaracterizing what they can offer as if it were that thing?
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by mokus 7y ago
How many of those are backed (edit: created and fully controlled) by a foreign company with 2.4 billion active users and extremely questionable privacy track record?
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by mokus 7y ago
Ah, that makes sense. I was afraid maybe you were referring to something horrible coming in iOS 13
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by mokus 7y ago
I have been racking my brain for several minutes now trying to figure out what you’re taking about. I never paid Apple anything to switch my Safari search bar to DuckDuckGo, and I can’t imagine 3rd party browsers are restricted from using a
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by mokus 7y ago
Same phone here, for the same reasons. It still does everything I want, as quickly as I want. It’s actually a little mind boggling to me that they have nearly doubled the version number without adding anything at all that I find compelling
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by mokus 7y ago
Isn’t this just another example of what you’re replying to? UK’s VAT sounds appallingly high to American ears too, but it isn’t really meaningful to compare a single type of tax in isolation.
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by mokus 7y ago
Maybe I’m overly annoyable right now but I was unable to find, in the first 20 or so paragraphs of fluff, a statement of what the theorem actually is , and barely a hint of even what field it’s in. Is there a better write up anywhere that
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by mokus 7y ago
The problem in the second case is not null-hypothesis testing, it’s sample size.
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by mokus 7y ago
Can we convince these people that sound is phononic RADIATION and they should therefore stop talking?
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by mokus 7y ago
I don’t think the price point is quite that low yet, is it? I have a couple I bought for $250 that can do that, but I’m not aware of a readily available radio that can receive 80MHz+ at that price point. If you can point me to it, I’ll prob
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by mokus 7y ago
I am an introvert, but people at work usually don’t realize it for quite a while. I spent years “training” myself to be sociable and can do so quite effectively, but I still dislike it and would much rather be alone. Sometimes that builds u

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