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by nsgi 6y ago
At least until recently the top tweet appearing under Trump's tweets was the one about John Mcafee giving away bitcoins, so I'd say that mechanism isn't working very well.
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by nsgi 6y ago
So Trump is really good at the political game, for instance?
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by nsgi 6y ago
> they can't afford to have people quit willy nilly If a company can't deal with people quitting when they give the appropriate notice they've got big problems, and a multinational company of almost 80 people should defini
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by nsgi 6y ago
Often this is only temporary, though. They increase your salary, but it comes out of your next raise and you get fewer opportunities because your loyalty is in question, or if they're evil and the employment laws allow it they make you
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Braess's Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by nsgi 6y ago|0 comments
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Australia 'records fastest internet speed ever'(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by nsgi 6y ago|0 comments
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by nsgi 6y ago
You don't think law is important to society?
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by nsgi 6y ago
There are already more people who want to be journalists than there is work. I imagine it's the same situation with funding for public health research. I'd imagine that's the main limiting factor.
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Exiting Sex Work as a Drug User(street-hooker.com)
3 points by nsgi 6y ago|0 comments
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by nsgi 6y ago
Couldn't they do that for anyone with bluetooth on, whether or not they're using the app? I get that knowing they have Coronavirus might make them a bigger target, though
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by nsgi 6y ago
Can you take it off?
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by nsgi 6y ago
Are you sure? Challenge studies have been conducted in recent years for Norovirus[1] and Whooping Cough/Pertussis[2]. Admittedly, less is known about Coronavirus, but both those two can be dangerous. 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.
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by nsgi 6y ago
Not to the standards required to show its safety and effectiveness, no
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by nsgi 6y ago
By the same argument, we also don't know the long term effects of drugs and vaccines that haven't been in use for a very long time
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by nsgi 6y ago
Well, anyone can support the EFF
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People-tracking wristbands tested to enforce lockdown in Bulgaria(bbc.co.uk)
39 points by nsgi 6y ago|81 comments
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by nsgi 6y ago
> Sadly, it's definitely much easier to push out a software update than it is to replace your clothing. Depends on the release process.
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by nsgi 7y ago
I wouldn't say that's true of most tech companies, maybe the most selective ones.
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by nsgi 7y ago
Wish it was like that in the UK. I work with some pretty talented people and we're paid what would be considered peanuts in the bay area (but fairly standard here), and even then half of us have just been furloughed. Lots of code sucks
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by nsgi 7y ago
Still plenty of evil things you can do without admin privileges, like running a server in the background that launches Zoom (as they tried previously).
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by nsgi 7y ago
I'm specifically talking about CSRF as I've found that to be quite widespread and some analytics providers have had flaws that can lead to your account being deleted or stats sent to someone else's email address, etc. I don&#
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by nsgi 7y ago
You can opt out of all data sharing in Google Analytics on the account settings page. There are also ways to opt out of ad targeting but that's irrelevant to this discussion.
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by nsgi 7y ago
By filtering out bots and giving you the number of visits rather than just pageviews, and also giving you data on things like screen resolution and time on page that can only be retrieved in javascript.
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by nsgi 7y ago
No idea if that's true or not regarding Google Analytics, but you can opt out of all data sharing and I imagine Google would be in a lot of trouble if they didn't honour that.
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by nsgi 7y ago
With any website it's important to know how many visitors it is receiving. In the context of a blog knowing you're getting a lot of traffic can motivate you to publish more content and knowing more about your visitors can also fee
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by nsgi 7y ago
Also, unlike many smaller analytics providers, Google Analytics doesn't have glaring CSRF vulnerabilities and doesn't have creepy features that let you spy on individual users (no idea if this applies to Plausible or not).
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by nsgi 7y ago
Not just cruel but potentially stupid. It's the kind of thing people pushing MLMs say: "you're just jealous of my success."
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by nsgi 7y ago
Why are you linking to Life Site News? That site is a joke and that article has nothing to do with this thread.
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by nsgi 7y ago
How do you know it was an old person with cancer rather than just an old person who smelled like an old person?
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by nsgi 7y ago
Doesn't matter, people still use it. It's not completely awful for what people use it for as long as it stays up.

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