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by pryce 7y ago
If you visit your friends or relatives, you cannot fully protect yourself from this data collection by simply choosing not to own these devices yourself.
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by pryce 7y ago
Your proposal is the closest thing to the best solution I have seen. It still has at least several issues: * When Zoom is already installed: - should be able to handle most instances - needs to account for version management, eg installed v
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by pryce 7y ago
No control group, no placebo, not blinded, not double-blinded, small sample size. The only possible real takeaway from a study like this is that it appears to support undertaking a larger, more expensive & more robust study on in determ
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by pryce 7y ago
That's fascinating, and I deeply admire the kind of science that involves developing new tools to find answers. Can I ask about the rationale motivating attempts to image DNA specifically - was it mainly that we were attempting to get
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by pryce 7y ago
It is an objective fact that this president made the central issue of his campaign portraying two groups - Muslims and Hispanics - as a threat to the United States, and his two key differentiating policies from his peers in the republican p
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by pryce 7y ago
And if he decided not to do it, no one would mind. I say this as someone who has worked (briefly) in ICU, as well as having volunteered in a hospital school for two years, and (unfortunately) have had my own teenager in the ICU. The differ
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by pryce 7y ago
Besides the ethical implications of using torture at all (especially those who do not the criteria for being convicted), I am deeply skeptical that any organization could simultaneously: * use torture of prisoners to obtain confessions (tru
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by pryce 7y ago
I did, thanks. EDIT: for anyone interested in the history of the Apollo 10 mission, its commander (and only crew-member remaining living) Thomas Stafford also went to Moscow to serve as a pallbearer in the state funeral given to the Soyuz 1
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by pryce 7y ago
Millions of people have looked to the moon for tens of thousands of years, and wondered if someday, a human being might walk on it. A truly transcendent category of goal, even if a large part of the underlying motive was pretty obviously de
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by pryce 7y ago
What planet is this from where Tech Goliaths face any kind of "reckoning"? What they are facing is a man-child who feels as though they don't fawn over him enough, who is making noise to injure share prices to compel them to
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by pryce 7y ago
An impressive achievement if they did manage to locate it, certainly. On the other hand, proposing that it merits retrieval is staggeringly vain- only the tiniest fraction of human enterprise has ever operated outside our planetary system (
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by pryce 7y ago
I hear this specific complaint often; I wonder if people don't realize the hit area of the escape key is much larger than the key itself. On my 2016 MBP I can fire it from almost a centimeter from its left edge I do wish there was some
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by pryce 7y ago
Sure. Looking at each of the external sphere holes, each seems to be associated with a triangle of connected internal sphere holes. The central point of each sphere is therefore associated with the central points of three others in an adjac
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by pryce 7y ago
> Well, if you hate the place so much, then why apply for a visa? If you see me feeling an ethical duty to scrutinise the widespread and damaging effects of US foreign policy and immediately decide that must mean I "hate the place&q
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by pryce 7y ago
It is an historical fact that the United States has profoundly and repeatedly screwed over nearly every single nation south of it on the two American continents, starting coups to topple democratically elected governments, invading, support
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by pryce 7y ago
> But what does it signify? We have an interest in the success of our children that is far greater than any interest a government has. I don't think the question of 'whether oversight is a good idea' is usefully explored b
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by pryce 7y ago
> With Facebook, what annoyed me was that they set up internal teams to help with political candidates social media campaigns - no matter who the candidates are. I have become more and more convinced that this is Facebook's real bus
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by pryce 7y ago
He also explicitly said he'd learned his radical ideas from 8chan in his final post there; and furthermore, there's good reason to believe his selection of travel destinations was already motivated by his far-right worldview of a
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by pryce 7y ago
One of the questions the public is asking them is why White Supremacy is not mentioned in 10 years of NZ SIS and GCSB reports. For readers unfamiliar with the agencies involved, the NZ SIS is NZ's domestic intelligence agency, whereas
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by pryce 7y ago
> The hate isn't "spreading through social media" the hate and the fear were already there. This is an idea worth examining more closely. In one view, social media acts as simply a passive reflection of an existing culture
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by pryce 7y ago
> if everybody tries to improve their bottom line then everybody wins This idea is given fairly often as a rationale that economies should be organised around capitalism, yes. Whether the principle holds up in practice seems, to me, the
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by pryce 7y ago
Arguing that we should be honest with ourselves about what precisely motivates corporate decisions to automate in the society we live in is not remotely the same thing as arguing against automation itself; neither in this specific case nor
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by pryce 7y ago
If we are being honest, this isn't being installed to "improve the livelihood of warehouse workers", it is being installed in anticipation of improving the bottom line for Amazon's shareholders. There may be benefits or
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by pryce 7y ago
I see this problem as simultaneously a cryptographic challenge and a DevOps one. So mine isn't a cryptographic question, but I'd love to know what steps you took to ensure integrity and uptime of your consumer i7 hardware, and cap
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by pryce 7y ago
and LetsEncrypt out of the box, which is gravy
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by pryce 7y ago
We already know that maintainers of widely-used NPM packages are being approached and offered money by people with dubious intentions. I may not agree with many of NPM's decisions, but NPM does fall over and a malicious party takes it
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by pryce 7y ago
If your ideology is that any measured sex differences in the brain should be automatically interpreted as 'innate' facts about men and women, rather than -say- the cumulative result of a combination of gene expression (including s
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by pryce 7y ago
I am trying to comprehend how someone could simultaneously think: 1. Kuhn could have authored a critique (of any actual substance) of the way scientists regard the field as progressing, compared to the actual historical record on uptake of
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by pryce 8y ago
Given what happens to USB sticks in my household (needed fairly often), you may still be at risk of a family member opening it and using it should they need one in a pinch.
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by pryce 8y ago
The only prominent former Secret Service agent I'm aware of is Dan Bongino. After viewing his output over the last couple of years, I have developed a fairly low opinion of whether a Secret Service agent chosen at random is likely to

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