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by pseudo0 3y ago
Provocateurs testing the limits of free speech is nothing new. In the US, we had the Westboro Baptist Church protesting at funerals for soldiers, for example. After a while their gimmick gets stale, they stop getting media attention, and ev
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The goal with Tor is to preserve privacy. Payment systems come with significant legal and regulatory overhead, KYC and AML, etc. That introduces significant privacy risk. Meanwhile PoW just requires owning a computing device.
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He lives in Germany as a permanent resident. So he can either appeal, pay the fine, or move back to the US (plane tickets alone would cost more than the fine, let alone the cost and disruption of moving a family). If he lived in the US, he
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by pseudo0 3y ago
That's easy for us to say, most working well-compensated tech jobs. The guy working overtime hours for bullshit pay would rather the government pay for neither and give a few dollars of his taxes back. Also, for the folks calling this
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It seems like a kind of strange strategy for click fraud. A KU subscription is $10, Amazon takes a 30% cut, and for $700 a month you would need 100 KU bots with unique accounts and payment info.
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A list made by an independent third party would be a lot more interesting. For some reason, the CIA left out their pioneering use of LSD for behavioral modification, and their use of trained pigeons to attempt to spy on the USSR. https:&#x
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> That is - "equity" as I understand it doesn't need everyone to reach the same degree of success, it's more about making sure everyone reaches enough success ("to see over the fence") and beyond that to rea
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If the squatter leaves to buy food and the locks get changed, it sounds like that would also be a civil matter.
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The problem is that if the criminal is slightly intelligent, they will present a fake lease and/or some mail they received at the address. At that point, it's the court's problem to assess the evidence and figure out if it&#x
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> I wound strongly contest that this is because, on the one side of the implementation spectrum, this turned out to impossible in a practical sense, and on the other side, it's far too easy to have the appearance of equality but not
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Pay transparency measures were touted to reduce the "negotiation gap" but ended up undermining the bargaining power of individual workers, so I would be wary of unintended consequences. > Our model predicts that transparency re
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Or the employer shifts to a less flexible compensation system, and everyone loses. Some employers will outright refuse to negotiate pay for a given position because HR gives them a grid or a standard formula.
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In DEI discussions, equity is typically shorthand for "representation" or "equality of outcome" where if x% of the population is from one group, they should be x% of executives, employees, etc. Contrast that with equalit
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> and support the folks I watch? YouTube takes a 45% cut. So out of that $30, YouTube pays a few cents for bandwidth, and takes $13.50 thanks to its dominant market position. I'd much rather watch with AdBlock and donate via Gumroad
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Low-level work is absolutely a thing. For example, I have used automatic translation tools to translate documentation and comments in source code. The results aren't perfect, but they are instant and much better than nothing. The groun
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World languages majors in some respects seem like an anachronism in an age of globalization and machine translation. For low-end work, Google translate will do it for free, and for the high-end market, why not just hire someone with native
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> Kavanaugh has been the swing vote on several recent decisions, and the early leaking of the Dobbs draft opinion strongly implies the application of this kind of social pressure to a Justice like Kavanaugh. A left-wing radical attempted
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It has been discussed here for months, my "research" was just linking to the last thread about Asahi. And for the record, there were hundreds of comments in that thread that were overwhelmingly supportive of Asahi on its technical
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It breaks the implicit assumption that one human == one account. Consider a typical case where Alice approves Eve's PR. Bob sees that and decides that he doesn't have to review it, since Alice has already provided a second opinion
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Blizzard games work pretty well with Lutris. It handles all the Wine config stuff for average users who just want their game to work, but power users can tweak it. I've had Diablo 2 Resurrected and StarCraft 2 running for years with no
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It is quite popular among those types, but the really serious preppers don't post about their setups online, and the rest mostly use niche forums rather than reddit, HN, etc. And most journalists aren't interested, since it contra
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> Attacks and doxing make me personally MORE likely to support stronger safety features in chromium, as such acts increase my suspicion that there is significant intimidation from criminals who are afraid this feature will disrupt their
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by pseudo0 3y ago
This topic (and the submitted article) were discussed earlier today: Israeli parliament passes law to limit judicial power (nytimes.com) | 43 points | by asimpletune 11 hours ago | 60 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/
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The NYT article doesn't even mention organized crime, just French delivery workers subcontracting out their deliveries. It is sort of an ironic twist on the independent contractor vs. employee debate: > French labor law allows indep
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It looks more like retaliation against anonymous whistleblowers: > EJMR has been used to expose multiple counts of plagiarism, corruption and serious professional misconduct that would not likely have been shared for fear of retaliation
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Fear of embarrassment, arrogance (not having legal counsel present), or ignorance (not realizing that it was a hostile interview with the FBI, rather than information gathering). Those charges aren't the end goal of a serious investiga
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They spent millions of dollars investigating at a bunch of beltway bandits and were only able to convict a handful for tax fraud, lying to law enforcement, etc. Note the distinct lack of any convictions for spying for Russia, or acting as a
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According to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court [0] and the FBI IG [1]. And an FBI lawyer pleaded guilty to a felony for forging an email used as justification for the wiretapping [2]. [0] - https://www.nationalreview.co
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I don't think anyone is disputing that the US had a really good run from 2014 until 2020, but real wages still have not recovered to pre-COVID levels. See eg. the BLS Employment Cost Index. https://www.bls.gov/blog&#x2F
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The top 10% of American households own 89% of US stocks, and the top 1% own 50% of US stocks. The benefits have almost entirely accrued to a small minority at the top. Some of the 35+ cohort are doing exceedingly well, but most just have a

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