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by rbecker 6y ago
Good question. The answer is, because with finances, you can tell if you were hacked by the state of your account. With voting, hacked election results can look as convincing as real ones.
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It's simple: you can't tell the difference between a compromised and a secure system. Not by looking at it, not by taking it apart. Nothing short of checking each bit with an electron microscope will do (can't trust the disk
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Is there a write-up of this anywhere other than techrights.org? That sites signal-to-noise ratio is abysmal.
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We can do better than anecdote. 74% of the largest tech firms executives are white [1]. This perfectly reflects 1990 demographics, when the US was 76% white [2]. A 30 year lag between arriving to a country, and becoming an executive, seems
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"We refuse to put ourselves in a position where we can be compelled to violate human rights." - such as the position of arbiter of what may run on your phone.
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> she actually spent her life at the front of the bus. Only the part before she started "pretending". Lets say she pretended for 10 years. Does 10 years of Black lived experience make her as Black as a 10 year old Black child?
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I think the key is, you can't tell if the system's been compromised by looking at it. And not even by taking it apart and examining it, bit by bit. Not without an electron microscope. And unlike with banking, you can't tell b
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by rbecker 6y ago
Modern scholarship regards race as a social construct, an identity which is assigned based on rules made by society. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization) There’s No Scientific Basis for Race—
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Modern scholarship regards race as a social construct, an identity which is assigned based on rules made by society. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization) There’s No Scientific Basis for Race—
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The vulnerabilities they found are laughable. Even with all of them fixed, what about infected disk firmware, compromised Intel Management Engine (or the AMD equivalent), or a subverted compiler [1]? On the system itself, or on a developer&
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> expecting that the cost of at least getting into court would be around US$200k, even with pro bono representation Where do these costs come from, if not from lawyers?
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> That’s already disingenuous; protesters demanding an end to centuries of racial violence have largely been peaceful. Fiery, but mostly peaceful: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cnn-ridiculed-for-f
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> The third burning is certainly the best known: the Nazi Bücherverbrennungen that followed Hitler’s rise to power. Soon followed by the Allies' own book burnings: a list was drawn up of over 30,000 book titles, ranging from school
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So you would consider using the algorithmicaly adjusted grades an improvement, if in case of a failing grade, the teacher's estimate was used instead? And a follow-up question: How many such cases were there? Where the adjusted estim
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> the system will ultimately compensate through interviewing, delayed starts, etc. A roundabout way of saying that some students that would have been accepted to their chosen college, won't be, because their grades weren't as i
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"Students will now receive grades based on their teacher’s estimate of what their grade would have been" But if those estimates are improved using statistics, there's a political fallout. There's some valid criticism o
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> On the one hand, you leave it to educators and employers to select candidates based on unreliable grades, versus excluding swathes of the population from opportunity. That "versus" is unwarranted - unless everyone is given to
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> At worst, we're continuing down the seemingly-limitless path of men experimenting on women's bodies as startup fodder. When men close their eyes, and imagine a nude woman, are they also experimenting on women's bodies? D
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Repeal [Communications Decency Act] #Section230, NOW. OK, now anyone can sue Twitter for defamation, copyright infringement, and a whole host of other things posted by their users. Allowing any user-generated content becomes a gigantic
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by rbecker 6y ago
Lawyers that knowingly write such unenforceable legal intimidation should face some consequences.
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> I suspect this has to be more to do with particular things said on these episodes that may make Spotify legally liable Are those episodes listed on Spotify as "Censored to avoid legal liability"? Or perhaps as "Unavailab
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> Besides that fact that many non-USA places are more leftist While I agree with the statement about selection bias of immigrants, I have to take issue with this part of your claim. The countries most relevant to tech companies (India an
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Just build 2x the entire current US infrastructure (schools, roads, farms, power plants, hospitals, water systems, housing,...) to maintain current living standards - easy! Or in other words, for each US city, build 2 more identical cities.
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> a centrist Democratic party and a right Republican party. As right-biased as the two parties are economically, someone wanting to reduce immigration still has no-one to vote for. Even Trump gave nothing but rhetoric and unpopular, inef
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"Embraced": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_okay_to_be_white#Reacti... White lives don’t matter. As white lives : https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jun/25/ab
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by rbecker 6y ago
As I understood it, they're not bemoaning BLM twitter, but the (supposed) double standard.
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Could you give some examples?
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> It's a fucking tool, you don't see tradesmen getting all pissy about people buying DeWalt power drills. But farmers are getting pissy about tractor DRM. If you can't control your tools, they will control you. I'm
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> Marcus Aurelius family comes from Spain And that is Spain before the Moorish invasion. A similar asterisk could be added to much of the rest of North Africa regarding Muslim conquest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Those are better free speech protections than in Germany, where after a mere complaint (not court order) platforms are liable for up to 5 million euro if they fail to remove illegal posts within 7 days, and "obviously illegal" pos

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