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by rosser 9y ago
Congratulations. You have the technical acumen to do that — along with, at a guess, 0.0001% of the population of the entire planet . Not really a solution, seen in that light, is it?
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by rosser 9y ago
No, it stands for "Portability." HIPAA does, however, have a section explicitly governing the privacy of patient medical information, under Title II, generally known as "The Privacy Rule". EDIT: Tone and specificity.
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by rosser 9y ago
If you talk about it outside a privileged context, you're implicitly waiving the privacy protections. For example, if you run into your physician in public, and say, "Hi Doc. Have you gotten my test results back yet?" you&#x
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by rosser 9y ago
Oversubscribing != throttling.
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by rosser 9y ago
Does that excuse provider-based discrimination in the cases where they are distinguishable? I'm pretty sure those are the overwhelming majority.
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by rosser 9y ago
> in a way that does not discriminate between providers of those service Exactly. Anti-NN (broadly) wants to be able to discriminate on the basis of provider , not service .
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by rosser 9y ago
> It's to help progressives apportion blame. Does this materially contribute to the conversation? What's your motive for saying it?
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by rosser 9y ago
No, it's really not. The action that put the person in the hospital where they lingered for a month before dying either happened when it was legal to homicide, or not. Without that specific action, the victim would not be dead — or, mo
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by rosser 9y ago
A homicide law isn't ambiguous. Either you killed the dude before it was enacted or after. You know, to the second, whether or not you're a murderer. Tax law isn't so clear. There's when you were granted the shares, when
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by rosser 9y ago
Ex post facto laws are also unconstitutional . And this isn't one, anyway.
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by rosser 9y ago
A grandfather clause like this doesn't make a law "retroactive". It exempts people who would be subject to the law because of things that happened before its passage from its effects, when the specific behavior in question
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by rosser 9y ago
You don't value "freedom" more. You value a specific kind of freedom more. Don't conflate the two.
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by rosser 9y ago
I'm talking about literally dozens of verbatim-identical posts on known-divisive issues, from different accounts in different cities — or even countries, though many-to-most of them are already in the US, mitigating so much of your c
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by rosser 9y ago
> ...you have a fairly high chance of chance of you accidentally targeting a few thousand genuine users. Which is why I said "further scrutiny", and not robo-ban. The tone of these posts is very much, and very consistently th
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by rosser 9y ago
Unless I missed it in skimming The Fine Article (I have a couple minutes between standup and another meeting, so time constraints), they're overlooking an, IMO, obvious tell. For months now, whenever I've clicked on one of the &
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by rosser 9y ago
Those things aren't unspeakable , though. They're things we may (many do) have shame — or at least discomfort talking openly — about, but that's definitely surmountable, if perhaps uncomfortably so. My current partner and I
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by rosser 9y ago
Please be more specific than that. I think you might have a point worth discussing, but your comment is ambiguous to the point of opacity, and The Fine Article is calling for the ability to talk explicitly (though not necessarily vulgarly)
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by rosser 9y ago
It is the only thing reliably using 10-20% of my laptop's CPU, while idle . Having the Slack iOS app even open drops my battery at least 10%/hour. Even Facebook's app or using a mapping app, actively listening to the GPS b
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by rosser 9y ago
I would be fine with the amount of RAM used, if Slack didn't also materially reduce my battery life, by keeping my CPU — and fan — spun up. Charge-discharge cycle counts are a limited thing. They're directly shortening the lifespa
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by rosser 9y ago
Thank you. Are those runtimes all bytecode compatible? Or is that another layer of developer cognitive burden that the more efficient/performant/whatever choice entails, atop the whole "having a good way to write cross-platfo
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by rosser 9y ago
"No better alternative" != "right". As you observe, a compromised choice is still compromised.
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by rosser 9y ago
How many platforms does C# run on, with runtimes available under which licenses, again? EDIT: Not defending Slack's choice of JS, or the consequences of that choice on its memory footprint, CPU utilization, or excess consumption of my
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by rosser 9y ago
No-one else doing it "right" is not an excuse for anyone to do it "wrong". EDIT: Leaving aside the question of whether the other multi-platform messaging apps also do it that poorly, and merely running with your assertio
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by rosser 9y ago
Guessing: Between arithmetical and exponential? Geometric/multiplicative?
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by rosser 9y ago
Police need to be held to a higher standard than citizens. Currently, they're held to a ludicrously lower one. That has obvious, demonstrable consequences.
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by rosser 9y ago
> ...manifestly, self-evidently false according to basic empirical criteria. Which is fine, as far as it goes. I think there's an argument to be made against Scientism, however, where people are rejecting notions that aren't
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by rosser 9y ago
2.2 causes us the least pain.
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by rosser 9y ago
No, it is not that simple. "We just couldn't add more data while doing so" is, by itself, a deal-breaker.
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The death of the startup: is big tech squeezing out the competition?(theguardian.com)
4 points by rosser 9y ago|1 comments
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by rosser 9y ago
We're using Cassandra at scale (~1M concurrent users at peak). It is, in our experience, an absolutely terrible piece of software. The development community doesn't seem to care about fixing bugs, and when they do fix things, they

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