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by rosser 10y ago
It already has. I use DDG, and have for years. My Gmail box is for mailing lists, and putting up on things like my HN profile, for random people to get in contact. Personal correspondence goes to an address on a host I control.
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La Paz adapts to a world without water(popsci.com)
2 points by rosser 10y ago|1 comments
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by rosser 10y ago
This is absolutely a thing. I've spent months in another country before, and took a ~4 month round-the-world trip a couple years ago. It takes some adjustment to re-enter your home country. I can't imagine what it must be like for
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by rosser 10y ago
Maybe that's okay in PR and legislation. But not in science .
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by rosser 10y ago
"Vegetarian cheese". That's cute. Sure, baby cows aren't being (literally) gutted for the lining of their stomachs, but that's hardly the extent of the misery we inflict upon dairy animals. EDIT: not directed at you
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by rosser 10y ago
"Godwin"-ing is comparing your opponents in an internet argument to Hitler/Nazis, not relying on their historical example as an existence proof for how terribly our cognitive gaps can be exploited.
907.
by rosser 10y ago
HIPAA might be relevant if your dildo was prescribed by your doctor. But no, random IoT dildos aren't covered.
908.
by rosser 10y ago
Your specific cognizance of the case, and how it came to your attention, is orthogonal to the broader cultural forces in play.
909.
by rosser 10y ago
I'm sure this article is gathering reddit-caliber comments in at least twelve different subs right now . If you want that, it's there to be found. That's very specifically not what HN wants to be.
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by rosser 10y ago
I suppose it's to be expected, but the naïveté of thinking that an IoT sex toy wasn't phoning home still surprises me. Not to excuse it, because spying on your users — particularly in an identifiable way, and doubly so given the
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by rosser 10y ago
Exactly. That's the value of the coin-toss: the fleeting moment the coin is spinning in the air can be an incredible forcing function for revealing your preferences.
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Lawsuit Claims Verizon Broke Promise to Bring FiOS to All New Yorkers(newyork.cbslocal.com)
2 points by rosser 10y ago|0 comments
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by rosser 10y ago
Paraphrasing Donald Rumsfeld, "You spy on your own people within the legal regime you've got, not the one you wish you had."
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by rosser 10y ago
> What do you want to help them with, precisely? Primarily ensuring license compliance, but also things like trademarks or patents as needed. Really, whatever moves the broader cause of Free/Open Source Software forward. > Act
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by rosser 10y ago
You either missed or evaded my point, simply to re-state your own. (Also: nice shadow-edit.)
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by rosser 10y ago
They should also be able to regulate ships that enter their territorial waters. "Oh, you burn bunker oil and don't scrub the exhaust? Can't dock here..."
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by rosser 10y ago
You'll have to remind of of the part in the movie where dude's presence on the mission is a problem for the mission. Or, wait, is that just your conjecture? Sorry. My bad.
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Beijing to release national artificial intelligence development plan(scmp.com)
3 points by rosser 10y ago|0 comments
919.
by rosser 10y ago
I believe the term you're looking for is "middle ground".
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Magnetic Hard Drives Go Atomic(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by rosser 10y ago|0 comments
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by rosser 10y ago
Of course that's true, but do you honestly think individual cognitive blind spots and biases are a bigger factor than the structural and systemic issues?
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by rosser 10y ago
Yeah, that's not a solution to the problem. That's just punting on it entirely.
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by rosser 10y ago
It's called "résumé-driven development."
924.
by rosser 10y ago
I've also been subject to secondary screening a lot more often than the GP, and am a white, native-born US citizen with a germanic surname.
925.
by rosser 10y ago
> I have definitely heard about more incidents involving Sikh individuals. Most likely because all the aggressors in those incidents see is the traditional dastar. Remember that one of the more prevalent slurs for men from Muslim cultu
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by rosser 10y ago
True story, I've shared here before: many years ago, a co-worker had to run home for some reason in the middle of the afternoon. On his way home, a woman jaywalked in front of his Escalade on a street with a posted 40mph limit. (He was
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by rosser 10y ago
That path — pursuing a JD toward the end of helping open source projects — has appealed very strongly to me on and off over many years, but I've always been dubious it's something sustainable. Neither law school, nor living in are
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Flecks of Extraterrestrial Dust, All Over the Roof(nytimes.com)
4 points by rosser 10y ago|0 comments
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by rosser 10y ago
Oh, I know it's Gmail, not the browser. But I have just a hair under 14,000 unread messages in my Gmail box (I use it primarily for mailing list subscriptions), so switching to a desktop client would be ... painful at this point.
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by rosser 10y ago
And sometimes, jaywalkers get run over.

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