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by simple_phrases 6y ago
ML is really good at picking up anomalies, and that is scary if, say, law enforcement or prosecutors are doing dragnet surveillance for anomalies in order to drum up charges.
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
There's a difference between a Wacom tablet and a tablet computer.
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
Weird, I distinctly remember Twitter, Facebook and Google removing Islamic religious content under the guise of stopping terrorism a decade ago. What I don't remember is the current free speech absolutist crowd objecting to such censor
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
Medicaid exists and is pretty great for those that have it.
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
This is the same case in the US. Nobody is getting cancer treatment without insurance or the ability to pay. Hospitals in the US only need to stabilize an uninsured patient, and that doesn't include treating cancer or chronic condition
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
Pretty sure crawling and scraping is legal even if there's a robots.txt.
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
For that particular use case, how does PyPy perform in comparison to CPython's array module[1]? [1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/array.html
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
DHT makes trackers simply an aggregation and redundancy measure.
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
Outside of the tech sphere, people have little reason to buy new computers like they do phones. I really doubt I'm that unique.
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
I made no such mistake, and ARM Chromebooks are similar to ARM phones in that the devices don't have enumerable buses and often need a forked kernel to run.
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
I have computers that are over 15 years old and still work today because they were designed to be upgraded and to last. There are many Chromebook lines that are similar to phones in that you can't just install Linux or a new version of
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
Court orders are a last resort. Often, law enforcement will just ask providers to kindly share the information they want access to, and the providers comply. No warrants needed.
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
Because to some people, programming in strings with Vue is unpleasant.
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
I have backups, but it's more than just data. GitHub is a platform for collaboration, and should the plug get pulled from the platform, collaboration stops and data living outside of the repositories is lost. I can't afford that d
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
To anyone at GitHub reading this, this thread has motivated me to move the rest of my projects to a self-hosted solution. Putting all my eggs in GitHub's basket is evidently too much risk for me to bear.
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
Yep. When the Saudi government wanted to persecute dissidents and journalists, they went to the service providers to get compromising info on them. They just paid employees at the companies that didn't play ball to siphon data and targ
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
> If Uber drivers become employees, I'd expect Uber would have them work fixed schedules rather than have free working hours. That's a weird expectation, because millions of people work jobs as employees without fixed schedul
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
People work side jobs all the time where they're considered employees. Nothing is preventing them from doing the same with Uber.
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
I figured but you never know. Sarcasm doesn't translate well over the internet.
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
Haha, no I didn't mean that service in particular. I was using 'special snowflake solution' as a derogatory term for the branded and managed services that cloud providers sell.
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
These are the reasons that I refuse to build any of my projects on some cloud provider's special snowflake solutions.
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this, didn't know it existed.
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
Instead of trying to derive the reason for the suppression of LGBT content on YouTube from first principles or hunches, maybe you should dig into the evidence first. https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
People that think there is some "party line" at Reddit should look into the founders' political views. To put it in perspective, spez is a right-wing libertarian who fought to keep r/Jailbait alive because it was the mos
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
I am a member of several non-conservative political and non-political groups that were banned because of the bad behavior of members of those subreddits. Users of The_Donald regularly got away with behavior that got other communities wiped
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
They're trying to attract young kids who haven't made the connection that forgoing ping pong table real estate and "cool" office perks would mean larger compensation packages for themselves.
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
People were still writing CoffeeScript in 2015.
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by simple_phrases 6y ago
There are several static builds out there if you're okay with binaries. This person's builds[1] have the sources and build dependencies listed. [1] https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
I agree, but no one is hiring down those lines. People are being paid to write JavaScript where it isn't needed per se , but where it will still get the job done.
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by simple_phrases 7y ago
This is good advice for those who can't afford to be honest, but there are a lot of people who can afford to and I believe the author is one of them. Public discussion of such things is how they get fixed.

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