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by sjy 8y ago
> I know that anti-trust laws are probably not applicable as Apple does have a dominant position based on total market share It's an interesting question though, because it depends on which 'market' you're talking abo
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by sjy 8y ago
There is a great explanation of the difference between 'because of' and 'out of' in an answer to this question on English Language Learners SE [1]: > You should use "because of" in cases like this when the t
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by sjy 8y ago
> Back then nobody carried pocket computers/communicators (encrypted or otherwise) and criminals also largely failed to make paper records of their crimes. But they did use fixed-line telephones and talk in person. These communicati
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by sjy 8y ago
No laws are being circumvented if the police have a warrant. The problem (from a law enforcement perspective) is that technology now makes it easy for people to communicate and store data in a way that the police can’t monitor even with a w
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by sjy 8y ago
The source of this story is a 10-minute interview on ABC Radio this morning [1]. Unfortunately, there’s no transcript, but it’s a more reliable source than the second-hand summary in the article. Despite the headline, it’s not clear that an
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by sjy 8y ago
People do get convicted of murder and perjury, though.
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by sjy 8y ago
They’re talking about ordinary phones. Before full-disk encryption became common, it was usually trivial for law enforcement to access data on phones, laptops and other devices physically seized under a warrant. That’s often impossible now
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by sjy 8y ago
How is lying different to any other crime of intent in this regard?
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by sjy 9y ago
It’s probably above average for an entry-level American lawyer, once you cut out the tiny number of graduates who make it into the big law firms with fixed starting salaries of $160,000: https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/20
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by sjy 9y ago
> No amount of lego will make a lego brain. No amount of oscillation in an electric field will make a thought. We can never build a Lego brain that is indistinguishable from a physical brain because brain cells are distinguishable from L
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by sjy 9y ago
Sounds like the fascinating but terrifying 'mortgage your retirement' theory: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5934
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by sjy 9y ago
The bimodal distributions mentioned in that source are not salary distributions.
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by sjy 9y ago
Income in those professions is not bimodal; it follows a power law. The frequency distribution of income for US lawyers has two clear modes (local maxima) at around $50,000 and $160,000 [1], meaning that roughly the same number of lawyers e
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by sjy 9y ago
Litigation is not the right word for solicitors' work in general – they do a lot of non-contentious business, especially in the City (eg. corporate finance and M&A). Although many solicitors do litigation (which includes advocacy i
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by sjy 9y ago
I remember being a little creeped out when Google first started automatically localising queries, but when I tried switching to DDG earlier this year I realised that I've become utterly dependent on it. I constantly had to think about
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by sjy 9y ago
I know three Australian iPhone 6 users who had this problem when their phones were exposed to 0 °C on holiday in Europe. I wondered whether batteries sold and used in Australia might have different specs or somehow become accustomed to the
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by sjy 9y ago
The set of all points in a plane is ℝ², not ℂ. ℂ has many special properties that aren't shared by ℝ²,[1] so while you can think of ℝ as just the number line, ℂ is more than just a plane. [1]: https://math.stackexchange.com&
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by sjy 9y ago
Can you provide a source for this? Is there an easy way to view the transactions that create new USDT? My searches are just turning up old Reddit posts and news articles supported by imgur screenshots. edit: This seems to show that $180 mil
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by sjy 9y ago
The FBI transfers seized cryptocurrency to its own wallet to prevent this: https://www.wired.com/2013/12/fbi_wallet/
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by sjy 9y ago
No such assumptions are made in the axioms of VNM-rationality[1] or any other model of rationality of which I am aware. If it is not rational to live near people you like it is difficult to see why it would be pay more for a house with any
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by sjy 9y ago
They are sent over an encrypted transport which means law enforcement must subpoena them from Facebook, and cannot monitor them with a telephone intercept like calls and SMSes.
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by sjy 9y ago
Most government grants are not research grants; they fund the component of domestic undergraduate tuition which is not repayable through HECS-HELP. 'The Australian Government subsidises a CSP [Commonwealth-supported place] by paying pa
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by sjy 9y ago
This is not entirely accurate because most Australian domestic university students have their fees heavily subsidised by the federal government, which is why they are called 'HECS-HELP contributions' and not fees. After taking int
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by sjy 9y ago
How can you tell that they used LaTeX if the CV is in PDF format, other than by guessing from the use of Computer Modern?
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by sjy 9y ago
I agree. I love LaTeX and spent many hours building a YAML/Markdown document that could be compiled to PDF with a custom LaTeX template, or HTML with custom CSS. But after using that for a year or two, I switched back to Word because i
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by sjy 9y ago
>people are still sending word documents via e-mail instead of making web documents in HTML and CSS and with an URL What's so bad about this? I know how to make web documents but I still do this. Email attachments are available for
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by sjy 9y ago
If anything, & is Latin rather than English :-)
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Neural networks are better than us at detecting sexual orientation from faces(osf.io)
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by sjy 9y ago
That's a fair point, and the last sentence of my previous reply should be qualified: compelling someone to reveal the combination to a wall safe is not necessarily a violation of the Fifth Amendment. In this case, the court decided t
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by sjy 9y ago
The judge in this case found that he was able to decrypt the hard drive but chose not to.

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