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by skwirl 13y ago
The chart shows a huge jump in "Other," from 4% to 17% in just six months. I wish they explained that. Vine?
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by skwirl 13y ago
But that is such a meaningless distinction given that state borders are so arbitrary. It wouldn't be hard for any of us to re-draw the arbitrary state borders in the United States to come up with a situation where bikes outsell cars i
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by skwirl 13y ago
They aren't talking about the campaign websites. Both campaigns had complex internal software systems to help target field worker campaign activities, get out the vote efforts, monitor and respond to turnout data on election day, etc.
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by skwirl 13y ago
The point is that this type of stuff doesn't belong here regardless of the political ideology of the article and regardless of what political ideology the majority of users here hold. This thread appears to have been flagged into obli
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by skwirl 13y ago
And here I was thinking that I had left /r/politics behind on reddit.
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by skwirl 13y ago
"[W]e may share information provided in your application with the appropriate authorities for law enforcement and audit activities." Sounds like fraud detection and reporting. Is this really a problem?
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by skwirl 13y ago
Apparently not. He is being represented by a public defender.
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by skwirl 13y ago
I really don't see the relevance of your comment. All of what you are saying may be true, but what does it have to do with allowing Amazon to offer whatever discounts they want? In what way does this law promote an "affluent yet
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by skwirl 13y ago
If you think he was arrested for posting a question about Tor to Stack Overflow, then you really have a lot of catching up to do on this story.
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by skwirl 13y ago
There's certainly enough there for a search and an arrest, which is what has happened so far. If he is actually guilty, unless he was very careful (which so far, it sounds like he was not) with him in jail and access to his property t
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by skwirl 13y ago
Your browser is doing the GETting. Bring up the network tab in your browser's dev console and zoom in. I was a little worried about getting blocked myself just from playing around on that page.
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by skwirl 13y ago
There is a provision in Obamacare that went into effect a couple of years ago that forces smaller insurance companies to spend at least 80% of their costs on actual healthcare costs and for larger insurance companies that number is 85%. Th
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by skwirl 13y ago
Java never really went away. This article to me is really more of an attack on the recently/currently trendy technologies like Ruby on Rails than anything else.
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by skwirl 13y ago
The bad analogy can be extended to mechanical devices, such as a lock. The lock is also an automated system, and it is a system that will also perfectly do what it is told with even higher fidelity than a computer due to its relative simpl
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by skwirl 13y ago
Really, you are going to give people crap for bad analogies, and then try to compare the actions of a conscious human being to an automated computer system?
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by skwirl 13y ago
This is just wrong. First, you are implying that Tor has an official Tor e-mail service, which it does not. Tormail is/was just a basic e-mail service someone not associated with the Tor project was hosting on the deep web. For all a
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by skwirl 13y ago
It most likely falls under the FBI's legal wiretapping abilities.
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by skwirl 13y ago
Police "techniques" involve guns, tear gas, helicopters, etc. At any time the police could in theory fly to your house, launch tear gas into your windows, and shoot you in the head as you run out. And I don't know about you
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by skwirl 13y ago
The FBI was never going to ignore huge stockpiles of easily accessible child pornography on the deep web, and Hacker News was never going to believe that this wasn't about more than child pornography. Just another day.
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by skwirl 13y ago
Oh, that's "never how it works?" You must be full of concrete examples that I will patiently await you posting here.
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by skwirl 13y ago
I'll take it over another self important blogger's take on the NSA. I found the article to be interesting and enjoyed it.
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by skwirl 13y ago
It was at least before I started college in 2002. There were some remnants of it, such as a few professors who listed it on their CVs, and we did read the code of ethics in CS1. But nothing serious and active. Maybe it's different i
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by skwirl 13y ago
Wait... there are people who still think the ACM has relevance?
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by skwirl 13y ago
I don't think the article is trying to claim that elevation magically has a causal impact on crime rates. It just shows that there is a correlation and claims nothing more. The point is that there IS some underlying root cause (or an
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by skwirl 13y ago
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you misread the post you are replying to, which referred to the last 4 digits of a SSN, and incorrectly assumed we were talking about full SSNs. Because otherwise your statemen
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by skwirl 13y ago
It's also difficult to make progress when you have certain self-aggrandizing individuals who are out there falsely claiming that software development is a den of misogyny. If you were a young woman considering going into software deve
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by skwirl 13y ago
This is Poe's law in action.
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by skwirl 13y ago
It's possible that the public does understand the issue and disagrees with you. I'm reminded a little of the rabid followers of Ron Paul... they couldn't understand why the general public ignored their candidate when they we
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by skwirl 13y ago
I'm not sure I follow what you are trying to say. If the TSA was moved back to the Department of Transportation and the Secret Service was moved back to the Department of the Treasury, then you'd simply add two departments to the
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by skwirl 13y ago
I would not because I (and any reasonable person would) consider the odds of a change of the form of government itself in the United States to be so remote to not be worth mentioning. In the case of Venezuela, their constitution is only 1

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