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stef25
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> However we are a class of people whose sexuality can be unfairly identified by these databases. What do you mean, that you go through life as a woman but that the DB says you were born as a man (for example) ?
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It wouldn't be a terrible website. These animations are beautiful, some just need some power on the client. Like any font, color scheme, layout, effect ... awesome if properly implemented.
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Yes and no ... Being an introvert I need a certain number of hours alone for "projects" :) I'm responsible for my young kids and my ageing parents need more support as well and those are things I don't want to not do,
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5y ago
Same. Those hours between 4:30 - 8:00AM are magic. The rest of the day is lost, even without kids. Errands, messages, meetings ...
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Accusations should be ignored when asking valid scientific questions. Imagine a scientist not being curious about HIV in its early days because of homophobia (it was definitely a thing but the right people ignored it). Maybe the analogy isn
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Fing! An app, as suggested on Michael Bazell's podcast. Basic version is free and will tell you what's connected to your network. Haven't been in a rental property in years but I constantly use it just out of curiosity, in ba
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Used to smoke daily for 20+ years. Nobody should kid themselves that pot makes you "stupid", for lack of a better term. Also puts me in a really bad mood the next day - short tempered, even aggressive. On rare occasions it does he
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Still a bit more difficult to implement than facial recognition, which is now trivial to set up with AWS Rekognition. Even Photoprism does a great job.
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Finally someone brings this up. Here in Belgium the rules around Islamic headdress were addresses by a law that says nobody can cover their face in public except during carnival and when riding a motorbike (full face helmet), thereby avoidi
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One time I was watching a ceremony on a stage in Mali, sitting outdoors among coconut trees and every now and then one came crashing down hitting the floor with an almighty crunch. Foreigners laughed nervously. No doubt if that hits on the
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> Perhaps my understanding of the term "static site" is awry; My understanding of it is that it's a site that serves simple HTML pages, so it's quick since the server doesn't need to build it at each pageload (mo
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I remember putting border: 1px solid red around my layout "blocks" to help me build layouts (of course the extra pixels could mess with the layout). Then dev console came and you could inspect and mouse over those blocks and those
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Google also plays nice. I manage a few sites that get hammered by scrapers to the extent that it causes big spikes in CPU, something that doesn't happen with G.
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Like camelcamelcamel.com I guess?
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5y ago
You probably need NSFW text which is its own niche and should be straight forward to collect?
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I'd be surprised if snakes have the capacity for that kind of reasoning.
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> throw a stone at a group of monkeys the next time chance presents it self In places like the Monkey Temple in Bali that's exactly how you keep them at bay. In our local zoo where you can interact with lemurs, they can be chased a
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> If you are a freelancer then your contract should allow you to do work for others Not only that, in some EU countries it's even illegal for a freelancer to work for 1x customer.
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If there's no way to build secure software that tallies digits then why are we even here?
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Is the "less severe" part just from a roll of the dice? I wonder what's the likelihood of something more severe / extremely severe appearing in the next few years. Be it a variant of Covid, or something new altogether. T
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Neither does GDPR compliance but here in EU I know some companies who're real nervous of being fined, while at the same time doing their best to comply. Fines would therefore be the obvious solution to the lack of cybersecurity. Networ
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> Asylum is not a "free migration card" as some NGOs or some people purport it to be. You don't get it just because you were born in a poor country. One problem is that if asylum is refused, very few are forcibly repatriat
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So the shop receives an order from the scammer named Joe but gets a payment from a customer called Bob, wouldn't that raise a flag?
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I'm not super familiar with chargebacks but how would a shipper just blindly accept it? They're out of money and they have the details of the person who supposedly placed the order.
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Surely there's a world where not every cop is bent on convicting the first guy that comes up in the conversation and every piece of evidence is seen as fake? It's totally true that you can give cops ammo against yourself without r
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You mistook my assertiveness for aggression :) And let's assume it's not just the only receipt you happen to have in your house. Anyway, real life example - police calls me up saying this number came up in an investigation, who ar
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> he also could've bought the subscription with stolen credit cards Now they're looking at you from two angels. Instead of all this jumping through hoops with anonymous VPN and payment methods, why not just do it from Starbucks
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Source?
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Imagine the simple scenario of "someone who looks like you was spotted in area X doing crime Y" and in your pocket you have a receipt that puts many miles away at that time (or something else that would immediately stop you from b
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> He rose to power in the company by claiming to find a vulnerability that let him access the CEO's personal system Do you mean he got promotions cause he found a non existent vuln? Surely whoever handed out those promotions is to b
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