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by sverige 9y ago
Because Facebook gave them authorization to do whatever they wanted to do with the data.
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by sverige 9y ago
The Facebook outrage is interesting since it is tied to Trump. When Obama did it, no one cared. For example, there's a video of Jim Messina, Obama's 2012 campaign manager, talking about how they obtained the entire Facebook soci
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Obama Campaign Manager Talks Big Data at the Milken Institute [2013 video](youtube.com)
8 points by sverige 9y ago|0 comments
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by sverige 9y ago
Sorry, I missed that.
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by sverige 9y ago
Squiggle is the new blink, only more annoying, which I didn't think was possible. It should be sent straight to hell, no cigarette.
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by sverige 9y ago
According to the HISTORY section at the bottom of the OpenBSD man page for unlink() , it first appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX. [1] FWIW, all OpenBSD man pages have a history section at the bottom that notes when the command first appea
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Bitcoin on trial as prolific trader faces money laundering charges(latimes.com)
3 points by sverige 9y ago|1 comments
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by sverige 9y ago
> Then it has to go up and down the "value adding" chain between the rep, the sales department, business management, purchasing, and finally manufacturing. This times 10. One factor is that many US manufacturers incentivize th
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by sverige 9y ago
That is not clear at all, based on another article. [1] Further, Facebook's lawyers told Wylie that the data was illicitly obtained, though now apparently they've changed their approach. [1] 'Kogan was able to throw money at
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by sverige 9y ago
No, I read the article, not the book. Apparently he does consider the other cities which are declining (based on a quick read of the Amazon description), but it isn't clear how much time he spends on them. But this would belie the tit
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by sverige 9y ago
And the data points for the cities exclude places like Detroit and Charleston WV...
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by sverige 9y ago
Having lived in both, I have found that informal challenges to power structures in cities are much more merciless. Ask any (nonconforming) conservative in nearly any large city, especially on either coast. Or in any online forum dominated
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by sverige 9y ago
I would guess their technical interviews place greater weight on qualities like loyalty and confidentiality than which languages and frameworks their web developer has recent experience using.
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by sverige 9y ago
That's great, but it doesn't answer the question. The World Wide Web was eight years old when work on the LHC began. (I didn't need the history lesson, btw. I remember very well when that protocol was introduced.) Further, wh
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by sverige 9y ago
What are the benefits of the LHC again? I mean, the benefits of spending billions that all of us can notice in our daily lives?
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Who owns water? The US landowners putting barbed wire across rivers(theguardian.com)
9 points by sverige 9y ago|2 comments
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Mobile license pilot study to allow police to 'ping' cellphone for a license(delawareonline.com)
2 points by sverige 9y ago|0 comments
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Stack-register Checking(undeadly.org)
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by sverige 9y ago
> So we've lost an hour of evening sun for an our of super-early morning. Sounds like a bad deal to me, but what am I missing? In other words, because you want you and your kids to have more daylight at the end of the day, you like
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by sverige 9y ago
My question is whether I am alone in actually caring very much about my privacy. I don't consider myself to be paranoid, but I have never been willing to share details of my life with strangers. I recognize that any online activity is
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by sverige 9y ago
Unfortunately, mingw profiling code and the toolchain is tainted with GPL.
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by sverige 9y ago
Actually, in California, property taxes make up only 14% of the average municipality's revenue, and 22% of the average county's revenue.[1] But yes, I'll concede that Google probably does pay a share of the taxes required to
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by sverige 9y ago
Sorry, I was looking at older data. Or maybe that's a 16% rate on 0.5% of their actual profits.... https://www.theguardian.com/business/ireland-business-blog-w... https://www.zerohedge.com/article&
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by sverige 9y ago
Oh, I hadn't read anywhere that Google has changed its tax strategy to increase its effective rate beyond the 2.4% they've paid in recent years. But maybe so.
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by sverige 9y ago
Don't worry, Apple will have a moderating influence on any dictatorship that might begin to manifest itself.
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by sverige 9y ago
Now that you recognize it, you can escape being part of that machinery. It will require you to nurture your conscience, though.
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by sverige 9y ago
Genocide is a characteristic of every totalitarian regime, notably including every communist regime, which are almost always excluded from these discussions.
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by sverige 9y ago
Emacs has a text editor!?
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Electronics-recycling innovator faces prison for printing Windows restore discs(latimes.com)
39 points by sverige 9y ago|17 comments
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by sverige 9y ago
Sorry, but they are indeed evil. Although maybe Linus is right and they're simply insane.

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