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Professor who harnessed power of cactuses is a top inventor(apnews.com)
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Judge: New Mexico must give at-home students fast internet(apnews.com)
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by tareqak 5y ago
The Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) is a United States law (codified at 15 U.S.C. § 1691 et seq.), enacted 28 October 1974,[1] that makes it unlawful for any creditor to discriminate against any applicant, with respect to any aspect of
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by tareqak 6y ago
I think Apple and Amazon (an Amazon lawsuit is linked inside the article) will argue that they are similar to video rental stores like Blockbuster back when it was in business. However, Blockbuster did have physical copies of movies availab
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by tareqak 6y ago
I guess a compromise could be the following: upon receiving an organ donation, the recipient is asked to consider donating their own organs once again.
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by tareqak 6y ago
From your link [1], > Compatibility with the GPL > Both versions of the AGPL, like the corresponding versions of the GNU GPL on which they are based, are strong copyleft licenses. In the Free Software Foundation's judgment, the
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by tareqak 6y ago
It’s not punishing dead people. It’s punishing people who benefit from organ donations but choose to not contribute their own organs i.e. those who receive organ donations from those who chose to donate their organs without themselves choos
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by tareqak 6y ago
I like the idea of opt-in by default for organ donations. However, I am curious about the results of changing the opt-out option of “you can opt-out but you cannot receive an organ donation if you choose to opt-out”-choice would fare in the
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by tareqak 6y ago
I dislike the idea of trading carbon credits because it implicitly assumes that all the damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions is reversible. Sure, on a long enough time scale, it is a chemical process where the carbon dioxide emitted to
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by tareqak 6y ago
> There are many people who have no business owning a home but who feel they must do so in order to not be left behind in this game of leveraged bets. Who has no business owning a home?
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by tareqak 6y ago
The article title asks “Why cats won’t punish a stranger who harms you”, but the experiment that the article discusses has “helper”, “non-helper”, and passive actors. Maybe cats do not make the same association that dogs seem to do in this
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by tareqak 6y ago
From the last paragraph of the article > The Supreme Court reviews only a fraction of the rulings made by lower courts. However, the high court uses circuit splits as an important signal of which cases are worth taking. So the fact that
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by tareqak 6y ago
I disagree because everything on antenna, cable, satellite television or radio is similarly “free” unless it is locked somehow (e.g. cable or satellite programming packages, pay-per-view television, different radio technology like SiriusXM,
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by tareqak 6y ago
Same story from the Associated Press: https://apnews.com/article/discrimination-f62160cbbad4d72ce5...
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The idempotent way is definitely better, but I argue/add that it would be better to have the incoming business requirement phrased appropriately such that the idempotent approach is the first one that comes to mind. I am not sure how t
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by tareqak 6y ago
How about not tracking users period? Billboard ads and street ads are still things advertisers buy even though they cannot track individuals.
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I could very well argue that ad sellers are trying to die on the hill where they try to track their users for increasingly better ad-targeting to the point where some instances of that targeting becomes downright scary and/or illegal.
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by tareqak 6y ago
Did they notify people about it 2019? Does GDPR, CCPA, and other similar privacy laws have a statute of limitations? [0], [1], [2] [0] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data... [1]
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by tareqak 6y ago
An anti-carbon tax? Or, anti-(carbon tax).
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by tareqak 6y ago
This new is great, but I find one part kind of backwards: why does the declaration in pages 3-4 https://cwa-union.org/sites/default/files/20210331_nlrbsettl... only shown in the case of a violation like here?
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by tareqak 6y ago
Thanks for the link to configuration to the payment system there. I found the commit that added that here dated October, 8 2020: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/commit/39c09733d3... .
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ACLU reveals that it shares user data with Facebook(fortune.com)
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by tareqak 6y ago
Oh sorry, you are correct.
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> 4. The ideal headline length is 11 words and 65 characters, according to the most shared headlines on both Facebook & Twitter. ~~That length is just shorter than recommended length for a commit message (72 characters if I recall co
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by tareqak 6y ago
> Florida’s lawsuit against Georgia was filed in 2013 directly in the Supreme Court, which is mainly an appellate court but hears disputes between states. The court appointed a special master to evaluate the case, and he initially recomm
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Supreme Court gives Georgia win in water war with Florida(apnews.com)
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Justices uphold FCC’s easing of local media ownership limits(apnews.com)
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by tareqak 6y ago
> The case is Facebook v. Duguid, 19-511. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20536903-supreme-cou...
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Supreme Court sides with Facebook in text message dispute(apnews.com)
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by tareqak 6y ago
I would actually argue that this situation is a case of a unserved need/business idea: a site with stock photos of people where it is possible for a potential user/buyer to negotiate what a particular photo would be used for with

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