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Key moments from Alex Jones defamation trial (5m 17s) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JepMo2y7Zek
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I found this article from the following tweet: NEW STUDY: Being in a union means a $1.3 million increase in lifetime earnings – larger than the average gains from getting a college degree. https://mobile.twitter.com/MorePerf
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The cumulative advantage of a unionized career for lifetime earnings(journals.sagepub.com)
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Original title: FTC Takes Action to Stop Credit Karma From Tricking Consumers With Allegedly False “Pre-Approved” Credit Offers The title I used for this post comes from the FTC’s Consumer Alert about the same action: https://con
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FTC orders Credit Karma to halt deceptive “pre-approved” credit offers(ftc.gov)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo77sTGpngQ If you seek to 6 min 5 seconds, the narrator describes an Evangelical pastor by the name of Urban Baxter whose End Time ministry leads a tour to Israel twice a year. The pastor th
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by tareqak 4y ago
Original title FTC Sues Kochava for Selling Data that Tracks People at Reproductive Health Clinics, Places of Worship, and Other Sensitive Locations Same story from other sources 1. Daily US feed FTC sue Kochava for selling data that co
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FTC Sues Kochava for Selling Geolocation Data from Clinics and Places of Worship(ftc.gov)
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Thank you very much for your kind, considerate, and cautionary response. I can totally understand that out of my depth, and I am asking the wrong questions based on my vantage point. One question that I would now add to my list of question
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From actual generation all the way to someone consuming the electricity. That’s what I thought in my head, but it looks like that it is not tractable unless it is possible to directly connect to the customer.
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Ask HN: How can I start a business to generate electricity?
99 points by tareqak 4y ago|127 comments
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If they abandon the wind farm, then can the government or some other entity pick it up for free?
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I am going to say many things and many of them may come off as insensitive and even hurtful, but do please read until the end. I focus a lot of my comments around John Carmack and WoW because you mentioned them multiple times and I personal
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It was released as a free update to the base game, but it is also available as a standalone title at a price lower than the base game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/775430/Discovery_Tour_by_...
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Same story from Reddit World News: 160+ Amazon workers just walked off the job at an air freight facility in San Bernardino, CA. 900 workers signed a petition in July calling for a $5 raise. Amazon responded by advising workers to use apps
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Why Amazon warehouse workers walked off the job in San Bernardino(latimes.com)
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The machine is not learning out of its own free will to better itself for its own future: the machine is an agent for organizations like OpenAI, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and the rest who are human beings exploiting the free labor of othe
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I agree. “The medium is the message” comes to mind [0]. I think it has something to do with broadcast media of all kinds. When reading works from before the broadcast era, I remember authors would somehow try to converse with the reader wit
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That is a good point in the case the blogger still wants their blog to be indexed and found in search results, but does not want their content to be used as ML training data. However, I still think that a program that crawls the web to coll
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An aside: I find it strange that the article from CTV chose to focus on the big picture while the this article from AP News focused on a handful of examples. They both also happened to be published within days of each other: the AP News one
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Then, I’d argue it is easier to respect robots.txt by not collecting the data if robots.txt is present.
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Wait, ML crawlers are also web crawlers too right? They crawl the web for a different reason, but they still crawl the web, so why don’t they respect robots.txt?
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I posted this comment a few days ago, but it is worth repeating: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32278994 In Canada, the Canada Revenue Agency considers gambling winnings to be windfalls that are not subject tax, so an
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FTC Consumer Alert headline and link: FTC and American consumers win two cases against pandemic scammers https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2022/08/ftc-and-ame... FTC Press Release headline and link:
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FTC Wins Against Companies Who Failed to Deliver COVID PPE In Early Pandemic(ftc.gov)
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For posterity, here is the original headline and the original link: Closing the door on home buying company Opendoor’s false claims https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2022/08/closing-doo... . Update:
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FTC takes action to stop Opendoor from cheating potential sellers(ftc.gov)
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In Canada, the Canada Revenue Agency considers gambling winnings to be windfalls that are not subject tax, so any winners receive the full value of the advertised prizes [0]. [0] https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency&
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New Orleans mayor signs it: cops can use facial recognition(apnews.com)
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‘Rescind the Doctrine’ protest greets pope in Canada(apnews.com)
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