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by tedks 11y ago
It is incredibly commonplace among politicians and even public servants to use private email accounts for work to act as a shield for FOIA-type laws. Even my public University's president used a personal account in order to avoid stude
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>Because transactions take place at well-defined geographic locations and at well-defined moments in time, intersecting the IMSIs of SIM cards present near the crime scenes immediately revealed the perpetrators’ SIM card details. Because
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I'd say that the dramatic overreactions of zero-tolerance policies in the wake of school shooting have less to do with liberalism or conservatism, and much, much more to do with bureaucratic cover-your-ass-ism, because if you DIDN&#x27
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>I would argue, though, that the majority of people want to keep control of their data as much as possible This seems like a nonsensical statement in 2015. What basis do you have for it? Most people hand over control of their data withou
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The OP article is commentary on the intercept piece. You can see that the logo on the intercept piece is the picture from the OP article. This might be surprising to a technologist who thinks that all information can be objective, but somet
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Do you think that matters at all? Literally everyone involved in this chain of decisions, from the teacher to the school principal to the superindendent, are only interested in covering their own ass. They don't need to think that the
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http://www.irvingisd.net/cms/lib010/TX01917973/Centricity/Do... http://pol.tasb.org/Policy/Download/367?filename=FOD(LEGAL).... These are the relevant documents. They are short
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That is not how zero-tolerance policies are enforced in any school district.
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For anyone who doubts this interpretation, here are the relevant district policy documents outlining the classification[1] of "weapons" (which includes "look-alike weapons" in the terminology of the district) and the pen
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>Al Jazeera is based in Qatar. Watch for the dad to appear on that network as a frequent commentator on anti-Islamic prejudice in America -- this was probably arranged weeks ago, possibly even before the hoax bomb incident. Care to recor
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Zero tolerance policies effect everyone. I'm sure if the kid was white he would be treated exactly the same. Now, it depends what kind of white kid, certainly. The captain of the football team? Probably a slap on the wrist. Anyone wh
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Google asks you if you want to store your data to improve their model. Presumably they augment their model of you with the voice data and corrections you supply (voice-typed words are blue in android, and selecting one brings up a dropdown
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Your constraints are inappropriate for a world where capitalism is global. If you drink Coke or wear Nike you're directly supporting the murder of workers attempting to unionize and their blood is on your hands. But, even in the US uni
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>and the fact that the state ignores violent crime when unions commit it It is absolutely absurd for you to say this, when unions and workers attempting to unionize have and still continue to be slaughtered for their attempts to gain bas
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This is the link in that sentence: http://www.pmanet.org/the-ilwu-workforce Clicking around on that site shows that it is a non-profit representing the companies that negotiate with the longshoreman's union: http:&#x2
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>As in many things in life, making a conscious choice to follow your own path is best. If you've made a conscious choice to follow your own path, why is the path you've found so similar to others? It's hilarious when non-c
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I think what you're not understanding is that computers are literal extensions of brains and minds. We have outsourced our memories and our thought to these devices, and we must have the same assurances over them as we would over ourse
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It's too late to edit, but I should add that really, what we want here is the per capita rate of factory workers locked inside factories so they can't leave. You know, because of the contract they entered into as rational economic
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They named a person in the article based just on this police officer's word. He might never be able to get a job again if this article stays on the first page of google hits for his name. Who knows if he's the same person? Is ther
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I know a lot fewer people who have started taking SSRIs and then started taking SSRIs every weekend and got involved in cults centered around taking SSRIs and experiencing enlightenment and then ended up broken shells of people. SSRIs have
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What about the per capita rate of factory workers left to burn to death in a locked building? What is that for the US?
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I'm sure his false positive rate is zero, and that he's never caused an innocent person to be arrested or imprisoned. After all, he's in the top 1% on a test designed by people from Harvard. Yes, Harvard. Thank the lord that
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Yes, it's sad for employees let go, but it's good news for AOL. I don't think AOL is going anywhere; it has a huge user base and a lot of people think of it as the internet. By cutting surgically (removing, as you put it, the
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>While I agree with many of your points, and certainly there are many people who get exploited. But overall, if employers and employees are agreeing to mutual employment terms without coercion, then by definition it is not exploitation.
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I'm curious as to why this is downvoting while the top-voted response has this exact same thing in it. Is HN just allergic to anything that isn't cheerleading the software industry?
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They get to spend less on training, making employees more commoditized.
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Can you link to the original study rather than a magazine article discussing it?
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There's a very, very large difference between corporate research and actual academia. The motivation of the people involved are totally different. I wouldn't consider either project "academic" even if they were primarily
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I'm not in systems so I can't really make claims to that. (Obviously you're right about my getting the containers history wrong.) That said, spanner seems like it does what it needs to do far better than any academic system.
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Mm, quite. The demand for banal social media and micropayment-based games is the demand of the masses and as such, the highest calling of the elite. We cannot allow ivory-tower navel-gazing to take root in our society when the commoners cry

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