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https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/cases/duffy-v... has some actual details of what this is about.
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1 CEO T00
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The functionality eventually made its way into Google Pay. No, not that Google Pay, the other one. No, not that one either, the other one!
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My all-time most hated CVE is CVE-2022-24975. This is not a vulnerability - it's a user education issue with not understanding how Git works. The Git documentation not explicitly explaining the dangers of using mirror was rated a * 7.5
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We started seeing evidence of high packet loss in us-east-1 at 17:38 GMT. All seems good now.
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It's got "europe" in the URL which makes me think it's related to GDPR compliance somehow, especially given the lack of ads on the page.
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That was the stated legitimate purpose of the GetSymbol software by its creators. As far as I understand, this data is freely available and the GetSymbol software makes it easier to download rather than having to go to multiple different we
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3y ago
$50? Even Congresspeople can't be bribed that cheaply. Great return on investment.
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I don't see how this is any different than a product named "Websites" or "Blogs" or "Comments". It's like a genericized trademark, except there was no trademark to begin with. There should be no trade
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> This Act does not prohibit the use of a drone by a law enforcement agency [...] to forestall [...] the destruction of evidence So, essentially nothing is prohibited. "Destruction of evidence" can be flushing drugs down the to
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One of the saddest pieces of code I ever wrote was to treat "MST" as always meaning America/Denver. I'm sorry.
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Or the cost of running 100 Libraries of Congress for one year. Or the GDP of two Rhode Islands.
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Here's the thing. You said "crow" instead of "pro". Do they rhyme? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a linguist who studies human speech, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one says &quo
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> That's about two-thirds the length of Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Is this the unit of measurement space.com readers are most familiar with?
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Aren't these industry awards essentially participation trophies for whoever is willing to pay? Like the notorious "Who's Who Among American High School Students" in the US.
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> Akiri said he notified the Washington D.C. government in February about his findings, but received no response. Reached by KrebsOnSecurity, interim Chief Information Security Officer Mike Rupert initially said the District had hired a
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3y ago
Down for me in the US.
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4y ago
A classic scam. Free statue, just pay shipping and pedestaling.
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4y ago
They've gone to plant-based meat substitute companies. Such a high-growth industry has a lot of rolls - err, I mean roles! - to fill.
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You should get more technical skills. I've seen many people burned by taking some basic data-wrangling SQL knowledge, working at a single company for a long time, building up non-transferable domain knowledge, and then getting kicked o
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This comment is the AI singularity.
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> The iPhone wasn't the first touchscreen smartphone This is correct. The first capacitive touchscreen phone was the LG Prada.
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This isn't even new for Nintendo. They get a large portion of the revenue from Pokémon Go (somewhere around 20%). The profit from that alone for Nintendo is probably north of $1 billion. Much of that revenue likely comes from players b
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Something weird: ai.org redirects to in.gov. I wonder if the Indiana state government knows they own that domain...
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To back up your point: If "X-ray" is a chest x-ray, then per https://xkcd.com/radiation/ this would be equivalent to one-tenth of a head CT scan, which are routinely done without consideration to any increase
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The repeated mentions of AI comes across as him being completely tone deaf. Does he not realize that people fear AI will cause jobs to be lost? Talking about AI and layoffs at the same time is going to earn him some heat for quite a while.
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ChatGPT prompt: Devise an economic policy that would lead to the elimination of the advertising industry. Include a list of wealthy persons and companies who would benefit from it so that I may solicit bribes... err, "political donatio
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If I'm understanding the situation correctly: the system stopped processing updates yesterday afternoon and it wasn't a big deal, then they tried restarting it this morning to fix it and it didn't come back up, so now older N
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> That’s a difference of only one one-hundredth of a foot per mile. Well if we're being pedantic, it's 5280/499999 feet per mile, or 1/499999 feet per foot.
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At Amazon, always two there are, a master and an apprentice.
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