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by theferalrobot 6y ago
> I find it off-putting the way they speak of privacy but then use maps provided by a GAFAM which are ultimately profit oriented and can _not_ be trusted DuckDuckGo itself is profit oriented, as is ProtonMail and a ton of other privacy f
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
How are you liking Apple photos, considering the switch myself
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
I happen to have taken an ethics course but it wasn't at all part of my CS/AI education. It was just a humanities course in my undergrad that fulfilled some philosophy requirement. Did your CS program actually require ethics direc
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
> No surprise that this doesn’t include any consideration for the profound moral, ethical, or social implications of AI and AI solutions. Would you say the same thing for an undergrad in SE (actually asking)? I feel like the hype train f
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
Germany is already part of the 14 eyes agreement and has been moving to join the current 5 eyes
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
This looks awesome!
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
/r/conspiracy kids discovers public city weather and traffic cameras that have been around Since the 00s
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
Even public restrooms are free in the States - not sure how that hasn’t caught on more
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
>For example, just weeks ago highly placed senators were discovered to have conducted insider trading on the back of security briefings on the coronavirus pandemic What did they know that wasn't already in the public eye? Banks were
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
Same, frankly given so little heads up I'm amazed things have gone as smoothly as they have
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
At the end of the day it is going to be a judgement call by someone - hopefully informed by scientific fact - but ‘science’ doesn’t say when to reopen, just provides the data and context help make a decision.
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
And/or it mutates (which will in all likelihood be into something less deadly/more like the typical flu).
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
No-one is assuming - we are weighing evidence and there is far more evidence that it does provide at least some immunity than none - it seems oddly disingenuous of WHO to make statements like this because they know how it will be interprete
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by theferalrobot 6y ago
> I’m not a Windows fan but at least it doesn’t feel like it’s regressing like the Mac experience has been Maybe I am just crazy but I had to go back and use XP for a few days for a project I’m working on (long story). After being on it
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by theferalrobot 7y ago
So more rainfall globally but possibly less in some regions? Do we know why that is exactly instead of just generally more rain?
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by theferalrobot 7y ago
Genuine question: Isn’t global warming supposed to cause more rainfall?
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by theferalrobot 7y ago
Except: The actual statistic is that when asked if they could cover an unexpected 400$ bill - 40% of Americans responded that they would sell something to pay it OR couldn’t pay it Secondly the survey itself admits that it had an, “oversamp
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by theferalrobot 7y ago
1) doesn’t say most Americans and doesn’t even cite the full response (nor does it provide context for the question in the survey). The actual statistic is that when asked if they could cover an unexpected 400$ bill - 40% of Americans in th
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by theferalrobot 7y ago
Even your source says a minority of Americans (even though it again, cherry picks from that study). The actual statistic is that when asked if they could cover an unexpected 400$ bill - 40% of Americans responded that they would sell someth
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by theferalrobot 7y ago
> most Americans can’t afford an unexpected $400 expense This is just not true despite the fact that a few media sources twisted a statement from the reserve board a while back. Here is a fact that may help provide some context: The medi
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by theferalrobot 7y ago
Right on the nose. Even when reopening is clearly the right thing to do nobody will want to personally take the fall. It's the reason the US has a high incarceration rate, nobody wants to be the one to release a ton of people from jail
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by theferalrobot 7y ago
Again maybe just an anecdotal outlier but I know quite a few people that have died of the flu, from a couple kids when I was young to some of my elderly relatives.
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by theferalrobot 7y ago
You can stay informed while also not wanting to fall into the 24hr news cycle drama. I don’t think it’s healthy personally for me to read every bit of information on it I see. I’m staying at home, I’d rather be doing something productive an
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by theferalrobot 7y ago
I believe that is in fact the case. I removed all Facebook owned apps from my phone a few weeks ago and I stopped seeing reports show up there. Experimentally, it seems like an uninstall disassociates the ID from your facebook account. That
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by theferalrobot 7y ago
I think what they meant to say is Firefox has identifiers but they do not have persistent identifiers.
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by theferalrobot 7y ago
Which is reporting on the initial article which again just states that Germany said the US was trying to invest in the company, not that they were looking for an exclusive arrangement. Show me where Germany confirmed that the US was looking
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by theferalrobot 7y ago
I don’t think you understand the term conspiracy theory nor do you understand how the burden of proof works. I have already given many credible sources showing why your claim is false, the hacker news mods have removed these articles multip
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by theferalrobot 7y ago
>The conspiracy theory is that the German government conspired to spread a lie. Are you on the wrong post? I never said they were spreading lies? The only thing the German government did was confirm they and the US government were both i
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by theferalrobot 7y ago
>I never said the US was trying to buy it for exclusive access You didn't personally, but the article you posted did.
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by theferalrobot 7y ago
I imagine because 1) discussion was propagating false information and 2) devolving into political infighting which is not allowed here.

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