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by throwaway729 10y ago
This is all starting to sound extraordinarily conspiratorial. Who is this "they"? To re-iterate, I'm still not sure why you think any of this is a reason for software engineers to refrain from discussing and addressing cultur
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> Please read all the way it does sound pretty blunt, kinda a rant. I'm a guy. Not a very liberal response. I approach this sort of writing with a stern charity. Asking questions is never wrong. And I even entertain discriminatory
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> You sidestepped the workplace death question No, I didn't. We have an entire legal and regulatory bureaucracy dedicated to improving working conditions in dangerous work places. I'm pretty willing to bet that the cost of th
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by throwaway729 10y ago
Naturally, these questions do get asked in each industry. Nursing [1-3]; K-5 teaching [4-6]. There are entire federal and state agencies with copious regulation dedicated to workplace safety. As a society, we spend millions upon millions ea
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by throwaway729 10y ago
That's a surprising take-away for Kodak. As far as I understand, they died mostly because their core competency (film) became obsolete in a huge fragment of the market. I'm not saying that they could have successfully pivoted to d
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by throwaway729 10y ago
Lilyhammer is prototypical of what I now expect from Netflix originals -- a good hook and solid first season, followed by hours upon hours of the same thing dragged out ad infinitum.
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> The main reason for asking is that if large percentages of Amazon's growth can be attributed to a rise in consumer debt, then wouldn't Amazon be disproportionally damaged by another recession and/or some sort of debt bu
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by throwaway729 10y ago
Makes sense :)
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> Bipartisanship's effect on political power What's your thinking here? R and D are (presumably) zero-sum. Either with each other or with some 3rd/nth party. But there's a steady state in this system where R=D=0. Or
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by throwaway729 10y ago
Ease, not completely solve. By far most last mile areas do have sidewalks, if you consider population served as opposed to geographic area. Which is by far the most reasonable metric, because only humans use the internet...
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by throwaway729 10y ago
...which can be filled by AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast who use their lobbying firms, teams of lawyers, and war chests to destroy anyone else who wants to run fiber through them. FTFY.
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by throwaway729 10y ago
What's Orwellian about "holocaust denier"? 1984 is in very large part about historical revisionism. If anything, the term "holocaust denier" is the opposite of Orwellian, in that it specifically stigmatizes revision
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by throwaway729 10y ago
Yes. You definitely need to market this to the backpacking crowd. They'll blow $100's on light, compact gear and then shove beans + grinder + aeropress on top... and then deal with the mess. Or at least, I will :) The subscription
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by throwaway729 10y ago
It's harder to sympathize with "it's ok to write shit code if failure doesn't mean a literal explosion or being literally stranded on Mars" after a completely preventable identity theft...
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> I think there may be a disconnect between individual "farmers", who are perceived as rugged individualists, and well-connected farm companies with deeper pockets and lobbyists Disagree. Small family farms provide the votes,
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> Farmers are an independent group ...who receive billions in federal subsidies. > They are used to relying on their own skills and hard work Almost universally using machines and seeds designed by engineers and scientists in &quo
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by throwaway729 10y ago
As you noted, the fundamental problem underlying 3,5,6 is that they're trying to detect AKI. That requires everyone's data. I'm not opposed to that in general , but there really ought to be 1) an opt-in or at least a well-
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> I actually don't use differential privacy at all! I was just going by your own description on the product website. Anyways, kind of irrelevant since your "software implements legal requirements as stated by the agency provi
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> Number of git commits!!! Well, it's true. Differential privacy is a nice idea, but in this particular case, you're disparaging a style of research that -- to date -- has had a much greater impact on improving actual, real w
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> Ummm thats how the world works, frankly its like saying water is wet. Whenever a hospital works with any third party provider, it signs a BAA agreement which governs the sharing of data Most BAA agreements are for things that are ac
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> But unlike the authors I want real debate Substantively improving patient privacy protections in a concrete case by forcing a large corporation to agree to strong privacy protections and auditing regimes seems like a "real&quo
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> is routine and commonplave Then go ahead and try to get access to a similar data set. Unaudited access to fully identified and full medical records going back a half decade for 1.6 million people, without obtaining individual permiss
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> Quite a few of these strike me as rather absurd In a "that can't possibly be true" sense? Well, yeah, that's kind of the point... 1-3 seem like the sorts of things that even the least privacy-sensitive person can
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> De-anonymization has NOTHING to do with the current scenario It does, though. Legal contracts aren't magical spells. Audit-ability is important when data sets are particularly sensitive and extensive. Which is why the new agreem
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> There was a legally binding contractual agreement between the two parties Deep Mind & Royal Free. Which was, allegedly, far too lax. The claim that DeepMind was providing "direct care" is particularly questionable IMO,
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> Again take a look at CMS Qualified Entity program which provides identifiable data From what I understand, this program has exactly the sort of contractual legal limits on use that the authors are asking for: "Qualified entities
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by throwaway729 10y ago
So, do you believe that the sticker was appropriate? Or would a PR statement from your university's press office have been more appropriate? Ultimately, the lack of a legally binding contractual obligation with sufficient audit-ability
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> Just because you don't care to do that, doesn't mean others wouldn't do that either. More to the point, author almost certainly operated under a heavily and independently vetted IRB protocol that would have made such a
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by throwaway729 10y ago
> driven by nothing but pure political agenda Do you mean personal or political? Because you insinuate personal motive with no evidence ("...and fear of AI sells very well in these types of academic circles..."). However, I d
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by throwaway729 10y ago
I see, I thought you meant "give the option to opt-out". As in the option to opt-out is the missing thing, rather than knowing who you should even ask for an opt-out.

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