twinkletwinkle

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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
Just because that's the way things are doesn't mean that's the way they should be. Maybe if there were harsher punishments for companies that were lax with consumer data, consumer data hacks wouldn't be so damn prevalent
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
The EU is way more serious than the US is about consumer privacy though. Might not help them in this case.
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
To me the difference is I signed up with Facebook, even though I rarely use it any more. I created a Gmail account, and I use Google for searches. All of those were options presented to me, with alternatives - there are other ways to stay i
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
"Customers"? I'm not an Equifax customer - that is, I've never given them my name or any information, I've certainly never paid them for a service. Yet it wouldn't surprise me to learn I'm on their list. W
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
Right what the parent comment is saying is that look at a map of the US, how many major cities are there. The odds of two "1 in 500 year" floods happening consecutively are low for any individual city. But if you have enough citie
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
They said just that- "However vile and despicable the views expressed on the site, they have a constitutional right to it" They have a constitutional right to express those views. They do not have a constitutional right to express
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
You've drawn a false dichotomy between the current situation and an unrealistic scenario. The truth is there could be more growth and room for more people without it being room for literally everyone.
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
That is figuratively the worst title I've ever read.
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
There's a pretty marked difference - using code doesn't consume it.
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
The other half could be overvalued for other reasons.
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
That's a preposterous and intellectually dishonest position to hold. If there's so much money on the table go raise your own fund and get wildly rich on all these ideas the sheep won't touch. Or admit that deeds are harder th
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
No one is saying the SEC exists to prevent Floyd from saying what he wants to say. The SEC exists to protect less informed investors from being influenced by what Floyd says. That's why they have rules about disclosures and/or acc
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
I think the commenter you replied to is saying "region locks" are as unfair / unnecessary as Verizon's business practices.
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
You breathe clean air don't you? It's called "promoting the general welfare" and it's one of the American government's responsibilities as laid out in the Constitution.
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
Backend Python guy with no dog in this fight. Wouldn't that also be the case if, for example, React/Angular were demonstrably superior technologies to the alternatives? groupthink doesn't have to be the only explanation.
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
They'll take them into account more than if you're not a member.
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
Also a generalized statistical result doesn't really apply to an individual. Maybe verbatim note taking is inferior for 98% of people. Doesn't mean you shouldn't do it if it works for you.
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
Right, but why. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Is there any evidence that our current system doesn't work?
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
Fairly certain the prosecution can't appeal innocence, right? Wouldn't that just entail being tried again?
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by twinkletwinkle 9y ago
The elbow surgery that baseball pitchers sometimes need. There were reports of pitchers throwing better afterwards, which led to young aspiring pitchers with healthy elbows requesting the surgery. I don't know much about the actual pro
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
As they say, money talks, and Uber has a bunch of VC money to do its talking.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Same, except when Lyft has super high surge. When I must use Uber I manually enter my pickup/dropoff locations. So stupid of them to remove the "when in use" option, I can't imagine any use for that that is worth the ris
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Maybe this solves the matter more quickly. Also gets it out to the public, who they expect to be on their side.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Counterargument to that is the whole "teach the controversy" dispute. Evolution is the only scientifically accepted theory, there are sources which disagree but placing eg Intelligent Design on the same level as Evolution is disin
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
>As far as the CMO moving on to github I think the implication was the CMO was fired and that was a poor decision, highlighted by her being snapped up by their competitor.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
My value judgments are my own, yes. That's obvious (another value judgment). I'm not making any claim except that employees willingly submitting to having tracking devices implanted by their employer gives me the creeps. The poten
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
>And for me it's just a matter of I like to try new things and just see it as more of an enabler and what that would bring into the future Please do not normalize this shit and drag the rest of us down into your dystopian horror fil
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
There's sort of a silly argument as to how you could get mate. If a computer is playing black, it reads the board as greatly to its advantage. So when it's coming up on the 50-move draw, it might offer you a bishop to take to prol
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
That's because every bank that's bullish on Snap participated in the IPO and is legally prevented from posting research about it for some time. It's a self-selected group of analysts that say sell.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Actually lots of them do, because they see it as a way to remove "entitlements". Delete food stamps, delete welfare, delete all aspects of the social safety net, and implement a simple UBI. It's the same regressive strategy a

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