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by vageli 7y ago
> The privacy violation that infuriates me the most is that Visa and Mastercard sell your purchase data, and I don't believe CCPA applies to them. Like cell phone companies selling tower-based location data, the credit card's s
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by vageli 7y ago
> IANAL, but my understanding is that it's not even clear you can avoid the "don't sell my data" language in CCPA even if you don't sell/share/collect data. This is how my company's counsel (and ot
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by vageli 7y ago
Do you have anywhere I can read more about this? Specifically the acknowledgement of God as nothing more than a convenient organizing principle for a society?
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by vageli 7y ago
> If he hires them to manage a gas station and they steal, cause problems, or anything like that, the community will know about it and their reputation will suffer. Further, the family's image becomes tarnished to an extent in the e
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by vageli 7y ago
> 3) The Albanian resistance movement in the last Serbian war was funded by a small construction firm in New York. The owner fed back enough weapons and snipers to ground the UN helicopters (!) persecuting them, as well as lobby in DC. T
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by vageli 7y ago
> As an example of undermining and disregarding rule of law, in the US no party has respected surveillance laws as far as 2001 and likely further back. As an example from here in Sweden, government officials regularly undermine and disre
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by vageli 7y ago
> IRC has mechanisms that make dealing with spam easy. > Usenet on the other hand required cooperation from all providers. Actually I blame Google for killing Usenet. They used Microsoft's EEE (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish). They
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by vageli 7y ago
Is the measure of an architect the number of lines in a blueprint? Is the measure of a craftsman the number of finished goods produced? It seems to me that different projects in the same domain should use different attributes to evaluate su
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by vageli 7y ago
Could we of lesser minds even conceive the thoughts of a brain whose nodes are themselves individual brains? Considering a global mind is even more interesting—what do we make of the neurons who are disconnected and limited in communication
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by vageli 7y ago
> Code generation usually sucks. > A small one-off run under your control is an exception. But people learn to fear the thing, and apply that fear everywhere. Why does it usually suck? Writing code that writes code seems like an optim
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by vageli 7y ago
> Movie action scenes are typically equal ingredients vs other scenes, but in games they are typically the dominant way of exercising player agency, big difference. > Besides shooters, combat dominates adventure and open world games,
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by vageli 7y ago
> Is there a way to get a disposable number that cannot be tied to your identity somehow (in the US, at least)? I have never had to present id when buying a prepaid phone in the US.
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by vageli 7y ago
How do people test GHA before pushing to github? I encountered a tool or two to assist but they require the action to be described with HCL not the newer YAML syntax.
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by vageli 7y ago
> I use Readwise.io almost obsessively and would use your app too, but I'm on Android. Any plans for an Android app? Are you on the lite plan or the full version? Could you speak more to how you use the app/what you get out of
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by vageli 7y ago
I didn't mean to present my opinion as fact, and apologies if it sounded as though I had some authoritative source on this view. However, it seems I am not alone in this view. > "Indeed, Smith suspected that those quickest to s
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by vageli 7y ago
> Wealth Of Nations is a weird book to read. Where I grew up, people worshipped it and generally considered it to be the second greatest book of all time, after the Bible. I ended up reading both in my thirties, and two things occurred t
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by vageli 7y ago
For anyone interested in the death machine mentioned, here is a link to an image and description: https://exitinternational.net/about-exit/installations/
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by vageli 7y ago
This has always disgusted me. Civic duty is a foundation of representative democracy and we strip that right from former felons while talking about reintegration with society with the other side of our mouth.
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by vageli 7y ago
> I really hope this book has some discussion regarding Pulumi in addition to the normal Terraform discussion. My team switched over to Pulumi recently after using Terraform for a couple of years and it's so much easier to work with
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by vageli 7y ago
When does company time start and end for a salaried employee? If I'm working on a side project and get paged to look at something for work, does work time start when I look at the alert? Am I on work time if I answer a work email on a
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by vageli 7y ago
> It is not the citizen's responsibility to prove he is a citizen, it is the government's responsibility to prove that he isn't. > Guilty until proven innocent? How is that fair? By this rationale, couldn't one cla
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by vageli 7y ago
> It seems that a lot of people are upset at browsers limitation's with custom keybindings. I thought I'd mention qutebrowser ( https://qutebrowser.org/ ) which is a browser built using Qt (blink behind the scene
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by vageli 7y ago
> I’ve seen countries where they’ve lost hope, who are democratic in name only. It’s not pretty. I'm curious about the list of countries that are democratic in name only (and also wondering about the time frames involved), would you
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by vageli 7y ago
> > The reality is that people can value something different than you (less government intervention, less restrictions on speech, lower taxes) > Why do you assume we don't value those things? Isn't that _you_ being condes
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by vageli 7y ago
> a bit like "pip freeze > requirements.txt" then? With the added bonus that it also contains a hash of the package so if someone pushes a new version with the same version number it would complain that the hashes don't
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by vageli 7y ago
> It’s easy to also get the versions of all sub dependencies and put them in requirements.txt Is it easy to automatically do this when you want a new package version, without having to remember to do it? Is it easier to put together this
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by vageli 7y ago
> > pipenv allows you to create, manage virtual environments(using venv) apart from managing requirements file(Pipfile) and an npm like locking mechanism, dependency graphs, dev dependencies and more. > Why on earth would anyone ne
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by vageli 7y ago
> I we where that stupid we wouldn't be able to learn new languages as an adult. That is after successfully having acquired a language already. What the critical period theory suggests is that if no language is acquired during that
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by vageli 7y ago
> If an innocent person had a warrant issued for them, and they were cleared, I bet employers would still routinely query those records if they were able to. It could affect people’s lives if it was too public I know it is unlawful to as
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by vageli 7y ago
> I wonder, are court records generated by the issuing of warrants? If so, I imagine you could have gone at it from the other direction and simply gotten a list of warrants and looked for terms that looked stingray-ish. So maybe warrants

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