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by valicord 1y ago
The polygon claim is not at all obvious to me, how do you prove it?
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by valicord 1y ago
The article specifically says "domestic flight records"
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by valicord 1y ago
Instead of snark please re-read the entire comment thread from the beginning and you'll realize that the scenario you're imagining is completely different from what is being discussed.
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by valicord 1y ago
What is the point of assigning something to a new hire, if they can't do it without another person watching the whole thing over their shoulder AND they are unlikely to benefit from this knowledge in the future (since it's a legac
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by valicord 1y ago
How does a new hire know "what it is supposed to be"?
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by valicord 1y ago
Not for me (chrome on android)
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by valicord 1y ago
No idea how you're supposed to get there (I only found it with Google) but: https://www.nextcarehealth.com/healthcare-network
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by valicord 2y ago
Indeed, making money is obviously a much better goal than embarrassing things like preventing the end of humanity or making the world a better place.
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by valicord 2y ago
> The end goal is to initialize something no more than once, right? Took me a while to understand as well. They unregister the handler at the end of the critical section, so the requirement is not "no more then once ever", it&#
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by valicord 2y ago
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard/w...
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by valicord 2y ago
I did check the others later, the WA bill only requires IRL verification, same as purchasing alcohol, so it also doesn't really fit the theme of the article either. 2/3 examples being heavily exaggerated is a pretty bad look for t
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by valicord 2y ago
Oh, I agree, it seems completely useless as written. I'm just saying that it's no more of a privacy violation than Steam asking for your birth date (which somehow happens to be January 1st, 1900 for a shocking percentage of the po
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by valicord 2y ago
Likewise the dietary pills bill only requires the ID to be verified either at a retail point of sale or when the online purchase is delivered, so there doesn't seem to be any invasive data collection required. To be clear: I'm str
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by valicord 2y ago
Haven't checked the others, but at least for the skin cream bill, the text explicitly lists "a date of birth entry or checkbox verifying age system" as sufficient, so the outrage about privacy seems overblown. Of course this
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by valicord 2y ago
Garmin is what you're looking for. Battery lasts 1-2 weeks. No subscription.
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by valicord 2y ago
Where can I downvote the PR department?
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by valicord 2y ago
I'm obviously not claiming that Facebook moderation is perfect but it's a pretty big stretch to go from "Facebook does a bad job of reducing false positives" to "Facebook purposefully bans Linux discussions". &
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by valicord 2y ago
The evidence shows that Facebook is blocking Linux related posts, while the initial "policy makers decided" claim is significantly stronger and is not supported by anything. Much more obvious explanation is that some buggy ML clas
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by valicord 2y ago
Because it's a made up threat that only exists in your imagination?
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by valicord 2y ago
I'm sure we are going to see his treatise on the conservative takeover of the Supreme Court any day now, right?
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by valicord 2y ago
You don't think high schoolers would succumb to authority and peer pressure even if they didn't really want to participate?
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by valicord 2y ago
> Should students and employees have to participate in woke indoctrination sessions in which they're required to answer questions about their beliefs to ensure compliance? No, because we wouldn't dream of catechizing people in
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by valicord 2y ago
One of these is not like the others
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by valicord 2y ago
Does America want smart people to come here and advance science/technology/economy or would she rather close the doors and watch other countries get ahead?
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by valicord 2y ago
> A cursory look at H1B salaries shows this is rampant. Where does one get a cursory look at H1B salaries? If you're referring to various websites that publish H1B petition data, then you might be interested to know that they don&#x
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by valicord 2y ago
Free as in beer
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by valicord 2y ago
No, you'd actually have two middle fingers then: upper middle finger and lower middle finger. Just think of the possibilities!
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by valicord 2y ago
No, that really is how Facebook sells ads: https://www.facebook.com/business/help/164749007013531?id=40...
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by valicord 2y ago
You're exaggerating of course, but as a matter of principle, if X is a crime, then obscuring the evidence of having done X must surely also be a separate crime in its own right? Otherwise someone would do X, then destroy the evidence a
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by valicord 2y ago
Unless of course you want to use your hard earned crypto to buy tangible things over the Internet.

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