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by waqf 15y ago
Encrypting with ROT13 does not cause you to be not defaming the company, either legally or ethically. (Encrypting with SHA-1 might, but I wouldn't bet your out-of-court settlement on it. IANALATINLA.)
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by waqf 15y ago
I too thought it was called the "Advertising Standards Agency", but apparently it's the "... Authority".
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by waqf 15y ago
I was thinking about this just today: I assume that the only reason we are better at uniquely identifying humans by their faces than at identifying other animals is that we either learn to do it or are so hard-wired by evolution: not beca
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by waqf 15y ago
Yes. The translations, while basically accurate, don't do a good job of conveying the tone of remarks, which is important in analyzing the situation.
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by waqf 15y ago
Of course Bonin knew that the autopilot was off. I don't think that's the same as being in alternate law.
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by waqf 15y ago
It may be interactive, but it's not really a tool when all I can do is switch between two displays: more like a slideshow. And the "interactivity" was just a hindrance to understanding what the article was trying to illustrate: it would h
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by waqf 15y ago
It's not just PayPal. It's whole industries. Airlines. Banks. Google. Seems like it's any industry which (i) has high startup costs so is dominated by big players and (ii) can cost you enough money in a single incident that you'd get se
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by waqf 15y ago
I'm totally confused. When you say "the events that are later described as blocking rendering are coming in on the main thread, not some special "dedicated" one" are you talking about iOS or Android? I can't make sense of your post either
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by waqf 15y ago
That's true of the actual cost of the service. For the 1000% markup that U.S. hospitals take, it's more arguable.
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by waqf 15y ago
At the university level ? I should hope not. A high school freshman should be plenty old enough to defend a thesis on a subject of his or her choosing.
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by waqf 15y ago
I just assumed that Swiss Google primarily recruited EEA citizens. Do you know otherwise?
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by waqf 15y ago
There's a big difference between creating something that looks like a Swiss watch and selling it to someone who wants a Swiss watch, and creating something that looks like a Swiss watch and selling it to someone who wants something that loo
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by waqf 15y ago
Good example (I think it's most similar to "conspiracy", though it might depend on what kind of implicit threat is backing up the "order"). btw, I'm not necessarily advocating free speech at all costs. If I'm going after anyone in this t
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by waqf 15y ago
Good call, but in the U.S., according to Wikipedia: "The Shabani case illustrates that it is a matter of legislative prerogative whether to require an overt step, or not to require an overt step in any conspiracy statute." So conspiracy wi
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by waqf 15y ago
Conspiracy does not mean that you carried out the act, or even that you tried to. Besides, people die after someone shouts fire in a crowded theater, but it's still speech.
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by waqf 15y ago
For convenience of argument I will retract the child porn example, but "conspiring", "shouting" and "advocating" are much closer to a common-sense understanding of the word "speech" than is "walking around with [any particular symbol] on yo
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by waqf 15y ago
And in the U.S. you aren't allowed to advocate the violent overthrow of the government, to shout fire in a crowded theater, to distribute child porn or to conspire to blow up airliners. The only difference is that U.S. culture teaches you t
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by waqf 15y ago
Hmm, does this work the other way too? Can any EU citizen claim residency in the Netherlands, then use this to get U.S. residency for a small deposit? If not, isn't this a somewhat unequal treaty?
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by waqf 15y ago
He has two points with which I agree: (a) many investing strategies which rely on frequent trading or high leverage are not available to retail investors because of commissions, spreads, or taxes; (b) (i) mutual funds etc. are poor investme
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by waqf 15y ago
> [w]e try hard to ignore the hardship in front of us (emphasis added) I was surprised that "even" an economist would assume without comment that all panhandlers are as badly off as they appear. After all, they have an incentive to
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by waqf 15y ago
> (Men only) In the past 5 years have you had sex, even once with another male? That's a very, very different question from "... have you had sex, even once, with another male?" which I think is what they meant to ask.
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by waqf 15y ago
> There's a reason why these apps make it to the top; it's what people really want. I think Apple as a monopolist intermediary (assuming we are talking about the iPhone market) has more of a role here than this invisible-hand argument
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by waqf 15y ago
This is a trick with Unicode RTL. The search query in the URL contains the character U+202E RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE, followed by the searched-for text in normal (nonreversed) order. Apparently Google ignores this character when searching fo
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by waqf 15y ago
I love how you spelled "idiosyncrasies" correctly but failed with "its".
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by waqf 15y ago
If they can make the park as bright as it would be outside (on any given day) then they shouldn't need extra artificial light. Do you have data on whether their technology can accomplish that?
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by waqf 15y ago
non-paywall version: http://tintanze.blogspot.com/2011/11/first-lets-fire-all-man...
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by waqf 15y ago
Paywall and Disqus? (Can't speak for anyone else but Disqus never loads on my browser, it just sits there spinning.)
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by waqf 15y ago
Sorry, I was unclear. By "younger" I mean "born later". This has to happen in the long term, unless human life expectancy increases at a rate of more than one year per year.
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by waqf 15y ago
> People have to realize that most, if not all authority is naturally opposed to progress. That is absolutely true, but as the people in power get younger, their reference point for what counts as "progress" advances. Politicians who
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by waqf 15y ago
I agree that Google acts in its own interests, but they sure do care about the internet being run by Hollywood. With a locked-down internet and strong copyright legislation, Hollywood/other content owners would own all the ad spots and wou

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