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by wdr1 1y ago
Indeed. The U of C is affiliated 101 Nobel Laureates (amongst the highest in the world) -- not to mention 10 Fields Medalists, 4 Turing Award winners, 58 MacArthur Fellows, 30 Marshall Scholars, & 55 Rhodes Scholars.
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by wdr1 1y ago
If you take it as profit over people, you've grossly misunderstood it. Friedman explained numerous time how he went from a New Deal left (having grown up in the Great Depression) to an fervent free market capitalist because he believe
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by wdr1 1y ago
Harvard perhaps, but definitely not MIT. U of C notably does not have an engineering program. When I attended (in the 90s), the rumor was that, over the years, several alumni had offered to make significant donations to start one, but it
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by wdr1 1y ago
> Did they? They said it was a fact that COVID is NOT airborne. (It is.) Not they believed it wasn't airborne. Not that data was early but indicated it wasn't airborne. That it was fact. In fact, they published fact checks o
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by wdr1 1y ago
> Amazon collected the money and just did not care, they need to be held accountable for these things. Whenever this happened with me, Amazon was pretty quick to offer a refund/replacement.
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by wdr1 1y ago
> It pays okay ($45+/hour) For reference, the median hourly wage is $27/hour. https://nationalequityatlas.org/indicators/Wages_Median
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by wdr1 1y ago
> The frustrating part is that Woit is right: mainstream media has completely lost the ability to report intelligently on technical subjects. Did it ever have it? Things such as this remind me of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect, when you no
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by wdr1 1y ago
myNoise uses Cloudflare. > myNoise is now running on a Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosted at One, with audio assets served via a CDN through Cloudflare ...
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by wdr1 1y ago
> Fun fact: Leonard Adleman (the A in RSA) drafted the words and slides used for the lecture scene: https://molecularscience.usc.edu/sneakers/ One of the few movies to have a mathematical consultant in the credits!
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by wdr1 2y ago
> Don't commit crimes, don't make leaders of people who commit crimes, and you won't have problems. Not to be disrespectful, but this is naive. In a perfect world only "real" crimes would be prosecuted. But almos
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by wdr1 2y ago
Are you also okay with Apple only asking once for Apple Advertising and making other advertising ask twice? I don't mean ads for Apple products. I mean the ads that Apple sells in News, the App Store, where they track your behavior to
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by wdr1 2y ago
> The government of British Columbia filed legislation Thursday that would permit the province to levy tolls on vehicles between the Lower 48 and Alaska. It was nice of them to exclude Hawaii.
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by wdr1 2y ago
He didn't say at at all it justified. As someone not familiar with the case, I personally did find it pertinent information.
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by wdr1 2y ago
time for us all to go back to gopher
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by wdr1 2y ago
> With how the US works, money is worth more than being a person. [citation needed] If anything recent elections in the US have shown money is not the most important factor.
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by wdr1 2y ago
Why are first-party cookies bad?
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by wdr1 2y ago
Has anyone done this on smaller scale? Say 4 or 8 stations? We have space in our basement. And with our kids getting into pre-teen/teen years, I think it'd be fun to have a place for lan parties.
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by wdr1 2y ago
> I sometimes feel like the world has forgotten that nuclear weapons still exist I don't understand this. Between Iran and the Russia/Ukraine conflict, they seem to be very top of mind for many.
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by wdr1 2y ago
I saw him perform twice in Los Angeles. Despite being over 70, he performed over 3 hours. It was outstanding. Outside of seeing U2 at the Sphere, it was the best live events I've ever attended.
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by wdr1 2y ago
That seems quite late. Ticketmaster was effectively doing sharing in the late 60s. It was one of the reasons they could scale early on when others couldn't.
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by wdr1 2y ago
Apple uses your information for advertising as well. https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/apple-advertisin... It also exempts itself from normal tracking opt-outs in iOS. It has _another_ set of
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by wdr1 2y ago
Given this law, it seems reasonable to expect the State to provide said database, no?
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by wdr1 2y ago
> I've yet to see any SV billionaires admit any of their success involves luck. Are you even trying, or just being glib for karma? "You have to get lucky in today’s society in order for that to happen" -- Mark Zuckerberg
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by wdr1 3y ago
The DMA does not specify a minimum fine for violations.
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by wdr1 3y ago
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by wdr1 3y ago
This is grossly exaggerated. Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise.
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by wdr1 3y ago
So if you make that illegal, you just made basic website logins illegal. Again, it's really hard to define what we all "mean" in legal terms.
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by wdr1 3y ago
Defining fingerprinting in a legal terms is fairly difficult. Most regulators would also likely consider fingerprinting for certain use cases as acceptable. E.g., detecting abuse, fraud, CP, etc.
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by wdr1 3y ago
> When you finish college, you're still a "kid" as in totally young and nothing to loose. A lot of kids walk out having lost quite a bit of money to tuition. Worse, the degrees they paid a small fortune for won't prov
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by wdr1 3y ago
IANAL but my understanding is that they're generally not enforceable in California?

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