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by wgj 7y ago
How is Techcrunch able to figure out the owner of this database, and why did the researcher expect them to be able to? > Security researcher Anurag Sen discovered the database and alerted TechCrunch in an effort to find the owner and get
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by wgj 7y ago
For the layperson, ethics is generally something we know when we see it. That's not in bad faith. IANAL, but clause (a) looks potentially applicable. https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibili...
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by wgj 7y ago
I agree with the idea, and so does the IEEE. https://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html We, the members of the IEEE, in recognition of the importance of our technologies in affecting the qualit
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Chrome update stops websites from tracking you in Incognito Mode(engadget.com)
2 points by wgj 7y ago|0 comments
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by wgj 7y ago
NYT is still A/B testing this feature. It appears to be enabled an increasingly higher percentage of page loads over the past few weeks.
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by wgj 8y ago
Maybe it's old hat for everyone else, but this is my first time looking at Gitpod. (Link at the bottom of the project Readme.)
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by wgj 8y ago
The obligatory and beloved, http://poignant.guide/
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by wgj 8y ago
1.b4 is a really strange idea to have, and even stranger to stick with it. It is very disadvantageous for white. He even acknowledges this: > I looked at my win rates by opening and I won far more as black than white. Normally he should
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by wgj 8y ago
What are you securing? It's a cryptographic hash of what?
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by wgj 8y ago
This seems like it could be useful, but > Cryptographically secure source of randomness, if possible I don't think this should be a goal. If this is for IDs, you usually want to optimize for speed of generating IDs and evenness of d
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by wgj 8y ago
If you're in Washington State, consider: https://foodlifeline.org/ https://www.northwestharvest.org/ They both have a very high rating: https://www.charitynavigator.org
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by wgj 8y ago
Good list! I met Rick Beato at Summer NAMM this year. Really nice guy. 12tone - Excellent music theory in fast, whimsically illustrated episodes agadmator - Best chess channel I've found
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by wgj 8y ago
> climate change gets all the attention It's in the article. "The biggest reasons are habitat loss and pesticides across the butterflies’ breeding and migratory range. This year’s steep drop is probably due to extreme weather,
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by wgj 8y ago
Another great example of why real offices are better than open floor plan.
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by wgj 8y ago
Usually Andy Borowitz is their satirist, and those articles are clearly marked as satire. https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report
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by wgj 8y ago
> How many others fall into this category? It happens a lot. ($2.5B in 2010) In some states, it's a systemic source of income for police departments. Most asset forfeitures are never returned to the individual, yet they are never ch
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A Case Study: Using FPGA for Audio DSP(medium.com)
1 points by wgj 8y ago|0 comments
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by wgj 8y ago
Not sure what city you're in, but hardly any buses in Seattle even have a 10 minute schedule. In fact, in Seattle you have neighborhoods actively lobbying _against_ transit because transit frequency is legally coupled with rules for ho
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by wgj 8y ago
Because I haven't seen it mentioned yet: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living, by Joseph Campbell and beautifully edited by Diane Osbon. I can trace much of my life direction back to principles I established fo
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by wgj 9y ago
Divorce surely accounts for some of those.
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by wgj 9y ago
In addition to the issue of relying entirely on correlation, this report only states relative percentage increase without stating absolute levels or comparison to any known risk thresholds. Maybe 35% higher exposure isn't a significant
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by wgj 9y ago
Neither CDC nor Wikipedia show very clear support for this assertion, especially given that the actual levels in the study weren't reported. Just relative percentages. https://www.cdc.gov/biomonitoring/Phthalates_F
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by wgj 9y ago
Putting Amazon affiliate links in forum posts is against their terms of service.
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Bones on Pacific island belong to Amelia Earhart, a new forensic analysis claims(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by wgj 9y ago|0 comments
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by wgj 9y ago
Your first question does take a rhetorical position. It effectively makes a claim, by the wording of the question. Your second question suggests that one should recap decades of human rights abuses. Finally, by stating "Not everything
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by wgj 9y ago
But it's not how you make other pronouns possessive.
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by wgj 9y ago
I'm not involved with this project, but for services that require network effect (which this does), the narrow focus could help build the necessary threshold of members intending to do the same activity. They can always flip a switch t
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by wgj 9y ago
This concept came from Zappos, which Amazon acquired. (2008) https://hbr.org/2008/05/why-zappos-pays-new-employees
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by wgj 9y ago
If sources and informants had to meet the same standard as FBI officers, we wouldn't have very many sources or informants. There's an expectation that people outside law enforcement aren't going to meet the standards of law e
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by wgj 9y ago
Steele was never an FBI officer.

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