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by x1798DE 11y ago
I got the distinct impression that the parent comment was suggesting that there was increasing prejudice against men (or in favor of women), since all the stories are about a conscious effort to cater to women over men.
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The argument I've heard is that the judges work with the agencies rather than outright reject them, skewing the statistics. The judges will say, "Come back with more evidence", and the agencies go out and do it. Not sure I be
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by x1798DE 11y ago
That graph doesn't look to me like something characterized by prejudice at all. Why would people suddenly become sexist in the computer technology field only, practically overnight? The article even suggests that the drop started with
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by x1798DE 11y ago
Maybe you misunderstood me, but I meant the legal mechanism by which you can defer publication/examination of a filed patent for over 20 years before having it granted. It seems to me that that is a de facto increase of the patent term
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by x1798DE 11y ago
Well, I was less worried about the lines and more worried about the described centralized clearinghouses. That said, although obviously the government can show up with guns wherever they want and tap whatever they want, I suspect the lega
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I've seen other places in this thread indicating that charging this guy under the CFAA was an inappropriate choice (i.e. not just the only choice if they want to pursue criminal charges); does anyone know if there have been similar c
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Does anyone know what the mechanism is for these deferred patent grants? Is there a special carve-out for government classified patents in the law, or is this within the discretion of the USPTO? It really seems like you should either have t
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I'm pretty sure I don't want all network connections going through government owned infrastructure.
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I don't know why you would want to force people to do this. There's nothing stopping someone from hand-copying code if you use text, but you're using the wrong format if you encode it as an image. So, as a result, in addition
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by x1798DE 11y ago
He is under no obligation to pay taxes he does not owe. Tax deductability of charitable giving is effectively government spending, so take it up with your lawmakers if you don't want that. It has no bearing on Zuckerberg from a legal p
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I have to say, I don't care what Zuckerberg spends his money on, it's his money. I found it pretentious when he deigned to write an open letter to his daughter informing the world that he was going to go on a spending spree, but I
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by x1798DE 11y ago
Number of people killed this year by mass shootings, according to that article this year: 462 Car accident fatalities per year according to this article[1]: 30000 (500+ per week) . Low end estimates of flu deaths per season [2]: 3000 These
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by x1798DE 11y ago
Why would you need any of this? These kinds of events are sad for the people involved, but probably not worth spending time trying to figure out, as they are exceedingly rare and not particularly dangerous compared to other more mundane way
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by x1798DE 11y ago
Why do you want to limit copy pasting?
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by x1798DE 11y ago
You can't survive without food, but that doesn't necessarily mean it matters whether your last 500 calories comes from cookies or fruit.
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I don't think the point of the argument is that it's a good state of affairs. The point is the incentives are wrong, so obviously this will happen. Hoping the FBI's heart grows the sizes won't get you anywhere.
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by x1798DE 11y ago
What are they even fractions of? Those are just absolute numbers...
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by x1798DE 11y ago
Why use a salted hash at all? Why not just randomly generated unique tokens? That said, even with randomly generated unique tokens, I suspect knowing where someone was at two or three specific times would be enough to deanonymize them.
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by x1798DE 11y ago
This doesn't sound like what I would think of as "cyber attacks". This is a traditional leverage of a militarized police force as a weapon. The same could easily have happened before the internet, and I suspect it was less co
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by x1798DE 11y ago
The point is you don't worry at all about those things (you would never let it affect your trip), so there is no reason to worry about these comparatively minor risks. It's like issuing an advisory about getting papercuts filling
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by x1798DE 11y ago
First of all, it would be patent protections, not copyright. Huge difference. Second, I highly doubt anyone would succeed with such a dubious legal strategy. Catching fish in the wild with your patented genes in them is not a violation of y
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by x1798DE 11y ago
And yet somehow you get your bill every month?
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I always carry lock picks in my wallet, and I've been stopped numerous times at airports with them, including SFO. I usually just explain what they are and they send me on my way. I imagine they can't legally seize them in CA.
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I know nothing about this, but there's a flag on https://m.reddit.com that says "Beta", and on https://i.reddit.com there's a link to "try the beta", so I think it remains to be seen whe
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by x1798DE 11y ago
If you give out coins exactly proportional to balance the value per coin has changed, but hasn't changed the distribution. It's like multiplying all balances by 100, it's just a unit change.
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It's not like they were particularly good at stopping terrorism before encryption became widespread. The problem is that they think they can stop all terrorist attacks, which is impossible.
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I think the major problem is that it's easy to fill yourself into thinking that you could have stopped it in hindsight because you already know what happened. If you took this one report more seriously you would have stopped it, sure,
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I think it is a bit dangerous to consider this a failure of the surveillance state. One fundamental problem is that intelligence agencies are seen as having been given or having taken on the impossible task of preventing any political viole
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How would that work? I would think it would be difficult to find a team of (human) engineers who don't have a general idea of how a record works, etc, much less one that wouldn't pretty immediately understand which parts are phot
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I thought the metaphor was clear - society, as a whole, is not threatened by this sort of thing, and it is not even particularly dangerous from an expected value perspective. The point is not that nothing should be done - as I mentioned wit

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