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by ytpete 6y ago
There's a distinction between "violent protest" and "protest at which at least one (potentially minor) incident of violence and/or vandalism occurred" - the latter seems to be what those statistics are counting
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by ytpete 6y ago
I get the sense the Republican position is often stated in oversimplified terms. Reading some of Trump's comments, it seems like what he's been pushing for isn't so much revoking 230 entirely, but rather mandating that you
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by ytpete 6y ago
It hasn't generated outrage from all corners of society - in a YouGov survey[1], 45% of Republican voters supported the storming of the Capitol and 68% did not view it as a threat to democracy. That still doesn't make it a trans
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by ytpete 6y ago
I thought the term "protected speech" usually means speech that is protected from government censorship by the 1st Amendment. But I'm not sure that has any bearing in this context since government censorship isn't involv
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by ytpete 6y ago
The linked tweet is from a past Congressional sysadmin, so it seems reasonably authoritative - but it's cited in thread that's connected to some other interesting opinions on this: https://twitter.com/JoeUchill&#x2
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Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach(twitter.com)
378 points by ytpete 6y ago|505 comments
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by ytpete 6y ago
But we don't : https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-bur... CA has a higher tax burden than average, but nowhere near the highest in the US. Illinois, Iowa, and Ohio all have a higher per capit
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by ytpete 6y ago
I think they are in some cases. An employee can forbid you from working for a competitor at the same time, for example. This is usually a good thing - e.g. Apple doesn't want their Siri engineers moonlighting on the Alexa team after ho
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by ytpete 6y ago
> It does not strike me as a legitimate case to strip people of their human right to free agency and will by forcing people to do things they don't want to or may even be dangerous But in a normal employer-employee relationship, thi
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by ytpete 6y ago
> And not send each and every keystroke to Google Is there evidence Chrome does that? I've never heard this claim before.
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by ytpete 6y ago
Earlier discussion when this was rolled out in the US 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11196671 It seems like they are combining location data sold to them by mobile carriers with limited GPS data that they
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Clear Channel billboards to start tracking mobile phones in Europe(theverge.com)
3 points by ytpete 6y ago|2 comments
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by ytpete 6y ago
I was interpreting it as a metonym ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy ) for tech startups in general. Uber, Lyft, and AirBnb aren't literally "Silicon Valley" companies either since they are based in
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by ytpete 6y ago
I prefer fingerprint too, but just want to point out it's also imperfect. If your hands are at all damp, or sweaty, or cold, the success rate drops to well below 50% (at least for me). It often takes 3-4 tries to unlock if not under pe
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by ytpete 6y ago
> Facebook was the last Silicon Valley company to create something that literally has disrupted the way we live and interact. All the other ones that supposedly were on that road are barely alive (e.g: Uber). I don't know... * Apple
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by ytpete 6y ago
Surely there must be some price index that uses a basket including these additional important "goods"... does anybody know of one? I think items like housing and transportation costs are used by some regions when calculating the c
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by ytpete 6y ago
Google doesn't block ads for competing products though. Nor does it prevent competing products from being listed in its search engine. That's the analogy here - no one is saying Apple's app store shouldn't be allowed to
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by ytpete 6y ago
There are also pedestrians in the mix - so a cyclist running a red light can still pose a serious hazard to other people. In the Bay Area there have been cases of pedestrians killed, as well as serious injuries such as broken legs or arms.
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by ytpete 7y ago
Agreed - especially as another post pointed out that Google's official policy states they _do_ accept virtual cards: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2375433?hl=en
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by ytpete 7y ago
Right -- like eating photons seems bizarre too when you frame it that way... Yet we don't find it odd that plants derive energy this way without consuming physical chunks of stuff.
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Bipartisan anti-robocall bill introduced in House(nytimes.com)
1 points by ytpete 7y ago|0 comments
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by ytpete 7y ago
I think the idea is that, when you're measuring in units of many thousands of LOC, those differences roughly average out. Whether that's true across widely differing parts of such a huge system I'm not convinced, but within a
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by ytpete 7y ago
On the other hand, gyms seem like such a similar model: the equipment is expensive, but not individually out of reach for most people who can afford to pay membership fees. And maintenance costs / wear and tear are quite high for gym e
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by ytpete 7y ago
It's not just like options though, is the point they were making - if the price goes down, you still make money with RSUs, just not as much.
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by ytpete 8y ago
It makes me wonder whether an income threshold makes more sense as a dividing line than hourly vs. salaried. Higher salary equals more specialized knowledge equals higher risk to employers when those employees move to a competitor with trad
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by ytpete 8y ago
There are two known phenomena related to this: * "Unblinding," where participants are able to figure out whether they're taking the placebo vs. the real medication by noticing whether they experience any side effects. * The &
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by ytpete 8y ago
Often though, a better pattern for that is to have your "compute thread" not know anything about the UI - it just sends back packets of result data, or serialized model updates, which the view-model layer back in the "UI th
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by ytpete 8y ago
Seems like you're moving the goalposts though: the original question was whether Magic Leap is "unethical," not how much damage they could do by being unethical. Releasing much-hyped, highly-produced, and very compelling ma
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by ytpete 8y ago
> You are not helping them by lowering the bar for them. But you are helping underperforming students by placing them into top schools, comingled with better students - lots of research shows that. So lowering the bar for admission r
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by ytpete 8y ago
Except a human driver had just recently crashed in the exact same spot - that's why the divider's crash bumper was damaged at the time of the Tesla accident. I think there's no excuse for shipping an "autopilot" sys

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