Algemarin

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One Year of War in Gaza: Decoding the Role of Big Tech(context.news)
8 points by Algemarin 2y ago|1 comments
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Eric Adams Staffer Left FBI Interview to Delete Encrypted Chat Apps(theintercept.com)
20 points by Algemarin 2y ago|19 comments
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by Algemarin 2y ago
I zoomed into a handful of random spots, and quite a few (maybe 30%) do not appear to show basketball courts at all. Many seem to be just rooftops or construction sites.
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by Algemarin 2y ago
Silly clickbait headline. > If you live in Miami or Phoenix, you need air-conditioning to survive the summer. But if you live in the middle of the country, try leaving the air-conditioning off when it’s hot but not too hot. The more accu
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by Algemarin 2y ago
I just feel like the bank has infinitely more resources than I could ever have in terms of hiring more attorney-power.
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by Algemarin 2y ago
Reading anecdotes like this is just so terrifying, and there appears to be absolutely no recourse. These stories can, and do, happen to anyone at any bank. And what can we do about it? It seems like the answer is a glib 'nothing'.
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by Algemarin 2y ago
> It might sound a little bit creepy from a privacy perspective, but Gamgee insists that all motion data is processed and stored on the routers themselves, and never in the cloud. This seems deceptive. Sure, the data may be processed and
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by Algemarin 2y ago
> It's hard enough to report issues to OpenAI. Not at all. OpenAI follows basic accepted standards for security reporting. This is like complaining that you can't find if a website doesn't want specific directories crawl
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The Center for Investigative Reporting Is Suing OpenAI and Microsoft(theverge.com)
14 points by Algemarin 2y ago|0 comments
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by Algemarin 2y ago
A user can just as easily identify a scam such as the one in this post by also taking 30 seconds to do a web search for some phrasing from the email. And "if they don't do that, that's on them"? This is victim blaming in
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by Algemarin 2y ago
> What more do you want? For it to be clear how unrealistic the odds are. They're not exactly broadcasting "you're 40 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to win the jackpot", instead their site screams &q
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by Algemarin 2y ago
The dishonesty lies in obfuscating the actual odds of winning, making the honesty about the payout a moot point as it's not particularly applicable for most entrants.
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by Algemarin 2y ago
This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about, taken to an extreme. A lot of theorizing about ROC curves and optimal operating point formulae, and absolutely no empirical, qualitative evidence (such as any interviews with actual sca
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by Algemarin 2y ago
> Keep your links safe and accessible only to authorized users Is the operator of this service also able to access the links? If yes, then right away this claim is not true and merits caution: the random unknown owner of this service can
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by Algemarin 2y ago
> I think it is an interesting idea that scammers intentionally make typos and absurdities, just to weed out discerning people in favor of easier victims This is an apocryphal anecdote or theory that gets passed around, but I'm not
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by Algemarin 2y ago
This scam is successful because it is predicated on the same appeal that ventures like lotteries, sweepstakes, slot machines, or giveaways have (albeit accentuated with a seemingly guaranteed win, that these other ventures don't have):
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by Algemarin 2y ago
ah yes, passed around countless txtfilez in the '90s... http://cd.textfiles.com/hackersencyc/PHREAK/GENERAL/CALLATT.... http://cd.textfiles.com/hackersencyc/PHREAK/GENERAL/
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by Algemarin 2y ago
Here's the America's Most Wanted segment about the guy, James Clark, from 1988: https://youtu.be/e56gA8NBXuQ?t=1204
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by Algemarin 2y ago
> Imagine supporting the 2nd most popular language in the world. CRAZY right? Why are you fixating on supporting the 2nd most popular language, shouldn't it support the 1st most popular language first? Or why not jump straight to th
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by Algemarin 2y ago
> The UX was not great... not to mention that it was mostly in Korean. I had a lot of trouble. They didn't strike me as the most professional operation.. What does the seemingly very common-sense fact that a South Korean app was &qu
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by Algemarin 2y ago
> it's completely free open access Why are the PDFs individually watermarked? It seems antithetical to the spirit of releasing a book about Tor and "future of privacy", and to then not only watermark each PDF, but to not e
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by Algemarin 3y ago
> This discussion is about subscriptions but the general idea applies to so much more – basic budgeting, retirement savings, not paying random fees, not paying interest, moving spare money to investment accounts every month, rebalancing
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by Algemarin 3y ago
If you believe this, you presumably also believe that companies should be able to enforce this, yes? Which means what, hiring private investigators (or having an in-house investigations team) to monitor employees after business hours? So yo
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by Algemarin 3y ago
> FWIW most airports I’ve visited have a staff canteen that’s actually open to everyone, albeit hidden. Could you please list which airports you've been to have this, and where it is located in them? It's not that I doubt airpo
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by Algemarin 3y ago
> Why does a plastic-wrapped turkey sandwich cost $15 Because people keep paying for them. The fault of price gouging lies firmly with consumers. If consumers are willing to tolerate ridiculous prices, then guess what, vendors are going
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by Algemarin 3y ago
Except there's no evidence that they don't guard sensitive personal data other than an unsubstantiated post.
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by Algemarin 3y ago
I feel conflicted whenever I see a comment like this. On the one hand, let's assume it's true: a Paytm employee acted negligently. But on the other hand, what if it's not true? What if you happen to have a friend or family me
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by Algemarin 3y ago
> But nope, they pretty much say: "We know you're skilled because we have requirement of 90k/year, but we don't want skilled workers to be able to stay here, because go somewhere else". Well, ok, Iceland.. Correc
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by Algemarin 3y ago
> $80k/year is rich? Yes. > That’s less than the median household income in a half-dozen states. That's nice. Can you guess how many states there are in the world? The fact that you're using the claim that a minority pe
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by Algemarin 3y ago
Correct. It is very explicitly targeting tourists who want to stay for more than 90 days, up to 180 days. Basically this is a convoluted method of extending tourism to rich tourists for a longer (specifically, a double) period of time to ha

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