ashooner

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by ashooner 7y ago
While it's easy to say the site must legally be 'accessible', the problem I've encountered is that there is apparently no legal standard for 'accessible'. Section 508, WCAG, etc. do not have US caselaw behind t
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by ashooner 8y ago
Yeah, I concluded that after scanning and seeing the "Some Job Killer" graph that essentially shows that the population in Seattle has increased since 1990.
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by ashooner 8y ago
Until I started forcing them to when I quit Facebook, I had no acquaintances that used SMS, they all use FB Messenger. This is the problem.
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by ashooner 8y ago
>Bloomberg reports that the 800MW Vineyard Wind project – a yet-to-be-built joint effort of Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners – is expected to provide electricity and renewable energy credits for 6.5 cents a kilowatt-hour (
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by ashooner 8y ago
Because the theoretical possibility of being monitored on Signal is preferable to the near-certainty of being monitored on Facebook Messenger.
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by ashooner 8y ago
Exactly. Signal's most important feature is that it isn't Facebook.
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by ashooner 8y ago
"State employees in the past accepted lower salaries in exchange for this future benefit." Isn't this the public sector equivalent of letting a startup pay you in equity? While it may have been characterized as more secure th
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by ashooner 8y ago
It would be nice if all these gun owners were interested in defending rights other than owning guns.
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by ashooner 9y ago
A few years ago I went to a dinner party at an anthropology professor's home. He was a big game hunter, and an entire floor of his house was full of taxidermied animals of all types and sizes, from all over the world. The idea of sport
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by ashooner 9y ago
I definitely see the potential for cost savings in some areas, but there are whole sectors of technology activity in a contemporary university that aren't offsetting some pre-digital expense; they're just a reflection of the incre
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by ashooner 9y ago
I can't see how having to support the network infra for 25k students' Netflix addiction is possibly a cost savings.
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by ashooner 9y ago
The typical comparison of college to today to that from 20 or 30 years ago is just poorly considered. "Where does the money go?" Consider the things that didn't exist at many colleges 30 years ago: - IT - Any type of student
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by ashooner 9y ago
By structural, you mean regulatory. I agree that data stewardship should be much better-regulated than it is now. But right now I can install any number of tools on Google's own browser that mitigate most common tracking/privacy c
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by ashooner 9y ago
I'm not crazy about the current state of internet privacy, but I think it's a missed opportunity if we don't teach the general public just how much control they have over it. Most tracking being done can be prevented by a few