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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> I don't know about Gay, but let's be careful that it's not character assasination campaigns by the reactionaries, seeking to seize control of these (educational) institutions too. You don't have to question this - t
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> This was an actual debate in the early days of app stores. Facebook was the most prominent company that decided to go with an HTML5 app instead of a native one. Doing so was one of the biggest strategic mistakes they've ever made.
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> That's because it's dangerous. Even good old weed can provoke psychosis, never mind LSD and mushrooms. Case in point: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/off-duty- ... > > LSD, k
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> I feel we need a familiarity with what responsible policing looks like. To me, the OPs recounting provides that. The point is that nearly every cop you talk to will sound like OP. That doesn't mean anything about the integrity of
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> In our case at least, warrants wouldn't even make sense. We were not conducting criminal investigations and asking for access to pursue a person against their will, in response to a crime. We were trying to find out about near-ter
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> That statement alone is enough to get a warrant for said pharmacy records. Great, then get a warrant. The entire reason this story exists is because people are surprised and - rightfully - upset that law enforcement is able to access
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> Now consider states make it illegal to get birth control pills and retroactively go after anyone who has them prescribed. It's according to the law, ain't it? Your example is ex post facto , but it doesn't even have to
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> Well thats the rub, isn't it? Right now the courts don't see this as a violating of the 4th amendment. You omitted the end of my sentence in your quote, which is operative in this case. As explained in the article, the Third
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> It is proposed that this arrangement be modified to include a warrant requirement. That defeats the entire point of this arrangement, which allows them to investigate in situations where the legal requirements for obtaining a warrant a
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> So, I suppose that the main point. In these cases, we weren't investigating the individual as a suspect, we were trying to understand the nature of an incident that could affect the safety of others in a relatively linear fashion.
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As someone who also has a lot of experience in this area, I'll say that your comment is a classic example of the tactics that that LEOs use to minimize or defend abuses of power. It's actually a great case study, because it exem
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> Can a state policing agency of some kind go and pull purchase records for a credit card by name? Could they extract search history, drive destinations, music lists, or something else without warrant? It's not clear to me where the
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> In summary, if we were to blindly look at someones medical history or records without a bona fide articulable suspicion of a crime, it'd be massively illegal. It's extensively documented that law enforcement breaks laws all
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> It'd be interesting to have an opt-in for sharing your medical history with entities That already exists. It's baked into HIPAA (if you're talking about medical history collected by Covered Entities). All "medical&q
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> F google indeed. Here is how they are rolling out RCS, with the darkest of the dark patterns For a proper comparison, you should display that next to the opt-in UI displayed to users when their SMS messages are converted to iMessages.
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> Isn’t this the fundamental point of the push for impotency in configuration management tools? FYI, The word you're looking for is idempotence (EYE-dem-poh-tense).
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> Nintendo Switch at launch (added later) The Nintendo Switch actually had a browser either at launch or close to it, then removed it in an update , and didn't add it back until about 3 years later. It's really hilarious that
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> After Argentina's recent election I've been consuming lots of content from there, and it sometimes surprises me how frequently they use vos in things that would seem to call for politeness. Vos itself was formal address in Sp
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> Maybe the effect of American industrialization didn't have a big effect internationally until the ~1890s and onward, but I'd hardly say the USA was a backwater throughout the industrial revolution. The US had a huge effect on
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> What they meant was a given citizen. No, that's not what they meant. The ruling itself is extremely explicit. And furthermore, that's how other courts have applied the ruling in the decades since. It's simply factually i
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> The LAPD adopted the motto “To protect and to serve”, and it was subsequently widely copied across the U.S. Besides a general mandate to protect the public at large, police are responsible for the wellbeing of anyone in their custody.
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> Police cant/won't be trained on how to deal the neordiversity and mental crisis, why do we think that the assembly line health care system can be? Why are you using police (who have no legal or ethical duty to care for or pro
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> Good luck getting that in the constitution when all the leaders who'd vote on the amendment would be directly burdened by its passing, and trying to educate your average voter on how it works. Actually, NYC is the largest jurisdic
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OP is technically incorrect that rescheduling alone would solve the fentanyl problem, but not for the reasons you state. > For one, it's much cheaper than high quality heroin. Second, heroin used to be the dominant drug when people
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> Yes, preview is generated by the sender to avoid receiver's address leak to a sender-controlled host, but what I'm saying is that WA should enforce on the receiver side that both point to the same URL. How do you do that with
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> SiriusXM doesn’t operate in Europe - so why would they care about GDPR? SiriusXM is a holding company that operates many products, some of which are sold in Europe, and in California, so as a company they are beholden to both GDPR and
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
SiriusXM is also in violation of GDPR/CCPA. Before shutting down Stitcher, they failed to respond to multiple data requests within the required 30 day window. Then, they contacted requestors 20 days before Stitcher shut down to direct
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> Seems like they would be motivated…to tell the truth about this. In shareholder disclosures, yes. Which is, incidentally, where they have never made any of the claims the NRF is making! Those have been limited to PR statements with no
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> Are you sure? I was a tourist in the US in 2021 and were really surprised by even inexpensive non-prescription products being locked down behind plexiglass at stores like Walgreens or Walmart, things priced below $25. > Either the r
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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> You think CVS doesnt have granular numbers on shoplifting? Take a look at what CVS disclosed in official shareholder reports > Whether they report those publicly is another story Well, no, if they have evidence of a massive material

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