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by chimeracoder 1y ago
AFAIK this is a somewhat misleading statement. Most of Jane Jacobs's publicly available commentary on political topics are in the context of urbanism, where "conservative" (especially as that first article defines it) is not
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> As someone who has worked in this field, I'm not. Marketing is generally exempt from massive legal review as they hand wave away "We don't deal with HIPPA data" and developers just wanting marketing to go away, drop
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> I wonder what, if any, HIPAA fines will apply to Blue Shield if they're found to have inadvertently exposed PHI. Well, they have inadvertently exposed PHI - this press release literally admits that they did. In terms of what fin
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> I think their Epic Health computer system that needs me to confirm my date of birth every 6 weeks can find some time to suggest the HPV vaccine if it is so damn medically necessary. You're assuming that the purpose of the EHR (Epi
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> If it has an association with preventing cancers, not sure why they were so reluctant to immediately open up the patient pool. Because approval involves evaluating a risk-benefit tradeoff, and the benefits for those groups are wildly d
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> Racial profiling is everywhere. Also in the EU. And some EU countries are more "famous" for it, the Balkans e.g. Some countries are more "famous" for it, but that's really just a matter of perception and how it
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> It depends. Most countries do have certain kinds of extra policies for passports of certain countries That's not relevant when, as I said, they detain you without knowing what passport you even hold. > You're a citizen, th
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> With a Canadian or American passport (until recently)? No problem. First of all, the folks profiling and detaining you don't ask you where your passport is from first - they'll generally make the decision and then ask for y
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> Depends on which part of Europe. In the more diverse parts, nobody would bat an eyelid (even if border police might profile you). As a person who matches the description above, and has traveled to Europe extensively and frequently, I c
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> Exactly this. If someone from "high tier" countries like Canada and Germany can get locked up in ICE jails for several weeks imagine someone like me from a peripheral European country. Even worse, my youngest brother that has
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> Would 0.01% of users be willing to pay 10000x that amount? Apparently so, since Signal broke even last year.
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> The minimum I can choose in-app is £5 ~$6.50/month (unless I do £3 one-off). Price points are location-dependent, which is why it's a nice round figure for you in GBP even though Signal is not based in the UK. Also, as you no
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> That $3/month figure actually makes me more concerned. Sure it's low for a business with revenue but donation funded services rarely get donations from more than a few percent of their users That's way, way lower than mo
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> If Signal gets too popular then server costs will become significant. Signal needs a viable business model to survive. Signal is an incredibly lightweight design. If all users donated $0.60/year, or 5¢/month, that would susta
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> I would bank in the current supreme court to uphold precedence Counting on SCOTUS to respect precedent at this point is either extremely optimistic or extremely naive.
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Carl Lindström's political ideology was also inseparable from his life's work. I made no claim about him one way or the other in this regard. That said, if you're going to make the claim that his political ideology was i
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Life is short and Aaron received a fraction of that. One can only imagine what would've been had Aaron received more time. You'll have to be more explicit about what you are intending to communicate by making this statement i
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> He never really managed to distance himself from that. Not that he seemed to try. Is there any reason to believe he even wanted to distance himself from it? He ran for office just a few years ago on essentially the same platform.
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Aaron Swartz is so young there is really nothing much to say about him. This is absolutely insulting, given how clear he Aaron Swartz was about his beliefs from a young age and how much he accomplished in effecting them before he died.
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
I can tell you that Aaron Swartz would not be happy to hear that comparison were he alive today, particularly that last part.
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> The joy of driving artists and musicians into bankruptcy is more important than any of that, apparently. Comments like these distract from the larger point you're making because they misrepresent the nature of the effect that TPB
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Do you think Carl's life long political activism outside of hosting TPB should be taken into account when deciding whether to compare him Aaron Swartz or not? Or do you think that his actions with TPB where so noble and important
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> We just lost another Aaron Swartz. There is a world of difference between Aaron Swartz and Carl Lindström, starting with their political ideologies (which in Aaron's case was inseparable from his life's work) and extending th
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
Yeah, after reading the NYT article[0], I'll amend my earlier statement "since there's no real evidence that's what happened," since that is some pretty strong evidence that something happened (albeit more complicat
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Why did one mistake cost her career? It didn't. > Over a year ago I advised the Register I would not renew when my 2024 contract expired with the latest election poll as I transition to other ventures and opportunities. > Wo
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> I've heard that the French are strict about language, but what does "reserved" mean here? What do the French call coke¹? That's also called "coke", which is why there's a Tintin book called "Coke
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
Only until Feb 26th. After that they will be permanently locked. https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/download-kindle-books-to-comput...
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> You're conveniently forgetting out the nuance of the MTA. You do recall that the top person in the world for Transit quit because of the bureaucracy there, right? Byford quit because of Andrew Cuomo, the then-governor, not because
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> The MTA does not have a good track record of timely maintenance A big part of that is because the MTA has been starved of funding for fifteen years now, to the point where they've had to substitute capital funds for operating fund
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by chimeracoder 2y ago
> Mass transit has to operate at 5 minute intervals (so that you are waiting at most 10 to 15 minutes in the event of a missed connection). Which is not only possible, but quite feasible. Upgrading to provide six-minute service 24/

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