grier

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by grier 1y ago
I live in the US. I don't hold much hope in gun control changing after recent years. Recent federal and state policy is trending towards less regulation and removal of the previous administrations regulations. In 2024, estimated 16,576
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by grier 4y ago
This article is about graduate student stipends. Tuition does not have a cost for these students, so the stipend only needs to cover living costs (which as the article points out, it frequently does not). In CS, graduate students often inte
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Facebook’s settlement on Cambridge Analytica gags UK data watchdog(techcrunch.com)
29 points by grier 6y ago|0 comments
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by grier 6y ago
> a non-profit organization > should be taken into account when comparing the goals and motivations of organizations developing various other communicators. Business or funding models can change for both for- and non-profit organizati
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by grier 6y ago
Isn't "being on life support" nearly the opposite of "set to skyrocket" from a service perspective?
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by grier 6y ago
US phone verified facebook accounts cost less than $1 each. There's no need to use twilio, the ecrime marketplace has this covered.
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by grier 6y ago
Starting out of school with a BS in computer science or computer engineering was GS 7 or 8, so around $40-50k/year. The salaries are public for each level. Additional degrees do not move you off the GS scale. Reaching the equivalent of
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by grier 7y ago
The idea that even spam is does not fall into "content moderation" is very interesting. A fake Rolex email is an interesting advertisement to some people and belongs in the garbage for others. Research has shown that buyers of spa
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by grier 7y ago
What was Slack's role in all of this? They appear to have turned over historical images and chat logs, not just for the person indicted, but even others in the same channel. Did the FBI ask nicely or was there actually some formal proc
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by grier 7y ago
In the US, an ERB is only required for federally funded research or (much more rarely) by specific publication venues.
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by grier 7y ago
Probably when Reader is brought back.
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by grier 8y ago
There's been public analysis of the right to be forgotten. A few good reads: A summary article from NPR [1] and a research paper with a lot more details [2]. [1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018&#x
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by grier 8y ago
I'd argue that other questions around how the data is: - handled - available for access by employees - retained, deleted, and stored etc.. are at least as important for your privacy. As someone who works in security, I am as concerned
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by grier 8y ago
So it's fine to trust cloudflare "blindly" with the same data? (I agree that for privacy DNS over https is good, but the resolver still sees your dns queries)
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by grier 9y ago
The requirements that GDPR imposes on development and data handling are much more broad than the right to be forgotten. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
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Scala API for Apache Beam and Google Cloud Dataflow(github.com)
1 points by grier 9y ago|0 comments
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Research for Practice: Tracing and Debugging Distributed Systems(queue.acm.org)
2 points by grier 9y ago|0 comments
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by grier 10y ago
As you said, the goal with OP [1] (and in the initial Chrome [2] and MS research [3] work) was really to apply what we had learned with isolation for operating system level security (for the last several decades) onto how we build web brows
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by grier 11y ago
Databricks - https://databricks.com/ - San Francisco, CA - Frontend, backend, site reliability engineers Databricks is building a cloud platform that makes data science simple. We are founded by the team that created Apach
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by grier 12y ago
Also used the "Enhanced Networking" option on the instances which means single root I/O virtualization underneath.
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by grier 12y ago
It's also only a good signal as long as you aren't actioning on it. As soon as it becomes advantageous enough to fit in with the normal user patterns, the attackers will modify their behavior accordingly. The time-of-day, internat
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by grier 13y ago
U : Unclassified, S : Secret, SI : special intelligence (an SCI control marking), REL : marking that designates release There's a bunch more too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information http:/&#x
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Beyond Titstare: 8 Other Tech Event Moments(motherjones.com)
1 points by grier 13y ago|0 comments