shanty

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by shanty 4y ago
Super interesting idea. I can't seem to find out how they actually operate though. It seems like this would be prone to general abuse with if an individual electing little/no/catastrophic coverage while also using this resour
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by shanty 4y ago
This. Lifestyle creep at the social level. Smart Phones, dishwashers, Netflix and so on. You CAN still find multi-bedroom homes w/in an hour of large metros that a single income can support. Go to New Jersey and get a <200K one with
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by shanty 4y ago
Complete speculation, but this sounds like a decline of community, where interactions are more transactional rather than personal.
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by shanty 4y ago
You're neglecting to address enforcement issues such as Criminal Vagrancy which is strictly enforced in some locales and lax in others.
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by shanty 4y ago
From a supply and demand side, Real Estate Developers would gravitate to high value developments due to potential for making higher returns as well as the prestige in building "fancier" developments.
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by shanty 4y ago
This premise is interesting in that you are basically saying that homelessness is progressive. I am not sure that your levels encompass all types of homeless out there, given that the data is so scant. By that I mean there are a number of i
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by shanty 5y ago
These conversations pop up every now and again on HN. I was getting frustrated with Google Maps a few years ago, when I read one of these articles on here about how Apple Maps is better than Google Maps. I decided to give it a try (and full
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by shanty 5y ago
I mean, the use case is (generally) providing a verifiable transaction chain. We have complex processes in place for doing this IRL right now for assets such as real estate deeds, vehicle titles, etc. Obviously, these all work because we co
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by shanty 6y ago
Exactly true. However the Russian investigation spanned years. These things take a lot of time to work through the investigative process. Take a look here, https://hereistheevidence.com , which provides significant questionable i
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by shanty 6y ago
Great citations. I think the general point is that there are more specific examples of election irregularities than there are specific examples of Russia interfering. you add this to your list: https://hereistheevidence.com whic
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by shanty 6y ago
I think search algorithms still have a long way to go to really understand the intention. Try your image search results for "white person" "black person" "asian person" "white inventors" "black
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by shanty 6y ago
The fed provides a boost when demand-side goes down; that's one of its roles in emergencies. Their move here didn't make sense since the initial impact was largely supply-side (demand-side drop is coming...). These adjustments wer
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by shanty 7y ago
Hard to say what's causing this. try "is abortion good or bad" on Google vs Bing and you get very different results. Bing provides evenhanded results and Google is almost entirely pro-abortion.
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by shanty 7y ago
Not exactly. There is an implicit expectation of truth when searching on Google, sort of like an encyclopedia. The interference happens when the results do not match reality. Try these yourself to see how this can change public opinion: Goo
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by shanty 7y ago
Is there a service or company that lists this data? I'm curious about what types of data are available.
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by shanty 7y ago
Well, PII is a bit of a nebulous term. Some websites still transfer some signup/user info in url parameters or unencrypted responses. We would even see SSNs pop up now and then. Most data being sold has some good faith effort to remove
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by shanty 7y ago
I wasn't responsible for the data intake, but I know that the data was extensive, and always included time on page, full URL, other request information (often post stuff). I know that HTTPS provided a technical hurdle that our company
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by shanty 7y ago
Boy have I got a surprise for you. I was an engineer at a web analytics firm a decade ago and yes, ISPs have your web browsing data and are selling it left and right. Also apps, Cell phone companies, etc. Our company bought all that data. a
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by shanty 8y ago
This is all well and good for information retrieval, but people are making decisions based on information from search results. In your vegetarian example, what if 51% of people were vegetarian in an area, and the general population was maki