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by word-reader 7y ago
At least for me social media was hardly less "mandatory" in the halcyon years of the late 2000s, the thing to have was just Facebook on your computer and not Instagram, which is allegedly the worst type of social media for mental
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by word-reader 7y ago
The venerable New York Times significantly changed their editorial focus in the very year 2013 (scroll up for frequency analysis of more news topics): https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1133822312606777346
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by word-reader 7y ago
It didn't have to be someone at Project Zero. Anyone with a bunch of network logs could have searched for some of the fingerprints or URLs that were publicly available and deduced the target from associated traffic.
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by word-reader 7y ago
So we now know that drive-by rooting of even "locked-down" and "secure" user devices like the iPhone is possible and in active use by state actors. What are the odds that other governments, even the US (which has the add
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by word-reader 7y ago
One of the pellets in this scattershot is basically, because sometimes beards are associated with being a man, and sometimes being clean-shaven is associated with being a man, there are surely no cross-cultural or cross-temporal ideals abou
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by word-reader 7y ago
People put their lives and their children's lives in danger to illegally enter the United States, frequently paying human traffickers substantial money in the process, because the border and enforcement is weak. They know that if the
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by word-reader 7y ago
This is absurd. Where on earth are these "racist and horrible" Pepe memes coming from? In reality, 90% of uses of the Pepe character (which is now a fading meme) are as an avatar or highlight of a post's emotion. Seriously, t
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by word-reader 7y ago
FICO scores are definitely worth comparing to this new emerging system, but there are key differences. The input data to FICO scores is broadly public (but not the exact weighting), and they only relate to financial and credit history. They
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by word-reader 7y ago
Exactly; let's say you have a social media record or even a browsing history that indicates labor activism (or drug use, or health issues, or any other kind of activism). That data is saved somewhere, associated with you directly or ju
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by word-reader 7y ago
You can tell it's not a fluke if you look at the copyright claims that are sometimes available in the "Show More" section. Frequently, it will show claims that recordings of the same piece by other performers are part of the
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by word-reader 7y ago
Just imagine how bad the rent would be (for everyone, student or no) if they hadn’t built up West Campus. It is easily the densest neighborhood in Texas, comparable to Queens in terms of population density. The student loan credit supply de
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by word-reader 7y ago
To put this in perspective, the key “problem” example in this article is that median rent in a safe, popular neighborhood with relatively new housing stock, in one of the country’s fastest growing cities, is a whopping $916 a month. (And yo
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by word-reader 7y ago
Muslims aren't a race, the affected countries were about 10% of global Muslim population, and the countries of concern listed in the travel ban were designated in late 2015 under a different administration.
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by word-reader 7y ago
How has immigration policy in the US become "explicitly racist"? Immigration law has essentially remained unchanged. DACA was repealed, but DACA was an executive action not partial to country of origin. H-1B denials have increased
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by word-reader 7y ago
Over 50% of Border Patrol officers are Hispanic; 20% of all ICE employees are Hispanic, with much higher percentage (e.g. 40%) in subsets such as field agents in Southern California.
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by word-reader 7y ago
It's demonstrated later in the article that he continued to take advantage of short-term business thinking with probable bad externalities all the while and after he was trying to repair his reputation with his Harvard donations and co
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by word-reader 7y ago
Yes, big time, because their natural predators have been reduced along with reduced hunting. See [1] for more details about the deer issue in New York. The tick population in the Northeast is absolutely insane. I went camping in one of the
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by word-reader 7y ago
It's really not that strange for a chemical to have different effects on girls and boys, anything that affects sex hormones at all or sex-specific development is going to have a different effect.
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by word-reader 7y ago
I predict this research will receive reasoned and appropriate appraisal by the press and public officials.
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by word-reader 7y ago
This logic doesn't apply well to manufacturing (or agriculture, extraction, or arguably a lot of research and engineering). You use a stainless steel fork, because you... don't want to use your hands? You eat Idaho potatoes so you
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by word-reader 7y ago
It really is shocking how much has changed in the past 10 years. This post could have been mainstream late-night comedy, but it's not just that the targets have shifted: it's still OK, good even, to attack Sarah Palin, you just ca
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by word-reader 7y ago
It's not just about it "being green", the contrast between the text and the background is lower with the green SMS bubbles than the blue iMessage bubbles, making it harder to read. I guarantee you if the SMS bubbles were a sh
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by word-reader 7y ago
For all the people concerned about Amazon's business ethics here, stop buying your stuff on Amazon too. It used to be that Amazon had solid products and eBay was just a bunch of random sellers selling random things of unknown quality.
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by word-reader 7y ago
These are some cool bunkers, but it reminds me of an article from a few years back, maybe from HN? An expat had a nice house in some Central American country back in the 70s or 80s when there was a coup with a lot of rioting and looting of
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by word-reader 7y ago
I doubt that selling Dasani water in aluminum cans in the Northeast US is going to move the needle on global plastic pollution, with the entire US accounting for less than 1% of plastic pollution (below countries such as North Korea and Alg
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by word-reader 7y ago
BPA in infant formula and bottles is banned for safety reasons in the EU and Canada. So, would you mind if I believed the European Comission or Health Canada instead? Even in the US, BPA is not permitted in infant formula and bottles in an
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by word-reader 7y ago
If you choose metal containers because you think plastic is bad, remember that all aluminum food and beverage cans have plastic liners which usually contain BPA or other endocrine disruptors.
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by word-reader 7y ago
That article is from early 2017, with the data right after the Trump inauguration, when immigrants and traffickers were unsure what (if any) changes there would be in enforcement. More recent apprehension data from this year shows a ten yea
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by word-reader 7y ago
Domestic surveillance by ICE of everyone, both citizens and those without papers, wouldn't even be necessary if either the border was properly controlled, or if employers were made more liable for employing workers illegally. But someh
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by word-reader 7y ago
In your reading, guns used to be able to preserve liberty, but now they're irrelevant because the state security forces can just brutally crush any resistance with their superior firepower? That's not good rhetoric, and it'

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