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AFAIK, the exploit only works on older iphones. It'll quickly lose value going forward.

Space isn't an empty vacuum, but that's tangential. The expansion in this context is metric explanation, which just means things are getting further and further apart between two p…

One of my CS professors had us writing papers, and we got extra points if it was in comic sans. I had to specifically install a ms fonts package for it. Ever since I've liked it, b…

Ya, pretty sure Sanders does better in polls against Trump than Clinton anyways.

Unless you're just hiring people for the sake of employment to do things that don't need done. I've read China's housing market is in a bit of a pickle due to this. Course they als…

Maybe google just licensed or asked to use it as a part of an undefined April fools joke, and she / they assumed Google wouldn't do something irresponsible?

I'm pretty sure it's a joke.

Almost certainly not. Most likely no one in the world has that capability, at least as far as I can tell. It would be extremely surprising if any government somehow broke AES witho…

If you start a graph at like 50 on the y axis it's easy to make data look more pronounced. The official graph showed they dropped to "zero", presumably a bigger difference than 50%…

I just down an energy drink that's sitting by my alarm clock every morning. Not healthy maybe but oh well.

Yeah, foam doesn't really "soundproof" anything. Foam is normally for sound treatment, so you get less interference when making music for mixing / mastering / recording purposes. Y…

The distinction is important because people in government and people in corporations usually have different motives than people in general. (Particularly people in leadership roles…

Or even the police, who last I read do sell their plate data gathered from their car cameras.

That's the problem, where is the line? Because there barely seems to be one. Shuffle a few laws around and whoops, authoritarians in power have infrastructure to do as they please.…

They may not "have everyone's data", but they have data on most Americans in one form or another. Presumably pretty extensive data. You can claim the NSA has data on the majority o…

I wonder if it's a matter of apathy or if they genuinely like that idea. Most people I talk to about this say "I don't even want to know" or "who cares". They just find the whole t…

Too simplistic, regional arrangements don't necessarily mean everyone in said community follows the ideology of that group. Moving outside of the realm of abstracted ideological th…

I'm just kinda reflecting what I read about a book called "bullshit jobs", where he gives examples like telemarketing and a lot of paper pushing admin positions. Basically anything…

What if the value to someone is keeping people busy and thus not challenging the status quo? Or what if the job is useless to society but still makes some money?

But this can have the effect of reducing incentive to work, according to the criticisms section of that page and some other stuff I've read.

Ya, but we don't even know if the racial disparity and gender disparity are affected by the same factors. I'm not arguing they don't exist I'm arguing for comprehensive evaluation …

I'm not really trying to make a judgement on the moral aspects, I'm just a fan of accurately representing the situation. What if a disproportionate amount of the applications are f…

OK, but like 63% of the U.S consists of whites. If it were an even distribution it would be disproportionate. Whites are somewhat over represented based on your numbers, but not as…