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> If a cop sells you oregano and you think it's marijuana [...] It wasn't a cop, but I recall a case some years back when someone sold something as cocaine when it wasn't. Among ot…

Let's decompose "our" data just a bit: data that we ourselves intentionally create (e.g., pictures we take, documents we write) and the observations of others about our activities …

> You can always just claim you don't like the person for other reasons. That's true. It's also true that there are plenty of professional contexts where people have to work togeth…

> Step one: Identify the target and its flaws. There are always flaws. > I learned that early in life. My first hack, the local library, a vulnerable FTP server in its AS/400. A fa…

> You can't be pro-privacy and simultaneously believe ... You gave information to LI, trusting that they wouldn't disclose it to people you wouldn't want to have it. Meanwhile, unt…

I wonder how we would regard a person who could reliably perform such a feat whenever he pleased. Would we sterilize him, lest he give rise to a bunch of cute little privacy-invadi…

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We hold and use Guam for the same reason we support Ukraine against Russia: We believe these things are in our interests. The justifications we give are just words.

In most libraries in the US, browsing the collection--even taking books from the shelves to a table for a while to read and make notes--does not require any sort of identification …

More direct link: https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e9ec167c-750d-44cc-bdcc-3b5...

No lives matter.

> I have no business being able to do either ... Why not?

Are they using "third world" in its original sense of non-alignment? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World

> auto-vectorizers are just not as flexible as the proper SIMD-tools What is a "proper" SIMD tool?

> The spirit of the law says that you can’t tell “fire!” in a crowded building Of course you can. Especially if there's a fire. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a…

> secret API In their client-side code, they provide a worked example of how to use their API. That's hardly the way to keep a secret.

Satire. The way to fight this is with satire. Perhaps we should post this list to Github, make whatever ridiculous additions we can think of, and take pull requests from all quarte…

Negative. Only use your real name.