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I'm somewhat embarrassed to say this, but I never learned how to type correctly! I recently started to develop joint pain behind poor typing form and would like to learn better tec…

You are of course allowed to employ SOME obfuscation in research process, but you aren't allowed to shield your product and claims from scrutiny behind them. At the end of the day …

I can't speak about any specific company, but there are several VCs that specialize in life sciences and medicine and have people with the requisite expertise to evaluate claims on…

Similarly, if the company won't validate their tech in peer reviewed journals, they are full of shit. I strongly suspected fraud years before it was acknowledged because Theranos w…

Preach. Boston is damn near overly hostile towards young people. They hyper regulate all activities and services that young people want to participate in or use as you point out, d…

It's largely arguing that most of the cybercrime jobs basically are desk jobs. It principally says two things. First, that most jobs in cybercrime involve selling services to end u…

Well, first I can almost guarantee that the surveillance tech being employed on a predator drone is substantially more advanced and wide ranging than a simple human operated video …

Under your logic, any time the government breaks a law and harms me, I am automatically entitled to disregard the law as well and retaliate. If government can't follow the law, why…

The issue is there is no transparency about what is happening with the data that is being collected.

Exactly this and I'm surprised that I had to scroll this far down to find this comment. Extract this scenario out into meat space. Imagine if a town was running a bulletin board wh…

I would argue that Google has an obligation to be transparent, they do not have an obligation to be neutral. As you state, they are a private entity and can do whatever they want. …

I always wondered what was going on when I saw localhost show up in the connections listing for a site in uMatrix, TIL.

It's also possible to run a web browser in a docker container which can be interacted with on the host OS. This avoids the permissions issues with solutions like firejail: https://…

It doesn't seem like fraud when they are still delivering an actual pizza; that's basically just leveraging a sale. It becomes more dubious when they aren't delivering the finished…

I'm confused. Doordash is knowingly reselling an item for 75% off and someone bought many of the items. No one was defrauded; everyone in the transaction was paid what they wanted …

A plausible plan for actually solving the root problem, namely a realistic strategy for mass testing, contact tracing, and non-voluntary quarantine; or a functional vaccine. Right …

Not unless they are going to send people home if they are positive or forcibly quarantine them and perform contact tracing and further testing. Thus far most western governments ha…

They wait until a vaccine is available. That is obviously what they are shooting for using this tactic. It's actually very smart. You can try to achieve herd immunity if vaccinatio…

They presumably mean until coronavirus disappears or a vaccine appears and everyone is innoculated, so indefinitely.

I agree with you and would add loss of high level mission. When it becomes unclear to people what the broader goal of the company is and how they fit into it, or if they are only r…