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If NSO/HackingTeam were in the business of selling physical weapons to foreign governments, would they have been responsible for a government killing journalists with said weapons?

If they were in the businesses of selling weapons of war and caught instead selling covert weapons with no legitimate use in open warfare to countries that disclose illegal acts of war to them, I think they belong in the Hague being tried for war crimes.

(After that, I suppose they can be referred to human rights courts as a defacto part of each government that had violations. Since they were active participants in the use of the weapon as shown by the phone list, they have no argument that they were not active members of every conspiracy involving their service.)

Good to know, but my memory of Maine is that these places look like trucking exchanges points that few tourists will investigate and I don't see the ethics in having easy retail that isn't also responsible for equally convenient recycling.

I'm not sure I believe this diagnosis. I think communications has made for more formal estrangement since it's pretty hard to find a lifestyle that explains why you can't video chat from anywhere anytime and the cost of even trans-continental travel is rarely a quarter of a year's salary.

The further you go back, the easier it was to have excuses to greatly limit contact and only have contact that is very impersonal. The average American is a decendant of adults who were never going to see their parents again. Most would have felt a great deal of social pressure to treat that as a hardship and disguise if it was their primary motivation.

I think hunter gatherers would have been predisposed to finding new groups at adolescence even if their culture lacked a specific rule for which sex does so, and the priorities of agricultural societies to keep land rights are probably not particularly compatible with our evolutionary past.

Not really, I want to scrape a relationship from the current page into a table to be used in joins, etc, with tables from other pages I have previously scraped. The current page being CSV is only an example of a clear relational table.

One can do similar things ~manually popping data into the domains Key-value DBs while scraping, then injecting a GUI to work with all the data, but a tool for doing this with relational database primitives would be more powerful as jailer demonstrates.

Has anyone seen anything similar but for browsers?

(I.e. I would like an extension popping CSV and other relational formats while surfing into the browser's DBs to then work with in a GUI like this.)

Do those sites have fraudulent affiliate marketing programs?

It sounds to me like they are over edges MLM companies are careful not to cross. I.e. they probably don't know if they could legally pay the "influencer" they are chatting with an affiliate fee.

paid for by the tax payer.

Actually the Zurich build out was only financed by the tax payer to be done by the electric company and Swisscom. Internet providers must each have equal options to lease the last mile from whoever built it out in a given city or town; it isn't free.

A typical consumer router will take up something like 5-10 watts.

You demonstrate a good worst case, but the article writer wants to use more than 10 gb/s so he can't actually use your typical router, he can have 15 gb/s with the MikroTik CCR2004-1G-12S which has an unknown idle W and a max around 50W.

Looking into the problem, I can't really determine why I should upgrade to 10 or 25 gb/s, but if I wanted to do so now I would rather buy components I could reuse than buy a router that will be inefficient for its entire service life.

Given 85% in the cohorts likely to die are vaccinated but a little less than half who die are vaccinated, half actually implies the vaccine is roughly 85% effective against death. So trying to emphasize half of those who die are vaccinated in a headline about a place with a higher rate of vaccination than the reader's is trying to put a bias into the head of people who skim the news.

Most phones secured bootloaders are hacked in less than 6 months if there is sufficient interest in the model. So if treatment of this as a huge security threat that makes other rights moot is valid then most of us should be able to return our improperly secured phones before their warranty is up.

Rather, I would not buy a software product from them or accept any project that depended on one since they eventually will sell it to some smaller company to dump it, apparently even when they still need it themselves.

Reminds me of this recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27517846

I think good goal posts are even further away.. If you complete 100% of calculus I and then delete all access to it instead of solidifying it by going to calculus II, you will need to learn calc I again within months and the cognitive dissonance that creates will cause most people never to learn calculus.

If you are betting something will tank then you don't time the market to get to put at the best price. Buying these puts either pays out a lot if there is a giant dive before they expire or is a cost to cover that time period.

I still don't get why large holders aren't getting hit? If you were to file takedowns on Disney's misuse of mythology, or whatever, wouldn't you get 30 days of their income while letting their rebuttal expire?

From their numbers it seems like the 20% of Israelis who are neither children nor vaccinated represent about 0 delta cases?

To be able to do such a rounding error in an article implies to me that delta is roughly as infectious in the vaccinated as vanilla was in the unvaccinated.

That's probably not a cause for concern for the vaccinated, as it won't even rarely kill them, but that does mean the herd immunity eventually will not be protecting the unvaccinated from a variant.

The best way to do taxes' progressive support in reverse is to give everyone basic income, food stamps, and insurance and then offset that in the progressive tax rate.

Aside from removing stigma from using the universal minimums it solves the problem of losing 3X your income when combining separate state food program, city housing, and medical programs. That remains a problem even when individual programs move away from thresholds.

I think the OP is right about the economic effect. Companies selling their most powerful machine with limiters you must pay to remove dropped the overall benefits of computers to society, but society paid those companies more money for less total benefit as a result of users with higher need for it having to pay more than users with barely a need.

Similarly in software, you can't buy an OS on a per system basis for anywhere near the portion of its cost to produce and keep competitive. The large number of jobs customizing free software exist but they would also exist in a world where there were many competitive profitable stacks bellow them, and they would be buying or creating more expensive middleware instead of expecting anything not specific to their niche to come for free in the next OS release.

I'm happy if employers need to disclose upfront; this is a powerful signal that I don't want to work for them.

Being able to avoid the disclosure by throwing out applications is more problematic.

So require reporting them for additional taxation. Not reporting being tax fraud is a stronger incentive than reporting for tax savings.

Basically, they seem to have 42% of websites with ads. The target audience of this article is advertisers and Google's own brand is based in part on their ability to enforce a lot of standards that brands like, so brands expect them to have little presence on porn sites, hate sites, sites with malicious content, etc.

As someone who worked on kernel/OS code in C for many years, I'm very happy to see any language that doesn't sacrifice it's fit for embedded systems try to enter this space.

I think it was a shame that go didn't prioritize the lower-level use cases like its ancestors and I think not falling into a NIH syndrome is wise and mature of Google.

People will drop out because of change, and others will join or comeback. Life goes on.

Great, now if you are YouTube, that will cost 100m to automate, you won't notice this cost. If you are Vimeo you either declare bankruptcy or have more semi-manual processes to implement the same eating your slim profits each quarter and further limiting the competitiveness of offers you can make.

Your arguments are largely similar to putting regulations on a Telco monopoly to give a little back as if there were competition. We know how that works, it doesn't address the problem and certainly doesn't make competition appear.

Your ToS processes will be perfect for keeping companies out that aren't already affiliated with a big tech and using their legal.

A laundry list of new barriers to entry is going to prevent consolidation in an industry?

That's like saying if FB buying startups like WhatsApp was a problem, then let's prevent startups from ever competing.

I think government can ban itself from using anything that isn't a federated protocol and should not be doing stupid things with private platforms.

Guix and guile are in separate repositories just like nixpkgs and nix.. It wouldn't be nice to mix these. The difference is really about the amount of coevolving the language can make to the specific tasks.

It's a little surprising that there isn't one clear emerging shadow protocol in the GNU community. It would be interesting to see how Jami would approach IRC like channels in it's distributed fashion or which server it would adopt for use with its identity service.

I'd generally say this is good. Companies with a lot of experience with their process don't seem to realize that the process doesn't stop when they have alienated the candidate, they just start to get bad market information in exchange for good market information.

Unless you want to internationally relocate to stay with this firm, I would assume that it is time to move on and leave this to someone else. Even if the firm has no intention of giving up the location, they also aren't going to be committed enough and keeping it will likely be a thankless battle.

I think the problem is security in the software industry is not compatible with the US' volume production style economy, so more spending will be on more low/no assurance software that matches more checkboxes, raises costs and further deteriorates security. Companies that minimize their attack surfaces will be the only ones that cease to qualify for insurance under most legislation that would appeal to the industry.

I've already removed the app, and FB's communications avoid the topic of how I reinstall without accepting the "new" a.k.a current terms. So AFAIK I can't delete my account and plenty of people won't be able to accept this new deal of theirs.

I would think a lot of people were as careless about it as me and a lot of WhatsApp users are starting to think they are being intentionally ghosted by a few contacts.