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hpoe commented on New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cookie management providers   iapp.org/news/a/new-eu-da... · Posted by u/pmlnr
trasz · 4 years ago
Would you trust your data are secure and protected in a datacenter located in China?

It’s the same with the US.

hpoe · 4 years ago
As a slight point of contention one of the big differences between German data centers in the US vs in the rebellious state of west Taiwan, is that Germany is part of NATO so at the end of the day when all of the project management reports hit the fan German land and citizens are guaranteed protection by US guns, in the China case they are a foreign directly hostile power. So although many Euro countries might not love they way the US is data harvesting, and with good reason, and the US does have some human rights abuses ultimately US military might stands as a protection against other foreign powers. An apt analogy is, "you aren't allowed to pick on my little brother that's my job." type situation.
hpoe commented on Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)   svn.cacert.org/CAcert/CAc... · Posted by u/bobbiechen
TedDoesntTalk · 4 years ago
In what context was this to be used?
hpoe · 4 years ago
World war 2
hpoe commented on Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)   svn.cacert.org/CAcert/CAc... · Posted by u/bobbiechen
hpoe · 4 years ago
So I've seen this a couple of times and to me it make sense, but it also seems such a perfect indictment of organizational culture that I could see it being fabricated for laughs. Can anyone vouch for the authenticity of this?
hpoe commented on Don't use Digital Ocean (DO) for production    · Posted by u/vfulco2
helaoban · 4 years ago
Would you be willing to to sell all of your vehicles and sign a time-charter contract with Uber to manage all of your ground transportation for the foreseeable future?
hpoe · 4 years ago
No but I am a single individual. If I was a company that produced widgets I would use FedEx or UPS rather than maintaining my own fleet of trucks, drivers, maintenance staff, etc.
hpoe commented on 20 Reasons America Is No Longer the Greatest Country in the World   247wallst.com/economy/202... · Posted by u/dukeofdoom
SeanLuke · 4 years ago
England came up with that idea, not the US. Specifically, John Locke.
hpoe · 4 years ago
John Locke was the architect with the PowerPoint the Founding Fathers put into code.
hpoe commented on Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg   bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n... · Posted by u/DrHilarius
hedora · 4 years ago
As the letter points out, in this particular case, fact checking is not hard.

In fact, this is one of the easiest scenarios for a fact checker to handle correctly.

The source is a reputable, top-tier peer-reviewed publication. Even an inexperienced (but competent) fact checker could check run literature searches on the journal, reviewers and authors. This would reveal that they’re working at reputable institutions, and have been for decades.

hpoe · 4 years ago
Under that system a young German scientist who wrote about the photovoltaic effect would be ignored and classified as non-reputable. Just saying being part of the institutions doesn't make on right it makes one prominent.
hpoe commented on Don't use Digital Ocean (DO) for production    · Posted by u/vfulco2
garbagecoder · 4 years ago
Reminder that the cloud is just someone else's computer.
hpoe · 4 years ago
In the same way that Uber is just someone else's car.
hpoe commented on CCPA Scam – Human subject research study conducted by Princeton University   blog.freeradical.zone/pos... · Posted by u/ColinWright
kstrauser · 4 years ago
This is Teixeira's Twitter claiming that the study has been very well received by its unknowing participants: https://twitter.com/RossTeixeira/status/1471249557883432967
hpoe · 4 years ago
Well I hope the bill for legal services is as well received by Teixeira as he claims the unknowing participants are receiving his "research"
hpoe commented on Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows   washingtonpost.com/educat... · Posted by u/ren_engineer
bryan0 · 4 years ago
here are the criteria they used in the adversity score:

Crime rate, Poverty rate, Housing values, Vacancy rate, Family environment, Median income, Single parent, Adversity score, Education level, ESL, High school environment, Undermatching, Curricular rigor, Free lunch rate, AP opportunity

Each school got a score.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sat-to-give-students-adversity-...

hpoe · 4 years ago
Looks like I am too late to edit my comment but I will acknowledge I was wrong about that those indicators seem to be reasonable and I could see myself possibly being in support of something like that not in the SAT itself but as a factor in admissions.
hpoe commented on Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows   washingtonpost.com/educat... · Posted by u/ren_engineer
pphysch · 4 years ago
Meritocracy requires established experts to select candidates based on merit, which is quite different from the masses selecting candidates based on popularity (democracy).
hpoe · 4 years ago
I disagree with the experts part, after all under meritocracy Einstein is the greatest scientific mind of the 20th century however he wasn't even able to get a job in academia until after he produced ground breaking results.

u/hpoe

KarmaCake day2388June 27, 2019View Original