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Hmm, isn't that what I said? They can treat people with a characteristic more favourably, but they can't exclude people without that characteristic from the start.

I guess the difference is whether you can hire a minority candidate even if they are objectively less qualified for a job? My understanding was that you could only use the characteristics as a tie breaker if two candidates were otherwise the same, but maybe that's wrong.

Might be worth asking Reddit's r/legaladvice (but take what they say with a grain of salt). In the UK this would be illegal afaik - you are only allowed to favour one sex over the other if there are two equivalent applicants for a position and you are trying to counteract an existing imbalance in your team. But you can't outright reject one sex from the start.

Apart from everything else: Last time Russia invaded Ukraine they shot down a civilian air plane that was travelling from the Netherlands to Malaysia (MH17). A war between Russia and Ukraine would not just affect those two countries.

There are still different degrees to how much a source is biased, and I would argue that "Russian ex-military and RT commentator" is very high on the bias scale. Especially since he is from a place famous for heavy restrictions on speech, state-controlled media and disinformation campaigns.

Right. I was hoping for something a bit more independent. From all I can tell this is just the opinion of a Russian ex military officer posted on a random blog. Not a particularly great source for independent geopolitical analysis.

Russia is also pretty dependent on the revenues from supplying the gas, so I'm not sure if it would be in anyone's interests to disrupt the supply.

Any background on this site or the author? They don't seem particularly unbiased to me.

It's to prevent people from registering their hobby projects as a businesses to deduct expenses from their taxes.

> #AaronSwartz

right...

You'll also have a hard time not talking about Spain in the history of Latin America, but that doesn't mean it's part of it.

That seems like an odd argument to make. They probably only got that funding because they agreed to slim down their workforce.

I know this sounds horrible but in the days of covid and working from home, what are companies supposed to do if they have to lay off large amounts of people?

Make them all risk their health to come to an in-person event, only to be fired? Drive to every employee's house to fire them in person?

It obviously sucks but I don't see how, in 2021, this is any different from the kind of thing that would happen all the time in mass layoffs.

AFAIK iOS actually uses the pattern of veins below the fingertip rather than an image of the fingerprint itself. So I can't imagine this would be enough to unlock an iPhone.

One of my sites has been using a ranking algorithm based on this article for over 10 years now. Nobody ever complained, so it must be pretty good.

Presumably there are parts which are patented and public (how the vaccine works in principle), and then there are parts which are not patented but a trade secret (how to actually manufacture it at scale). This kind of thing is very common.

I'm not an expert by any means, but my impression is that, while they certainly still have some influence, lobbyists and big companies hold a lot less sway in European politics than in the US. Part of that may be tighter rules around campaign finance, part of it may be cultural.

Wow, I had no idea they were going to add support for cross-platform Facetime calls with this. If that works well that will definitely replace Zoom for me.

Anybody know why there was such a delay here?

> In March 2021, we examined the phone of a Saudi activist who has chosen to remain anonymous, and determined that they had been hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. During the course of the analysis we obtained an iTunes backup of the device.

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> Citizen Lab forwarded the artifacts to Apple on Tuesday, September 7. On Monday, September 13, Apple confirmed that the files included a zero-day exploit against iOS and MacOS.

You can't force people not to get vaccinated for several years in the middle of a pandemic.

The only reason there is fear is because people keep posting stories like these without putting them into context.

It has been clear for a while now that the Pfizer vaccine works and is safe. Just because Pfizer has chosen to keep collecting data doesn't make that there is any doubt about that. This is also why control groups have been given the option to get vaccinated too. It would be highly questionable to prevent them from getting vaccinated when we know that some of them might die without the vaccine.

And Pfizer doesn't "make" 1.9b of 100m doses. They might have 1.9b in revenue but producing the vaccines isn't free. And 1.9b is a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the savings we have already seen thanks to the vaccine.

It's not an emotional appeal though. It's pretty clear that a high vaccination rate will be beneficial to the overall health and prosperity of a population. I don't care about people getting vaccinated because it makes me feel warm and fuzzy, I care about them getting vaccinated so that we can ramp down restrictions and get closer to normality.

It seems like the people most affected by this are the ones whose photos are being displayed. Why are they not dealing with this?

AZ had to offer the vaccine at cost because they didn't develop it themselves. It was a condition of the license from Oxford University.

The bottleneck in Covid vaccine production has never really been a lack of money. No matter how much money you throw at the problem, it would still take years to build up the necessary supply chains and get the raw materials you need. This is especially true for mRNA vaccines, which are a new technology that require different ingredients and manufacturing processes.

But Windows Defender doesn't report you to law enforcement when it believes it found a virus.

What does the (mis)management of a public infrastructure project have to do with Germany's attractiveness as a base for manufacturing?

I think the problem is not necessarily the loss in revenue due to "not harvesting data" but rather the cost of all the compliance measures and new processes the GDPR requires.

> Tesla is once again at the forefront of electric car technology. Tesla’s new patent incorporates new techniques that no one has seen before (or even really imagined). Tesla’s new patent involves using table salt to mine lithium for use in its batteries. Although lithium is already in use, this new technology is supposed to make it easier and cheaper to get the lithium necessary for Tesla’s batteries.

Dose anybody else feel like this was written by a bot? The way that the same information is repeated several times and phrases like "Tesla’s new patent" are reused seem very odd.

Maybe the cost of GDPR compliance just isn't worth the small amount of revenue that they might make from European visitors? US visitors are probably much more 'valuable' in terms of advertisement revenue, and also much more likely to be a subscriber.

And I say this as a European myself. It sucks that I have to jump through hoops to access some sites but I can't really blame them.

Not just unethical, isn’t that just plain old fraud at this point?