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jk563··on Fitbit's 150B hours of heart data
If it's anonymised well enough it wouldn't be possible to delete it, which may well be the case.
jk563··on Tesla crash in September showed similarities to fatal Mountain View accident
What about if it could pass a driving test?
jk563··on Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google
Oracle paid for ammo it thought it could sue Google for.
jk563··on Facebook Goes on a Hiring Spree for Washington Lobbyists
If you're going to be pedantic, at least run the numbers properly. Off of 2.2B active users[0], 0.00001% comes to about 220 users. Overly pessimistic, yes; less than one user, no!

https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...

jk563··on The Declining Value of a CS Master's Degree (2013)
> This was never the case in Europe, where if you have only a bachelor, people assume something went wrong.

This was never my impression during my university years, nor in working life (both technical and managerial).

jk563··on Some software cannot be used at Google
No, it's included under the WTFPL one.
jk563··on Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, court rules
Good point, I was wrong. The road tax policy should be updated to take NOx levels in to account. The recommendation remains :)
jk563··on California to allow testing of self-driving cars without a driver present
I'm not sure about that. The flip side of that is that my standard insurance insures me on my car, but I'm also insured to drive someone else's car too without further premiums required.
jk563··on Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, court rules
I could be wrong, but I would guess that your quandary isn't to do with the policy as such, but the way it's been gamed by car manufacturers. That diesel would likely have a much higher road tax if its actual emissions were taken in to account, and not just the lab-based ones.

Get a petrol car pay the tax would be my recommendation. Depends on what you need too. My 5-year-old petrol Fiesta was <£10k and is £0 road tax.

jk563··on Google closes its $1.1B deal with HTC Corp
Fairly subjective to be fair. I'd wager that the same features that creep you out are some of the features that delight me.
jk563··on Are short-term home sellers screwed?
I for one paid a fixed sum which came to about 0.65% for the estate agent fees for my latest sale.
jk563··on Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw
Well if you use m5.xlarge instances from AWS you were getting 4 vCPUs for your money. I don't expect you'll now get 5...
jk563··on Stanford CS007: Personal Finance For Engineers
I've found de-coupling to be the key to altering this sort of behaviour. The balance of my savings and investment accounts are separate from my budgeting. I allocate funds at the budget level, the balance of my various accounts being a secondary concern.
jk563··on Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab
In the last 3 enterprises that I've worked in, 2 did (do) use GitLab. So, I guess what I'm saying is, it matches my experience.
jk563··on How to Make Money Using Grep, Sed and Awk
Glancing over this I thought it said: "Either being hungry or...". Nodding in agreement, I then realised my mistake.
jk563··on The Prize in Economic Sciences 2017
Oooo, thanks for that! Know of anything where I can read more / see the legal definitions?
jk563··on The Prize in Economic Sciences 2017
I've always found this stupid in the UK. Not only do we call paid for schools Public Schools, but we simultaneously call them Private Schools. It makes no sense!

[EDIT] wrong parent, right thread. Meant to reply to chrisseaton

jk563··on The Prize in Economic Sciences 2017
I've been guilty of this on several occasions, happily paying £5 more for an item because it's on Prime as opposed to a smaller delivery fee.
jk563··on SpaceX: Making Life Multiplanetary [video]
It's the default Mac background that I assume they were running the presentation off of.
jk563··on Uber says it's leaving Quebec if province insists on stricter rules
My assumption would be that most people aren't aware of the shadiness, or at least the level of it.
jk563··on How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege?
> Remember, all those gifts they give you are a social debt for which they will want to collect.

I feel that is a bit of a sweeping statement. I certainly don't expect anything back for the gifts I've bought for friends and family for weddings, I would be shocked if I were a unique case.

jk563··on Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App
I assume you mean a huge loss?
jk563··on iPhone 8 Plus: The best smartphone camera we’ve ever tested
Context:

- 8+: 94

- 8: 92

- Pixel / HTC U11: 90

jk563··on iPhone 8 Plus: The best smartphone camera we’ve ever tested
> We look forward to testing the iPhone X and comparing it against the iPhone 8 Plus

Not yet tested.

jk563··on Building a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life
Yes
jk563··on How Mushrooms Could Repair Our Crumbling Infrastructure
Sounds like an interesting solution. The article does point out that this is very early, petri-dish stage, and that there is a significant problem in that the concrete could crush the shrooms when it sets.
jk563··on Trello, “Jira Sucks”, and Tool Dysfunction
I've both loved and hated JIRA. For me, it all comes down to how well set up it is. Its configuration over convention approach leads to many installations being poorly configured and often hacked together.
jk563··on LSU Sues Elsevier for Breach of Contract
Because they have unlimited access?
jk563··on EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown request
Fifteen Million Merits (S01E02) to be specific.
jk563··on To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software
Last time I voted I took a driving licence. All they did was check my face matched my card, and the name and address matched my registration no real check on whether or not the card was genuine.

When I created my government account I provided passport and driving licence numbers on top of the above.

I feel this invalidates your veracity point, and probably the scaling point too?

The second and third points seem more viable and are potential issues. Especially the third, this would be the main concern IMO. Though I'm sure there are protections against this too (thinking virtually distributed).

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