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Shendare | 9 years ago | on: If you publish Georgia's state laws, you'll get sued for copyright and lose

I feel like the challenging and political nature of Mr. Malamud's communications were a big misstep. Putting government representatives on the defensive turns an already difficult bureaucracy into a brick wall.

On the other hand, there's an opportunity for a sufficiently funded non-profit to cross reference official code books with judicial public records to auto-annotate the law with pertinent cases where it was used. What would be missing would be human-added value like brief descriptions of the outcome and how it is likely to apply to other legal cases.

On the other hand, if there's no way to machine-read the law, we have a questionable impasse.

Shendare | 9 years ago | on: The Other Half

Of course, acknowledging and appreciating differences differs greatly from enforcing differences.

Shendare | 9 years ago | on: YubiKey 4C

It sounds like you would be better served with a Bluetooth proximity-based device like a Gatekeeper.

http://www.gkchain.com/gatekeeper.html

I haven't looked into the OTP functionality of it, since I decided to go with a YubiKey myself, but a friend loves it for hands-free automatic locking and unlocking of his computer as he comes and goes.

Shendare | 9 years ago | on: Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC

And they wouldn't be outright blocked. They'd just be throttled to 128kbps and limited to only one open TCP connection at a time from that customer.

Shendare | 9 years ago | on: Facebook blocks links to B.S. Detector, fake news warning plugin

That's why you don't block; you flag. Let people make their own choices, but informed. Allow users to flag a link or post with tags such as Satire, Misleading, Controversial, Editorialized, Biased, Debunked, etc. Everyone else can still view the links and posts, but with some small indication of its trustworthiness. Though I feel like some tags, such as Debunked, should perhaps require a supporting link attached to a flag.

Shendare | 9 years ago | on: What's the Longest Humans Can Live?

That article could not keep straight whether it was talking about average lifespans or maximum expected lifespans, or maybe average maximum expected lifespans?

The only claim it managed to get across to me was that we can expect the end of the lifespan bell curve to get steeper and steeper as average lifespans continue to increase from better longevity, while maximum lifespans (and the number of people who reach them) increase at a much slower rate.

Shendare | 9 years ago | on: FBI says it won't recommend charges in Clinton case

Happens far too commonly. I'll see a great link in the RSS feed and come to look for discussion about it after reading, but the article will have been removed. I've learned to search site:ycombinator.com with the article's title in order to track it down and see if there was any discussion before it was binned.
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