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plurple··on I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score
They’re able to operate this way because everything has been secret. With the new California law it’s probably just a few months until there’s a class action against any or all of these for discrimination against multiple protected classes.
plurple··on IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence over Free File Program
Then Lois Lerner shouldn’t have had any reason to plead the fifth repeatedly if she hadn’t done anything incriminating.
plurple··on GitHub tries to quell employee anger over its ICE contract
Luckily, whether you consider something racist or not has no actual impact on the usage of the term. And of course, you’re free to call a speeder an “illegal” if you want, just like apparently you’re free to call other HN users racist for using common terminology in a way you don’t like.
plurple··on IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence over Free File Program
It’s not just this administration. The Lois Lerner fiasco happened during the previous administration. I think the IRS has been corrupt for a long time without any help. Ken Corbin, the person in charge of this filing nonsense, is a 27 year employee of the IRS.
plurple··on Ask HN: Random upper back pain is ruining my life. At wits end. Anyone else?
Are you right or left handed? Hopefully they thoroughly checked your gallbladder. If they have, then exercise is usually the best treatment, but you’ll probably want to go to a trainer one time to see if they can figure out what shoulder exercises would be best.
plurple··on Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads
I’m not confused at all. They partnered with hundreds of sites, and excluded Breitbart from getting paid. Some partnership.
plurple··on Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads
Are you really calling letting a website be shown as “teaming up”? Breitbart isn’t even one of the 200 paid news websites and you're acting like they’re best buds with Zuckerberg. It’s this kind of foaming-at-the-mouth hyperbole that makes all of this so dangerous.
plurple··on 7M Adobe Creative Cloud Accounts Exposed to the Public
And I just recently saw one of the top people on Creative Cloud mocking someone on Twitter for their security. Oops.
plurple··on New York Regulator Probes UnitedHealth Algorithm for Racial Bias
Do you really think the melanin content of your skin has any causal relation to how well you can play basketball? Or maybe melanin content isn’t the only difference.
plurple··on Ask HN: Why don't homeless people from SF move to another city?
There are a lot of reasons. Moving can be expensive, and they probably have no idea what they’d be moving into. I also knew one homeless person who stuck to a major city because he knew he’d have continued access to money, food and drugs in good weather. I don’t blame him for that decision because he didn’t have a lot of other options due to mental illness.
plurple··on Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enforcement Requests
Because a lot of people aren’t home 24 hours a day, and thieves can steal cameras and computers. I use local storage for my security since I’m paranoid, but it’s more of a pain than Ring.
plurple··on The Uncertain Fate of Amsterdam’s Red-Light District
Because most of the foreign sex workers are trafficked in and forced to do the work.
plurple··on The 5 foot ground rod and its use in the National Electric Code (2018)
You should have bribed the inspectors. After multiple FBI investigations, LA County building inspectors have figured out that the fines are smaller than the profit. It’s surreal how openly corrupt the planning and building departments in LA are.
plurple··on 38 People are looking at this post right now
It is almost certainly illegal. The use of falsified facts in an advertisement is illegal.
plurple··on Baltimore Blew Off Ransomware Demand Only to Find Data Had Never Been Backed Up
Stop these positions from being political hires. The IT head had a political consultant, and was the highest paid person in the city government. He was hired by the former mayor who is now under FBI investigation.
plurple··on After 184 years, Cherokees seek House delegate seat promised in treaty
Native American land laws are a disaster, and it’s not their fault. It’s a large contributor to poverty as well. I’m still not sure if that was an unintended or intended consequence of US govt treaties.