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Thank you for sharing these.

Thanks.

The problem is that it isn't. The police have routinely conducted similar dragnets with racial profiling in the past.

Even in systems with less human intervention (e.g automated loan approval systems) bias is still being built in.

If anything this could provide people with the excuse of "see! it was the algorithm!".

This is a really good point.

We could probably even pile on the health risks associated with products like cosmetics and otc medicine.

One of the main points of the boycott is that the Black community was targeted through misinformation campaigns with the goal of supporting voter suppression. That's how they were targeted.

That wouldn't be uncomfortable questions at all for the NAACP.

A lot of youtubers receive direct donations and have monthly subscription offerings through things like Patreon. It might not be that unrealistic as it seems.

I put "teh game is a art" into this one and it told me there were no problems with the writing.

I ended up buying a used Lenovo x250 off ebay for a code training program that required Mac but made case by case exceptions for Linux users.

It runs pretty well with Ubuntu out of the box. I got some additional power savings with installing TLP and etc for Thinkpads.

It'd be nice to see an 8pen implementation on watches. It was a nifty take on a keyboard interface that didn't get much traction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99vsUF4NuLk

I agree. A lot of the members of the biohacking/grinder group at HacDC felt the same way. We kind of viewed this stuff as an interesting hacker intersection that was similar to being in the garage and basement stage of personal computing.

This article made me really miss that group.

There is a lot of public information available about this stuff. I would start with looking into Zone Integrity Program Contractors (for Part A and B), Medicare Drug Ingretity Contracts (Part D), and Recovery Audit Contractors (Part A and B, mostly focusing on over and under paymentments through periodic auditing).

There are also groups you can find out more information on that handle fraud for medical labs that fall under CLEA regulation (Labs/PINS group) and ambulatory services fraud. There is also a contractor that's focused on provider screening services.

It's a pretty big subject to sum up how they're doing this but it does involve some interesting analysis techniques and there are plenty of pain points that could probably be improved.

It's really interesting and exciting work for technologist who want to get in on it.

I used to work for a CMS contractor that was involved in th is kind of work. The level of effort put into fraud, abuse, and waste prevention for Medicare and Medicaid are amazing. There's still a lot of room for improvement, but it was a memorable experience working in that field.

At one point this was my favorite distro and my favorite irc channel to hang out in. It showed me a lot about the possibilities of configuring a minimal system.

Sad to see it go. Thanks for everything.

Where in the Bible belt are you? There are some budding places that are technically in the Bible Belt.

You may not need to relocate as far as you may think, or HN might suggest.

Does anyone have an example of making a CV like this? It sounds like something I could benefit from.

This kind of has a nice Team Treehouse look to it too.

If I need something like live previews of my work as I am writing it, I just use light-table with the appropriate plugins.

Otherwise, any old text editor works for me.

https://hakiri.io/ would be a nice tool to add to this list.

This was fun. Great app.

Could you please consider posting videos of the talk? A local group on software engineering did a talk I could not attend but I am interested.

The people who also voted for this incarnation of the bill now wield another political tool come the next election season: calling their opponents flip floppers.

Linode and Digital Ocean have never asked me for any kind of verification. They have just wanted their bill paid so far.

Maybe I'm just small potatoes compared to what other customers do with their infrastructure?

I got them to validate my account with an email and a copy of a statement but I was later told I could not purchase this because it wasn't available to Americans. Before I realized this was the case, I received an e-mail saying that my paypal payment wasn't accepted because the order couldn't be validated.

I just ended up going with Digital Ocean instead. It would've been nice to have a cheap dedi but it isn't worth this kind of hassle.

This is a pretty cool project. I will check it out more when I get some time.

This makes me wonder how far away something like the "Be Right Back" episode of Black Mirror, as others have already mentioned.

This seems more like another memorial service that may make sense with the kind of in-roads technology, the Internet, and social media are making into more and more lives. I think an interesting application of this would be having QR codes that match up with digital memorials like on headstones, or in-line akin to a hyper text function in epitaphs.

It's not necessarily something I might want for myself or loved ones, but this is a fascinating aspect of how people deal with death and a person's digital life.

If you don't want to marry or have kids, you're not really compromising anything.

imho, it's about being honest with yourself about what you want.

Cryptonomicon(no snark intended)? I read that book this year too and it was definitely a great read. It's aged really well.

Why is being categorized as Black an inherently negative thing? You should really read up on how we historically used to be classified and categorized.

> Are southern Italians black? What about Turks?

No. Black typically refers to people who are indigenous members of the African diaspora. As it's been used in the west, it's not typically resting solely on complexion (e.g they had another set of nasty names for darker people from Europe and Asia).

I understand this is highly contextual, and that there may be native categorizations that are similar to specific regions, but I hope this clarifies how it applies.

> Just to put this into context: here, in Belgium, it's actually illegal to register someone's "race" (except for medical reasons).

I'm still curious why this is considered progress. As I've seen it in other countries, it doesn't do much to address racial issues in a society. The elimination of a box on state forms doesn't mean that it's somehow removed or diminished in that society.

I'm Black and used to being on the Internet. I just hope it doesn't discourage any young women or minorities from going into a STEM field. I wish I could tell them it gets better but it really doesn't.

They're always actively looking for volunteers in the areas. I believe more information about becoming a volunteer is on their website.

Passing the links/events/fundraisers around doesn't hurt either, imho.