Hasnain says:

"For Andy, though, the best part of his fake IDs, which he’d like to collect from all 50 states, is that he uses them for far more than just buying booze. They’re a way to enrich your life, he says. If a museum in Chicago is offering half-price admission for state residents, he’ll whip out his fake Illinois ID. If the Bronx Zoo is running a similar promotion, he’s got a New York one."

Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2017-05-03T22:54:11+0000

Hasnain says:

Not sure why they let someone create an app on their own platform that shares the name with one of their own apps..

Whoa

Hasnain says:

This seems to be pretty cool

Hasnain says:

Everyone on every side of every political, religious, scientific, whatever​ spectrum, needs to stop and read this now.

Yes, even you

Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2017-05-02T22:09:50+0000

Hasnain says:

Whoa.

"“It is inappropriate for the District Attorney’s Office to falsely suggest that this document is a ‘subpoena,’” said Dane Ciolino, a Loyola law professor and legal ethics expert, “and to suggest that disregard of the document can be punishable by fine or imprisonment.”"

Hasnain says:

"Consider that in 2011, BitTorrent accounted for 23 percent of daily internet traffic in North America, according to network-equipment company Sandvine. By last year, that number sat at under 5 percent. “There’s always going to be the floor of people that are always going to be torrenting,” says Sandvine spokesperson Dan Deeth. That group will surely enjoy whatever Piper’s up to in season five. But the idea that so small a cohort might prompt Netflix to negotiate with hackers seems absurd."

Hasnain says:

"Only one in eight female heart-attack patients report feeling chest pain, the classic warning sign in men; instead, 71 percent of women have flu-like symptoms."

This is horrifying: I always assumed chest pain was like the One True Indicator for a heart attack. And the article gets even scarier later:

"The study on the interaction between flibanserin and alcohol was conducted on 25 human subjects—23 of whom were male— even though the drug is prescribed only to women."

Hasnain says:

"There are good reasons to use data to ensure uniformity in sentencing. It is less clear that uniformity must come at the price of secrecy, particularly when the justification for secrecy is the protection of a private company’s profits. The government can surely develop its own algorithms and allow defense lawyers to evaluate them."