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Re:Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to researchers on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @07:00AM (#24917366)
No it's not. However, they didn't send a cease-and-desist letter to the users that installed the plugin. They sent the letter to the researchers that built the plugin that uses the service Facebook offers in a way that is against Facebook's wishes. Therefore, technically, the letter is going to the correct party and for the right reasons.

Mind, I'm saying 'technically'. Ethically, I think Facebook (and other big social tech) should be researched more. In legal ways, this is how they should handle this.

Re:Using Altair for most of my visualization in Python on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @12:20AM (#19846538)
Haha I came here expecting to see the dude from Assassin's Creed drawing all kinds of graphs :'-) Or better, imagining.
Re:Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts? on Sunday January 06, 2019 @04:54AM (#18837523)
I use vimwiki to keep notes. It's not synced out of the box, but as it's just a directory with text files, you could make it so. If I'm not with my laptop, I just make a note in Google Keep.
Wasn't there this trivia that comedy hospital series Scrubs was actually the most technically correct medical show?
Re:How to Write a Technical Paper [pdf] on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @10:10AM (#18229497)
Check [0] as well. It describes very well what questions the introduction should answer.

[0] https://cs.stanford.edu/people/widom/paper-writing.html [2006]