John Battelle

If you're a publisher and you forbid deep linking into your site, or have a paid wall or registration requirement, then you're making it hard to 'point to' your content. When no one points to your content, your content is harder to find because search uses links as a proxy for popularity.

American Businessman

Todd Young

Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility.

American Politician

Eric Bogosian

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.

American Actor

Sean MacBride

Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries.

Irish Politician

Tom Chatfield

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

British Author

Gina Haspel

Hostile states' use of proxies in war zones to inflict damage on U.S. interests and troops is a constant, longstanding concern.

American Public Servant

Jill Tarter

We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.

American Scientist

Sean Parker

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

Howard Schultz

I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.

Mahathir Mohamad

Malaysian Politician

Used when someone acts on another's behalf, often in meetings or voting.

Human Replacement

A proxy doesn't need to be present to represent another person's actions or rights.

Not Always Present

The proxy has the authority to act as if they were the person they're representing.

Authority Given

A proxy in legal terms often relates to a document for voting purposes.

Voting Document

The designated person can make legal decisions for someone else.

Legal Stand-in

The proxy is used when the original person cannot be present.

Absence Required

In computing, a proxy is a go-between for internet requests.

Technical Intermediary

Proxy servers can improve security by filtering content.

Enhanced Security

Using a proxy can help users remain anonymous online.

Privacy Tool

 that require that this stuff be recycled in a responsible manner. Most of what's extracted from our end-of-life stuff, if it makes it to a recycler, are the metals. To put that in perspective -- and I'm using steel as a proxy here for metals, because it's the most common metal -- if your stuff makes it to a recycler,

Mike Biddle: We can...

 on a global scale. What this shows is a nation-by-nation breakdown of the likely level of food waste in each country in the world. Unfortunately, empirical data, good, hard stats, don't exist, and therefore to prove my point, I first of all had to find some proxy way of uncovering how much food was being wasted.

Tristram Stuart: The...

 where we have to make a very important decision about the future of our medical care or that of a loved one, to help them with a decision. And so I want to talk about that. And I'm going to talk about a very particular medical condition. But this stands as a proxy for all kinds of medical decision-making,

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 It's a very important period -- it's roughly half the period when we've been fully modern humans on the planet. We've had the same, roughly, abilities that developed civilizations as we know it. This is the environmental conditions on the planet. Here, used as a proxy, temperature variability.

Let the environment...

 looking forward to the future we cannot presently visit these worlds that we would like we would like to I would love love to do geology on the surface of Mars but the technologies we develop the robots we send they are our proxies

Bethany Ehlmann:...

 world or almost everyone in the world owns a mobile phone by having a driver instead of as a proxy instead of tracking each individual vaccine vial we can track the driver with this app by doing so we can record the position and

Tracking the journey of...

 and the understanding that scientific truth isn't final, but constantly evolving. Staying true to that path will be better for our patients and better for science. If obesity is nothing more than a proxy for metabolic illness,

Peter Attia: What if...

 and it is the most important question we face the thing is that engineers and investors are impatient people they can't wait until we figure out this thing of consciousness so they use proxies like okay we want to

Yuval Noah Harari...

 to determine the muscle mass of individual patients just by looking at them? Well, doctors tell me they're using race as a shortcut. It's a crude but convenient proxy for more important factors, like muscle mass,

The problem with...

 scientific truth isn't final but constantly evolving staying true to that path will be better for our patients and better for science if obesity is nothing more than a proxy

Proxy

A person or thing that takes the place of another.

Often appears as...

A document allowing a person to vote for another person in their absence.

Often appears as...

A server that sits between a client application and a real server, making requests on behalf of the client.

Often appears as...

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