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Narcos will not attack the US Navy because it is not about a single battle. They would not risk retaliation from the US military.
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Nobody in the US is going to get behind banning me, an independent citizen, from making Bernie Sanders bumper-stickers or yard-signs. Nor me making TV ads about how great Bernie would be for our country. Your proposal is at complete odds wi
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The GP's opinion isn't reality, and the argument was based on the false assertion that thousands begets millions (or more). This is similar to the people that tell me, "perpetual energy machines exist, but the fossil fuel in
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>More importantly, why are garbage stories from "journalists" who don't know the material they're writing about ending up on HN? I think the idea is that people here can deconstruct the post and point out its flaws (a
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The concerns I saw raised were about subverting sovereign power while elevating corporate power. I didn't read the source documents myself, but I would before getting too deep into the weeds on this topic. Certainly, walking away from
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The US has the most advanced manufacturing sector in the world, while China produces the overwhelming junk you can find at the big-box stores. China's gov is basically one giant corporate lobby on behalf of a single country.
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You think it's odd that in Europe, where the UK/Ireland play a substantial role, that meetings are conducted in English? Especially at tech companies, where US-based companies play a substantial role in the world? From my experien
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Look, I'm old and cynical too, but we can't do character assassination in this way. You need to take issue with specific facts or your argument comes across as extremely weak.
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I really liked your first post and building a platform to enable such things is completely simple. Please don't take the cynical/self-defeating attitude. Promotion is not my strong suit. Be careful with people that want to be the
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You simply need to elaborate on the, "underlying problem" or you are blowing smoke.
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Practically speaking, all of us that care about these sorts of things already know about Mastodon, if not ActivityPub and GnuSocial, etc. We have lots of potential FB competitors to root for right now.
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I’ve always liked your historical perspectives (often times controversial). I’m not really into regulations at all, but it’s not the advertising that is such an issue, it’s the surveillance required to accomplish ‘targeted advertising’ that
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I am of the opinion that if we let FB continue in its reckless treatment of its users data, people will eventually flock to a better platform when one emerges. UseNet/IRC were much better social platforms for privacy, but the ease of u
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None of these people (i.e. legislators) should be involved until/unless they decide to learn how this stuff works.
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It was a joke, and everyone was laughing. Biggest audience response of the testimony.
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Some poor Senator just went on a rabbit hunt to discuss FB's bug bounty program. Who are these Congressional staffers? Tech illiteracy is on full-display; we're not even talking 'power-users' (who were on UseNet, btw), t
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He also emphasized that the majority of their users are not speaking English or in the US, so their foreign workforce would not reflect the political views of SV nor the US.
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This is a good point, but FB brings the "real name policy" to the data broker's world. Being able to link real people with real credit profiles, and real web browsing habits is a game changer. Many of us were ranting an
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Does anybody know if any of these folow-ups make it into the Congressional Record at a later time?
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For a low bitrate (~40kbps), audio only stream, check out C-SPAN: https://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/api/livestream-red...
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How could Zuckerberg know less than Wikipedia about Palantir considering Thiel's involvement with both FB and Palantir? He seems to merely know of the existence of Palantir.
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Users might own the content, but they grant FB a perpetual license to that content.
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Your English is fine and way better than my 2nd language skills. Unless you are going to become a con man or a spy, I wouldn't give it another thought.
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You should have seen what long distance phone calls cost before the 90's (i.e. cellphones). I made a $100 phone call to a girl I met on vacation in 1990.
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I think the time to bring up erroneous posts, is in the thread in which they occur. And as long as we are talking "substantive," how about citing tptacek's incorrect posts instead making vague references? Even the dumbest of
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In fact, boycotts are seen as a form of protest (going back to the Irish guy with the surname Boycott ). Many of the companies that have dropped their NRA-affiliations have been targeted by NRA members/sympathizers. Your responses whe
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You seem to know an awful lot about this specific case, and I'll defer to you on that. I know about the general case, technically speaking (though merely a DNS hobbyist). However, having a business relationship with another organizat
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It seems like crappy networks are the norm nowadays, and the preference of the ISPs is to offer the web only. You need a middle box just to access the internet at-large (e.g Tor). Masquerading traffic as web traffic appears to be a good tac
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Because their finances depend on efficient targeting? I'd prefer to get the mainstream to back things like Masotodon (openSocial), Matrix, and Scuttelbut, than call for regulations, but we have to be educating folks about the benefits
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The part about ad campaign transparency was good though. Corporate facebook page data doesn't seem accessible at all. Is there an API for this data that I don't know about??

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