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by 908087 8y ago
What innovation?
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by 908087 8y ago
You should try reading the entire article. > Duke was not the first to use the cigarette machine; in fact, all of the major producers used it by 1887. He was not the inventor (that was James Albert Bonsack) or even the first to use them.
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by 908087 8y ago
There are still lots of "organic posts" on Reddit threads about Facebook's fuck ups implying that the "anti-facebook narrative" is a "Soros conspiracy", which leads me to believe Facebook is still working
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by 908087 8y ago
If a single developer is able to push something like this to production without scrutiny in "one bad morning" on a platform with billions of users, the company itself is the problem.
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by 908087 8y ago
I've never once met someone who learned anything of value about technology by mindlessly tapping or swiping a smartphone or tablet display.
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by 908087 8y ago
Hopefully her daughter pays it forward by becoming a writer who blogs about her experiences as the daughter of a sociopathic narcissist. "I can't stop writing about you mom. Your attempt to 'amputate parts of my experience&#
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by 908087 8y ago
Yes, I'm sure "I'll delete it now if you want" will completely negate any feelings they have about the fact that you've already broadcast those things to hundreds or thousands of people (and a massive advertising co
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by 908087 8y ago
"Private"/"incognito" tabs and windows do little to nothing to protect you from the kind of tracking companies like Google engage in.
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by 908087 8y ago
The "kids are tech savvy these days" narrative seems pretty ridiculous once you consider the fact that most of them have never so much as manually installed a piece of software that didn't involve an "app store" on
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by 908087 8y ago
Corporate and government surveillance of every detail of our lives pretty much guarantees any revolutionaries would be sniffed out and crushed long before they ever had a chance to organize.
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by 908087 8y ago
Because you're going against the "GDPR BAD" narrative aspiring surveillance capitalists are desperately trying to spin.
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by 908087 8y ago
"My back alley butcher shop startup had to spend two weeks developing new methods because of unfair health regulations!"
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by 908087 8y ago
The Dunning-Kruger effect is rampant in the comments of "tech news" websites, particularly when it comes to complex subjects that people want to pretend to understand. Objectively false information is often upvoted to the top, whi
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by 908087 8y ago
Imagine applying "tech" industry logic to this? "Bbbut regulation will prevent small players from competing"
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by 908087 8y ago
Unless we miraculously figure out some way to convince people to stop attempting to exponentially increase the human population, it's pretty much a sure thing that we'll strip or pollute the oceans free of food sources.
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by 908087 8y ago
The problem is that it gives an advertising/surveillance corporation detailed data on the web browsing habits of a massive number of unsuspecting users.
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by 908087 8y ago
Is that supposed to make it okay?
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by 908087 8y ago
The rules aren't ridiculous. Website developers are just lazy/dumb and generally include shit like GA by default without even thinking of the privacy implications.
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by 908087 8y ago
Meanwhile, Surveillance Valley CEOs like Zuckerberg continue to spin their privacy invasions as altruistic moves to help the poor.
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by 908087 8y ago
But it continues to be featured and replayed to large audiences to this day, so that excuse doesn't really add up.
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by 908087 8y ago
A cashless society would be a wet dream come true for intelligence agencies, Facebook/Google and other mass surveillance proponents or beneficiaries.
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by 908087 8y ago
Move fast and leave the front door open for others to break things
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by 908087 8y ago
Shills/trolls pretty much have the freedom to do whatever they want on Reddit. Vote manipulation and simulated conversations between groups trying to steer the discussion seem to be fully sanctioned by the mods and admins. If you look
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by 908087 8y ago
I think we would have had a much better chance of seeing Snowden make a difference had he "happened" during a republican presidency. Many sports team style democrats I knew who were flipping out about surveillance during the last
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by 908087 8y ago
The only real change I saw, is that people who used to call anyone who suggested the type of mass surveillance Snowden uncovered was going on "tinfoil hatters" changed their deflection to "everyone knew that, I have nothing t
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by 908087 8y ago
Soda companies also don't leave deteriorating trenches behind on the roads in town when their tests fail.
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by 908087 8y ago
The "Google never actually meant to be an ISP, they just wanted to kickstart competition" spin I hear pushed on this reminds me of the "they were just trying to start the conversation" spin when people get caught faking
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by 908087 8y ago
The use of Facebook login immediately makes me suspicious of any site/service's overall security and privacy practices.
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by 908087 8y ago
It's not the tradeoff that makes people hate it. It's the fact that it is regularly marketed/presented as the "most private/secure" option, which leads to many people having no idea they're even making th
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by 908087 8y ago
I have several 10,000+ message chat logs in signal. Searching is pretty much instantaneous even on a 3 year old device.

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