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by AwaAwa 5y ago
The Dutch East India Company would beg to differ.
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
Explains why the manufacturing capital of the world 'officially' eliminated Covid within months, while everywhere else struggles with wave upon wave.
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
Human industrial slaughter where animals are trussed up and dismembered and skinned while still conscious (granted due to failures in the stun mechanism, but there isn't much push to monitor assembly line failures) would beg to differ.
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
I have to assume that them taking 75 percent of the profit in the smartphone industry, gives them a blank check to do as they wish, and the rest of the industry must follow. https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-handse
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
In my experience most people at government orgs simply follow the recommendations of 'someone' else. Said someone is in the pocket of some vendor, and 'champions' their cause. The relatively few folk that actually unders
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
Aren't those all problems that need legal remedies first and foremost? I'm not sure if most people here are in the relevant professions.
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
Unless the plan was to have rolling brownouts/blackouts I have no doubt that being bailed out by the grid was absolutely part of the contingency plan. Maybe they didn't expect to need the contingency so soon, but that is on their
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
Just so that I'm sure I've understood this right. California decided to save the environment by shutting down "unclean" power within the state, with the idea that other states will provide them with their "dirty&quo
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
Is there a paradox in 'intolerance'? Or do you mean the 'paradox of tolerance'?
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
I thought it was because, if the mob doesn't get their way, they single out the 'admins' as the next target. At least that's what I remember before I cut out on following twitter as a first party platform.
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
The paradox of ethical relativism. Seems to run parallel with the paradox of tolerance.
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
> legal agreement before you have sex A contract that codifies trust? Once this would have been marriage. I don't know what it is today.
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
"To date Apple have responded only with silence," So business as usual for Apple. I suppose they have no fear of losing market share from losing their "privacy" moniker. Too many folks that are locked in to the brand, an
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
Very succinct. I am approaching this stage, but hard to let go of the fox after 20 years. I keep finding 'reasons' to keep firefox in my workflow. To be honest, I should just rip the band-aid off.
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
Always [not] keen to see more of the world adopt a system that ends with "gulags forever". Sadly, I fear this is the inevitable direction, especially since it looks to be a last govt standing kind of situation.
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
Judging from management's increased comp, while disappearing 25% of their staff, they can hang out with the Big Tech hispters without batting an eyelid.
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
Irony being that there are barely any new users.
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
Seems hyperbolic to state, when I'm sure you're using javascript umpteen times daily. Very arguable that Eich's single handedly more responsible for javascript than Brave, engineering wise. I'm not a crypto fan, or of ad
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
I've been in a few over the decades, and sounds like every tech company after the glory/startup years. Was even in one "hype" startup that began this way almost immediately.
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
I'm not clear on what you mean by this as a response. Are you saying the President needs to be friends with journalists for them to be objective?
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
I'm sure the next intervention isn't very far. There's no train, like the gravy train.
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
VW's supervisory board has co-determination, which means that Union of German workers has half the voting rights. The Supervisory board monitors and approves corporate statutes, and is appoints the members of the board of management. E
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
> Signal isn't large enough to make people stick around when dumb decisions are made) Boy does this hit close to home, whenever I think of Firefox and its accelerating decline.
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
Well said. I had much the same problem, and all it took to appear more positive, was to distill the message down to "This is how it will work", rather than "This won't work no way, no how". (I cringe inside, but my
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
So ease of access is really the number one driver. Perhaps I'm just old, but I remember when security was never supposed to be easy. When easy, it is taken for granted, and therein lies the failure of security. So essentially this clou
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
Sounds like a fantastic way for law enforcement to get into your phone with probably cause. Random message you a benign picture from some rando account with a matching hash. Immediate capture for CP, data mine the phone, insert rootkit, &#x
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
How us Chimps captured King Kong is beginning to make more sense.
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
One country's saviour is another country's dictator
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
MTS is owned by Bell
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by AwaAwa 5y ago
Poe's law strikes again

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