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by CivBase 2y ago
Probably because public backlash would be insane. There is very little political or economic incentive to push something like that. It's kind of like banning alcohol. Yeah, it's bad for us (individually and collectively) but most
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by CivBase 2y ago
There is another story on the HN front page about the FCC fining wireless carriers for sharing location data. Someone left a comment comparing the fine for each carrier to their yearly revenue. The biggest fine was for only 0.1% of the carr
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by CivBase 2y ago
Do FTC fines go to the FTC budget?
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by CivBase 2y ago
The funds and impetus to buy something that was made in America. I don't know how you'd quantify that as a function of the product's price, but they figured out a way to put a price tag on emotional damage so I'm sure so
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by CivBase 2y ago
To be fair, most of the time they're correct - at least as far as US tap water goes. Events like this are remembered because they are remarkable, not because they are normal.
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by CivBase 2y ago
So far I've replaced Google products with Firefox (even on mobile), Kagi/DDG, Proton Mail, Simple Mobile Tools, my own FTP server, Emby, and F-Droid. But I also still use Android, the Google Play Store, YouTube (via NewPipe), Goog
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by CivBase 2y ago
What makes you think it would break things? We seemed to get by fine with dialup. WhatsApp is a private service facilitated over the internet. No government would (or should) trust Facebook with their communication infrastructure.
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by CivBase 2y ago
Why not just give up on the legacy telephone system? Decades ago we had dialup internet - a service entirely unrelated to the telephone system, built atop the existing telephone infrastructure. The US or EU or whoever could simply design a
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by CivBase 2y ago
But the rail solution probably scales a lot better. After all, train tracks are much easier to build than canals. If you can get dozens of trains from coast to coast in the time it takes to get one caego ship through the canal, that could e
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by CivBase 2y ago
The FAA has plenty of problems, but they are far from the only aviation regulatory body. I work on avionics and we have to deal with many authorities from around the world. I think the problem runs deeper than any single organization.
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by CivBase 2y ago
Interesting idea. I'm going to need you to provide a cost-benefit analysis on this.
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by CivBase 3y ago
Many people are willing to pay for news. Enough that it will keep coming in excess. Just not enough to sustain the scale and production values of yesteryear. Plenty of independent journalists are out there doing just fine and even some of t
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by CivBase 3y ago
If I'm understanding this correctly, the problem here is other saw companies aren't implementing a safety feature because SawStop has a patent on the relevant technology. Now the US federal government wants to make that safety fea
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by CivBase 3y ago
I did no such thing. I only answered the question I was asked. For some reason a bunch of people interpreted that as a defense of short-term stock trading.
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by CivBase 3y ago
Same can be said about the lottery. I don't recommend that as an investment either.
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by CivBase 3y ago
This is oversimplifying, but stocks are essentially purchasing a stake in ownership of the company. The company uses that money to advance its mission - ideally generating more profits which are shared with the stockholders (dividends). It&
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by CivBase 3y ago
Surely the better takeaway is to just not bet on crypto in general? It's supposed to act like a currency, not a stock. So long as people keep feeding into these pump-and-dump schemes they'll keep happening. Money doesn't come
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by CivBase 3y ago
How could one build a bumper to protect the piers from an impact like this? That ship is massive and it sounds like it was going pretty fast. I'm having trouble imagining any solution that involves absorbing the impact. But I'm no
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by CivBase 3y ago
I was curious how the bill defines "social media" since it is a vague term. Here's the bill: https://m.flsenate.gov/session/bill/2024/3/billtext/er/pdf The definition starts near
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by CivBase 3y ago
And I've never understood this line of reasoning. Nintendo made it and sold it to people. They didn't rent it. There was no lease with a defined expiration. None of that was ever presented to the user when they bought the game
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by CivBase 3y ago
> Americans often think the shitty experience they have in their country applies universally. Whether this is true or not, what matters to me - a person living in the US - is that public transit in the US is a relatively poor experience
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by CivBase 3y ago
Who decided that developers should be the ones paying for the development of those APIs in the first place? Are we just going to ignore Apple's own products and services that their platform allows them to profit off of? And the marke
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by CivBase 3y ago
I'm sure it is mostly because HDMI was ubiquitous before DisplayPort had any real market presence. Even if DisplayPort is generally better, manufacturers are probably willing to accept the costs and limitations of HDMI to ensure their
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by CivBase 3y ago
When people talk about "politics" they aren't talking about it conceptually. They are talking about the myriad of controversial topics that are fiercely argued about by state political leaders and prominent political parties.
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by CivBase 3y ago
Logging everyone out across all platforms and telling them to just try logging back in sounds like an excellent way to DDOS yourself. This should be a fun postmortem.
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by CivBase 3y ago
> But do you and I even hear the same thing when we listen to the same music? I say "yes". We can share an experience but come to different conclusions about it. > Creating an experience we all can enjoy is worth it, even if
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by CivBase 3y ago
Yes but the experience of listening to music is nothing like the experience of someone vibrating your chest. Our brains treat those sensations as very different things.
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by CivBase 3y ago
I've never understood this kind of thing. My immediate impression - as someone with hearing who has never tried one of these vests - is not that deaf people are being included, but rather they're being given an entirely separate e
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by CivBase 3y ago
Do you look up the software security measures implemented by the keyfob too? That information would be very difficult for a layperson to find and make sense of. This may be the "age of information", but information is only useful
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by CivBase 3y ago
I don't think anyone is asking institutions to spend resources on ideas which have been discredited. I believe the ask is for academic institutions to avoid creating an atmosphere where ideas are abandoned before they can be evaluated

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