Faark

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by Faark 7y ago
> I'm just mostly in opposition of the concept that IMs turn conversations into addiction Why are you so opposed to it? Yes, IM does provide a lot of value and most people will not become addicted. Yes, other smartphone uses are cer
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by Faark 7y ago
> to the supervisory authority Does this always/necessarily lead to customers/the public being informed? But yeah, better than nothing.
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You choose the business model to trust. VPN serve customers who to pay to be private. That seems like a high value target. ISPs serve connectivity, but apparently in the US, spying on their users is part of their core business and have stro
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by Faark 7y ago
Wait, you never experienced a "just on more level|round|episode"? I certainly did... back 10yrs ago in counter strike, and to an extend even here on HN. Though restarting your computer is a lot harder than unlocking your phone whe
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by Faark 7y ago
> Modern social media is just a next iteration Jup, and just like every other next iteration, it also increases the attached problems. Up to the point it cannot/shouldn't be ignored anymore. (Not really targeted at you, but I&#
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by Faark 7y ago
Yes, I was also worried they go in that direction, due to it being US media. Western detox camps are state funded as well. Here in germany mostly by pensions office, though that is supposed to change to health insurance after reclassifying
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by Faark 7y ago
> If you don't have insurance in Germany you'll have to pay for that yourself as well. That's rare, but it happens especially with the precariously self-employed. The difference is GKV being the default, and opting out of
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by Faark 7y ago
And the little "new" in front of it. I actually preferred the curly braces version and would have loved for them improve it instead of creating a replacement. And well, I'd expect them to get it right eventually. It is at lea
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by Faark 7y ago
> Does that mean you would never be comfortable with with a complete UI overhaul? I'd like for the old interface to be still around, so I can click though the nav layers like I always have. At the end, instead of the information &#x
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by Faark 7y ago
> An army of social workers raised in the same culture will on average do the same, In a society were it is normalized, sure. But can you imagine what systems such a society would come up with? So far we are only talking about shitty aut
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> So the problem is not automation, is lack of recourse. The problem is automation, if it exaggerates the "lack of recourse". It means that, without being careful, adding automation would screw up most of such systems. Thus s
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by Faark 7y ago
What point are you trying to make? Its about someone else forced into retirement after doing something unacceptable. I have a hard time considering it an authoritarian regime as long as those "bad apples" have to feel the conseque
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Kind of funny how your link demonstrates a reasonably functioning justice system while you try using it to paint Germany as authoritarian regime . The case was dropped and the prosecutor forced to retired. Sure, would have been better to n
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by Faark 7y ago
> Every scientific hypothesis is "up for debate," and the day that isn't true is the day science dies Yes, in science. Not in policy. The minute some scientist goes on TV or some podcast targeting a general audience, they
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by Faark 7y ago
If the chrome store version dies, you better be prepared to see the edge version get significant less attention. I love alternatives being available, but this only makes the situation somewhat less bad.
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by Faark 7y ago
I know the fan community likes to make this argument, but SpaceX will most likely cooperate with major governments. Fighting oppressive regimes is not something I remember Must doing, yet. And he has no problem setting up shop e.g. in China
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by Faark 7y ago
No problem with that. I presume gp focused on a court order since that's the way it works in his local culture. The important part is Apple not acting as their own arbitrator . If the order came from the HK gov, citizens know who is
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by Faark 7y ago
Are we talking about stuff that can vary in size but isn't weighted? Like kiwi's or cucumbers have a fixed price each while apples or bananas have a kg price. But I don't remember seeing processed food without a kg price. The
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by Faark 7y ago
> that's why dictators don't like juries. Is that actually the case? A dictator should have little problem punishing jurors for bad judgments, incentivizing them to fall in line like judges. But in (western) democracies, dictat
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by Faark 7y ago
Except that I can not open "Windows Search settings", since it crashes after loading a few seconds. And all the other shit. It might not be as bad as this Mac update, I don't feel confident doing a comparison. But certainly t
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by Faark 7y ago
Maybe, if it were convenient to switch. But I've given up on believing in boycotts. E.g. People kept buying video games, no matter how shitty the business practice. Preoders, Lootboxes, Season Passes, Pay2Skip... all seemed to have mad
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by Faark 7y ago
> mostly circumstantial that Google cannot so thoroughly lock down their systems You can say the same about any end to end encrypted service. Setting yourself up to not be able to bow to unreasonable request is the best defense and can b
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> 1% - 2% I'm not surprised. Disappointed after getting certainty, but not surprised. Hope you'll get around to it non the less. Will keep an eye out. Again, much thanks for such a detailed response.
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I really appreciate you taking the time to respond. Thank you. Seems like my memory was reduced to "have to give you the key". I'll be more precise in the future. I used to have my drives encrypted back when TrueCrypt was sti
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> statistics might be reflective of underreporting instead of actual occurrence of a crime I wouldn't trust (as in compare globally) any crime stat from Japan, as they have a 99% conviction rate [0]. This obviously cannot be achieve
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The good old self-reinforcing loop... It's not a prevalent issue -> We won't do anything -> You filing a report will be just a waste of time -> Statistics show it's not a prevalent issue
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by Faark 7y ago
The US certainly has little interest on a strong united EU. But there are a lot more factors at play. Like having military bases there. And generally a lot more soft power / cultural influence. Still, do you remember the US announcing
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by Faark 7y ago
Crashplan is more than twice the price, so you'd even have the budget for an extra device. Did you ever have to restore a significant amount of data with CrashPlan? Its been more than a month since a 3tb drive died on me and I'v o
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by Faark 7y ago
> There's no actual science behind it, only wild extrapolation. You mean like every prediction about the future? There is a reason we don't have great sci-fy describing humanity a long time in the future (I really love that stu
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> and his name is Token Thank you, it just clicked...

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