Feniks

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by Feniks 9y ago
I thought we had agreed that tactical nuclear weapons are an evolutionary dead end? Are nuclear options on the table again?
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by Feniks 9y ago
https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker/releases All ads and tracking can be blocked if you want them to. Its a arms race.
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by Feniks 9y ago
How many non Apple phones run iOS? The strength of Android is that you can customize it. Some people like Touchwizz. I prefer oxygenOS.
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by Feniks 9y ago
I love the marketing industry. Everyone is overfishing in the same ocean. People's income don't increase much year to year but internet ad spending sees double digit growth! My budget allows me to spend €500 on entertainment/
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by Feniks 9y ago
If an airliner can read social media and find out you have a important funeral to attend they can triple the price. But I'd hope that would be illegal.
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by Feniks 9y ago
"anonymized data" That's if you're lucky. I don't want to sound paranoid but if there are sensors in your house its only a matter of time before someone wants to use them.
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by Feniks 9y ago
Yep the whole internet of things isn't my cup of tea either. I'm not letting my TV iniate an outbound connection without permission. Security is a nightmare and I don't want to be profiled by anyone.
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by Feniks 9y ago
Yeah here in Europe lots of farmers are happy with wind turbines on their land. It helps them earn a stable income.
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by Feniks 9y ago
This seems to be a global trend. Trump in the US, populism and fascists in Europe and Jinping in China.
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by Feniks 9y ago
What little protection remains is a relic of the seventies. An interesting time in America. A time of strong resentment against the government after Vietnam and Nixon. There was a really powerful TRUE left wing in Washinton that had power.
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by Feniks 9y ago
You would presumably have to compromise a lot of ballot boxes in order to influence an election. This would require a coordinated conspiracy potentially involving thousands of people. If you can pull that off you might as well say fuck it a
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by Feniks 9y ago
Not public, just the government. And Chinese government has better security than Equifax at least.
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by Feniks 9y ago
I would imagine that Swedish politicians are also vulnerable from lobbying and US diplomatic pressure.
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by Feniks 9y ago
There are currently 20 political parties in parliament representing vast ideological differences. They couldn't even agree on what pizza to order if their life depended on it lol.
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by Feniks 9y ago
You're not wrong, article looks at it from a Western viewpoint. This surveillance is actually not new. Its a throwback to imperial China, with technology added to it. I can imagine a lot of Chinese prefer it to lawlessness. It does cos
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by Feniks 9y ago
They'll need this in Europe. Lots of cities are clamping down on pollution.
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by Feniks 9y ago
Yeah, self driving cars may work in Arizona but how about rush hour Amsterdam or New York? In my country it might work for long haul trucks on highways in the near future. But I dont see a use case beyond that.
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by Feniks 9y ago
Yes. Thankfully companies aren't free to sell my data to the highest bidder so my phone number and email are not public for every salesman to use. Unfortunately companies I do business with are allowed to try to sell me things. But the
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by Feniks 9y ago
Yeah, isn't Saipan in the middle of nowhere? And its not a famous tourist destination like Tahiti.
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by Feniks 9y ago
You should read about how the US acquired its Pacific teritories. Interesting stuff. I love all those colonialist skeletons in the closet stories. This is nothing new, sadly.
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by Feniks 9y ago
Excession is my favourite but impossible to adapt.
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by Feniks 9y ago
Cool, need something scifi that isn't dystopia. We're already living that. Warminds for president 2020.
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by Feniks 9y ago
"flexible and free payment services" Actually my government already has rules on that. Using my debetcard at a store, withdrawing money from an ATM or transferring money between bankaccounts is free. Its almost as if we live in 21
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by Feniks 9y ago
Ethics go out the window when you have a mortgage to pay. The tech industry also lives in a bubble.
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by Feniks 9y ago
Doesn't work that way. Companies change their privacy policies all the time. No the data industry should have been euthanized years ago.
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by Feniks 9y ago
In America sure, lost cause. I expect this wouldn't fly in EU unless you give your consent. And why would you?
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by Feniks 9y ago
Even if it had been illegal nobody would be sent to prison over it. Just a fine and probation.
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by Feniks 9y ago
I doubt most Chinese even know what Google is by this point and they certainly don't need it.
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by Feniks 9y ago
Not surprising. The things you can do with your smartphone in China makes the US and Europe look like a third world country.
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by Feniks 9y ago
We'll survive I'm sure. I see the US not as example but as a warning.

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