Lionsion

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by Lionsion 8y ago
You're just dropping slogans. Please reply substantially on why you seem to think communities like American Samoa would be better off if its people couldn't get bank loans.
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> I voluntarily signed up for a bank account because it's good for me, and if there's nothing in the contract about them having to make me a loan in the future I shouldn't expect one and neither should they. That's li
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Bank consolidation is inevitable. Large banks are like nuclear weapons. Every nation absolutely needs them or they risk foreign banks and investors rushing in and capitalizing+colonizing the entire country. I don't think that make
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Are you saying we should prohibit American Samoans from putting their money in the international bank and getting higher returns, effectively forcing locals to lend to other locals? If it improves the local economic conditions by keepi
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> To understand why banks are scaling back and why it causes American Samoa such pain, imagine a basic small-town bank. It takes in paychecks and other deposits from locals and uses them as reserves when lending to their neighbors, who t
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> GDPR doesn't cover enough of the population using Facebook to warrant such a change to their business model where you can use the service without them using your data. The real question isn't population, it's revenue per
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> "We require tracking to pay for the costs of providing this free service". > No such thing as a free lunch. Please square that with the fact (which I already pointed out) that they already provide their free service withou
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> what? seriously? Do EU citizens have some kind of legal right to Facebook access, now? It's illegal for Facebook to not serve people they can't sell to advertisers? Facebook doesn't have a right to track people in the EU
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by Lionsion 8y ago
I can't see that argument going well: Since they let users opt-out of targeted advertising, which is probably the only thing "tracking" is useful for, they tacitly admit that "tracking" is not necessary for them to
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by Lionsion 8y ago
IIRC, the GDPR is very explicit about what constitutes valid consent, so things like pre-checked check-boxes aren't valid. Is "consent" gained by a screen with only an "I agree" button even kosher by it?
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Ugh, except Pozidriv will still cam and tear up their own screws, and same with Phillips. That's true, but using a Phillips screwdriver with a Pozidriv screw is worse than either system by itself. Robertson may be objectively be
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Here in the midwest US the hardware stores carry them and Phillips, in about 50:50 proportion -- At least for construction screws (decking screws for example) this is true. I've seen them too, but only as construction screws. I&#
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by Lionsion 8y ago
Important FYI for any Americans who don't know: Ikea screws are not Phillips, they're actually Pozidriv , which is different enough to matter. Do not use a Phillips screwdriver to assemble Ikea furnature, as that combination w
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by Lionsion 8y ago
>> Considering the lifecycle of a car vs an Android device, they better just build in a touch screen w/ a HDMI + USB connection, and let the compute brains get swapped out inexpensively ... > This is literally what Android Aut
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> However, humans simply don't maintain focus for a long period of time without some sort of extreme, years-long training. And anyone who's achieved this ability is unlikely to be willing to be hired as 1099 contractor for what
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by Lionsion 8y ago
I think the opponent Russian sub was an Alfa, though. That's the one that's sunk at the end of the movie.
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Let's just hope China will not take back Taiwan to get the state-of-the-art fabs there. I wonder if the Taiwanese or the US has a plan for destroying those and similar advanced facilities to keep the technology out of the hands o
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> I think the way this will play out as there will be another contest of Great Powers is that the United States will in turn decide soon to compete and pour billions more into technology. This will continue to be a great time to work in
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> The complaint is that they're extending the email standard by sending single-URL bodies instead of the messages inline. Someone needs to write a client to recognize the gmail, single-URL, bodies and archive the content with the me
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by Lionsion 8y ago
This photo shows the situation much more clearly: https://mashable.com/2013/07/01/egypt-protestors-laser-point...
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> E.g. why the Swedish academy instead of the Royal Society? Because a rich Swede endowed it over a century ago, and its had that time to build up prestige. It's sort of like why Harvard is so prestigious: it was the first American
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by Lionsion 8y ago
>> A lot would be solved by outlawing targeted advertising. > Seems impossible without outlawing all advertising. Advertising in the nytimes over some other paper or advertising on fox over cnn are all examples of targeted advertis
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> I believe you are overestimating the intelligence and "woke-ness" of the Facebook user community, and of humanity in general. That's an extremely cynical and pessimistic outlook that allows for little actual improvement.
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> ...and I don't see a company treating it's users as 'human beings' not 'commodities' being a front-runner to win a hypothethical future social media companies race; there are just no areas left that any ri
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Centralization is kind of inherent to communism though. Care to elucidate? My understanding it that only seems to be true if you exclusively argue from the examples of historical 20th-century regimes that labeled themselves "comm
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> What's the difference [between Marxism and Communism]? You're unlikely to get a good answer to that here. HN is a site with heavy entrepreneurial/libertarian bent. Most of the people here (myself included) are chiefly
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Marx's comments on capitalism are still useful. His solutions didn't work out well. > Russia ... China ... IIRC, those "solutions" weren't his. They were dictatorships that took up central planning with a v
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> But each actor is merely doing the actions to their maximum satisfaction within the ruleset. "scuzzy" is not factored into the equation at all. An ethical human being or organization is supposed to factor it in themselves, wh
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Haven't watched "Mad Men", but I think part of the appeal of Walter White was that his character, being the show's main character, was also the most well-written and nuanced which almost necessarily leads to him bei
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> If you want to solve the problem, I think you should try to promote critical thinking. I don't think Facebook wants to encourage too much critical thinking, as it's business is to sell an audience to advertisers. If the audi

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