MikeUt

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by MikeUt 6y ago
> Why should they be forced to stop making a product at a price customers enjoy? When you ignore all the objectionable parts, it sure makes consumer protection look unreasonable, doesn't it? Besides, the ultimate price consumers pay
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Wouldn't changing the phrase to "1st Amendment" get their point across even better, if that's what they meant? It's 8 characters shorter than "freedom of expression", so if anything it's the latter th
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> when people say "Free Speech" they mean the 1st Amendment which predated Bertrand Russell and is more common. But "free speech" predates both Russel and the 1st Amendment. And, how do you know what they mean? It&#x2
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> compromise This is not an inherent compromise. iPhones could be just as safe and issue-free if they were rootable, just as cars don't need hoods welded shut to prevent their owners from messing with the engine. If you find the com
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> it's not going to stop if people keep buying the machines. Reducing citizen's power to mere consumes, limited only to buy or not buy, is exactly what allows corporations to get away with these practices. It starts with one, a
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> People often get confused with the definition of free speech since in America it refers to the 1st amendment which only applies to censorship by the government. You think Americans are incapable of distinguishing between the idea of fr
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> needs full access to your photos This is a lie. The app could be made to function with access to only a subset of photos, so "wants full access" would be the accurate phrasing. Lying to users to gain more access is what malwa
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Which is, as I said, exactly why counting homicides is not spin, and better than counting "stabbings" or "shootings" or "gun deaths". You look directly at the metric you care about (people killed), instead of i
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> I don't understand where this implication comes from. From "blackouts are due to corruption -> corruption was just as bad in the past". Especially since blackouts were the only symptom of corruption mentioned. Yes, it
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Are you completely unable to distinguish between "it is theoretically possible" and "it is extremely difficult due to the dominance of a handful of giant companies"?
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The current blackouts were blamed on corruption, followed by "the good old days of apartheid when corruption ran at an all-time high", implying blackouts were just as bad in the past. It would be nice to first clear up the factual
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> the internet has only lowered the barriers to entry for authors. It has lowered the barrier to get published, but not the barrier to reach a significant audience. > Just because a large portion of people choose to not patronize non
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Did an equal amount of "load shedding" happen during the "good old days"?
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> nothing is stopping you from navigating to booksamillion.com or powells.com to buy a book. But most readers won't . So unless you're lucky enough to have a massive "I'll buy this book no matter what" audience
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As I said, that is why you look at homicides, not "gun deaths" or "stabbings" - so you don't have to wager or guess.
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> Because the data globally points the other direction. Once you include multiple countries, isn't your data skewed by "countries at war import a lot of guns"? > or spun to include things other than gun violence in &quo
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Could you elaborate? Which parts are double-speak? By "trolling", are you trying to say it's not true?
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> That study has to do with blockbuster movies It is not limited to them: "the study’s conclusion: With the exception of recently released blockbusters.."
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Sales dropping over time is more common [1] than unexpected $10k charges to a credit card. It also has many more explanations. The scenarios are so different, the analogy is frankly dishonest. [1] It is, in fact, the rule. And can be much f
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by MikeUt 6y ago
A suppressed European Commission study found piracy to have negligible effect: https://juliareda.eu/2017/09/secret-copyright-infringement-s... The study’s conclusion: With the exception of recently released block
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The report itself not only didn't find causation, it did not even find correlation : "This research does not present even comprehensive descriptive data correlating increased hate speech on social media with increased hate crimes
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Suppressed report says online “hate speech” doesn’t reflect real-world crimes(reclaimthenet.org)
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If only police were so quick to raid corporate offices when it turns out their devices spied on their owners, while claiming that they don't. LG smart TVs send viewing habits, filenames back to manufacturer [..] An option exists in th
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> firms that create, gather, and sell data about us for their profit, and not necessarily—or even secondarily—for our benefit. Military Unit Conducting Drone Strikes Bought Location Data from Ordinary Apps - https://news.ycomb
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> They had paid for that right. The terms of that domain ownership included the possibility of losing it in the manner described. The buyer knew those terms and implicitly agreed to them at time of purchase. It's all perfectly liber
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Illegal due to DMCA.
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> I think the majority of the population is OK with ads everywhere You talk as if there was a $1800 ad-free TV on sale next to the ad-infested one. The majority isn't given a choice.
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> it won’t sell downloadable versions of its more than 10,000 e-books or tens of thousands of audiobooks to libraries If those were truly "sales", libraries would have no trouble buying those books second-hand, or from middle-m
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> her father was arrested on suspicion of being complicit in a terrorist killing How was her father alleged to be complicit? The article doesn't say, does anyone have a more complete source?
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That was not the case during my childhood in Europe.

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