MikeUt

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by MikeUt 6y ago
> lobby the Iowa government to stop these abusive practices. Isn't the right to repair movement exactly that? I don't think farmers are entirely absent from it.
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by MikeUt 6y ago
The Times is very purposeful in which stories they select to cover, and how they cover them. E.g. they removed race references from title after a story turned out to be a hoax: A Black Virginia Girl Says White Classmates Cut Her Dreadlo
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> I can come back with links if you're interested. I'd like to see those links, thanks.
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> The world was brought to the brink of war when the Soviets, in retaliation for US missiles in Turkey, placed nuclear missiles in Cuba. Odd how the world was not brought to the brink of war when the US placed missiles in Turkey. Only wh
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Pressekodex directive 12.1 – Reporting on criminal offences
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Perhaps the US needs something like the German Pressekodex to regulate how minorities are mentioned in the news. Auto-translated from German: Directive 12.1 – Reporting on criminal offences In the reporting of criminal offences, care must
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by MikeUt 6y ago
b2b issues greatly affect consumers - there's no fabled "consumer choice" if a handful of businesses are allowed to dominate or decide who may enter their market/app store. And when so many businesses are at the mercy of
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by MikeUt 6y ago
What about giant app stores that control almost all consumer spending in those markets? How many businesses can survive being banned by both Apple and Google's stores? Or even by just one? Sure your business is destroyed, but you'
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Would I prefer government enforce food safety standards, or let consumers decide what they want? Would I prefer government enforce building safety codes, or let consumers decide what they want? Would I completely ignore the fact that Google
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Do they "need to act through government", or do they "control government to act for them"?
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Is the point you're trying to make that, because the country Taiwan and the island Taiwan share a name, parts of the country that lie on islands with different names are less legitimate? Otherwise I really don't see the relevance
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> The mainland is less than 6 miles from Matsu. Taiwan is over 100 miles away. Since Matsu is part of Taiwan, that would make Taiwan zero miles away. Perhaps you meant Taipei, the capital?
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Does that mean Google also gets that location data?
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Really? That sounds downright abusive. What next, not allowing disk read/write permission, without also giving it to Google?
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Let this go on long enough, and they'll "compete" the same way ISPs compete to offer you quality service.
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> The cease and desist tells recipients to not use Facebook's or Instagram's services "for any reason whatsoever," Let's ignore for the moment all the businesses and services where the only way to contact them is
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by MikeUt 6y ago
But how can this be? Wouldn't an allegedly white-supremacist America support , instead of oppose, services such as Parler?
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Notice that Debian wasn't forced to take down any apps, which shows choice 3: Do not place themselves in the position of arbiters of what apps their users may run (either by technical locks, such as Apple, or by making alternatives ext
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by MikeUt 6y ago
They no longer need to lure new users in, so they're revoking their gifts.
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> That's not surprising. If it's so unsurprising, why does it keep being disparagingly referred to as a conspiracy theory? > the only viable career paths for them were as merchants or scholars Does instigating a civil war&#x
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NAACP vs. Claiborne Hardware Co(en.wikipedia.org)
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> the conspiracy theory that "Jews" were behind Bolshevism 10 of the 15 leaders of the Russian-supported socialist revolution in Germany were Jewish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Revolution_of_1918%
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by MikeUt 6y ago
So are Facebook and Twitter direct foreign interference in the democratic process of every country other than the US? Bear in mind that Twitter's exec in charge of the Middle East is a British army psyops officer: https://ww
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by MikeUt 6y ago
You're discussing law as it currently stands, while the original poster proposed changing the law.
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by MikeUt 6y ago
I hope the judge in my trial will be as charitable in their interpretation of my words, as you are to Reza Aslan's.
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Let me be more direct - how do you think these powers of restriction on "influencing people" you want, will be used by an administration you don't want? Do you think there might be some foreign countries where such powers are
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> consider that someone with millions of followers is basically planning acts of violence with a retweet So by your standard, would https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1307107507131875330 count as planning act
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by MikeUt 6y ago
You're assuming local versions of such tools would not arise. This assumption has been repeatedly proven false, such as when alternatives to Uber and Lyft were made in cities where those services were banned.
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> the seemingly endless amount of personal effort people put into 'alternate sexual identities' .. similar to a cancer It reads to me like the poster is calling the effort cancer, not the identities themselves. The HN guideli
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> I am sincerely sorry that I exist, So when someone touts how important their white race is to their identity, or how proud they are of it, and people object, that it's the wrong thing to focus on, you think they're objecting

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