Mirioron

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by Mirioron 6y ago
This is pretty funny, but God do I hate back to the top buttons. I'm reading a story on a page with a back to the top button. I get distracted in real life and change the grip on my phone. I look back at my phone to continue reading an
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by Mirioron 6y ago
If you're outside of the US then the answer can easily be "yes". I don't recommend it though.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
I disagree. I think stories like this are important. They teach you to take a hypothetical scenario seriously. It teaches people to ask "what if X were true?" and to seriously consider the ramifications. This is a springboard into
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by Mirioron 6y ago
I don't wish to be uncharitable, but this line indicates to me that there's likely bias involved in the media you described: > Basically the only people who find the largest publications "bad" here are conspiracy nuts
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by Mirioron 6y ago
I don't think the media has been weakened. I think that the media has always been this bad. Perhaps even worse. The public just didn't know about it, because it was a lot harder to verify the facts through other means.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Works for me (or maybe steamers aren't running ads anymore?) But it certainly used to work for a long time.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> Does anyone here know how video platforms like Twitch managed to get started considering how expensive cloud data transfer pricing is? A very high quality stream at the start of Twitch was 2500 kbps. Viewership numbers were much small
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> Most of your friends probably pay for Netflix. Nope. Few people I know have a Netflix subscription. The subscription model doesn't work for news media for example. I've never used Facebook, but there have been times where I&
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by Mirioron 6y ago
You wouldn't, because other people wouldn't pay for it. The value proposition of Facebook comes from other people. If there aren't enough other people then you wouldn't want to use it.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Somebody will still collect all of that information. They will simply be outside of the jurisdiction of your laws. The only way to stop others from collecting data on you is to not give it out in the first place. We need our computers, pa
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by Mirioron 6y ago
It's worse than that. At least someone would profit off of those bitcoins being mined. Instead we use all of that power to make the dozens of dependencies play nice with one another.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Be careful though. There are words that start with a vowel when written, but are pronounced with a consonant. Eg "a universe".
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by Mirioron 6y ago
This is also why it's "a university".
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Yes, they avoid paying some French corporate taxes. The French have been fully aware of this for decades . Even if they somehow missed everything else, the Lisbon Treaty was rejected by the Irish until they got assurances from the EU tha
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by Mirioron 6y ago
No, it's not European money at that point. It's the corporation's money, but that's beside the point. The point is that those companies tend to not have the same representation as the local companies do and that some of
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by Mirioron 6y ago
But these both clearly benefit Ireland and the Netherlands. Many of the major international corporations in the EU are set up in Ireland. Do you think that would be the case if Ireland couldn't attract them with the better tax offers?
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by Mirioron 6y ago
But they already do contribute to those countries. This is simply protectionism plus at work. Squeeze more money out of foreign companies operating locally, because you can. It'll just lead to the world becoming clustered again like be
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by Mirioron 6y ago
How is it not Europe's fault? When it comes to digital businesses it's almost entirely Europe's fault. It's European countries that have been trying left and right to somehow squeeze more money out of largely American di
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by Mirioron 6y ago
The worst part about taxes like this is that they make it even harder for Europe to ever catch up. Taxes like this will make Europe a less attractive location for a business like that. Investors will be less likely to invest, there's a
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by Mirioron 6y ago
And by "spy on users" you mean "show ads that might at least remotely be relevant to the user"? The world is a lot bigger than the US. If there was no targeting of any kind then half of the ads you'd see would be in
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by Mirioron 6y ago
How do you keep all of that safe though? Unless you use a password manager that backs up into to cloud you can still be in trouble. If your house burns down then there's a good chance your codes went with it.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
The worry is that if systems like this become widespread enough then they'll simply be required just like phone numbers are. The website will pinky promise you that they won't sell your data. Not to mention that now the government
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Would this be a good moment to use Shamir's Secret Sharing? That way you don't have to give the full key to anyone.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
And the downside is as was mentioned above: it's required for everything and there will always be a trail that can be traced back to you.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Doesn't the label have to list the total amount of carbs though? Even if they list the sugars separately the carbs are what you care about anyway.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Why would Austria's law matter? Freedom of speech is either protected as a human right in the EU or it's not. This case shows that the judicial system in the EU thinks it's not protected. If the officials can't even get
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by Mirioron 6y ago
So what do you do when you need to fix a bug and need logs and other information from users? How do you track all of that data on developer machines? How does your system delete data from all backups? Do you have an automated system a use c
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> These popups are entirely unnecessary, if sites would just stop tracking you and allowing third parties to track you. Yeah, who needs money to operate a service anyway. Can't they just be happy that I'm even willing to consu
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> you will be mostly ok! But you won't. Mostly OK does not protect you from ruinous lawsuits or investigations. With the way the justice system works on the EU level I would never trust "mostly OK". We had an EU court fin
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by Mirioron 6y ago
I think it's likely that some EU politicians saw how bad the data retention act was and how it'll only be getting worse. They decided to do something about it, but when it got time to put down the details companies got involved an

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