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by _red 8y ago
>A TV/Monitor is and will be useful for the foreseeable future. Then just buy a TV / Monitor?
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by _red 8y ago
>Say, I have a Samsung tv with internet. I hook it up to the 'net. I use the built in features intended. It updates when it needs to. In your proposed universe, you won't have a "smart tv" because you will choose not
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by _red 8y ago
>If they make bad things, they should be liable for them. Define 'bad'. What one person sees as "insecure and bad" another person will view as "configurable and open". Ultimately the consumer shares a good p
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by _red 8y ago
Well there is already vivaldi, iridium, and ungoogled-chromium. But a better choice, IMO, is to install Brave since they are not just removing spy-features, but enabling new ideas to incentivize support for a more privacy focused internet.
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by _red 8y ago
How do I, as a US citizen, know that Apple isn't replicating my data to this Chinese datacenter? I know you will say "you have to trust them", but therein lies the problem. There is no way for consumers to verify anything abo
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by _red 8y ago
Research shows you should use the proper name: QoS The name "Throttling" is an attempt to frame this pejoratively. All ISPs of every type engage in bandwidth shaping / QoS. Its the laws of nature that enforce this (demand alw
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by _red 8y ago
Tim Cook is to Apple as Steve Balmer was to MS. Both companies stocks soared under each, largely because of their cost cutting / monetization of every aspect of product. However, in both cases, such maneuvers wound up alienating their
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by _red 8y ago
Its admirable what brave is trying to do. Practically speaking, its one of the best chance we have of creating a new internet where the incentives are more privacy focused. Hope they succeed.
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by _red 8y ago
Further, why not just use vim templates as the way to create the base man boilerplate and just customize. So issue 'vi mygrep.man' and quickly edit.
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by _red 8y ago
As if "Photo OPs" haven't been essentially exploiting this principle for 100+ yrs. This is nothing more than legacy media bemoaning that media production (and propaganda production) has now moved mainstream and is out of thei
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by _red 8y ago
Actually, raw milk has an ivory / yellow tint (depending how much grass the cows have eaten vs hay). Grain and soy feeding tends to produce white milk however. Holding up a glass of grass fed cow milk to store bought milk really shows
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by _red 8y ago
>Signed agreements do not prevent your information from being used in other ways. That's insane, literally. The real insanity is with the users. FB did the most obvious thing. The user-base somehow magically thought they were provid
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by _red 8y ago
Why did your parents seek to create a household which avoided sugary snacks? The fact is, that itself could be representative of the genetic predisposition towards self-control.
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by _red 8y ago
>If laws can't be easily written and understood, that's a problem with the legal system (and the media explaining said laws and initiatives). Do you write code by chance? Ever introduce a bug or unintended consequence? I bet 10
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by _red 8y ago
How long are we going to continually spell things like: knife, night, knight, thought, etc. When you add up the generations of wasted human effort in spelling words in such pointless ways, its mind boggling.
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by _red 8y ago
Chinese websites are exempt. What does that tell you?
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by _red 8y ago
Why didn’t you include rap?
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by _red 8y ago
I'm much in the same boat as you (haven't built a hackintosh but contemplating). Its more than just being "lax" though, their product vision has fundamentally changed under Cook. What they've done to the MacMini is
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by _red 8y ago
The Fed is a private entity which is owned by its "Member Banks" (ie. big banks). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System#Member_... Moreover, the currency that the Fed issues is not technically
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by _red 9y ago
>I wonder how much harm we should allow our own citizens to endure in terms of the abuse Those same citizens that voluntarily agreed to the EULA? Do you also support the 'War On Drugs' on the same premise?
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by _red 9y ago
Its a thorny legal issue, and frankly I think there is very little support for GDPR in common-law. If you voluntarily walk into someones private shop, can you demand that the shop owner doesn't catalog that event? Is there an expectati
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by _red 9y ago
>Was this a breach in trust to Facebook users? I think undoubtedly yes. How naive is the average person? The purpose of facebook is to gather this information, hence why its offered as a "free service". Frankly, I don't un
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by _red 9y ago
Those incentives cut both ways. It also creates a huge avenue for rogue employees to suddenly craft themselves payout strategies. The law firm that we use recently told about such an action they defended for another client. A disgruntled em
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by _red 9y ago
This may be a large part of it, but its a reasonable approach for the airline to take. By "departing" on time they are showing that they did their job, the actual delays are FAA / Airport problems....so airlines view is &quot
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by _red 9y ago
>because I would call property rights a legal fiction Nearly every culture that has ever existed has recognized that someone taking something from you by force is crime. Its a normative expectation for nearly 100% of all humans. People l
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by _red 9y ago
>The state is the entity that owns all land Who owns the state?
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by _red 9y ago
Thank you for making an eloquent and nuanced post. When it comes to things like "the environment" people lapse into simple morality tales and paint the world as all black / white.
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by _red 9y ago
Imbued in your statement is an even more difficult knot to undo. "Tragedy of the Commons" is caused by the very existence of the modern state. Common land = public land. In a truly private system, one in which all land was owned,
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by _red 9y ago
This is sort of a contentless post. Certainly the EPA performs a valid role, however that is not to say that any attempts to constrain its increasing creep of scope and overreach of power is automatically bad . Is it possible to find pictu
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by _red 9y ago
Good points, but there is something else going on. If you travel alot you start to see that every culture is heavy on carbs: Rice, pasta, potatoes, noodles, bread. They are ubiquitous. Find a frenchmen that isn't eating bread from firs

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