alaric410

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by alaric410 4y ago
I agree with you. CIA is much worse. Sinaloa's evil is regional, CIA's evil is global.
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by alaric410 4y ago
Would it be ok if Facebook hired someone who was part of the Sinaloa Cartel? If you hire ex-CIA, that tells me everything about your ethics (or lack there of).
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by alaric410 4y ago
cia is an organization that uses torture (among other unethical things). if you ever worked for such an organization, I'm not even looking at rest of your cv. your ethics are clearly lacking.
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by alaric410 4y ago
this particular report is accurate.
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by alaric410 4y ago
If you were previously part of an organization that violates human rights, I have every right to hold it against you.
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by alaric410 4y ago
Tell that to China, they seem to be doing fine without Google/Amazon/Facebook. Of those companies, Google is probably the only one you can't remove without effort. But this article was about Facebook. Why should we allow Fac
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by alaric410 4y ago
also accurate
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by alaric410 4y ago
I live in a country that is not USA. Why should we allow a company led by CIA agents to operate in our country?
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by alaric410 4y ago
> Almost every analyst agrees that First rule of international conflicts: analysts in the press are almost always off by several orders of magnitude. Specifically, these analysts told us: (1) Russia would take Ukraine in days (didn'
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by alaric410 4y ago
I can confirm this story by looking at the guys linked in page.
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by alaric410 4y ago
Last I checked Russia was still making progress. Unlike the first days, they are not rushing, but taking their time to eliminate defenders with artillery strikes.
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by alaric410 4y ago
EU is one of the largest consumer markets there is. US Tech companies are probably regretting the day they left China. They won't make the same mistake again.
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by alaric410 4y ago
you work at facebook?
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by alaric410 4y ago
These rules only apply to large organizations: "gatekeepers" that have massive global revenue and market power.
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by alaric410 4y ago
These regulations apply only to "Gatekeepers", meaning large companies with huge revenue and market power.
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by alaric410 4y ago
Being car critical is more than just a safety issue. I moved from the US to Germany and exchanged commuting by car to commuting by bicycle. The positive impact on my quality of life is impossible to put into mere words. It's huge. D
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by alaric410 4y ago
My field (theoretical physics) has the opposite problem. Almost all tools support only Linux but university infrastructure and incoming students are Linux-illiterate. A Linux strategy would greatly improve the quality of education.
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by alaric410 4y ago
citation needed.
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by alaric410 4y ago
Thankfully the EU is stepping up.
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by alaric410 4y ago
The European Union is a huge market. If Google or Apple doesn't comply then they say goodbye to those profits.
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by alaric410 4y ago
This law is also hitting Google in a big way. Google has to give up their monopoly on many areas.
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by alaric410 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect
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by alaric410 4y ago
Those of us who are not American prefer that the internet is not owned by a small number of American megacorps. EU is responding to that.
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by alaric410 4y ago
Apple loves to claim that Apple is more secure, without offering any data to back it up.
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by alaric410 4y ago
OP made an unsubstantiated claim that Apple products are more secure. I pointed that out.
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by alaric410 4y ago
Apple has not established any meaningful privacy guarantees. It's just PR.
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by alaric410 4y ago
Software piracy is good.
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by alaric410 4y ago
Chat control looks dead. (fingers crossed)
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by alaric410 4y ago
This is opening the market. A few megacorps have created walled gardens that prevent competition. EU finally says "no more".
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by alaric410 4y ago
Apple has been hacked and is no better than Android.

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