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by alexqgb 11y ago
I think you missed the point of the piece, which was to reframe the issue in a very aggressive fashion. By pivoting away from the privacy angle to one that's focused squarely on national security, Apple is using the FBI's own cana
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Framing the FBI as a major threat to national security is serious hardball, and publishing that piece in the FBI's hometown paper is a roundhouse kick to the head. I'm pretty sure the FBI didn't see this coming.
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In essence, it's legally impossible for the FBI to keep any software created under this order from becoming public. And they know it.
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Exactly, the GOP is in a lose / lose situation now, with one loss having the potential to be exponentially worse than the other. This would seem to make their choice an easy one, except that the larger loss is also the one that's
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by alexqgb 11y ago
Well, you might. And perhaps that's the difference between you and people who realize that going to jail is considerably worse than going out of business.
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by alexqgb 11y ago
Generally speaking, racking up a bunch of Class B felonies is "inappropriate" for any company, heavily regulated or otherwise.
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by alexqgb 11y ago
FYI: The laws of the State of Utah and those of Washington are not interchangeable at your convenience.
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by alexqgb 11y ago
Except that here, it really is a huge problem. There's nothing to "play up" when you're being formally investigated for a massive number of Class B felonies. http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/25&#x2
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by alexqgb 11y ago
That was part of a massive, global housing bubble popping. A better point of reference is the dot.com crash (the worst of which was a local event) and the worst you saw, at least in decent areas, were valuations that stopped climbing.
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by alexqgb 11y ago
When the dot.com economy crashed, Google and Apple weren't producing billions in quarterly profits. Facebook didn't even exist. Today, the local economy is a very different thing. There's a new layer of massive and massively
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by alexqgb 11y ago
That's a simplification, to be sure. And yes, there was support for the idea of drug enforcement in the places where the drug trade spawned the most violence. But the enterprise went badly sideways from there, quickly degenerating in
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by alexqgb 11y ago
Doctors in general are generally cautious. The problem can be traced to a small number of corrupt doctors who decided to abandon their medical scruples so they could make very lucrative livings as semi-legal dealers of high-grade narcotics.
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by alexqgb 11y ago
Content dev. here, with no connection to any particular platform. Haven't demo'd PSVR, but based on its wand-style controller I'm comfortable saying that the Rift + Touch is the best, and for reasons that the other platforms
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by alexqgb 11y ago
Both, and the mixture is especially toxic.
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Who funds Saudi Arabia? Nobody "funds" Saudi Arabia. It's a sovereign nation with massive reserves of oil and independent wealth, not some Silicon Valley start up. To the extent that the money comes from somewhere, it comes f
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by alexqgb 11y ago
That's a hypothetical with a significant number of non-trivial barriers to realization, not an actual situation with a long a well-documented history. You've also missed the larger point, which has to do with the deeply cynical an
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by alexqgb 11y ago
it's unquestionable that radical Islam is an aggressor Sure, but why stop there instead of going just a tiny bit deeper and identifying the money layer? You'll find it has a lot less to do with religion and a lot more to do with
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by alexqgb 11y ago
You've mistaken discussion in general—which encompasses a fairly broad range of exchanges—with a particularly narrow subset that is characterized by clearly defined and opposing positions, along with acceptance of adversarial engagemen
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by alexqgb 11y ago
Maybe, but you have to consider that meeting the conditions to enter this market could seriously damage your value proposition in every other market you serve—or want to serve. That's the opposite of a "decent" market.
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by alexqgb 11y ago
"if there is no profit for Mozilla in including Pocket, then there is no explanation as to why it is included." That's clearly wrong. After all, I can think of at least one big reason right off the top of my head. For examp
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by alexqgb 11y ago
Exactly. I recently bought a pair of bluetooth headphones form Amazon, and for weeks after I was getting stalked by ads for bluetooth headphones from Amazon. For a product I'd just bought. From Amazon.
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A good friend of mine headed up this project when she was at FB. Natural disasters were exactly what they had in mind. We were in touch earlier this afternoon, and she said this was not a use case they had considered.
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by alexqgb 11y ago
It's pretty close to universally held among decent, intelligent people who aren't personally invested in the drug war. As time goes by, and more governments successfully turn their backs on the drug warriors, support for the drug
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by alexqgb 11y ago
Sorry, what? Acknowledgemetns of basic reality are now "liberal talking points"? Um, ok. More the point, negative forms of dependency are fostered by reducing people's options, not increasing them. If you're really worri
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by alexqgb 11y ago
Exactly. One person's idea of a half-baked measure is another's idea of incremental progress. When you can demonstrate that some of what reactionaries believe is flatly wrong it gets a lot easier to chip away at the rest of the er
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by alexqgb 11y ago
I swapped an iPhone 6 for an S6 so I could run a GearVR, which is fantastic. The rest of the Android experience is surprisingly not bad, and Google Now is notably better than Siri. But man, the battery...
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Yes, it would be terrible if people started depending on government for the safety of the air traffic system, the maintenance of clean air and water, or the existence of a stable and universally accepted currency. I mean, can you imagine? J
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No court or creditor can force you to rip off a competitor's site, only to festoon your version with fake coverage from the New York Times .
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No they don't. Why? Because the two thing you need to run a professional housecleaning service are access to people's houses and their credit card numbers. Maintaining this access demands far more judgement, care, and integrity th
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by alexqgb 11y ago
Whether or not it's accecptable to kill a bunch of innocent civilians in the process of killing a guy because he might kill a different bunch of innocent civilians is not a difficult moral question to answer.

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