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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
I think Google was still giving them money when they were defaulting to Yahoo, just less than the terms of this new deal.
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Keeping Firefox alive also helps assuage anti-trust concerns with regard to Chrome’s position in their ecosystem.
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
I understand this entirely, but there are some pretty bad iOS vulnerabilities out in the wild now (e.g. KRACK wpa2). It’s pretty dangerous to avoid updates nowadays. I think what needs to happen across the industry is a complete decoupling
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Disney was never really interested in democracy. His admiration for fascism is pretty well-documented. He even escorted the Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl around Hollywood: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/201
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
What makes you think their children are any better off? The tech industry is engineering these kind of labor conditions for their own profit. Try blaming them instead of the families of poor people.
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Marketing your product as kid-friendly and then demonstrably exposing children to abusive content, through “algorithmic negligence” or otherwise, should incur serious penalty. It never ceases to amaze that the kind of psychological engineer
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Extreme wealth inequality is the source of the problem everywhere. In SF, that inequality is driven by tech.
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Solving both meatspace and cyberspace problems requires a fundamental change to how we distribute wealth in this country. Since the economy isn’t going to become less tech-oriented any time soon, making sure that technology is more economic
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
It didn’t have to be this way and it still isn’t the only path we have. It’s possible to build technologies that are fundamentally more socialist and redistribute wealth back to their users. Social media is disruptible in this fashion and s
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
It’s not terror. It’s just a mask for predatory, unchecked real estate speculation.
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
>Those people are not doctors, they are opportunistic capitalists in the medical sector that should have no right to practise medicine. You can’t change these incentives without moving the US to a nationalized health care system, includi
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
These solutions have already been found and implemented in developed countries around the world. The problems in the US are ideological limits that circumscribe the forms of collectivist action that are required to implement strategies that
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
When society reflects that kind of “people as people” equanimity you cite. This is certainly not the case for indigenous people today.
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
The intentions of “nerds” are entirely irrelevant if the outcome is widespread economic tenuousness. Sweeping aside history because you’re arriving at the same kind of poverty by novel means is quite the hand wave. No one disagrees that how
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Instead of understanding the history of labor force exploitation in the United States, everyone wants to pretend that a high-tech gloss over a return to Gilded Age-style Robber barons is a “natural evolution.” Tech workers survive in comfor
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Soylent Banned in Canada(money.cnn.com)
3 points by alphonsegaston 9y ago|1 comments
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Commutes are on par with San Francisco, but housing and income aren’t as bad yet. Wait another 5 years and they might be at parity with the Bay area. But the bay could even be further off the rails by then.
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Maybe think about LA? You can make that salary and own a home easily. And the Armenian community there is great!
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
>Ubers a great place to work now. I’m sorry, but companies’ cultures don’t change that fast and it’s not even really clear how much power Kalanick has actually ceded. Was the entire chain of command from the HR staff that tried to shut w
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
That’s a quite peculiar read of the history. The real story of Korea is something more like: -The United States propped up the corrupt and vicious right-wing ruler Syngman Rhee, who was responsible for thousands of extrajudicial killings o
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How People Inside Facebook Are Reacting to the Company’s Election Crisis(buzzfeed.com)
2 points by alphonsegaston 9y ago|0 comments
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
I believe the adage goes, “there’s a sucker born every minute.”
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Apple, maybe. Google, not so much. Still skeptical either way.
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Believe the parent is referring to year over year increases, which are quite common in hot markets. A lot of landlords will jack up rents when it comes time to renew your lease, especially if they know there is room to squeeze you.
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Considering that companies like Google and Apple went to illegal extremes to prevent competition for labor and depress employee wages, I find it unlikely that they’re not going to do the same thing here. They’ll probably invent some cryptic
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Colorado Political Candidate Promises to Give His Seat to an App(motherboard.vice.com)
1 points by alphonsegaston 9y ago|0 comments
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Of course. But Microsoft also gives that guy free stuff to essentially do PR for them, so there’s that to consider.
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Never heard about that. Maybe it was all bluster then to promote his own stuff over bootcamps.
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
No, I've been to the Microsoft store and tested out all their new devices. None are on par with even Wacom's Intuos offerings. The Surface Studio seemed especially bad. I'm sure their digitizers work great for the average use
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by alphonsegaston 9y ago
Yeah, Microsoft is not unique in being unable to sucessfully integrate Wacom tech. And Wacom's own portables leave a lot to be desired as computing devices. It's a hard problem.

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