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by annabellish 8y ago
No no no, the point is that the jobs aren't useless _locally_, in that my most local store cannot fire their advertising department, but they are still useless _globally_, in that the sheer scale of resources poured into creating the a
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by annabellish 8y ago
>If you believe that we operate in a market economy, then by definition bullshit jobs would be removed. That's the theory, but we all know that theoretical capitalism and what we have today are very different beasts. Bullshit jobs a
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by annabellish 8y ago
Our current society is definitely not rational, which I inferred as the point. Our economic system is a good 80% complete nonsense, where we're essentially playing a very complicated and meaningless game with ourselves, except one with
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by annabellish 8y ago
There's nothing inherently insecure about a smart lightbulb. With studies like this proving the danger inherent even in a 100% perfectly secure bulb, then yes, people likely won't attach them to secure networks. _Without these stu
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by annabellish 8y ago
How do you think Gmail writes the content out onto the page? Goodness gracious, they have to store it and process it! I don't really see how running the contents through an quick reply generation function is different to running it thr
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by annabellish 8y ago
Nonsense. As smart light bulbs get even cheaper and more likely, the chances of them being used to achieve useful ends, like automatically dimming up and down as daylight requires, turning off when not needed at light-level instead of room-
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by annabellish 8y ago
That's very untrue. In fact, any site which makes you do that is _violating_ the GDPR - you aren't allowed to have those checkboxes be opt-out. Besides, that's only one small part of the GDPR, which is much closer to the Data
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by annabellish 8y ago
>It's not that Alex Jones is off-topic it's that he's saying disagreeable things. I think this is the central disagreement. He _is_ breaking the rules of twitter, by any interpretation, but even were he not, I don't t
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by annabellish 8y ago
>I would say I'd like to live in a world where private corporations didn't censor digital mass communication. Why on earth would you want that? We already have a tonne of mechanisms by which anybody can say anything they like,
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by annabellish 8y ago
>How is anyone better off now that he's banned? People who didn't watch him still don't watch him. People who did watch him still watch him ( maybe moreso because they downloaded his app ), and people who were on the fence
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by annabellish 8y ago
It literally is not, by the actual legal definition of freedom of speech. I think a lot of people have this oversimplified idea that "Freedom of speech" means "Anyone should be able to say anything, and they should face no co
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by annabellish 8y ago
Nobody is suggesting there's anything magical here. We're seeing increasing profits, increasing wages for high level management, and static wages for most employees. The second isn't an intrinsic issue itself, but we don&#x27
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by annabellish 8y ago
They don't make it clear at that point, but the section on the interrobang makes it clear we're talking about old typewriters. "[backspace]- would result in the - being directly underneath the " on a monospace typewriter
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by annabellish 8y ago
I do mean with their platform, which is why I wrote that and not on their platform. Only offering your software on your hardware isn't anticompetitive. It's the default for almost everything - your smart fridge isn't anticomp
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by annabellish 8y ago
Apple aren't doing anything to prevent competition with their platform. Google are/were. It's that simple. iOS is a closed platform, and Android is a more open platform, but that's 100% orthogonal to Apple or Google&#x27
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by annabellish 8y ago
Sure, but, do you know how much a packet of oreos is, without looking it up? Despite having bought them more times in the past than I'd be willing to admit, I only have a vague perception. I know they're under my "this is too
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by annabellish 8y ago
I mean, of course it does. Most people run their development environments as their own user, and most package management systems have post-install script support. Installing random software from the internet is problematic.
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by annabellish 8y ago
>they generate taxes which directly increase the government's ability SpaceX _received_ a lot of tax money, and megacorporations in general tend not to pay anywhere near as much tax as they "should", so in this sense is li
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by annabellish 8y ago
As nice as that sounds, at what point do we consider it immoral for for-profit megaprojects to come before little things, like ensuring people don't go hungry, have adequate healthcare, or have enough savings that they can weather mino
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by annabellish 8y ago
All of those things are meaningless to a company on their own. This kind of decision comes down to one simple calculation: Is more profit likely to be generated from doing it, or from not doing it? All the things you've mentioned are t
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by annabellish 8y ago
I don't see any technical reason why your encryption/decryption route couldn't sustain one branch. You're doing it in hardware, there's not going to be a performance decrease from it, though there would be a slight
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by annabellish 8y ago
>tolerable equivalent of Excel You can get _actual_ excel. Google Sheets is also pretty decent. I don't think there's a libreoffice implementation, unfortunately. >the shell On Android, at least, actual shells are available.
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by annabellish 8y ago
Other than the much smaller scales podcasts operate on, are there any podcasts where the host has turned it into a living? There's a _lot_ of video creators out there who make those videos as their sole source of income now.
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by annabellish 8y ago
I don't believe so, integrating such a thing is a pretty big change, though I believe there are (or at least were, last I checked) systems which didn't require a full custom OS to work with.
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by annabellish 8y ago
There have been (third party) permissions systems which do provide generic data if the permission is denied, but the modern android permission system is more just based around developers having to acknowledge that those permissions might be
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by annabellish 8y ago
There's tonnes of bakeries. Most people buy bread from supermarkets, which I'd wager is true almost everywhere, but I can think of three or four bakeries just within walking distance of me right now, never mind driving, and the sa
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by annabellish 8y ago
Partition tolerance is not a defining property of distributed systems, just a very valuable one. You only really want to sacrifice partition tolerance if the precise correctness of your data is not tremendously important. A CA system can al
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by annabellish 8y ago
> This is one of the central questions of our age. I think the question is what to do about it, not whether it's happening. We have reams of evidence that it's happening, and "doing good" for PR reasons is just more o
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by annabellish 8y ago
That isn't what proprietary means, though. Every criticism you level at this file format _can also be levelled at the others_. There's no way around that at this stage. The only way mozilla could not have caused that problem is to
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by annabellish 8y ago
That's definitely an opinion which a lot of people would disagree with.

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