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by autoexec 7mo ago
> Would you ban ad supported apps? There's no need to ban ad supported apps when you can just ban the practice of using ads targeting users based on individual characteristics.
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by autoexec 7mo ago
dynamic/discriminatory pricing driven by AI leveraging all this data would just ensure that any money people got from UBI was funneled into the pockets of corporations anyway.
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by autoexec 7mo ago
There's no reason to think that this doesn't regularly happen by at least one three letter agency. It's something they've done for a very long time ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A ). They we
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by autoexec 7mo ago
> Who's selling the data is the far more serious issue here. Everyone who has it is selling that info, and nearly everyone who collects it is selling it. Until there are laws that actually protect us, we should stop giving companies
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by autoexec 7mo ago
> Whether or not it's 'healthier' is kind of ephemeral and not really for the FDA to decide. Some raw milk producers and nut jobs claim that raw milk will cure or treat things like allergies, asthma, psoriasis, diabetes, h
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by autoexec 7mo ago
If neither sample is your usual brand you can get two different flavors, but still not be able to tell which was pasteurized. You could try to guess that the one you liked best was raw and be wrong.
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by autoexec 7mo ago
They've got some evidence, 7 known cases over three states all linked to the same product. The history of problems from this producer makes it seem more likely to be true. A lot of companies would rather have their customers throw away
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by autoexec 7mo ago
It's a great story for informing any suckers out there who bought this cheese that they should probably throw it out and avoid buying from the company in the future since they've got a long history of poisoning people and clearly
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by autoexec 7mo ago
> I think the cost of having to say something humiliating is at least equal to the cost of the cookie, How is 'bitch' any worse than ordering a Rooty Tooty Fresh 'N Fruity? Is anyone really focing you? Point and grunt if i
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by autoexec 7mo ago
The reality is much much easier. You just google "I want a website" or "give me a .com" and click links until you get some free website builder or a webhosting company who will take your credit card and give you very eas
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by autoexec 7mo ago
Have you tried it with uncompressed audio? Have all the times when your dog could recognize your voice also been times when you were within smelling range?
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by autoexec 7mo ago
> facebook and similar social media companies have a ton of ways to get peoples age and or to narrow it down... May not matter much for facebook or similar, it matters a bunch for any random website/forum/service you might sign
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by autoexec 7mo ago
> Laws appear to have fallen out of fashion. Laws are very much fashionable, but only for us. “Rules for thee but not for me” is what's in season right now.
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by autoexec 7mo ago
We just haven't seen what 60 year old ipad kids look like yet. It's not going to be pretty
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by autoexec 7mo ago
All the more reason for regulation. If people catch on to the fact that they are being manipulated and abused by the platforms to "drive engagement" they might abandon them or spend less time on them. If the government regulates t
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by autoexec 7mo ago
> I think this is a sensible compromise. It gives parents more control than before without relying on shady third-party software or without turning every platform into a cop. It doesn't give parents any control whatsoever. It just f
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by autoexec 7mo ago
The point is that you can't just externalize age verification and expect that data to never be sent to facebook because facebook needs that data to do anything (good or bad). It doesn't matter if your OS broadcasts that your child
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by autoexec 7mo ago
The law doesn't require any protection levels at all. It just requires your OS to tell every website you visit which bucket your children fall into. Every website and platform can use that information in whatever ways they want, even i
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by autoexec 7mo ago
> Parents want one setting that says "this is a child" and then expect online platforms to respond appropriately. This law does not do that. It breaks the age of children into several buckets so that platforms, websites, and ad
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by autoexec 7mo ago
they love money and facebook has the cash to bribe them
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by autoexec 7mo ago
Facebook has less than zero interest in allowing people to use their platform anonymously. They very much want to know everything about their users including their age and they would never back a law that would stop them from collecting tha
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by autoexec 7mo ago
It's pointless. Kids who want an uncensored internet will use a VPN or proxy the same way they've been getting around the restrictions and filers put on the computers and networks at schools. These laws will do nothing to protect
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by autoexec 7mo ago
It's not enough for the government to know. Platforms, websites, and advertisers want to know. That's why the law facebook has been pushing for doesn't have a simple "is 18+" flag but instead has a long list of age
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by autoexec 7mo ago
I think they could have used some punctuation. examples: The 2013 system’s game library is largely overlapped, in better quality, on the PC platform. The 2013 system’s game library is largely overlapped (in better quality) on the PC platfor
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by autoexec 7mo ago
True, I'm not trying to diminish this guy's efforts to defeat all the obstacles MS put in his way.
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by autoexec 7mo ago
It's amazing how many things We The People want our government to do that go ignored year after year, but the moment corporations want something laws get pushed through at lightning speeds. Does anyone actually think that masses of reg
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by autoexec 7mo ago
> Whether PC users, our core readership, will be interested in actually emulating Xbox One, looks unlikely. The 2013 system’s game library is largely overlapped in better quality on the PC platform. And this explains why it's stayed
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by autoexec 7mo ago
What do the parents you know say when you tell them that they're medicating their children for normal human emotions? My guess is that they could give examples of things that aren't actually normal which caused them to seek out a
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by autoexec 7mo ago
> There’s a tendency in modern psychology/media to pathologize the average human baseline Is there though? I don't think modern psychology does. Where are these psychologists who don't think emotional ups and downs are a n
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by autoexec 7mo ago
I'm guessing that it's just a joke, but I'll admit that it reads like something you'd expect from somebody who doesn't know the difference between "sad" and "depressed" and thinks that there&#x27

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