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by babesh 6y ago
https://www.cnet.com/news/tim-cook-says-privacy-is-an-issue-... Tim Cook says privacy is an issue of morality
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https://youtu.be/x3nFe7EpWAY
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This is the same exact argument made roughly 30 years ago with South Africa and apartheid.
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Yes it would be ethical to abandon their customers over this. Apparently religious freedom isn’t where you draw the line. What other rights are you willing to abandon?
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Also, are they going to ban election deniers from other countries? I read about one election in an African country where someone got more than 100 percent of the vote (more votes than there were voters, oops). Should we ban people who deny
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship They are hoping to launch roughly 600 per Starship launch with the launch itself eventually costing roughly 2M. Don’t know how much each satellite costs.
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The link wasn’t even to an article! The link was to the lawsuit itself and I was paraphrasing the first couple of paragraphs of the lawsuit! Don’t bother addressing them if you don’t like. Call it garbage instead of addressing points. Feel
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by babesh 6y ago
Here is a distillation of various Tesla commentary I have seen, heard, and read. Tesla made some mistakes, some due to hubris, some due to speed, some due to the newness of EVs. Their emphasis is on speed since their mission is accelerating
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Also happening in NYC.
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You apparently didn’t bother reading the lawsuit and how closed schools hurt the “brown” and “black” students that the board and union are supposedly for. Nor did you read it stating how private schools have been safely open for many mont
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The left will destroy itself.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normans They were a mixed people, partly descended from Vikings. Not only people descended from Vikings invaded England. You had non Viking French in there too.
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Baseball
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Have been to Hiroshima. It is a pretty city by Japanese standards. Green paths along the river unlike Tokyo’s concrete. Much more laid back than Tokyo.
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Here is my vantage point of how the game is played. I went to a magnet high school. The rich kids, irrespective of race, mostly didn’t have better grades. What they had was richer backgrounds and more opportunities (parents able and willing
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Stop the white adjacent bullshit. There is a substantial Asian underclass. Your opportunities if you looked Asian would only be very similar to whites if you were upper middle class Asian. The difference is that some of those lower and lowe
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Disadvantage is due to far more than skin color, race, religion, etc... I think there are wide swaths of 'white' America that are disadvantaged as well.
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I encourage people to read "The Life of Greece" by Will Durant. It resonates with our times. They also had wealth inequality. Sometimes, it resulted in the poor and wealthy fighting. This fighting was often very brutal with each s
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Let’s see how long this lasts.
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Replace UX with programming and it is the same exact story: “Losing faith in Programming”. You go in hoping that you are creating code that helps your user and end up optimizing for ARR.
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If you think that big tech is bad, wait till you learn about Wall Street, the military industrial complex, the two political parties, the medical industry, etc, etc, etc...
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It’s time to hack/weaponize censorship. Any group you don’t like you infiltrate and add hate speech. Like China when you denounced the neighbor you had a grudge with as bourgeoisie. If you don’t think this isn’t already happening, you
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Then why doesn’t he just remove FB from the App Store like he did with Parler?
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Yes, but I think both are happening in the US. Hollowing out of manufacturing along with entrenched interests. Millennials get to feel both: expensive schooling ending up in low paid, dead end service jobs and gigs.
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I think what will happen is that a larger percentage of the US will realize it and not like it. I think the US lives in a bubble but other parts of the world are feeling that shift already. I wonder how many Americans know that Europe trade
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People seem to be doing what losers do when facing destruction: move away. You see movement in both physical and virtual spaces. In people and in companies to different states. In people moving to different social media. People stop fightin
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People are walking chimps, organizing into tribes and beating the other tribe. Like, our cousins, we take visceral emotional satisfaction in demeaning the other tribe. Today’s US is just a grand example of this at Internet scale and energi
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Yes of course. It is the principle of privacy. Most of the time, governments have far more power than such groups. This power is ripe for abuse and power like this has been abused in the past in the US. Why would you think that it wouldn’t
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I didn’t say that specific person was left. But yes I should have been more clear. And yes, I know about that bill and that it was supported by Republicans. In fact, I linked to it in an earlier comment prior to your comment.
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Quotes from the article leave that impression. “The app saw a surge in usage during last year’s protests for racial justice, even adding a tool to automatically blur faces in photos to help activists more safely share images of the demonstr

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