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by bbarnett 6y ago
There are many, many Facebook clones. None of these platforms are king of the world. Yet imagine Facebook is "destroyed" tomorrow, literally shut down. Now, where do all those people go to get their fix? You suggest two alternat
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by bbarnett 6y ago
One cannot change human nature, but instead, must engineer a society which uses our nature as a plus, not minus. FB is a detriment to society, but this is primarily due to capitalism's flaws, which entices profit above all, and even pu
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Further to this ; in Canada, we have to constantly, and directly, worry about the US corporate tax rate. If it drops too low, compared to our tax rate? Companies can VERY easily flee to the US, and with the FTA/NAFTA/whatever it
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by bbarnett 6y ago
See my reply to my original post. Tax rate changes are well known, but here's an example. Click on 'max' for a decades long look. https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/corporate-tax-rate In terms of '
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I'll add this as a reply, so as to not edit the original. The downside of all of this, is that workers in regions with abysmal workers rights, win. No health care? No paid holidays? No sick leave? Work 6 or 7 days a week, 12 hour d
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Yes, but... Decades and decades ago, corporations paid most of the tax. People paid very little. Then things shifted. Instead of taxing corporations, people were taxed. Said people, with less money in their pocket, required raises. And
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I think that the type of intellect is the issue. Why? At the start, only highly technical types dominated the Internet. Other types existed, but were the minority. And at the start, the Internet had more, tech only content. Sure, there w
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I believe so. I had the same thing, with a rent to own furniture place, 27 years ago. I moved from one side of the country to the other, to open a new corporate office, but the move was hasty. 2 weeks from decision to hitting the road. I j
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by bbarnett 6y ago
To be fair, taking time to stalk and kill prey, slow travel time.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Cats have personalities. I'm sure you know this, but maybe have not considered it in this context. There have been humans in my life I did not like, or who drove me bonkers. Perfectly good people, but just a personality conflict. Who
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by bbarnett 6y ago
They definitely fabricated a story, it could be a single reporter (the lead?), not the whole org, because, it makes as much sense as anything else. I still don't understand why no lawsuit.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Btw, with respect to your 'show me the law', 'mandated' doesn't mean 'legislated'. That very same IBM whitepaper you cited, claims the FCC mandated it. As in, pushed an interpretation of a regulation. Ar
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by bbarnett 6y ago
What IBM whitepaper? The one linked in the tomshardware url, in your own post! The whitepaper by IBM, you even talk about in your post! Years later, in 2010, an IBM security researcher showed Apparently you're discussing how IBM sh
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I agree with what you said as one possible path to "why", but one look at the history of the Bradley Tank shows how meaningless time/money can be in large orgs. Especially political ones. Couple this with big name/exter
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I think, in a market like this, if a new type of product appears, and starts gaining massive traction? The CEO, the board, the top execs, marketing, etc, need to force use that product exclusively. So they know. So they get it. Because it
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by bbarnett 6y ago
My comment was about how on-screen, software keyboards eat 1/2 the active screen. The Priv had a slide out hardware keyboard, the optimal solution IMO. Full size screen on the device, hardware keyboard too. I know what you mean, but t
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by bbarnett 6y ago
What really got me, was how much people I showed the Priv to, and the slide out keyboard loved it. An example, I was on a plane. Guy next to me, a Canadian, had never heard of or seen the Priv, and had a Samsung. When he saw me scrolling a
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Yes, but, you cannot build a new brand in a couple of years. If you look at the Wikipedia article, you'll see the Priv, the first all android Blackberry, was released in 2015, and they bailed in late 2016. You cannot re-invent a brand
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Yes, plus not losing 1/2 the screen to an on-screen keyboard. Was almost pure android, incredibly secure. Blackberry got it right, then bailed.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Page 4 of the IBM white paper says: In 2005 the FCC ruled that CALEA applies to broadband Internet providers So yes, it was mandated. You may disagree with the ruling, but ISPs were required to do something, and Cisco enabled this on pro
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Eh? So, while this whitepaper is news to me, how is this an "NSA backdoor". Reading up on this, it sounds like * it was required, much as with phone tapping, by the US gov * ergo, ISPs needed it, were mandated to have it * therefo
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Use verbatim, as per my comment up thread.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Google works for the masses. It assumes synonyms and aliases are great. For example, searching for phrases like debian <something>, often bring ubuntu help pages to the top results. Worse if you are looking for Dave Smith. You&#x27
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Never, ever happened. Ever. You're conflating "NSA secretly rerouting shipping company deliveries to end-users, installing their firmware, then senting it on" with "Cisco willingly did that". Cisco was unaware, and
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by bbarnett 6y ago
A mechanic working on a car, with enough juice to fry him, and no way to separate the battery from car? I guess a full discharge first. But what about your accident, and the jaws of life? Will they conduct? Will the wrenched apart car hav
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I believe some are confused by dramatized court proceedings, and slanted / opinionated news, thinking actual courts are drama, or behave this way.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Not a bad read.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
You've provided additional info here, which has helped me get what you meant. I'm not even saying you weren't clear before, just that personally, I now see what you mean with more clarity. "even the investor themself ma
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by bbarnett 6y ago
> Two examples of his actions with different genders do not show that there is absence or presence of a gender-specific bias. Precisely . Yet one of these two was being used as an example for unconscious gender bias. Why were both exam
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by bbarnett 6y ago
This comment is an incredible thing to use as an example. You made this comment hours and hours ago. Yet in that time, 'what is grey' has changed. Things have been voted up and down. And who's to say that 5 years from now,

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