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by benlumen 6y ago
Right, that makes far more sense. I should have known I was missing something as it's ridiculous on the face of it. Thanks!
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by benlumen 6y ago
Sorry for being behind on this discussion, but how can there possibly be a legal basis for taking down open-source software on the basis that it might be used for infringing someone's copyright? Can they takedown my web browser and o
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by benlumen 6y ago
I think you might be surprised. The government knows that this is the silver bullet they need to rescue the economy from oblivion. I’m expecting that once this thing is ready there’ll be a logistical effort for the history books to roll it
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by benlumen 6y ago
We’re not taught about money in the UK, either. At least we weren’t when I was at school. What a difference it would make in the land of payday loans, cheap car credit, buy-to-let mortgages and betting shops.
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by benlumen 6y ago
Right? With everything we know about the main social networks, I’d pass on this too.
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by benlumen 6y ago
This is an incredibly low-information perspective that's got to go. China is an authoritarian single-party state where citizens have no liberty, no justice, no recourse. It couldn't be more different to the US. The ongoing demoral
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by benlumen 6y ago
You're lucky they let you in. Many places I've seen have made the NHS one mandatory on the door now.
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by benlumen 6y ago
I was staggered by how quickly these QR solutions were stood up. They aren't standardised and just take you to a webform and maybe a PDF of the drinks menu, but the speed was impressive. Not surprised but still disappointed to learn th
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by benlumen 6y ago
Good point, not a great analogy. My sentiment was the risk of this becoming normalized and even formalized. When I was (a lot) younger, I had a pet theory that the anti-virus companies were making the viruses and that it was a sort of prote
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by benlumen 6y ago
> To be honest, just how bad of a thing is this? It’s a direct financial punishment for a company with lax security practices. It encourages greater security practices. I see your point but this is flat-out organized crime, extortion to
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by benlumen 6y ago
My thoughts, also. It's obvious why they don't, but ideally, every business would take a "we don't negotiate with terrorists" stance on this. Could governments outlaw these ransom payments?
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by benlumen 6y ago
I don't know the current numbers but prior to Brexit, more British people expatriated to countries like Australia, Canada and America than the EU combined (with the exception of Spain, which is high on the list due to retirees moving t
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by benlumen 6y ago
I think it's possible that it's both. Consider the possibility that clandestine aliens are here and can mess with us and our defences and abduct us with impunity, their intentions are not great, and the manhattan project part is t
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by benlumen 6y ago
Thanks for the general advice even if not aimed at me - you're right. I need to bring original research as well as opinion. I've been looking into what I can glean about social trends from open source intelligence methods. Early d
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by benlumen 6y ago
I submitted my first article once and mentioned it a comment once here, which is about as much self-promotion as i'm comfortable with, and received 5 sign ups. It's a strange feeling that people want to hear more from me in their
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by benlumen 6y ago
I was downvoted for my original question for some reason but thanks for sharing this - I genuinely had no idea that the Democrats were on the same page here.
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by benlumen 6y ago
Is he really? That sounds hopeful. I'd perhaps wrongly assumed that the Democrats would undo Trump's efforts to create and keep jobs in the US and revert to unfettered globalism.
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by benlumen 6y ago
Would-be writers that never gave it a shot are having a crack at newsletters too. I've started one to get down some fully-fleshed thoughts on tech that would've otherwise been left half-formulated and lost in a comment section. Th
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by benlumen 6y ago
You're downvoted but I understand your sentiment. From where I'm sitting, Twitter is doing so much more damage than Facebook that it's not even close. My Facebook is full of old friends from school not saying much, and some l
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by benlumen 6y ago
I've been thinking about antitrust a lot recently. Years ago, Microsoft were losing in court over the right to ship their browser with their operating system. Now, you get reminded how great Edge is when you try to change your default
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by benlumen 6y ago
I'd love access to the Twitter API for research purposes for my writing, but I'm priced out for that purpose. I can't prove it, but it feels like they only want big businesses researching their markets, and not people like me
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by benlumen 6y ago
But until you did, you would have made more money than the Twitter hacker.
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by benlumen 6y ago
While we're at it - when someone you manage does great work - tell your manager. I do this out of professional decency, not social justice (angle of the article).
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by benlumen 6y ago
"Professionally outraged" is the best term I've heard for most of the blue check accounts. Twitter doesn't need to be (and at one time was not) as toxic as it is. People just learnt to be that way to get traffic to their
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by benlumen 6y ago
As I said to the other commenter, I didn't even mention the BBC in the comment you're responding to. Ofcom rules mean that all TV news broadcasters must be impartial (i.e. can't openly support a particular side). Do people ou
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by benlumen 6y ago
I didn't mention the BBC in the comment you're replying to at all, I was talking about Ofcom impartiality regulations which are a separate thing that all TV broadcasters need to mind when reporting the news. I think you might need
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by benlumen 6y ago
There might never have been some noble objective, but there were at least the business incentives to appeal to a broader audience because of the centralized distribution methods, no? I think Matt Taibbi wrote about this. Market forces then
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by benlumen 6y ago
The BBC is impartial by charter but I think it's for all of them to some degree. Ofcom regulates it. Sky actually stopped carrying Fox News over here because of it.
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by benlumen 6y ago
> News publications developing content aren’t all that different from SEM campaigns. Exactly - the have to please the same platforms and systems.
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by benlumen 6y ago
> Was the mainstream media ever objective or impartial? It depends where you are - I'm in the UK where TV news still has objectivity regulation. I know that's been gone in the US for a long time. In general though I think when

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