bingidingi

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by bingidingi 5y ago
How much email flows through gmail? Should Amazon have 50% of all ecommerce transaction data? How much of the chat space and social media does Facebook own? You're not wrong, but I think rather than bringing up counter-examples, you&#x
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by bingidingi 5y ago
AFAIK They weren't ultimately fined, just warned... and it was one company. They were warned because they were transferring email addresses to a company that falls under US Surveillance law and there weren't any relevant legal pro
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by bingidingi 5y ago
Then maybe they shouldn't allow everyone to create these groups on their platform. If I run a music venue, and every weekend I sell out 1,000 seats... BUT every weekend 1 person shoots another person... they're not going to let me
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by bingidingi 5y ago
gee wiz
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by bingidingi 5y ago
yes true! but the point is also that the mind is malleable, there's no guarantee that anything I say today will be true tomorrow... there are endless circumstances
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by bingidingi 5y ago
EU companies can do business with US companies as long as they're following the law. Thousands of companies and websites have no problem doing so.
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by bingidingi 5y ago
"Innocent until proven guilty" does not mean "Abandon critical thought until a judge tells you otherwise" — this guy caught himself up in crimes literally everywhere he went... and this was after fleeing from a $25m judg
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by bingidingi 5y ago
They don't want him in the press talking about what exactly? He didn't exactly come across as a guy that would flee to central america to keep decades-long secrets.
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by bingidingi 5y ago
He had enough charges lined up (up to 5 years for every count, IIRC) that he would likely be imprisoned for life. Goes without saying but he was also an incredibly paranoid person.
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by bingidingi 5y ago
Put someone in a room and prevent them from sleeping for a few days and I'm pretty sure you could convince anyone to kill themselves. There's no absolute certainty that can ever be provided.
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by bingidingi 5y ago
Those really aren't good questions at all. He was imprisoned awaiting extradition for tax evasion charges, so guilt wasn't really determined yet. He did flee the US to avoid these charges and has since racked up a considerable tra
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by bingidingi 5y ago
I didn't say anyone or anything, in this case we're talking about a company that data mines as one of their primary business models that has been caught lying about the extent of data collection multiple times. They've also b
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by bingidingi 5y ago
You don't have to step on other professions to lift yourself up mate.
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by bingidingi 5y ago
I wouldn't be so quick to take their own description as fact.
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by bingidingi 5y ago
The existence of society is a form of control on you. That's almost the entire point of society; standardized expectations and norms meant to maintain order.
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by bingidingi 5y ago
as far as we know unicorns could be more closely related to rhinos
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by bingidingi 5y ago
por que no los dos!
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by bingidingi 5y ago
Do you need a FB account to use it with steamVR?
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by bingidingi 5y ago
Think about how loose medical science used to be (and for how long)! leeches, bloodletting, miasma, ridiculous enemas and all sorts of outright nonsense. We've got a lot more mistakes to make, but social sciences will improve too.
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by bingidingi 5y ago
Toss a big warning from the Surgeon General on there. People are blind to it now, but when they first did it for cigarettes most people weren't aware of the severity of related health issues. We need a big "soda can make you obese
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by bingidingi 5y ago
Turns out people will drink more of something if you make it a little addictive. Hell, the drug of choice has changed but it's even baked into the name.
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by bingidingi 5y ago
Sugar water has probably done more to change the world tbh.
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by bingidingi 5y ago
It's one thing to offer support, it's something else to use support to make silencing someone palatable. I will disagree with this no matter who does it. Even feeling as strongly as I do about this, I would personally have a hard
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by bingidingi 5y ago
The pencil extender industry hates this one weird trick
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by bingidingi 5y ago
This is horrifying. I know we feel like there's nothing we can do and this type of thing is old news, or maybe a risk no matter where you are... but I can't do business with a company that reacts this way.
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by bingidingi 5y ago
Your use of "no one" here is a little on the nose.
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by bingidingi 5y ago
> No we don't. Seems like basic data security to me. If my credit card number (valuable data) is posted to the dark web I have to assume someone will use it and it's insecure. Google has the data, so they can now use it wheneve
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by bingidingi 5y ago
I'm not asking people to stop snooping. I'm asking for corporations to be barred from profiting off of publicly accessible information that can personally identify me without asking for permission first. Education, journalism, r
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by bingidingi 5y ago
Doesn't really matter what you expect, they're collecting the data and there's no evidence that they aren't using it to track... so we have to assume they do. Remember they were going as far as collecting data from peop
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by bingidingi 5y ago
If I have a unique SSID (let's say, my social security number because why not at this point) and I move to a different apartment and keep the same SSID... then Google's effectively tracking a person. If you have basic address&#x2F

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