bioemerl

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by bioemerl 4y ago
> Most users will have other browsers installed along with Safari. Apple literally goes out of their way to deny you the right to use another browser engine on their mobile phones.
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This statement here should be seen as a crimson flashing red flag waving as madly as a person can wave. "Want global web compatibility? Fuck you buy a Mac" -Apple
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Yeah, we have a bottomless reserve now, it's called an export ban. Europe though, they need to start building some very deep reserves, because if an export ban happens they're going to be on the receiving end of it.
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I'll bet you it's built by a third party company if they aren't allowed to share the details.
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I can know about them without purchasing them by looking up support for the software I want to run and seeing if it supports these boards.
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Yep and I think this is missing a big chunk of the conversation because they were open. Even if they weren't, there would have been clones and the clones would have shamelessly copied the non-open product as well. This is a problem wit
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All the raspberry pi alternatives have some really Achilles heel software problems where they don't properly support everything the raspberry pi does. I will never buy one just because I want to run software on these computers and 90%
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Is that relevant for the amount of houses they can build? I feel like if you were truly motivated they could have had over New York's population by now if they were to build homes and skyscrapers. It doesn't take 100 or 200 years
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Up further, I wish things like vim were abstracted out so that they were hiding in the operating system level instead of on the application level. That way you could have vim emotions everywhere.
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> Companies are social relations with legal protection In other words, they are real things, you can go speak to people who work for apple. You can visit its buildings. Your can install their apps. > Hypothetically I could even stea
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by bioemerl 4y ago
I am highly skeptical any AI could have such a great advantage over human society that it could leapfrog us. Think about some important ideas. Data > processing power. 90 percent of what we do occurs as a result of semi random discover
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> It only describes what is acceptable and what is extreme. The average citizen is not a static thing My point here is that government is ultimately restricted by the people. Any assumption what the government does will change that win
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It's absolutely tangible. It's an app. It's servers. It's a company. I don't see how you can arrive at the conclusion that a company isn't tangible.
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TikTok isn't an idea, it's a platform atop which people speak, and the platform is owned by a country that recognizes no right to free speech and is actively hostile to the United States.
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As far as I'm seeing here you're describing the same end result. I'm not going to disagree with you because at the end of the day I only care about that end result. However I also think this plan will prove way more unwieldy
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You're kind of repeating the same thing here. Government isn't a big slippery slope, it's a balancing act between the people and the government. Law represents where we stand on that balancing act. It doesn't matter rea
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You just said we should never make new things criminal. Hacking is a really clear and obvious example of why we need that ability and we will need to exercise it regularly. Legally of hacking is a clear example of why your philosophy doesn&
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Restriction of a platform like TikTok isn't a free speech violation at all. They're a company, firstly, and an arm of a foreign government. Free speech is a right of citizens and individuals. Denying China's right to contro
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> They pivoted because a extraordinary, vast majority of Americans on both sides of the political spectrum were against the TPP - extensive opinion polling already showed this. Calling this as as "populist" Do you know what pop
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> the US can simply act under the principle of trade reciprocity by saying This is basically a ban, because there is no world that China agrees to let their firewall down. Or it's effectively nothing if China argues "they just
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Theyagree on stuff all the time, and 90% of the time when they both agree on something it's especially misinformed and especially populist.
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I'm also free not to smoke, but they still banned smoking and most indoor regions because it can be harm to other people. So can the widespread use of a propaganda platform like tick tock
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Everyone who thinks maybe it doesn't have real effects on society has missed to the last 10 or so years. Even if you aren't, you're some superhuman apparently, you live in a society with millions of people who will very much
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> Putting China on that list is a major step towards at least a Cold War with China, let alone a hot war. The only way to prevent war. America is the only thing standing between them and multiple wars in the South China Sea, and we must
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I'd rather they just be banned than the United States government getting involved in the game of censorship. Speech should flow freely, and in order to do so the platforms on which we speak must not be controlled by hostile foreign gov
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So you don't, you simply ban every single corporation in the United States from doing business with them, and if you want to keep viewing it, you can.
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Both Hillary and Obama were in support of the law before populist outrage showed up and they had to pivot. They were in favor of it because it was a good law, and it further an American interests in the wider world. Half of the restrictions
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Totally different country. Totally different laws. You can't compare them.
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Would you prefer hacking be legal?
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China threatens to invade one of our allies every week, this isn't a false monster, it's an obvious truth. And it's barely cold anymore, trying to actively supplying Russia who is at war with Ukraine today. And I think you sh

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