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by bngybmgrglflps 5y ago
A government can only acquire revenue by siphoning productivity ("nice things"). The organization and its agents bear no consequence for mistakes in the allocation. It has no means to compare value or incentive to do so. The sys
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by bngybmgrglflps 5y ago
Not ad nauseam. There's a floor, an equilibrium where countercyclical forces take over. (Besides: many people agreeing with this sentiment maintain that growth _per se_ is already an existential threat to human existence.) Inflation is
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by bngybmgrglflps 5y ago
It's a last-gen device. Why not interpret the lack of fanfare -- by design, a user won't even notice the swap -- as a soft launch? The smart home space has always been a shit show, from the radios up. It's a separate bag of
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by bngybmgrglflps 5y ago
"Beep as anti-stalking measure" is somewhere between marketing spin and gaslighting. A lost AirTag chirps to serve its primary function of being recovered. The timer is 3 days[1], which observers (Forbes, WaPo) agree is surpris
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by bngybmgrglflps 5y ago
I think an apt analogy is Google Glass. It went without saying they didn't invent surreptitious video recording. This didn't prevent _overwhelming outcry_ over legitimate privacy concerns. The only difference I can see here is A
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by bngybmgrglflps 5y ago
"Buy a game, get free hardware" is back for Resident Evil. https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/10495261?hl=en
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by bngybmgrglflps 5y ago
"Encrypt, store, share [files] on your own terms" is elegantly handled by (Rob Pike's) Upspin. Practically: upspinfs fusermounts a cloud storage bucket. (TCO: $0.01/GB/mo.) Transparent public-key crypto. Sharing i