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by bonaldi 8y ago
You are again failing to read your own cites. "Radio propaganda helped Nazi to enroll new party members and encouraged denunciations of Jews leading to their deportation to concentration camps and caused open expressions of anti-Semiti
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by bonaldi 8y ago
The United Kingdom is a strange place for you to pick as your model of laws protecting free press. And, as seems to be eluding you, we're talking about Spotify here. I don't believe Article 19 is intended to cover them. It'd
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by bonaldi 8y ago
Can I suggest you read at least the abstract of your cites? “This negative effect [of four years of anti-Nazi messages] was fully undone in just one month after Nazis got control over the radio in 1933 and initiated heavy radio propagan
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by bonaldi 8y ago
Smashing analogy! Oh, except that society was in fact negatively affected by the early unfettered press, and accordingly came up with all sorts of methods of regulating and managing it. It’s where we get libel laws, for one thing. You pr
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by bonaldi 8y ago
And America’s democracy is in robust health, is it? “Fake news” sourced to state-sponsored actors not currently a subject of concern there? Oh, and speaking of viruses, anti-vaxxers aren’t still a thing there, are they? I’m sure the good sp
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by bonaldi 8y ago
People started “compromising” on those principles when they realised it wasn’t the 1700s any longer, that the internet had given anyone with a computer access to the sort of message amplification Goebbels could only have dreamed of, and tha
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by bonaldi 8y ago
But they deny any such effect at all when it comes to fascist content. Dynamic is exactly the same; appeal is thankfully more limited. This whole situation is risible. Did everyone ignore the real meaning of “meme”? Some ideas are like viru
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by bonaldi 8y ago
I can, since I share the viewpoint. For me as a consumer, the security doesn’t affect me negatively at all. For me as a developer, working often on incomplete, immature, broken or partially broken systems, it often gets in the way. Because
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by bonaldi 8y ago
For similar reasons that “free” people aren’t allowed to visit restaurants with health code violations. People have to be able to make informed decisions. It’s hard to tell from the outside if a restaurant is safe, so we have inspections. I
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by bonaldi 8y ago
Was GDPR so terrifying that they had to sell it off?
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by bonaldi 8y ago
I think the “them and us” dynamic you’re leaking everywhere was substantially more of a problem in that situation than anything you list. You just know the designer is on dribbble or somewhere posting a comment about how the “framework-fanb
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by bonaldi 8y ago
Touchscreens probably aren't OK, is the point. But more obviously: the current state of your air con isn't as deeply absorbing and distracting as, say, your Facebook feed. So one is pretty bad to be looking at while drive, the oth
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by bonaldi 8y ago
No, he's been flagged for suggesting someone study the effects of a thing which he immediately admits he's just made up. It's not even "we should see if there's a counterpart to toxic masulinity", it's &qu
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by bonaldi 8y ago
Is there any reasonable way to get an objective-C equipped with an NSString variant on Linux? GnuStep seems mostly abandoned.
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by bonaldi 8y ago
If no-one cares there's no need to false flag a justification, is there?
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by bonaldi 8y ago
Note that they've got the patent for keyboards with speakers in, which is why you can't get them anywhere else. 1
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by bonaldi 8y ago
You might look closer at "why".
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by bonaldi 9y ago
You'll find a number of places that don't take American Express, so have an alternative with you. If you have Apple or Android Pay, that'll cover you for most purchases under £100 (under £30 in some places with outdated tech)
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by bonaldi 9y ago
What do you mean by successful? Usually the point is not to dent revenue, it's to cause behaviour change. And there is a long list of boycotts that have achieved that. http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/boycotts/succes
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by bonaldi 9y ago
I have a device that fits in my trouser pocket that allows me to stream and watch HD video for multiple hours over a cell network while being powered by a battery roughly the volume of a matchbox. Yes, I think that's incredible. Does
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by bonaldi 9y ago
Mobile networks and smart phones have incredible performance. AMP is about making up for the race-to-the-bottom behaviour of sites that can’t resist using 6mb and a boatful of JS just to render an article(+analytics+ads)
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by bonaldi 9y ago
You think Facebook is going to start charging fees to people in the US to pay for fines from the EU? Well I heard that if this post gets 1000 likes Zuckerberg will cancel his plans to charge for Facebook. (It's also arguable that great
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by bonaldi 9y ago
I have a perfectly lovely set of friends, who often post lovely things. But when I think back to all the “long comments” and “spark conversation” type posts, they’re not lovely. They are politics or other things that spark FB’s equivalent o
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by bonaldi 9y ago
> The core problem, IMO, is that content that makes us angry, anxious or jealous is a much better driver of clicks than content that makes us happy. Right ... and if they're not careful here, they'll just go back to how FB was
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by bonaldi 9y ago
> I still need to deliver my Geo capabilities, but all I know is that the team I'm dependent on may or may not do it, at some point in the future I think the point I'm trying to get across to you is that this is always the cas
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by bonaldi 9y ago
> Because you've decided that "roadmap" is term that doesn't apply to "starting on it after x". It's more like you're defending the idea of roadmaps by saying any list of stuff to do — or even sayi
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by bonaldi 9y ago
It's almost certain. I've fired mine up again for the first time in years because I want digital music in my bedroom, but don't want a phone in there any longer -- and the nostalgia is just as strong as it was when I got a ne
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by bonaldi 9y ago
> If your organisation is aiming to be more than a bunch of independent units that happen to share a balance sheet, you need co-ordination and sometimes that requires a roadmap. Yes, you need co-ordination. No, you don’t need a roadmap.
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by bonaldi 9y ago
>If a project can be predicted by a high enough level of certainty, I would say that there is nothing wrong with a detailed roadmap. Also here, a false dichotomy. In large orgs, roadmaps come to be depended upon by stakeholders and other
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by bonaldi 9y ago
I'm probably spending less on text now, because there aren't many pay-for substitutes for all the tech magazines I used to read. Print is now down to just Private Eye and the BJP; online subs include Guardian, FT, Economist, Spoti

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