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by brainwad 7y ago
This one in Seattle was pretty good, I think: https://goo.gl/maps/9vaMWncm1m6SA96F9 .
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by brainwad 7y ago
They can't. They were required to pay into a fund to insure their customers against a collapse, and the British government repatriated the customers using money from that fund.
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by brainwad 7y ago
Rationing is not a very fair way to distribute goods or services to people. Some people may value it just enough to pay the entry fee, while others might value it a lot more, but now they have the same chances of receiving it. If you prohib
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by brainwad 7y ago
> which means Governments can't tax these goods and services That's not true at all. Cash has the same problem of undeclared transactions, but the tax mostly still manages to get collected. If anything, the fact that Libra tran
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by brainwad 7y ago
There isn't anything wrong with our lives. People of older generations spent all their time yakking on the phone and watching TV. We just do that more efficiently - we're still communicating with people on the other end of the i
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by brainwad 7y ago
Jet fuel has about double the energy density of ethanol. Running planes on ethanol would severely curtail their range.
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by brainwad 8y ago
I think the incentives to not support accessibility/minority platforms grows as the number of users grow, since the potential benefit of the features you would not implement because you have to work on a11y or Firefox support is multip
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by brainwad 8y ago
It's not malice against another browser to build for where the users are. When the users were on IE and Firefox, Google built for those platforms, ignoring e.g. Konqueror or Opera. Now that the users are on Chrome, Google can ignore Fi
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by brainwad 8y ago
I've worked at both. My memories of CodeFlow are a bit faded but I don't remember it doing anything that Critique doesn't. Critique has the advantage that it's hosted on the web, while CodeFlow was a janky Win32 applicat
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by brainwad 8y ago
Of course, only those blessed with good vision and memory should be able to have a visual record of their life :/ I can't wait for a chip that records everything I ever see so that I don't have to rely on flaky human memory.
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by brainwad 8y ago
You see the simple answer to your query because Google decides what to show based on what users will prefer, and most users just don't give a fuck about "the broader narrative of their lives and personalities".
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by brainwad 8y ago
Cook is only making this statement because it's in Apple's business interest to cripple ad-based competitors by convincing policy makers to hobble them with regulation. He's not a neutral observer.
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by brainwad 8y ago
The EU directive incentivises web platforms to take an extremely copyright-holder-friendly position, since there are massive penalties for allowing content that is found to be infringing, but no penalties for refusing to host content that i
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by brainwad 8y ago
Well, Facebook also has to store those, in order for 2FA to work. The point is, Facebook collected all of the data that was leaked for legitimate purposes, and the OP who implied they should just not have collected it is wrong. Facebook sho
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by brainwad 8y ago
English contains around one or two bits of information per character, so actually they are basically correct. See http://www-isl.stanford.edu/~cover/papers/transIT/0413cove.p... and http://www.anth
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by brainwad 8y ago
Individuals who owned a lot of property definitely could. It's just a matter of degree, not a fundamental difference between individuals and government.
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by brainwad 8y ago
If you don't see a problem with individuals keeping track of who comes onto their property, what's the problem with the government keeping track of who comes onto their property (i.e. public space)? Yet again, privacy advocates ar
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by brainwad 8y ago
They are literally government sanctioned investment vehicles. If they don't return profits to their owners, they are non-profits/charities, not corporations.
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by brainwad 8y ago
Most people working at Google don't work on these things. They work on products that genuinely help users. Should they quit just because someone else at the company is doing stupid things? Wouldn't that just leave the idiots in co
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by brainwad 8y ago
They are required to hold enough liquid capital that they won't need to be bailed out next time. As far as I can tell, it did work, yes.
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by brainwad 8y ago
Not always true, although they do tend to be soft on their own country. In either case you can solve that just by reading multiple countries' public news.
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by brainwad 8y ago
It's bad, which is why after the crisis the Dodd-Frank act was passed to reduce the chances of too-big-to-fail entities failing. So while we taught them they'd be bailed out, it's much less likely they can get themselves into
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by brainwad 8y ago
What exactly do you mean by 'monitored'? Of course sites you visit on the internet know you visited them, just like shops you visit IRL know you visited them. But it's not anyone is actually monitoring you or any other user p
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by brainwad 8y ago
They are probably against the link tax, but in favour of the content filtering.
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by brainwad 8y ago
And that would clearly be ridiculous (though believable that the EU would try). Are they going to fine Google for monopolising weather queries next? How about putting Casio out of business by abusing search monopoly to provide a free calcul
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by brainwad 8y ago
No we don't. I get my news from public broadcasters. They have the bonus of not pushing the owner's political agenda and being subject to public oversight.
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by brainwad 8y ago
The banks paid back their bailout loans, with interest. There was no way the borrowers who got those no-doc loans in the mid-00s could have ever paid off those loans. Bailing out the borrowers would have actually cost money, and would have
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by brainwad 8y ago
Firstly, wages grew much more rapidly until 1970. Secondly, even since then in the US wages have not fallen in real terms, they have just been level with inflation. The phenomenon where labour gets more costly despite no gains in productivi
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by brainwad 8y ago
Well, in this case the administration is actually introducing regulations, rather than removing them...
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by brainwad 8y ago
> When she says “let’s not forget that a large part of the technology and necessary data was created by all of us” it sounds like we voluntarily got together to create a dataset for the common good by revealing the most intimate details

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