brainwad

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by brainwad 8y ago
The government pays state employees in bolivar, not bitcoin. Probably because the government doesn't have any bitcoin to pay workers with.
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by brainwad 8y ago
I am arguing there is no real difference between tying, and not selling to 3rd parties at all and only using your product in a vertically integrated business. Vertical integration amounts to tying with extremely onerous requirements that on
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by brainwad 8y ago
Then why isn't Google allowed to not sell their software to others to use? Google doesn't want to let Amazon have the Play Store without following conditions, they should have that right.
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by brainwad 8y ago
A browser has to be installed on Android so that embedded web views work properly. Similar to how IE has to be installed on Windows.
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by brainwad 8y ago
Install another home screen, probably can be done in a minute. It is much easier than trying to modify anything at all about the iOS or Windows Phone home screens.
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by brainwad 8y ago
Apple is simply imposing such onerous terms that no OEMs can sell iOS. But because (as a result of this anti-competetive behaviour) their market share in the OS market is low, it doesn't break the law.
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by brainwad 8y ago
The judgement seems to rest on whether collecting data is necessary for the business. But what place is the judge in to decide that? Isn't the fact that ICANN demands the data from registrars good proof that it is necessary to EPAG&#x2
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by brainwad 8y ago
Within a decade? I'd be surprised if even 0.1% of meat is lab grown in 2028.
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by brainwad 8y ago
Have you... been to Europe? This is in no way accurate. There are definitely classes of citizen here, from the working class all the way to billionaires.
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by brainwad 8y ago
Capitol Hill Seattle blog posted a picture of people stocking it a while back: http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2014/05/spoiler-alert-myst... . But before 2014, it was mostly true, yes, there was no documentation
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by brainwad 8y ago
The products wouldn't exist if they didn't make a profit. So really, it's balancing user privacy against user desire for the product to exist.
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by brainwad 8y ago
Because that is a bare minimum solution that only works via web. YouTube provides native clients for mobile, TVs, consoles, etc. Also, because Google pays you to host your videos, if you are willing to allow advertising.
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by brainwad 8y ago
In my particular case, I work at the same place as my wife.
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by brainwad 8y ago
If I earnt a million a year, I wouldn't be commuting more than 5 minutes to to work. Commuting sucks.
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by brainwad 8y ago
ISPs will be forced to block a blacklist of gambling sites.
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by brainwad 8y ago
Facebook doesn't collect explicit race information, it's inferred from user behaviour. You can choose to do the sorts of things on Facebook that black people do, then advertisers will think you are black. Just like you can choose
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by brainwad 8y ago
This is basically impossible for English, since for many vowels, the various dialects map the diaphonemes of English into mutually incompatible sets of phonemes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alph
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by brainwad 9y ago
> > If one thinks their privacy rights are not respected they are free not to associate or contract > We tried that. It didn't work. It did and still does work. People freely give away their information, giving up their rights
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by brainwad 9y ago
If I do business in, say, Australia, but Europeans fly to me to purchase my services, am I then bound by European law? The internet is basically the same deal, no?
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by brainwad 9y ago
Doesn't anyone who walks into a shop more than once 'know' the staff? I recognised repeat customers when I worked in retail, even though I didn't know their names, and customised my service to them (e.g "how's
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by brainwad 9y ago
Your proposed classes would lead to everyone just collecting class D, because it's the only one that allows for targeted collection, which is needed even for diagnostics and debugging. In order to improve algorithms, you need to be abl
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by brainwad 9y ago
This is Uber we're talking about. They ran a red light while self-driving, shrugged it off and kept going. They had a team whose job was to avoid regulation by blacklisting the credit cards of police. I would be shocked if Uber does an