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871.
by brap 5y ago
Agree, and to add to that: > provide government help to the competition This is just paying for CR with extra steps. > remove whatever government policies are giving them an advantage At least we can agree on something :)
872.
by brap 5y ago
Especially videos, which often take 10min to get to the point.
873.
by brap 5y ago
How are you going to enforce that? Are you going to force them to pay from their own salaries and dividends, by law? Well, they'll just bump up the salaries/dividends to offset the cost. The money is coming from customers. Either
874.
by brap 5y ago
+1. People cost a LOT.
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by brap 5y ago
A better way to make your text readable is to: 1. make it short 2. use simple words 3. use lists I feel 80% of text is just filler.
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by brap 5y ago
Most videos people watch nowadays don't come from "official" authorities, whose public keys are known and signatures can be verified. When videos are recorded by random people from their smartphones, what signature are you go
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by brap 5y ago
You said that you'd be happy to get security updates beyond 3-4 years, this is what I was referring to. This is HN, so I assume you're involved in tech, so surely you understand that releasing security patches for legacy devices r
878.
by brap 5y ago
Almost as if most people don’t care enough about replaceable batteries?
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by brap 5y ago
People should have rights. Governments should not be allowed to tell people what to do, as long as they’re not harming others. In my book, allowing you to buy a device without replaceable batteries, a choice that you made freely yourself, i
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by brap 5y ago
Who do you think will pay for this tax or regulation, if not the consumer?
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by brap 5y ago
How is this different than a warranty, which already comes with every device? I agree with you that this should be very explicit, although it’s the consumer’s responsibility as well to understand what they’re purchasing. Not sure I understa
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by brap 5y ago
So would you be happy to pay this “baked in” cost (which will cost you the same as paying for a subscription)? And should all buyers be forced to pay this cost as well, even those who can’t afford it? Should we not allow any alternatives?
883.
by brap 5y ago
Thank you. The number of comments saying “let’s have the government force people (companies) to do X” is alarming.
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by brap 5y ago
Track your weight every single day. You wanted weird? Here’s weird. Just track your weight. That’s all I’m asking you to do. Every morning, just stand on the scale for 5 seconds, log your weight in an app or whatever, and go about your day.
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by brap 5y ago
The Israelis knew that if the Arab armies, which greatly outnumbered them, won and conquered the land, then the holocaust would pale in comparison. They had nowhere to go, they had to fight. The Ukranians are not in the same place (the Russ
886.
by brap 5y ago
On what level was this simulated? Atomic?
887.
by brap 5y ago
No, why? The kidney?
888.
by brap 5y ago
The conclusions really didn’t resonate with me. Not the male or female preferences. As a male in my 30s, I just realized that every single close friend I had throughout my life is simply a person who made me laugh, and I made them laugh. A
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by brap 5y ago
For real. I spent so much time doing that, from public FTP servers (scanning, tagging and filling), to private FXP boards (where I used scripts to “hack” servers so that they can be used as private dumps), to eventually sites and topsites.
890.
by brap 5y ago
That’s interesting. How does it deal with authentication and authorization? It it handles those well, it could be a real “serverless” solution for most CRUD apps.
891.
by brap 5y ago
This is pretty cool, but I wonder if toddlers nowadays even understand what a cord phone is. After all, playing is often just mimicking adult behavior, and adults aren't using corded phones anymore, so to a child this might not be a fu
892.
by brap 5y ago
Interesting how this idea is almost exclusively pushed by first world citizens. If we had global election, everyone other than the first world (the vast majority) will basically vote for “give me your wealth”. So how is this in the interest
893.
by brap 5y ago
Right, this is true at the moment, what about 100 years from now? 1000? As technology changes we might have to rethink our legal constructs.
894.
by brap 5y ago
Twins might have mostly identical DNA. A sub-atomic digital scan would, in theory, be a complete copy of you, including your memories etc.
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by brap 5y ago
Well, they would be (in theory) indistinguishable from the physical person. You’d be able to interact with them, and their thoughts, feelings, memories etc would all still be there. In many ways the “soul” is still there. Obviously this is
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by brap 5y ago
I agree, and additionally, it might take an awful lot of time until a civilization is advanced enough to reach the point where it can simulate other beings. For all we know, we can be the first beings to ever reach this point.
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by brap 5y ago
I always thought it would be much less interesting to simulate a worm on a cellular level, and much more interesting to simulate some single-cell organism on an atomic or even subatomic level. The latter feels more like “real life”, IMO. I
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by brap 5y ago
Maybe. But the internet grew organically, over decades. It was not shoved down our throats by a corporation telling us “this is cool, this is what everyone wants now, and this is the future”. I’m sure VR/AR will be big too, but it’s go
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by brap 5y ago
IG and WA were already wildly popular on a global scale when they were bought, though. People clearly wanted those. Is anyone on board with this “metaverse” thing outside of SV? To me this seems less like the IG and WA acquisitions, and mo
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by brap 5y ago
Exactly, this whole things screams “we don’t know what people want”. The video looks like a very well made parody.

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