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by car_analogy 4y ago
Try using any Google property with an effective privacy tool such as TOR, and you'll see what a joke the "Chief Privacy Officer" position is. Their past actions consisted of collecting location data even for users who turned
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Discriminated by who? Users, or investors? If the latter, does South Asia not have its own investors to step in?
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> T-Mobile uses network-level tools to track the apps that people use on their phones How does this work? Does it use heuristics to associate traffic patterns or server IPs with apps? Or packet inspection for apps that don't encrypt
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> All your cites are for white nationalism, which is by definition antithetical to a free American society What does operation Chokepoint or Chinese hacking have to do with white nationalism? And don't worry, they'll define eve
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by car_analogy 4y ago
So it is not increasingly creative interpretations of the Constitution that shed doubt on the Court's legitimacy [1], but rulings that the public disagrees with. > The issue is not just that a majority of Americans disagree with the
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Does Microsoft also monitor chat even on private servers?
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Link is broken. Remove the trailing // to fix it. And the podcasts work for me - how can I check if they're using DRM?
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Well if you looked further than 2 feet ahead, you'd be worried about getting a secret personality and political profile assembled on you, that a subsequent administration (or anyone that hacks them, or does the same kind of data collec
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Better market segmentation only benefits those doing the segmenting. I'm already looking forward to paying extra for the "low latency" feature so that my network card stops delaying packets.
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by car_analogy 4y ago
I would argue that they only liberalized international trade and investment after they attained success, i.e. their local industries became mature enough to compete internationally. But I suspect we agree - different trade policies are ne
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by car_analogy 4y ago
If you add a zero to the end of every bill in circulation, there will be 10x more money, but people won't be any better off.
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Of course the state meddling can be done wrong. But unrestricted free trade advocates claim that is cannot be done right - that simply opening up markets is always preferable. That there are zero examples of poor countries that became s
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by car_analogy 4y ago
I'm not sure I buy your logic (why would a less beneficial industry be better at lobbying?), but even so, is it a worse problem than economic colonialism, where no local owned firms can flourish, because the market is saturated by fore
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> Wealth tied up in art is not doing anything Wealth* that is not doing anything has no effect on the economy. Suppose I had $100 trillion in cash (or art, or other useless commodity) in a vault somewhere, and never spend a dime of it. H
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> Countries like Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea that practiced land reform to wrench land away from idle landlords and distribute it widely, have had this success. Land reform was one element. The other, despite the article's unqual
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> we'd rather block access from the EU than do the right thing, that is, protecting your data by removing that junk This phrasing is misleading. It's not "protecting our data" (implying they need to take extra precaut
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Justice or overreach?: As crucial test looms, Big Greens are under fire(politico.com)
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by car_analogy 4y ago
I suppose in this case, if the pregnancy is the result of rape, contraceptive failure, or simple lack of sex education, abortion would be legal, and otherwise it wouldn't be. Maybe odd at first glance, but the more I think about it the
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by car_analogy 4y ago
I would like it if reporting on these humanitarian crises would more often mention how they are largely caused by US sanctions, that usually receive little if any press.
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by car_analogy 4y ago
You and maccolgan raise good points - the parent-child relationship is not the same as any other. But I'm not sure when parental responsibilities should start. E.g. you said "When you agree to sustain someone's life" -
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by car_analogy 4y ago
There's a much better argument to legalizing abortion, that holds even if one considers fetuses as persons. In that just as one may not be forced to donate organs or even just blood to save someone else's life, by the same logic,
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by car_analogy 4y ago
But amending the constitution is also done by majority vote. There's nothing about legislating at the federal level that makes it more likely to produce the right laws than at the state level. For example, there's the federal mari
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Because unlike democratically decided federal laws, state laws are unilaterally enacted by unelected dictators?
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by car_analogy 4y ago
It's time for the US to start changing laws if they want the law to, you know, change, instead of relying on courts to re-interpret old laws to comply with the zeitgeist. Does no-one find it bizarre how after almost a century, laws whi
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by car_analogy 4y ago
I know this isn't DMCA abuse because the record labels have private agreements with youtube for speedy takedowns/demonetizations based on the label's word only. Ignoring how such preferential treatment could be considered ant
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by car_analogy 4y ago
They already add hidden tracking dots to documents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code I don't know how this is legal without informing the user. But that's the case with a lot of censo
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Wuppertal Suspension Railway (1901)(en.wikipedia.org)
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Noah Carl Controversy: FAQ(noahcarl.medium.com)
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America’s shrinking white population needs to value youthful diversity(brookings.edu)
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by car_analogy 4y ago
It is not limited to gender: The authors also submitted different test studies to different peer-review boards. The methodology was identical, and the variable was that the purported findings either went for, or against, the liberal worldv

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