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by car_analogy 4y ago
> The lesson here is that political and cultural logic, rooted in emotion, identity and ways of life cultivated among one’s own kind, operate in an entirely different frame than the rational and universalizing ethos of economics and tech
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by car_analogy 4y ago
A balanced, well written article that covers all sides of the issue: the view that academia is too homogeneous, and that targeted hiring* is needed to address this issue, and the competing view that not enough is being done to recruit min
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> In the US anti-capitalists are opposed to global economic integration but they are also opposed to nationalism. Is it even possible to achieve both those goals at the same time? Globalism is more than mere economic integration, and nat
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> an anti-capitalist and anti-neoliberal globalization icon It's always interesting to see how different politics can be. In the US, anti-capitalists are usually fervent globalists, opposed to any kind of nationalism.
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> Slippery slope fallacy. They literally had a requirement that ARM Windows RT devices be not user unlockable. If someone lunges at you with a knife, but fails to stab you, it is not a "slippery slope fallacy" to believe they
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> There's more to life than the political, so why should there be only political art? function_seven's observation that "To write "everything is political" is to water down the term "political" so much
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> Do the authors of this article think that humans only use data for purposes sanctioned by its producers? That's the unfortunate direction copyright law is moving in. In the EU, "data mining" is considered a right separat
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by car_analogy 4y ago
More details on the initial antitrust fine: https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/20/intel_antitrust_eu/ It is in relation to the rebates Intel paid to retailers to not stock competitor's parts, which
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Using the subtitle instead of the title, because it is more informative and less editorialized. There was not enough room for a (2015).
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Win 10 hardware must support Secure Boot and won't have to let you turn it off(arstechnica.com)
1 points by car_analogy 4y ago|1 comments
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by car_analogy 4y ago
It's perfectly well-placed blame. Windows RT devices are required to disallow anything but MS operating systems, with no user override: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT#Restrictions_and_co... They've
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Who are the idiots that view Google and Facebook as pro-FOSS? Did they somehow miss how Google is locking more and more OS functionality behind the Play store? Or Facebook's locked-tight Occulus?
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Family Entertainment Protection Act(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by car_analogy 4y ago|0 comments
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Let's not forget lobbying against government adoption of free software: Over the past five years Microsoft has developed one of the most sophisticated lobbying networks [..] two of Microsoft's policy priorities, limiting the adop
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by car_analogy 4y ago
I assume so. But this is not a legal attack - complying with the law isn't enough to keep hosting or payment providers from blacklisting you to safeguard their reputation.
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Child porn is an excuse. Every site above a certain size will have some, no matter how good their filtering. And sometimes even small sites when they come under attack. Then whoever wants to get rid of the site for unrelated reasons points
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by car_analogy 4y ago
She adjusts for age, but why not also obesity, which is known to make COVID worse [1]? Eyeballing it, differences in obesity rates [2] seem like a perfect match for the differences in death rate she reports. Her analysis is just another ins
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Yes, I found that omission very glaring.
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Covid and Race – death rate now highest for white Americans(nytimes.com)
7 points by car_analogy 4y ago|2 comments
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Women who freeze eggs to delay childbirth often feel regret(reuters.com)
4 points by car_analogy 4y ago|2 comments
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> design taste is driven in large part by common (i.e. not rare) design elements This is empirically false. 'Taste' has not been driven to prefer modern designs (unless one looks solely at high-class architects), the two have s
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> Manufacturing labor is much more expensive than it used to be, so it’s no longer economically feasible to mass produce ornate buildings or goods. That's the excuse architects give, yes. But look at the extravagant, price-is-not-a-
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> Somebody might not like a detail (read: character) so there can be no details. I don't think this excuse is valid. People can dislike lack of character just as much or more than the "wrong" character. I certainly do.
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> not updating devices usually has to do with the SoC supplier ceasing support for the chip by not shipping BSPs which support new OS features I don't know what a BSP is, but why can I update linux (or indeed almost any OS) on my PC
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Sony TVs spy on what their viewers are watching, and Playstations specifically are designed to prevent their "owners" from using their property as they wish. And let's not forget the rootkit Sony installed on buyers of their
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Meanwhile 20 year old machines running linux still get updates. How is it that software support became tied to specific hardware? This used to be a solved problem, but with a lot of effort and ingenuity, a few corporations un-solved it, fir
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by car_analogy 4y ago
> I've often wondered what we could accomplish as a species if we could just overcome some of these hardwired / knee-jerk instincts. The instincts that you like are also hardwired, and we'd also learn to overcome those.
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China, Huawei propose internet protocol with a built-in killswitch (2020)(engadget.com)
2 points by car_analogy 4y ago|1 comments
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And if you answer the phone with "this call may be recorded" (as corporations always do)?
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by car_analogy 4y ago
Does it even make sense trying to "democratize" (read: loosen the standards of) highly-selective schools? Aren't they desirable precisely because they are selective, so their students share classes with similar high-achieve

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