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by caskance 11y ago
How would that benefit them at all?
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by caskance 11y ago
Laws are the entirety of the concept of discrimination.
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by caskance 11y ago
Isn't that redundant?
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by caskance 11y ago
But changing laws when there are radical shifts to society doesn't?
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by caskance 11y ago
AKA Los Angeles, Oakland, and Detroit.
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by caskance 11y ago
Survivorship bias. Disruption isn't necessarily good. That's why most startups fail. The ones that thrive tend to be those that disrupted goodly.
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by caskance 11y ago
The end result being that fewer people are fit to run companies in Europe, so they run them in the US instead.
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by caskance 11y ago
If Lastpass truly believed that warning, they wouldn't let users do it in the first place.
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by caskance 11y ago
Applying real-life ideas about what is protected to a eugenicist utopia really makes sense to you?
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by caskance 11y ago
Keepass or Password Safe
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by caskance 11y ago
They discriminate in the same sense that that real companies today discriminate based on candidates' skills and experience. Selecting the most qualified candidates and filtering out candidates because they trip certain flags are proced
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by caskance 11y ago
From his perspective it certainly must seem that way. He can probably even point to a paper published by a legitimate researcher to show that it does happen. Even if it was written by someone who was paid to do so and all his coauthors late
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by caskance 11y ago
He wishes it the way modern antivaxxers wish big pharma would stop giving kids autism.
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by caskance 11y ago
They do, you just dismiss their futurism as "anti-white rhetoric, and hypothesizing about fictional oppression" because it's not sufficiently similar to the futurism someone in your position might come up with.
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by caskance 11y ago
That's the entire relevant history of Opera. They learned that innovation is a bad investment.
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by caskance 11y ago
Better how? We don't need the TSA to provide actual safety. We are already plenty safe. What we need is security theater, and we get it.
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by caskance 11y ago
If you break the laws of physics, you get published in some nice journals. If you break the laws of man, you get locked in a cage or possibly killed.
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by caskance 11y ago
Yes, they should be in agreement. That doesn't say anything about which one should be in charge. With modern propaganda technology, it's possible to change the will of the people match the law whereas historically changing the law
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by caskance 11y ago
Who cares what Steve Jobs thinks? He's dead.
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by caskance 11y ago
If innovation were what mattered, everyone would be browsing with Opera.
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by caskance 11y ago
The observation implies that public opinion should match law, that doesn't necessarily mean it's the latter that should change rather than the former.
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by caskance 11y ago
I am confident that either of them would only pick on countries powerless enough not to cause us significant harm.
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by caskance 11y ago
What makes legal restrictions any less "valid" than technical ones? Just because you're an engineer and not a lawyer?
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by caskance 11y ago
He might nuke Belize just to get back at them.
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by caskance 11y ago
Sure, if you don't care about security you can do all kinds of things. You could even make the password your name or give everyone keys to your house so they can look at the piece of paper with the password written on it. I don't
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by caskance 11y ago
I don't torrent movies. So I guess the answer is vacuously yes.
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by caskance 11y ago
What do you do for a living? Write software? Please do it for free. Think of all the exposure you'll get!
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by caskance 11y ago
It's a contrived example to show that when people say "I'm willing to pay for content", what they really mean is "I'm willing to pay a small amount for content that may or may not be as much as the content actu
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by caskance 11y ago
Morals and laws are totally separate issues, and supporting content creation does not require supporting broken distribution methods.
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by caskance 11y ago
Being "happy to pay for content" is not binary. In the most extreme case, if you were willing to pay for distribution rights for your country, you would be able to get that content.

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