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by ckastner 7y ago
> I hope that "exploring alternatives" isn't code for dropping sysvinit. It's not about dropping, it's about how much effort the invididual maintainer must put into a package to support sysvinit, with the answer
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by ckastner 7y ago
> The vast majority of people are fine with it Exactly. As confirmed by this vote.
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by ckastner 7y ago
I explicitly have to give my consent to certain processing, and my relationship as a customer is not affected if I do not give consent. For example, I now am far more willing to consider signing up for a loyalty card, as long as they don&#x
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by ckastner 7y ago
I believe you misunderstood my point. I wasn't talking about people advocating for change against their own immediate self-interest, I was talking about people suiting their own self-interest by advocating for other people to change,
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by ckastner 7y ago
It affects the discussion of the situation and, by extension, the politics surrounding it, and thereby ultimately the one force that might actually effect the necessary change.
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by ckastner 7y ago
What dematerialization? Facebook's entire business model is advertising, in other words: getting you to buy things. It used to be Google's and Amazon's entire business model, too, until they diversified into cloud services. I
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by ckastner 7y ago
> Kind of amusing that this idea is posted here on Hacker News, the center of people seeking jobs and companies that are the definition of growth. But that's the good kind of growth, you see? I'm being sarcastic, of course.
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by ckastner 7y ago
Yes, it's easy to imagine for an oil rig , which is huge structure with lots of activity on it, and all of it running in a highly dynamic environment. I'm having trouble imagining it for an oil well [2]. In contrast to an oil r
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by ckastner 7y ago
Slightly tangential, but: > Chevron alone has thousands of oil wells around the world, and each well is covered with sensors that generate more than a terabyte of data per day. That's around 12MB/s, which sounds extremely hig
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by ckastner 7y ago
An additional data point: apparently, AAB (formerly Meinl) was in the process of returning their banking license anyway, as they have had massive compliance issues over the past decade, and just giving up on that part of the business (and
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by ckastner 7y ago
I understand the trick, I just don't believe that it can play out. A contract also needs consent. This contract is clearly entered only because Facebook is making it a condition of using the service, and this type of coupling is prohib
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by ckastner 7y ago
Under article 7 GDPR [1], consent has to be given freely . Unless Facebook offered an option to opt-out of this contract, use of the Facebook service was tied to the agreement, which means it probably won't hold up. It's great th
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by ckastner 7y ago
You quote: > “Mr. Assange has been deliberately exposed, for a period of several years, to progressively severe forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the cumulative effects of which can only be described as psych
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by ckastner 7y ago
I would challenge the title's assertion somewhat; at least, when Canadian banks are involved (as one would assume even with shell companies). Canada participates in the Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) [1]. That means that even
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by ckastner 7y ago
> Surely Intel’s engineers can browse the web themselves to find out what kinds of websites and JavaScript exists They wouldn't have access to the frequency of visits, an important factor. > There’s no great reason why they would
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by ckastner 7y ago
I get that data collection has become a contentious issue and I'm a vocal opponent of this trend, but this seems rather harmless, no? It's an offer to purely voluntarily provide telemetry on non-personal data, no strings attached.
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by ckastner 7y ago
The article lacks one important detail: number of companies studied. Because frankly, it sounds a lot like n=1, and generalizing from one (or possibly a few) dysfunctional examples is a fallacy. And even if there were an overall trend: not
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by ckastner 7y ago
Are those other experiences also with Google Fi, or was it some other product?
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by ckastner 7y ago
Given Google's reputation for avoiding any type of direct customer support, I'm perplexed as to why they are trying to do this. It's one thing to offer an online product suite without any support, it's a completely other
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by ckastner 7y ago
That echoes what a I've heard from a few others. It just bugs me that an entity with such a forte in data mining can err that much, to the point where they're losing a losing customer to the competition.
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by ckastner 7y ago
> I stopped using IG & Twitter largely because it went from having relatively few ads to where I started seeing an ad nearly every other post. The increase appears to be dramatic. I signed up for YouTube Premium long ago simply becau
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by ckastner 7y ago
In my case: food trucks.
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by ckastner 7y ago
I visited Portland a few years ago and the quantity and quality of street food being offered was amazing. There were entire squares packed with vendors. I enjoy the street food scene in London, but I'd choose Portland over it any day.
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by ckastner 7y ago
Thank you for providing the source. That sounds incredibly far-reaching.
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by ckastner 7y ago
Regardless of what he did or didn't do (I don't have any information on that), I find the phrase "we have reviewed social and video" concerning. What does that have to do with the event and its code of conduct?
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by ckastner 7y ago
Is that really that unusual though? Can you think of a situation where not asking the FBI to not follow you around the house would be reasonable? And why would the FBI assume he was typing the invoice? If you ask me for certain documents
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by ckastner 7y ago
It's refreshing to see that the financial Shenanigans SoftBank was playing with WeWork and even Uber backfired like that in the end. Manipulating pre-IPO valuations as aggressively as they did was just insane.
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by ckastner 7y ago
Ironically enough, the inability to regulate decentralized currencies is often touted as a strength, especially from the point of view of a consumer.
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by ckastner 7y ago
I didn't have a specific example in mind, but I believe your example works. I was mainly thinking, in general, of industries that have experienced significant consolidation.
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by ckastner 7y ago
However, if the merging companies compete in the same market, it would be fairer to claim that "It's like taking the number two and number three sprinters in the world, and having them run IN SERIES against the number one sprint

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