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by cryptoz 6y ago
I am having trouble parsing your comment. What do you mean by, > I don't believe they are making encryption illegal....They want the ability to access data from the servers after it has been decrypted. This includes a way to interce
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by cryptoz 6y ago
In the US Government, for almost all of the last 5 years, there has been a concerted effort to move backwards, not to stand still or move forwards.
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by cryptoz 6y ago
> That was based on China's super aggressive approach to COVID management Elon made specific predictions about the US. If he was using China's data to make predictions about US laws and American behavior, then I repeat and stan
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by cryptoz 6y ago
Elon is nearly criminally bad at risk management, then. He claimed that based on 'current trends' (in March?), the US would have close to 0 new virus cases per day by the end of April. I have no idea what trends he was looking at,
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by cryptoz 6y ago
I think this is how Android works now, and has for a few years. It is crazy that it wasn't always this way, though. Apps in the past could choose to request access to all your photos just to let you pick; but now I think that will get
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by cryptoz 6y ago
Facebook intentionally made about 400,000 feel sad/depressed on purpose. They bragged that they had 'informed consent' to perform psychological experiments on all Facebook users simply because you joined the site and agreed t
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by cryptoz 6y ago
Was it called iPhone OS then? At some point I remember Apple saying it was basically OS X running on the phone. Weird how that went.
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by cryptoz 6y ago
> The number of unarmed black men shot by police across the entire US in 2019 was 14. [0] How does such a small number spark this level of fear and protest? That's not a small number, though. Do you think that any number is acceptab
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by cryptoz 6y ago
> How do you get people to obey the law, in a way that is safer for all concerned? When the law states that you cannot leave your home after 1pm in the afternoon, or after 7pm at night, I do not think that any level of enforcement, of an
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by cryptoz 6y ago
Skype did a lot wrong, for sure. But something worth mentioning, In 2004-2006 my ISP in Canada illegally "intentionally degraded the quality and reliability of Skype calls" to convince customers that Skype sucked and that we shoul
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by cryptoz 6y ago
I am making no such distinction! I honestly have no idea what you are talking about. You stand by your words to insult me as hideous? Please stop. > You don't think the owner works, supplies or has any value in the business they ru
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by cryptoz 6y ago
> You are implicitly making the claim that anyone who owns or leases a building for their business is rolling in excess money, which is incredibly ignorant, naïve, uncharitable, and untrue You are twisting my words. I make no implicit cl
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by cryptoz 6y ago
It's generally understood that violence is something that happens to a person or living entity; buildings being burnt down is very different from a person being attacked. The word violence might be used for both, but really, it is mean
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by cryptoz 6y ago
I find it scary that you find this scary. Personally, I find it terrifying how few companies dare to take a stand on a topic. It's refreshing to see morals enter business. What damage do you see coming from a company deciding to act
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by cryptoz 6y ago
> one which fails to acknowledge the concept that freedom of speech may be a broadly good thing. How does Patagonia's stance do anything to freedom of speech? I don't follow your post after this assertion. Is Patagonia not exe
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by cryptoz 6y ago
Only remote Canadians, for now I think, in case some Canadians get excited (and didn't read past the headline). Not yet. > Elon Musk's SpaceX has applied to offer high-speed internet to Canadians living in remote areas by bea
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by cryptoz 6y ago
I thought this was actually about Yo again! Had me tricked out they were relevant again.
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by cryptoz 6y ago
> They’re in a damned if you do damned if you don’t situation. No, leaving up Nazi propaganda in place is not that kind of situation. There is only one right answer. Delete the offending content and call out the posters of the content fo
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by cryptoz 6y ago
You are ignoring the context of the situation. The context matters. When a group of people who espouse hate against minorities on a daily basis use identical symbols as other groups in history who also espoused hate on a daily basis towards
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by cryptoz 6y ago
> Given this administration track record, I would be willing to explain it by lack of knowledge. What about the track record of this administration would lead you to be willing to explain it by lack of knowledge? If there's one thin
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by cryptoz 6y ago
> Corporate action in 10 years by a company that encourages the disuse of public transport. I don't understand your point here. Lyft also discourages car ownership. What should any of this matter? Why does it matter what their custo
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by cryptoz 6y ago
> So much excitement here for what? Corporate action on climate is needed. Also I don't see _any_ excitement in this thread, mostly negativity and lukewarm reaction, sarcasm, etc. > Just seems like fluff to get them into the news
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by cryptoz 6y ago
That's my dead project and someone's copyright violated me by stealing my content and rehosting it with bad edits! Thanks for pointing that out, that is definitely not the site we put up for that project (~2011-2015)
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by cryptoz 6y ago
This whole subthread reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiIlJaSDPaA
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by cryptoz 6y ago
Windows 2000 is easily the best Microsoft OS I've used. I miss it dearly. I wrote VB6 apps for fun on it and was just the happiest clam. What an incredibly simple and enjoyable development experience!
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by cryptoz 6y ago
> So now we have average american Joe running a weather station that feeds directly into our state of the art GFS model? No way. The data is quality-controlled and bias-corrected before assimilation. Any bad data is thrown out. The paper
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by cryptoz 6y ago
The decline of Flash did not begin with Steve Jobs. Maybe accelerated, but definitely not started. Flash was already long on its way out due to many of the reasons Jobs listed.
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by cryptoz 6y ago
> Flash worked perfectly fine on Android back in the day This is absolutely false. It was not fine, much less "perfectly fine". It was slow to touch respond, super laggy. You couldn't hover. Scrolling and tapping wasn&#x27
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by cryptoz 6y ago
I think hacked versions of Flash are statistically more likely to be secure than the official version, though. Why do you think that the official Flash player would provide a secure environment going forward? It never has, and so without Ad
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by cryptoz 6y ago
The Galaxy S4 had a hygrometer, 'ambient' thermometer, and barometer. Most phones have dropped the thermometer (too sensitive to temp fluctuations to make much sense, surface temps not that useful for weather prediction in urban a

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