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by dao- 7y ago
How is this a reply to what I wrote?
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by dao- 7y ago
The MS device is a foldable phone with two screens, not a foldable screen. Samsung's (initial?) failure is irrelevant here.
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by dao- 7y ago
Or you use position:fixed?
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by dao- 7y ago
> this new standard practically mandates that free riders are allowed. It doesn't. That's merely one way how businesses could comply with the law, the other option would be to look for better business models as I said in the co
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by dao- 7y ago
> You must be thinking of somewhere else. Indeed. The Amazon order is for delivery trucks (the same kind of car as produced by StreetScooter), not pickup trucks nor semis or whatever else people in this thread have been talking about.
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by dao- 7y ago
Check their website, they sell to anyone willing to place a large enough order (it seems that the exact price is subject to negotiation). Let's step back for a moment. DHL is replacing Volkswagen Caddy delivery trucks. The 100,000$ est
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by dao- 7y ago
Tesla exists since... 2003? They started as a research initiative in 2010, things became only serious business wise when Deutsche Post acquired them in 2014. Anyway I'm not even sure why exactly we're talking about Tesla. I though
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by dao- 7y ago
The idea that free is only possible by trading data is absurd. E.g. Google search and maps can provide sponsored results without knowing everything about you. News sites can have ads related to their content and general target audience.
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by dao- 7y ago
I would submit that mass surveillance is doing harm, see Cambridge Analytica and other recent scandals.
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by dao- 7y ago
> I would prefer to minimize regulation controlling people That seems like a weird spin. Businesses are being regulated here, not individuals. I don't see how the law would control me.
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by dao- 7y ago
> What I object to is the "you must continue to provide service after opt-out". Well, I quite like that part. It pushes content providers to look for surveillance free business models, such as content based ads that aren't
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by dao- 7y ago
> If they don't have a single vehicle, they are years and years away, to the point that Tesla truck may beat them to mass market. StreetScooter, a DHL subsidiary, managed to ramp up the production of electric delivery trucks much qu
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by dao- 7y ago
> Now if they buy 100 000 vehicles at a rate of $100 000 each (pretty reasonable for industrial vehicles), Ahem, electric delivery trucks built by a DHL subsidiary ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/StreetScooter ) are
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by dao- 7y ago
> Well, no — they could charge money for them. But even this is a false dilemma; surely we can come up with at least one business model other than "charge directly for our service" and "surveil our users". No need to
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by dao- 7y ago
> Because if you were to run a survey over the general population the large majority is fine not having to pay for gmail, google search, maps and other "free" services while some data may be collected doing so How is this an ar
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by dao- 7y ago
> Because there's a large number of us who want to pay with that data Okay, cool, don't opt out then. I on the other hand would prefer to see ads based on the content I'm viewing for which no other data from me needs to be
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by dao- 7y ago
If sex without consent is rape, and minors can't meaningfully consent to having sex with an adult, then having sex with a minor is kinda rape. His comment about 17 vs. 18 years old shows that he's detached from reality. The law ha
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by dao- 7y ago
... only for users in the US. Are you aware of other plans?
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by dao- 7y ago
> I live in Europe and I do trust my ISP (and government, which has a decent track record at enforcing GDPR). I believe the GP comment was referring to government surveillance. This is a thing in Europe and GDPR won't protect you fr
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by dao- 7y ago
> I trust my ISP and government more than a US company I have no formal contract with and the US government. You're not affected then, because the DoH rollout w/ Cloudflare as the default is only planned for the US.
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by dao- 7y ago
Is your ISP in the US and your government the US government? The DoH rollout w/ Cloudflare is only planned for the US.
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by dao- 7y ago
The problem seems to be that there's quite a bit of nuance in the article, but most people won't remember that if they even manage to read through it. They might however remember and pass on the clickbaity headline as it convenien
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by dao- 7y ago
The question is not about the cause but about the actual effects. You might feel better and that's goog in itself, but it's not good enough if you want to treat something with real, measurable symptoms.
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by dao- 7y ago
> Also, another thing is that they should make sure that they train their system with dark eyed people. Often the iris is very easy to identify if people with light colored eyes. In people with dark eyes, it may be more difficult. Surely
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by dao- 7y ago
> For each browser, we had to add support in our standalone plugin, that was (and still is) required to install for audio/video calls. Is this true? What kind of plugin are we talking about? I believe both Chrome and Firefox depreca
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by dao- 7y ago
> Not a surprise that many Firefox engineers went on to create Chrome at Google, Google paid a bunch of engineers to work on Firefox, then pulled them to create Chrome. They weren't given a choice. So yeah, not surprising at all.
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by dao- 7y ago
> At the time I started using Chrome IE was the dominant web browser and firefox was losing the war [...] This is false. Firefox's market share was continuously rising until Chrome came along (and Google marketed it aggressively). I
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by dao- 7y ago
> CliqZ and Pocket Cliqz made their own browser based on Firefox, and a Firefox extension. Pocket started as a Firefox extension and even when it got integrated into Firefox it was technically still an extension. If anything these cases
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by dao- 7y ago
This is how I got hired but that was many years ago. Getting hired wasn't even my intention, I just wanted to contribute. Mozilla has become bigger and things are more formal now. It's certainly still a big plus if you're par
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by dao- 7y ago
> So why is it unethical for us, specifically, to eat other animals when it's not unethical for other animals? You almost answered your own question. "Unethical" is a foreign concept for animals because they don't eve

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