deogeo

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by deogeo 7y ago
It's private between the occupants of the vehicle. The scenario I had in mind was an idle chat with the driver, perhaps about politics, perhaps about unionization at Uber. What you say has not (so far) been shared with a multinational
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by deogeo 7y ago
> in western society (and in some eastern ones too), women who directly reject men are subject to male rage & women who seem too enthusiastic are subject to slut-shaming (which can also result in violence). Perhaps he would have more
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by deogeo 7y ago
> (Thankfully our unfiltered tap water won't kill us but still...) But a filter that uses toxic materials could .
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by deogeo 7y ago
The list of places with privacy is growing thin..
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by deogeo 7y ago
> They also lease out a great amount of land to the country - to the wide benefit of the entire populace - for pennies of what it would cost the nation to purchase such land and resources outright. Land which, without support from the ro
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by deogeo 7y ago
Sounds useful in some cases, but the wording of their PR indicates they want to make this the default, instead of opt-in. The list of places where one may have a private conversation is growing thin.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Twitter exploded. Retweet, retweet, retweet. Condemnation, death threat, call for violence against me. Oh dear oh dear. Death threats? I do wonder if major media will take these as representative of the social justice movement. I mean,
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by deogeo 7y ago
Not only is that not piracy, region locks themselves should be seen as illegal, anti-competitive measures that infringe on user rights. The only reason they're not treated as such is industry lobbying.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Lets not conflate 'personal responsibility' with slavishly obeying terms of one-sided contracts. Neither is it the 'hand that feeds you'. 'The hand that has placed itself in control of your market' is more apt.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Their reasoning is literally "This rule bans X, but X is unlikely to happen now, so lets abolish the rule and hope for the best." Does this kind of law-changing ever favor consumers?
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by deogeo 7y ago
Of course hardware switches for the mic/camera/baseband are out of the question...
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by deogeo 7y ago
And more than 40% of all citizens would decline jail time if convicted of murder. You talk as if tragedy of the commons/prisoner's dilemma is something new and unknown.
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by deogeo 7y ago
So by this logic, the cops could get a warrant to bug your house, put a big, obvious microphone in the middle of your living room, label it "FBI surveillance microphone", and you would be forbidden from removing it? What about an
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by deogeo 7y ago
Ads, like peacock plumes, are a net drain on society. Unlike peacock plumes, they look ugly. It's time to severely restrict them by law. Hawaii, Vermont, Maine, and Alaska all banned billboards - the move isn't even close to unpre
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by deogeo 7y ago
> That doesn't happen every day Doesn't it? There are many non-democratic countries in the world, and many shady things happen in the democratic ones as well (by whatever definition of 'democratic'). Imagine that the
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by deogeo 7y ago
While "encouraging to reside in the United States" definitely seems like over-broad wording that's ripe for a 1st amendment takedown, I would hardly classify "sanctuary city officials who refuse to cooperate with immigra
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by deogeo 7y ago
I'll say what I always say: Reject the "going dark" framing. We are under vastly more surveillance than ever before, yet they want to strip us of even these last, tiny scraps of privacy we have left. Don't let them frame
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by deogeo 7y ago
I'm really not comfortable with using public funds to help expand Google's market and surveillance. Not when there are other, truly free office suites available, and Chromebook's hardly have a monopoly on cheap laptops.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21559957
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by deogeo 7y ago
> stretching effects of a flat map Of the Mercator projection! There are many other projections that can be (and are) used to make a flat map, that preserve area. Edit: This is surely the most anodyne comment I ever wrote to get downvote
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by deogeo 7y ago
Threads can also get down-weighted, so that they leave the front page faster. I believe this is done for (some/most?) political stories.
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by deogeo 7y ago
It's quite shocking how blatantly China discriminates against everyone but Han-Chinese, yet doesn't even get a mention on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativism_(politics)
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by deogeo 7y ago
As always - reject the "going dark" framing. We are under vastly more surveillance than ever before, yet they want to strip us of even these last, tiny scraps of privacy we have left.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> But the trickling up of reproductive injustice could potentially give it broader traction. “White America is now feeling the effects of neoliberalism capitalism that the rest of America has always felt,” Ms. Ross said. I'm not sur
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by deogeo 7y ago
Always relevant when discussing libertarianism: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/22/repost-the-non-liberta...
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by deogeo 7y ago
You call it government cronyism, I call it regulatory capture and legalized bribery by corporations. When all you demand of business is that they seek to increase profits, but you demand of government that it protect everyone (including its
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by deogeo 7y ago
Does it get a lot of attention? In any case, the government policy is pretty much the reverse - China is getting (in my opinion long overdue) tariffs and sanctions, while Israel is getting (probably 1st Amendment infringing) protections aga
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by deogeo 7y ago
Sounds like the worst of both worlds. If you, a random citizen, buy robots/drones/computers, they will betray you ( you , not their manufacturer or its owners), but this functionality will be disabled for corporate clients. Very u
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by deogeo 7y ago
The article has a somewhat rose-colored view of free trade agreements - in practice, they tend to include many environment-, worker- and consumer-hostile clauses (which is predictable, since the agreements are negotiated mainly by industry
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by deogeo 7y ago
This implies it's OK for Microsoft to have the data in the first place. I don't trust them any more than Google.

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