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by deogeo 7y ago
They already got several checks from the government, and failed to provide anything in return (except for lobbying money to stifle municipal broadband): https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/6c5e
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by deogeo 7y ago
> if I had to take time to go to a polling location, wait in line, then figure out what I'm voting for. It is recommended to figure out who you're voting for before you enter the polling booth...
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by deogeo 7y ago
The parasites writing these contracts are counting on people not taking the time to become experts in shady startup contracts. As evidenced by this article, it's working.
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by deogeo 7y ago
A lot of words to say something very simple - information asymmetry via contractual complexity is being abused to profit those writing the contracts.
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by deogeo 7y ago
How nice. First subvert democracy through lobbying so they can offshore production, so the only 'choice' consumers have is go along with it, or live in the stone age. Then when consumers don't all retreat to caves and huts in
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by deogeo 7y ago
> We're saying, we want, we're okay By 'we', you mean the multinational corporations that write 'free-trade' treaties (that usually encompass much more than just tariff reductions). Because voters tend to no
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by deogeo 7y ago
Or they will vote for laws that encourage repairable devices. Why do you want to reduce citizens to consumers?
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by deogeo 7y ago
> I would argue in this narrow case - I would not point to nefarious undercurrents. There are so many such 'narrow' cases, and they all just happen to work in Google's favor.
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by deogeo 7y ago
We should be able to bill them for time wasted.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Then after 8 weeks they can buy as many copies as they want, but it costs full price, plus it's not a purchase but a rental that expires after 52 lends or 2 years. Yet another attack on ownership.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Afriforum recently met with US president Donald Trump’s administration and Tucker Carlson of Fox Nows to tell them that Afrikaners are facing a widely discredited genocide. They source the 'widely discredited' claim to africa
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by deogeo 7y ago
Intentionally limited how?
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by deogeo 7y ago
He says " some argue that society is in a golden age of surveillance" exactly once, but repeatedly presents 'going dark' as fact. That the rest of his view is nuanced doesn't make that aspect any less of a lie .
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by deogeo 7y ago
> But going dark is broader than encryption; it involves the decreasing ability of the government to conduct effective lawful surveillance for many technical reasons, including but not limited to the widespread adoption of encryption tec
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by deogeo 7y ago
How safe will they be when, 20 years from now, their classmate is arrested for political crimes, and this data shows that they were friends during school?
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by deogeo 7y ago
> As part of the settlement, Sunday Riley agreed not to write fake reviews. The company did not admit wrongdoing or receive any form of punishment. They commit fraud, and instead of rightly being sent to jail , they just promise not to
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by deogeo 7y ago
Upon further research, it does look like only a handful of cable-only channels were ever ad-free.
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by deogeo 7y ago
The story mentions a detox program involving running and saunas - does anyone know more about it? How is it supposed to work? Why would running help sweat out toxins afterwards?
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by deogeo 7y ago
Take money via taxes, and give it back in the form of laptops - oh but now there's strings attached. That something is 'government owned' is no excuse for such a disgusting violation of privacy. Services paid by taxes shoul
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by deogeo 7y ago
> trust that both the school and said company can keep it safe. Safe, to be used later to build a profile of your child, and sell it to employers, insurance companies, the police, intelligence agencies, or anyone else willing to pay a fe
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by deogeo 7y ago
> I'd rather things be direct. I'd rather we live in a world where customers paid directly for the product and I was the customer (not the product). You don't have that choice - what happens is you pay and become the pro
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by deogeo 7y ago
I think the GP meant that describing Trotsky as primarily an intellectual, and omitting his other activities, amounts to lying through omission.
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by deogeo 7y ago
I think more scary than any bias the algorithm might have, is giving such enormous power to a single company - to be able to influence hiring decisions for all the companies that use it. Even if they're not malicious (yet), what happen
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by deogeo 7y ago
But they had a very controlled, strategic form of globalization, placing strict limits on foreign corporations. It bears little resemblance to the "open your markets and hope for the best" approach of much of the west.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> I don't understand who these higher levels of DRM are trying to target. They target device manufacturers. If you want to sell a computer/tablet/phone/TV that will play Disney+/Netflix/etc, then you must su
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For White Teachers Teaching White Boys in the Suburbs(educationpost.org)
1 points by deogeo 7y ago|0 comments
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by deogeo 7y ago
And the consequences of what we don't build. Are you willing to withhold people's ability to protest, because sometimes protests turn violent? You can always increase safety by taking away freedom, until everyone is forced to
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by deogeo 7y ago
But they are subject to constraints! They're subject to the law (ideally, anyway...), so the two options aren't in opposition. So yes, it can't work reliably, but still better than the pure profit motive, which is guarantee
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The Non-Libertarian FAQ(slatestarcodex.com)
1 points by deogeo 7y ago|0 comments
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Even the EPA is more concerned with protecting the affluent neighborhoods than Flint Michigan. And from this your conclusion is to put lead back into gasoline. > The government has proven time and again that it can’t be trusted to d

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