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by deogeo 7y ago
Finally we will be able to manufacture online consensus.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Is there no way to (mostly) automate GDPR responses? I too want to see Blizzard crash, but I don't like abuse of the law, and even less when the law in question has as many upsides as the GDPR.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> The key bit is what is credible. I strongly disagree. Our tools should not be making judgements on what is credible, or what is good, and based on that decide if they will serve or betray their owner. Power is already far too centraliz
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Even in rapidly progressing, fatal illnesses, precipitating severe complications or death is not acceptable Why not? If it was my life on the line, I'd take the risk.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> They are literally going extinct Has immigration raised the birth-rate of the native population in other countries? I can find no examples of that anywhere in the modern-day West. Besides, there are significantly more Japanese people n
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Then the users who would be grateful are the police officers The police officers benefit regardless of if they are Apple's users, so to say the move is to protect "our users" is deceptive. They would have to say it is to
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by deogeo 7y ago
> we believe this decision best protects our users. I'm sure the protesters are very grateful a CEO on the other side of the world decides how they may protect themselves.
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by deogeo 7y ago
I was not aware the desire for freedom (of speech, and otherwise) was such a uniquely Western ideal. And it's easy not to care about it - until its absence is used against you. At that point, it changes from an ideal, to a very pragmat
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by deogeo 7y ago
If having a dictator rules out a country, then according to this map, we'd have to take in nearly everyone: https://planetrulers.com/current-dictators/
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by deogeo 7y ago
> right now giving up some of their freedom looks like a good deal to them. Getting that freedom back once the deal sours will be very hard, and get much harder each year as surveillance and repression grow.
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by deogeo 7y ago
"If you can't be perfect, don't even try."
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by deogeo 7y ago
> That's probably why. Pretty much the entire media participated in the narrative that it was Trump that started the trade war - both in the US, and here in Europe. That's what I was referring to, not Chinese media. > Mercan
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by deogeo 7y ago
They're indistinguishable in quite a few matters - the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations all continued the PATRIOT act, warrantles wiretapping of US citizens, all the foreign wars the US got itself involved in, and none of them cl
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by deogeo 7y ago
> They explained that non-Chinese companies were not allowed to operate in China. I still find it fascinating how no-one was screaming "trade war!" at such terms. Yet respond to them with a few tariffs..
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by deogeo 7y ago
This type of action can be termed a breach of faith, and does harm to China and the Czech Republic’s relationship and the atmosphere of cooperation and exchange. We urge the Prague city government to make a fresh start and to return to the
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by deogeo 7y ago
...and therefore the companies didn't try to censor? You've made a very convincing argument - if those that are censored are afterwards lauded, then the lauding means they're not being censored. But if they're condemned,
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by deogeo 7y ago
"Last year, China severely punished Marriott after an employee in Omaha, Neb., “liked” a pro-Tibet tweet. Marriott profusely apologized and fired the employee." -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019&
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by deogeo 7y ago
Too bad, because according to his narrow free speech == 1st amendment view, it doesn't matter where the pressure comes from, as long as it's not the US government. "The people" he refers to end up being multinational cor
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by deogeo 7y ago
Looks like it's more than just a thought: "Last year, China severely punished Marriott after an employee in Omaha, Neb., “liked” a pro-Tibet tweet. Marriott profusely apologized and fired the employee." -- https://
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by deogeo 7y ago
All the massive five-eyes apparatus does you no good if the people supposed to act on that intelligence are corrupted, and look to their own interests first: https://www.jonathanpollard.org/1998/040798b.htm https:&#x2
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by deogeo 7y ago
> The West gambled that economic prosperity would usher in an age of Chinese liberty, if not actual democracy, and that attempts to resist that would lead to economic collapse. I'm sure the corporations that make those trade agreeme
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The NBA is only the latest Chinese government hostage(washingtonpost.com)
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by deogeo 7y ago
> It revealed — to no one’s surprise — that its staff was largely white or Asian and decidedly male. The US is 61% non-Hispanic white [1], while Google is 54% [2]. One can always rely on the Times to present under-representation as over-
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Consumer technology is manufactured for six to twelve months, but live in our homes for three to five years. Today's manufacturers cannot afford to update software for hardware devices they have already moved on from. And yet my o
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by deogeo 7y ago
> The TTP would have given a lot of power to corporations to combat China. It would have given a lot of power to corporations, period. The same corporations that lobbied for so many anti-consumer and anti-democracy provisions, that both
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by deogeo 7y ago
He has since changed his mind: https://xkcd.com/1357/
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by deogeo 7y ago
More importantly, the test measures complexity, not how 'smart' the text is. A higher score is not necessarily good. In fact, one should strive to express a given idea as simply as possible - from that perspective, a high score is
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by deogeo 7y ago
If they're UK based, how did they patent it? As far as I'm aware, the EU disallows patents on software "as such". And if this doesn't qualify as software "as such", then nothing does. Or is it only patente
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Anecdotally, I find that the people who are loudest about Apple's misdeeds (both real and assumed) are often people who've never even used an Apple product. And those who are loudest about animal abuse in factory farming, don
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by deogeo 7y ago
It's the present for Venezuela and Iran. If you want a similar fate for the USA, keep allowing Chinese influence to grow. But do not be surprised if other Americans don't find much comfort in your preachings that they deserve it.

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