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by deogeo 7y ago
How long until China starts pressuring foreign firms to cut business with those that speak against it? Will mentioning Tibet jeopardize your AWS account?
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by deogeo 7y ago
> the worst that can happen to the manufacturer is a slap on the wrist fine Maybe that's the worst that does happen, but, when an individual hacks someone, they do jail time.
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by deogeo 7y ago
There's already lots of laws against breaking into computer systems - they just don't get applied if the one doing the breaking-in made the device.
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by deogeo 7y ago
But once those backdoors are found and reported, nothing happens. Unless you're a regular schmuck who 'hacks' by guessing a URL - then you get raided by the FBI and do hard jail time [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.o
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by deogeo 7y ago
Headline: Google shuns homeless minorities, claims they are too mentally deficient to be "capable of consent"
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by deogeo 7y ago
> - ...stop trying to make any kind of system that deals with images of humans? That's literally dehumanizing.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Plus, a state can always get warrants and tap when it's needed, e.g. for suspected or known Jakuza members, without having to do it for everybody... Wait, but this sub-thread started with " all wiretapping was illegal"
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by deogeo 7y ago
That's why there's tamper-evidence - my phone displays a message stating it's rooted on boot. Getting the best of both security and user-freedom has already been done, but manufacturers prefer to lie that the choice is ex
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by deogeo 7y ago
It never ceases to amaze how malicious manufacturers can get, installing so many anti-features, without breaking some law and going to jail. Imagine if a real-estate agent kept breaking into houses he sold (through extra doors only he has
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Also rooting is breaking the security model of the device which is also a dumb thing to do. More often than not, that's security against the user, not for.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Wouldn’t the inheritors want more privacy For themselves - not necessarily for others. And when privacy is invaded, only the powerful get access to the resulting information. There's also the matter of who needs privacy - the lo
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by deogeo 7y ago
Less time and money spent in legal battles (that can get especially tricky in international cases) over individual surveillance requests if Facebook can just throw their hands up saying "It is not within our ability to comply". It
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by deogeo 7y ago
Let me remind everyone to never let the "going dark" rhetoric go unchallenged. People are under vastly more surveillance (with data flowing one way, towards governments and corporations, not reciprocal like neighbors) than ever
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by deogeo 7y ago
Corporate media control is just as dangerous [1], but much better hidden. They present themselves as countless different TV stations and newspapers, yet we allow them to conceal their common ownership: "In 1983, 90% of US media was con
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Consumption, Consumerism and the access to Capital is the reason world GDP has multiplied I'm sure improvements in technology and production played some part...
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Of course not, but these are not relatively modern. About as modern as the steel-and-glass/nookless style he criticizes, that gained prominence after the World Wars [1,2]. Ignoring the guilt-by-association/ad-hominem part o
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by deogeo 7y ago
It's almost as if 'Modernism' refers to a specific (albeit vaguely defined) style, and not to the property of being new itself. They're not ranting against semiconductors or antibiotics (both also relatively modern), are
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by deogeo 7y ago
> If a book is harmful to a publisher's brand because of social/PR/profit ramifications, then it makes sense for them to drop it. That's not a free speech issue. Depends. If you limit free speech considerations to onl
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by deogeo 7y ago
As for why it is a prisoner's dilemma, this paper explains it: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/16/3/7.html Simply put, cooperation/helpfulness puts you at a disadvantage if it is not reciprocated.
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by deogeo 7y ago
The inevitable result of letting the manufacturer control what may run on the device.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Lzplay.net plugs into Android's Mobile Device Management (MDM) API, which is meant for enterprise services like Android for Work, or your company's IT department. This is a remote management API that is meant to give your IT
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by deogeo 7y ago
> For instance, during the Obama administration, Mack McLarty - President Bill Clinton’s first chief of staff - made $300 million in luxury auto dealers in China after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff helped broker an
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by deogeo 7y ago
Subtracted everyone else from 100%. I think they made people pick either only one ethnicity in their polls, or they were lumped under 'other'. The numbers I get are close to https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges&
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by deogeo 7y ago
That is correct, at least in regards to how the statistics were gathered: "To ensure that we did not overlook religiously unengaged Jews, we asked students for their religion and whether they considered themselves Jewish aside from rel
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by deogeo 7y ago
I subtracted Jewish from white, since "Out of this 2,831,000 religious Jewish population, 92% are non-Hispanic white": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews#Assimilation_and...
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by deogeo 7y ago
There was an article about legacy admissions, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21037400 Tables start at page 40.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Same story reported by NPR discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21129654 - does this count as a duplicate?
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by deogeo 7y ago
For perspective, here are the Harvard vs US demographics, sorted by most to least represented [1,2,3,4]: Jewish: 14.0% vs 2.6% (5.38x) Asian American: 25.3% vs 5.3% (4.77x) Native Hawaiian: 0.6% vs 0.2% (3.00x) Native Amer
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by deogeo 7y ago
The video is about DRM (digital restrictions management) in the kernel. A better source would be http://techrights.org/2019/09/26/linux-as-open-source-propri... When it comes to big entertainment corporations
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by deogeo 7y ago
Even ethno-nationalism isn't quite right. After all, my country split off along ethnic and linguistic lines, based on explicit justifications that the land belongs to our 'kin'. But all without any appeals to supremacy, natio

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