deogeo

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by deogeo 7y ago
Lets say the internet isn't around yet, and people still use the yellow pages. One day, they decide to charge a 10% tax on all the revenue of a business, if they want to keep their listing in the yellow pages. Those that don't pay
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by deogeo 7y ago
They're worth it only because without paying them protection money, your restaurant gets no visibility due to overcrowded marketing by other restaurants that do use GrubHub. Without them, or without Yelp, some other yellow-pages equi
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by deogeo 7y ago
1.) How is unlocking a phone "malware"? Isn't the lock malware, and the unlocking serves the owner of the device? Calling it malware reeks of regurgitating AT&T propaganda. 2.) How did this "deprive AT&T of the s
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by deogeo 7y ago
> the borders do not reflect ethnic or religious loyalties. Wouldn't the diversity give them strength?
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by deogeo 7y ago
Not even close. I am arguing that they have principles, but compromised on them due to too high a cost. What kind of tortured logic do you need to employ where one can only claim to have principles if they hold on to them no matter the cost
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by deogeo 7y ago
That they abandoned those principles due to PR pressure does not mean it was not about principles. I dislike such motivated, deceitful arguments.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Seems like they still think so: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japanese-airli... But I think compared to Asians, white people objectively do have bigger noses, so they're not wrong.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Just wanted to illustrate that it's not as simple as "legal = blameless". For a less extreme example, what about Keurig's coffee DRM? Or the DRM on printer cartridges? Or Microsoft pushing the patented FAT32 (and now exF
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by deogeo 7y ago
Yes the laws need to be changed, but that does not absolve the companies - it's called 'lawful evil'. Did you also not blame cigarette companies for advertising and selling what they knew was poison, or oil companies for keep
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by deogeo 7y ago
Who do you think lobbies for such laws?
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by deogeo 7y ago
Less innovation in user-hostile practices, of course!
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by deogeo 7y ago
> the Christchurch one is illegal for me to read Could you elaborate on this? It sounds awful to me - someone could tell you anything they want about the manifesto and the shooter's motivations, and it would be illegal for you to ch
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by deogeo 7y ago
So what exactly does the act do ? How will it "make software idea patents much more easily claimed and enforceable"? I love the FSF, but I cannot stand this sort of (very common) reporting on laws, that just makes claims on what
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by deogeo 7y ago
A dangerous game - if they save the footage, they can re-examine it with improved facial recognition later.
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by deogeo 7y ago
That it (Chinese protectionism) is not there at all is precisely my point.
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by deogeo 7y ago
But the framing is interesting. I agree that "they started it!" won't make for a very interesting discussion, but talking about which facts the press focuses on, and which it ignores, could be.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Again [1] this narrative of the protectionist US vs. free-trade champion China. Yet China has been heavily protectionist since long before the US started firing back [2]. I cannot imagine these journalists lack this very basic knowledge, wh
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by deogeo 7y ago
I think to highlight that the standard to show that no discrimination is happening is much lower for political orientation, than for gender.
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by deogeo 7y ago
I don't think AnimalMuppet is saying they're the same, but that, if we were half as motivated at finding reasons why conservatives feel discouraged from some academic fields, as we are for why women are, we'd come up with so
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by deogeo 7y ago
> I imagine Well put.
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by deogeo 7y ago
I think the poster was complaining that only conservative students are the target of this. There is also a wide gulf between "defending your views" and "being berated". Especially given the power differential between stu
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by deogeo 7y ago
The cases share some features, and differ in others, so it's not entirely unreasonable that their 1st amendment protection differs. But it's a very interesting contrast nonetheless.
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by deogeo 7y ago
This makes the current state of law somewhat unusual - according to Citizens United, money is speech, yet boycotts aren't.
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Federal Court upholds constitutionality of Arkansas anti-boycott law(legalinsurrection.com)
5 points by deogeo 7y ago|5 comments
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by deogeo 7y ago
So is it legal to bribe public officials to promote your product, without disclosing they are doing paid promotion?
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by deogeo 7y ago
They don't need backdoors for targeted spying - they can plant hardware bugs or hidden cameras to watch the target type in messages and passwords. So the only reason they'd want them is to use them on scales where targeted spying
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by deogeo 7y ago
In bulk, as opposed to targeted spying - you can send an agent to hide behind the bushes, or plant a microphone, or infiltrate a group. Which was possible for a long time before computers or electronics (minus the microphone example), but i
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Dealing with the challenge faced by increasingly effective encryption They weren't able to spy in bulk when communication was primarily offline, and they won't when it's primarily encrypted. Don't let them frame the
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by deogeo 7y ago
Sure - but if it doesn't entirely eliminate them, then you'd see a more significant difference between colonial and non-colonial countries. > People from Germany and France were more equal in education and social status than th
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by deogeo 7y ago
> This assumes that the colonialists countries didn't trade with non colonialist countries in Europe. Look at the US and Mexico: Despite having a lot of trade and migration, the two countries significantly differ economically. So

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