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by deogeo 7y ago
> If they were helping Apple, then I doubt Apple would be suing them. A company or person doesn't have to be helping some other corporation increase profits to be morally or legally in the clear. iFixit also isn't helping Apple
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by deogeo 7y ago
And corporations are those who decide what the "agreed upon decorum" is.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> If your values do not align with your place of employment - quit. Why? There are many avenues for change, why limit yourself to just quitting? People are more than just workers and consumers.
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by deogeo 7y ago
I fear this is the start of a trend of robots operating in public, controlled by unknown masters.
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by deogeo 7y ago
You explained well why it's legal , but not why it's not a problem. Many things that are, and even should be legal, are also problems. Such as Fox ignoring whoever they choose - they certainly should have that right, but that d
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by deogeo 7y ago
If a society only allows 'harmless' speech, then it simply does not have freedom of speech, regardless of if it is enforced by law or private platforms. Much like in other areas (e.g. police powers), there is a balancing between r
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by deogeo 7y ago
We can expect https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21885959 to have the same effect on speech as this has for binaries.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Because speech is meaningless without an audience, and people on mainstream platforms don't all know about or agree with those platform's moderation/censorship policies. Sure people shouldn't be "forced to listen to
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Tomalin's proposal would use a sophisticated algorithm which would evaluate not just the content itself, but also all content posted by the user to determine if a post might be classifiable as "hate speech". Speak how th
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by deogeo 7y ago
Good thing all those free trade agreements let US consumers import cheaper drugs from abroad. Just like corporations can take advantage of cheaper labor, consumers can take advantage of cheaper goods. It would hardly be fair otherwise..
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by deogeo 7y ago
Because that would force media companies to compete with their own old content. If people could see movies from the 80s and 90s for free, many might choose them over newer stuff.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Do we know how much tougher the warrant requirement is in other countries? Australia is expanding anti-protest laws [1,2], the UK police is helping blacklist union organizers [3], and sharing information on disabled people and activist with
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by deogeo 7y ago
> What Google did is not illegal. That's why it's called a 'loophole' - when the letter of the law is followed, but the intent is subverted (or what people imagine what the intent should have been).
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Its use is being controlled by very serious judges/courts. 'Controlled' is an overstatement: https://www.popehat.com/2014/07/15/warrants-bulwark-of-liber...
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by deogeo 7y ago
Your first two changes seem to be the default now.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Perhaps the presenter views it as hampering a dangerous foreign power in its attempts to meddle with other nations. The CIA doesn't exactly have a clean record.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Yet the US has approximately the same number of doctors per capita as Canada and the UK [1]. And the cost of healthcare in the US has sharply risen in the past few decades - presumably due to some unreported restriction in the supply of doc
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by deogeo 7y ago
It's not entirely clear, but I think the plans that are 'banned' in that case are not "on top of" Medicare, but instead of . I.e. there's a contribution you'd pay to private insurance that you don't
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by deogeo 7y ago
> doctors You mean hospital administration and private equity firms buying hospitals and squeezing them for all they can.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> banning private health insurance I don't think anyone is opposed to letting people buy private insurance on top of the obligatory single payer. Does any country actually ban additional private insurance?
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by deogeo 7y ago
> The problem was a loose cable that needed to be tightened. My dad asked which one it was so that he could do it in the future, but he was told that's something only Tesla service centers could do. We urgently need harsh right-to-r
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Propaganda in the War on Yugoslavia(swprs.org)
2 points by deogeo 7y ago|0 comments
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by deogeo 7y ago
You can apply the same argument to books. Every consumer/user/individual right you have is in some way "bad for the industry as a whole", and if they could take that right away from you, they could squeeze you for more m
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by deogeo 7y ago
> After tussling with these complexities, my students and I ended up with nothing publishable because we realized that there’s no good way for external researchers to quantitatively study radicalization. So did he start a twitter thread
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by deogeo 7y ago
Even with ad-block disabled, I don't get any autoplaying videos on Firefox, sorry.
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Columbia Uni student files first anti-Semitism complaint under Trump order(thehill.com)
3 points by deogeo 7y ago|2 comments
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by deogeo 7y ago
Looks like some sort of MLM/get-rich-quick scheme.
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by deogeo 7y ago
This should really be included in Ubuntu's 'Privacy' settings.
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by deogeo 7y ago
I suppose if I film a sex tape and watch it on a Samsung TV, it will upload images from that as well.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> eager to help make the global food system “more equitable, healthful and sustainable,” as the course mission states. Imagine my shock when the article failed to address the effects of GMOs on economics and equitability, e.g. making i

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