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by devoply 7y ago
The US military is an extension of its corporations and economic interests. It has nothing to do with the people which are sheepishly manipulated each time to suit whatever agenda the elite need pushed. The complex is a beast that rarely re
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by devoply 7y ago
First we copy the cancer. Then we incorporate the copy of the cancer and make it a productive part of Windows. Then we starve the cancer of users. This is how we kill the cancer. Really guys we have changed, we're not into profit anymo
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by devoply 7y ago
Or that youth is experimenting before they decide one way or another.
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by devoply 7y ago
Yes my first thought was great another we'll mine your data for a trivial benefit that you can mostly get from Tunderbird or other desktop clients. E-mail is a utility to be provided by non-ad tech company and browsed using an open sou
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by devoply 7y ago
Does not look like it. Looks like they found a flaw and fixed it. And this sort of thing, using open source project and building custom projects for private communication between private entities makes perfect sense. Anyone would be a fool
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by devoply 7y ago
Affero GPL 3 :)
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by devoply 7y ago
Well liberation came through technology and politics where women who were quite dependent on men became no longer dependent on men economically or in fear of being impregnated by them. You could not escape that reality before, and so single
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by devoply 7y ago
If they can be bricked, perhaps they should be bricked. Maybe this is something we should encourage going forward to encourage security for IoT? Maybe we should hold a Brickcon where security researchers try to develop ways to brick any ins
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by devoply 7y ago
Another major issue is immigration. You have lots of people living together that don't share any sort of social cultural connection... and then you have work which occupies most people's existence most of the time therefore there
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by devoply 7y ago
The idea is that all you need is money, business, and technology are not true... but don't tell people that because they have adopted these as virtues of some sort of new syncretic religion.
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by devoply 7y ago
Ugly fruit problem, not ugly fruit... In that it's Valley b/s to argue that this is some hearty problem which has all the sudden been solved. That the truth is that those ugly fruits were used to make other things or given to the
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by devoply 7y ago
Money and power drives leaders mad. It's not delusional if you can retaliate against people who don't toe the party line. Just look at the US destroying whole countries for not upholding "freedom and democracy" mythology
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by devoply 7y ago
Whatever you wanna say about Trump, in the end silencing dissent all over the world is not something good. It's good that someone stands up to this before we can't do that anymore.
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by devoply 7y ago
https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/crime/2018/11/26... Should a person be banned from working because they physically assaulted someone. Seems to be that lots of people think so, despite th
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by devoply 7y ago
More of a political move than a legal one, saying please don't ban us... But this trade war is a bifurcation of the world that was going to happen sooner or later. US is trying to tilt the table on its side. It's a bold move Cotto
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by devoply 7y ago
This is replacing editorial control. See century of self. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEsPOt8MG7E
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by devoply 7y ago
meh only matter of time until this sort of propaganda idealism is the norm across the valley. lots of sjws justify banning various actors as the right of the private corp. this again falls into that same purview. they can show you whatever
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by devoply 7y ago
Glad this is a publicly funded small team project that responds to its users rather than trying to push developer agenda on everyone.
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by devoply 7y ago
No they don't they export all their plastic crap to 3rd world countries and feel smug about it. See problem is managed and under control.
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by devoply 7y ago
I have a theory that despite all the arrogance of the developed world, in terms of environmental issues such as lack of safe potable water they are maybe 100 years ahead of the developing world. It's just that they have better manageme
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by devoply 7y ago
Considering it works for other things such as actually perpetrating genocide in the name of fighting terror... how is it any different from all the other political moves made to push some agenda? And yes pesticides as used are weapons of ma
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by devoply 7y ago
There are many things one is forced to do in life for instance sell most of your time for money so you are treated with dignity. A name is a small price to pay... most of your life spend doing someone else's bidding is something much w
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by devoply 7y ago
You could also spend 10 mins like my brother did and just change your name to something you like, maybe even name yourself after a celebrity, rather than the one assigned to you.
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by devoply 7y ago
Yes if I were a Jew I would be very happy that I may die so the true Aryan race can be born. /s Not a very sound line of reasoning.
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by devoply 7y ago
It's not really utilitarianism at all. There is nothing in utilitarianism that says round up some undesirable group and kill them so a few wealthy people might get organs so they can live. The greatest good for the greatest number of p
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by devoply 7y ago
Usually human rights is used as a tool for prevailing economic and foreign policy goals. The fact that we're now concerned with all these various human rights issues as well as spying, etc, is about the politics of our times than it is
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by devoply 7y ago
No one else has workers that work for a pittance and have an average IQ of 100... and are willing to work very long hours. It will cost money and probably quality to move this anywhere else without paying a lot more for the same thing. Appl
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by devoply 7y ago
Perhaps. But you still have oversight and physical access. You could bug the servers. You could monitor their network and so on. Your courts could create orders against the data on your servers. Also it's very dangerous as we have seen
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by devoply 7y ago
If you don't let us steal all your user data, we won't brain drain your country. Sounds like a good deal for India other than the remittances sent back by citizens.
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by devoply 7y ago
Might be fun to troll LinkedIn with such a profile.

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