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by devoply 7y ago
I wonder how trivial now it would be for some secret gov org to get a live feed of so many areas if they were so inclined.
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by devoply 7y ago
If he or she worked for Google why did they not bother exposing them when he got out. They could do it anonymously through a media outlet in the UK like the Guardian. I mean I would guess it's pretty much yeah we have everything you ha
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by devoply 7y ago
Adblocking estimates are around 30% total.
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by devoply 7y ago
I think Huawei should start an open-source community-based fork of Chrome and Android as an offset to Google and American monopoly on the web. (kidding, sort of).
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by devoply 7y ago
I dunno how much of this is P/R and how much is humility. If this was coming from a CEO of a Japanese company I would be much more likely to believe him. In the end it was his government's power moves that have started all of this
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by devoply 7y ago
Then find yourself a partner and go on your merry way. Humans are not capable of creating such a thing, they will create something like it but it will not be what you desire. Bad examples could be any of the following: > brilliant and ha
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by devoply 7y ago
Tons of ugly nerds cry out in agony.
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by devoply 7y ago
If technology is war, then "stagnation" is peace. And technology, at least the way that Capitalist society does technology, is war more or less on the status quo. You could do technology other ways where this would not be the case
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by devoply 7y ago
IQ allows you to solve problems, in the case of humans mostly for society. If you increase someone's IQ their ability to solve problems is increased, but what is also increased is their ability to see all the problems and their desires
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by devoply 7y ago
Have you considered that such a rut could at one point even now be progress. Where we are happy with the level of tech we have and for 1,000 or 10,000 years things stabilize on this planet?
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by devoply 7y ago
Just look at high intelligence and its correlation with all sorts of other issues including rare diseases, social issues, mental health issues, etc. It's empty idealism to think that the human condition can be solved through genetic en
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by devoply 7y ago
Here we go again... You would think we learned the first time with the Nazis... but nope... The seduction of the ubermensch is too strong. I would like to point out that there is no higher, just fit for purpose. If you give these technologi
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by devoply 7y ago
> The deprecation of the blocking ability of the webRequest API is to gain back this control, and to further now instrument and report how web pages are filtered since now the exact filters which are applied to web page is information wh
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by devoply 7y ago
From a strategy perspective now is a great time for all ad blockers to simply abandon Google... causing a massive outflow of users to Firefox and other browsers. There is not reason to keep making this sort of software for Chrome.
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by devoply 7y ago
What if it were the case that if you believed this to be true then it became true, and vice versa? Don't believe me? People can kill themselves by believing that they are going to die... if that's possible, then why does believing
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by devoply 7y ago
Really, then why is Trump getting all this flack for his free associations with Russia?
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by devoply 7y ago
How is this shit still happening? Why can't we pass some laws to ban our politicians from visiting? It's like screw transparency, we'll go organize a secret meeting of all the privileged elite and this shit goes on for over 5
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by devoply 7y ago
Saudis have also been sued for 9/11 which is still pending in courts 18 years later.
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by devoply 7y ago
What I found really interesting is all this shit treatment has not effected tourism to the United States. I would think there would be huge backlash to all of this, but nope US continues to be a popular spot for foreigners to visit. They do
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by devoply 7y ago
I agree, people who argue for this approach are good at it and often feel that they are exceptional because of it -- though the real world hardly cares, and therefore it's a self-serving bias imo. You build institutions like these with
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by devoply 7y ago
Please don't call willing experiment participants customers.
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by devoply 7y ago
If the 90s has continued another decade into the 2000s, this is the sort of site design you would have had then.
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by devoply 7y ago
I don't understand what vital function facbeook serves that people could not use other fallback tools like e-mail to deal with their issues in its absence until something else pops up. Ad dollars would go to other local media sources t
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by devoply 7y ago
If facebook disappeared from those 10 countries what difference would it make to the citizens of those countries? Not very much. Other local services would pop up to take its place and replicate its functionality. I don't think Faceboo
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by devoply 7y ago
Could you not plant something on these devices then find them like mythical WMDs never found to justify things against Huawei?
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by devoply 7y ago
Yeah exactly, it's like we're taking privacy a cheap or free good and making it non-existent (Google) but shame on your for offering it at a higher price.
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by devoply 7y ago
A bit embarrassed for a millionaire, aren't we?
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by devoply 7y ago
Also when you are at that level what is asked of you and your time is much less when you are at a lower level, so the motivation to quit is less than it would be if you were not in that position.
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by devoply 7y ago
I don't see any such law passing first amendment challenge that's why the modern censorship for the right reason supporting centrist is down relegating it to private corporations that are not beholden to the US constitution. Ultim
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by devoply 7y ago
Reasonable is simply acting in line with whatever mythology your society has adopted. It's reasonable to kill people for insulting a sacred man (an act of passion) while elsewhere it's considered a right to do so (another act of p

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