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by devoply 7y ago
“we are seeing more opportunities than would have been there normally.” Disaster capitalism at its finest. So the future in fact does look bright for profiting off the collapse where there will be another huge transfer of wealth to those wi
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by devoply 7y ago
It's mentally incapacitated behavior for a country of 1 billion people not to just employ more people instead burning out a small minority who are apparently smart enough to work for their top companies. Jack Ma is not only an ass, he&
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by devoply 7y ago
It looks like it's true. > You can also be searched if the police have reasonable grounds to suspect you have: > illegal drugs Use a dog. Pretend it's reasonable grounds. > In all situations, you can’t be searched just
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by devoply 7y ago
Probable cause is used to search the car. Police can't randomly search cars. However in order to target areas with minorities who are involved with drugs, they use police dogs that can supposedly sniff drugs. But the dogs really just r
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by devoply 7y ago
Whataboutism. Regardless, his point is that comprehensive surveillance of the Sidewalk project is bad. > Sidewalk’s proposal is peppered with phrases like “comprehensive data collection,” “an enormous amount of data,” and “fine-grained d
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by devoply 7y ago
In the future we are Sims running on Google's computers.
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by devoply 7y ago
Maybe. We'll have to create this reality to see what happens. Maybe we arm the animals in their struggle against their oppression. The sky's the limit.
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by devoply 7y ago
At the end of the day they are going to send him away for life. The reason being that he did in no way apologize for his actions or feel any remorse. I am sure they have a litany of ways of doing that. This is just one of them. I am sure by
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by devoply 7y ago
I would, it's just like Steve Jobs being a* hole while taking credit for everyone's work. In those cases it's a result of hierarchy in this case it's a case of the media looking for a media darling for their story. In ei
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by devoply 7y ago
With a name like Foxconn what could possibly go wrong. If I were the FBI I would start looking into what was actually going on behind the scenes and the politicians involved. This seems much deeper than merely waffling on stuff. Also this i
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by devoply 7y ago
Not particularly last resort. And apparently there is a large line-up in the system for people to get this therapy. They claim that there is a lot of efficacy... but apparently for many the symptoms return over time. The author of the artic
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by devoply 7y ago
There should be a law!
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by devoply 7y ago
Whatever get your prototype going, get funding, build it on open source.
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by devoply 7y ago
So what's the closed sourced about? I would hazard it's about Amazon or Microsoft not forking the product for their eco-systems? Which prompts lock-in, but I guess that's fine as Google is not the clear winner in this fight.
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by devoply 7y ago
> It is a step forward in the right direction. Perhaps there were many positives as well as a few significant negatives. > takes in raw material and synthesizes it on demand instead of on using third-party human labor? Replicator te
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by devoply 7y ago
Considering how abusive the human relationship is with the land and the animals, why don't we have an agricultural revolution and creates 10s of millions of jobs for farmers? Modern human imagination is so constrained to think that thi
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by devoply 7y ago
agreed.
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by devoply 7y ago
I feel the same way about many CEOs.
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by devoply 7y ago
Yeah pretty much, I don't see much going on with many of these high status women (and men) other than their network. Especially when their actual performance doesn't speak volumes.
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by devoply 7y ago
It's trivial to mandate a phone be designed so that it can't be used in a moving car or for a certain amount of time since it has experienced significant acceleration. In fact you could ban certain apps like txting and calling dur
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by devoply 7y ago
According to some conspiracy theorists her job was to destroy Yahoo! She did that well. I don't know if it's true or not, but they sure sound convincing.
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by devoply 7y ago
This should be a global effort funded by democratic countries including the EU, North America, Britain, and maybe even India. The point is to keep the world from fracturing into hands of this sort of pseudo-fascism and capitalist-liberalism
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by devoply 7y ago
What a disaster handing back Hong Kong to China without a plebiscite asking Hong Kong people what they actually wanted.
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by devoply 8y ago
People need a radical threat to act, otherwise it's slowly boiling a frog in a pot. Radical threats don't exist for humans, they exist for the subjects of human desire for power and control. Until this changes, people will never g
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by devoply 8y ago
Marketing and payola was the norm and is still the norm. Don't have a clue what this dude is talking about.
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by devoply 8y ago
That's an interesting point. 10 years ago I would, today with Windows data mining gone mad I wouldn't. They are on par.
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by devoply 8y ago
Which begs the question why would anyone use Edge when they can use Chrome?
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by devoply 8y ago
And for whatever reason everyone bought the rhetoric that you could save so much money by moving your stuff to these services in the "cloud" though there is no clear reason to think that this is true. You still need employees to m
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by devoply 8y ago
In the "City of God," St. Augustine tells the story of a pirate captured by Alexander the Great. The Emperor angrily demanded of him, "How dare you molest the seas?" To which the pirate replied, "How dare you molest
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by devoply 8y ago
It is around 25% of Alberta's GDP. Much of the service and secondary industries that derive profits as a result of that industry and are directly affected by it. So if that industry dies, there will be far reaching effects since there

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