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by devoply 8y ago
Google is a company with a horrendous customer support history.
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by devoply 8y ago
In terms of tracking everything and having a file on everyone Google and Western governments are already there. The only saving grace is that they don't use that information all the time to get people in trouble -- but they could, just
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by devoply 8y ago
Fact of the matter is that there is a Chinese internet and a US internet. Going forward there will be a Chinese internet, that some authoritarian countries will adopt that are a part of the Chinese sphere of influence. American companies, a
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by devoply 8y ago
They should list expected months until closure on the product page so people can plan accordingly. I kid, but not really.
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by devoply 8y ago
The words network and sensitive information do not belong on the same computer. We can steal information from air gap-ed computers. Plug anything into a network and forget about any sort of security over the data.
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by devoply 8y ago
His example for Asus sounds particularly off. According to him they outsold $299 product leaving money on the table. In reality in a hyper competitive market that is incredibly price sensitive the price point and the matching features were
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by devoply 8y ago
Don't know about the details of the game, but what would be great is to have all the harassment that's a normal part of air travel be a part of this simulator.
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by devoply 8y ago
See century of self. Governments have been "hacking" people since probably the beginning of government. Free will yet remains an ever present concept that is the basis of fundamental things such as the law.
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by devoply 8y ago
I for one want Snowden to immediately stop using his unlawful surveillance powers!
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by devoply 8y ago
They are probably leaving because Elon works them like he works his engineers. They want nice cushy executive jobs and Elon does not give those to them. Finance people are a dime a dozen. It's not as if any actual irreplaceable knowled
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by devoply 8y ago
It's not just access to debt. It's access to debt that can't be discharged via bankruptcy. Do that and watch all excess debt disappear.
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by devoply 8y ago
We need to focus on building a civilization that lasts millions of years. Currently we're focusing on building a civilization that could go extinct at any given time.
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by devoply 8y ago
Who is to say the other non-sapient apes won't be able to talk in the next few hundred thousand to a million years if they don't go extinct?
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by devoply 8y ago
> This is not going to happen in the United States—ever. And this, above all else, is a big reason why companies want to use Chinese manufacturing. You can't always get what you want, even if you are a rich American company. And Ste
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by devoply 8y ago
Google wants to destroy the URL so the only way to find something will be via Google... They also want to tie your identity to each webpage that you author via a certificate so that all governments can clamp down on fake information or have
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by devoply 8y ago
That's not a fix. That's a travesty.
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by devoply 8y ago
There are many things Google wants, for the past decade most people have been going along with those demands. Perhaps it's time for us to tell Google what we want.
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by devoply 8y ago
> We have decided that there should be a minimum standard of living for people that live in the US. We have decided no such thing. People need shelter food and clothing, these are necessities. We have decided a bare minimum of those nece
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by devoply 8y ago
Living wage is very dependent on geography. I don't think the federal government has the tools to enforce a living wage throughout America. This however sounds like a great idea that's difficult to argue against.
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by devoply 8y ago
When your usual target for a beat down is a third world country that has no real way to defend themselves against your attacks, strategy matters very little as does the ability to simply deploy your weapons quickly and easily.
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by devoply 8y ago
First they came for the starfish, but I didn't say anything because I was not a starfish.
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by devoply 8y ago
If we build robots that can destroy, those robots will ultimately not be under the control of governments, but instead corporations. Eventually those corporations will wrestle control out of the hands of governments through hard power. Ther
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by devoply 8y ago
Sounds like a platitude. A person can't reinvent themselves without many years of schooling. People have been beating the education drum as a path to salvation for as long as I can remember. Perhaps he's talking about reinventing
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by devoply 8y ago
Why don't we pay humans to act like certain animals in zoos?
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by devoply 8y ago
The writing is in the wall for Iran just like it was for Iraq. It's just a question of when not if... With the destruction of Iran the Middle East will be finally pacified for US and Israeli interests.
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by devoply 8y ago
Or for that matter Mao's Great Leap Forward.
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by devoply 8y ago
Where are startups to disrupt homelessness. It would be rather easy to at the very least figure out a sub-population of the homeless that are capable of being rehabilitated into society and specifically design programs to help those get off
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by devoply 8y ago
China basically is occupying a foreign country that they annexed 50 years ago and is now subjugating its conquered people to literal fascism. Where is the West's denunciation?
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by devoply 8y ago
> It's similar to how Netflix would never exist had it started out today, because no studio would surrender their back-catalogs to them for pennies. I personally doubt the longevity of Netflix. On it's own it's not much mo
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by devoply 8y ago
> some competitor would show up fb and goog have a captive market. no competitor is going to sell ads to their customers. they would lose money and that's it.

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