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by dgzl 7y ago
Will this include a state-sanctioned backdoor?
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by dgzl 7y ago
I imagine the people who are happy about this event aren't very fun at parties.
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by dgzl 7y ago
Some people like to have an unlimited variety of opinions available, and others like to live in an echo chamber. Facebook is very good at creating echo chambers.
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by dgzl 7y ago
I think they were talking about the GP's hypothetical scenario, where renting would be llegal.
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by dgzl 7y ago
Seems like a huge waste of electricity.
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by dgzl 7y ago
Property taxes: even if you own your land, you don't actually own it.
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by dgzl 8y ago
We have rights, you know.
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by dgzl 8y ago
i think we should just try convincing the big tech companies to build offices in less populated areas of the country.
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by dgzl 8y ago
Sounds more like an addiction problem with nasty withdraws.
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by dgzl 8y ago
I think what you're experiencing is actually very atypical.
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by dgzl 8y ago
Just curious, when did you join Facebook/social media? For myself and many other young people, social media began as online chatting through programs like AIM, MSN, YAHOO, or even in games like RuneScape, where we could meet new people
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by dgzl 8y ago
That's where you and I differ. I wouldn't consider the ~1s of time used to read "hello" as time wasted any more than I'd consider a person saying "hello" in person as time wasted. On the contrary, I'd
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by dgzl 8y ago
The first example given seems incorrect. The author says that if you combine your greeting/request then you can get your answer sooner, but that's not calculated right. In the first interaction, the time user1 spends on writing ou
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by dgzl 8y ago
I was agreeing with you, maybe I didn't make that clear.
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by dgzl 8y ago
> what right have you to the fruits of my labor? Edit: Nobody. If you allow someone to have rights to another person's product or service (I'm thinking healthcare), then you're saying you have a right to the people who pro
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by dgzl 8y ago
I've worked as a government contractor in a few industries and my experience is just like OP's. The government is slow, inefficient, contradictory, expensive, and it under-delivers. This isn't an accusation, this is just fact
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by dgzl 8y ago
Government is inherently inefficient, yet some people still insist that it controls everything.
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by dgzl 8y ago
I'm going to take a wild guess and say... Taxes.
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by dgzl 8y ago
His interview with The Breakfast Club was good, better than they give him credit.
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by dgzl 8y ago
> I often have to spend hours on the phone, across several months, arguing and documenting, just to set the record straight. Welcome to the federal government.
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by dgzl 8y ago
> Zhou and Jiang were living in Corvallis, Oregon, on student visas to study engineering — Zhou at Oregon Sciences University, Jiang at Linn Benton Community College, court documents said. Not sure if it's been posted yet, but I&#x2
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by dgzl 8y ago
> Even people who hate each other or each other's opinions. Do you think that would leak into their work?
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by dgzl 8y ago
> Making philosphical arguments about censorship, technical feasibility etc will never resonate with politicians in this political environment I disagree entirely. There's enough energy in society to successfully push against this k
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by dgzl 8y ago
> menial tasks being farmed out to people desperate for any kind of cash, leading to them having to work inordinate number of hours to make a living wage Your point of view is that people who are willing to work for less are being exploi
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by dgzl 8y ago
> Minimum wage laws are ultimately restrictions an individual's right to enter into a contract. This, 100%. If I have some menial task that doesn't justify paying minimum wage, and I have a person interested in this contract, t
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by dgzl 8y ago
> 15 USD/hour SHOULD be a livable wage Says who? These numbers are arbitrary if we're slaves to inflation. $15 now seems like a goal, but the same amount a century ago was unthinkable. How long will it be before $15/hr isn
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by dgzl 8y ago
I used to be obsessed with a terminal-based Tetris game built with ncurses. It helped me get through college lectures better than any other game.
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by dgzl 8y ago
> The depth and complexity just isn't there That's literally what the author is saying, in the very passage you quoted. The idea of a game isn't inherently complicated, and even simple games can be most entertaining. You
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by dgzl 8y ago
I too was excited about the idea of circles for managing viability. It seemed really simple and intuitive for a problem most social media platforms botch.
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by dgzl 8y ago
From what I understand, Australia (and other nations) don't give their citizens explicit rights, such as to personal and property privacy.

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