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by disgu 6y ago
Have you missed the last decade where companies from all around the globe do this exact thing all the time because gathering your information is their business? Google and Facebook get caught doing it constantly. Just this week a lawsuit ag
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by disgu 6y ago
Spotify is not the corporate middle man. The big record companies are. Any musician is free to not put their music on spotify and to not sell the rights to a record company. They can then let you stream a song for $50 on their website. It&#
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by disgu 6y ago
Musicians have complained in the past and threatened to leave and some have left... just to then come back.
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by disgu 6y ago
Wait - how are you responsible for the fact that the artists sign away their rights to shitty big labels that take the majority of the money that work generates? How are you responsible for dumb decisions musicians make?
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by disgu 6y ago
The fact that they're showing up at Spotify's offices then shows even more why they're not making money. They seemingly don't understand the business they're in... at all. They sign shitty contracts that leave them
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by disgu 6y ago
> I lived in 2 European countries with amazing healthcare systems available for free or almost free but had either: amazingly long waiting times (measured in years) for anything but the most basic interventions OR an amazingly difficult
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by disgu 6y ago
That's not true. You can use any racial slur in Germany to describe said slur. The laws only ever apply to insults, which have to be directed at someone. There's no "N-word" equivalent where people talk about a specific
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by disgu 6y ago
It's well-known how Robinhood makes money. They sell data they have based on tracking their user's habits within the app. This "it's free so what do people expect" is such a ridiculously lame excuse as well. No, it&
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by disgu 6y ago
> Many societies did this in the past, but as it's "no longer economically viable," no one cares today. Can you name a few?
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by disgu 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand what he's getting at. > The conventional approaches don’t work because while we can sustain eating less for a while, eventually the hunger gets us because we’re semi-starving ourselves. So it's al
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by disgu 6y ago
But a pigeon can only live for about six years.
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by disgu 6y ago
Popper also specifically said: "I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppre
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by disgu 6y ago
I absolutely believe it. The main thing you have to take care of is the community spread and that's easy to control if you can control the community and that's pretty easy for the chinese government. They probably do have more cas
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by disgu 6y ago
So which country would you want to take the lead. Or phrased differently: Which country's army do you think doesn't have far right people in it?
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by disgu 6y ago
> Russia also regularly crosses neighbouring countries' (Sweden, Finland, Alaska, etc.) borders with fighter planes, boats and submarines. That's something all capable militaries do on a regular basis. "Accidentally",
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by disgu 6y ago
Germany: Every person over the age of 18 is automatically registered to vote. The right to vote cannot be lost. Every registered voter gets a letter some time before the election and if you want to vote by mail you have to send the letter b
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by disgu 6y ago
> At least the US has the excuse of being huge, which does make it much harder to provide good coverage. That could be an excuse if you ignore the fact that the terrible service is not limited to rural regions in the US. It's often
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by disgu 6y ago
> Incidentally, this is the same concern that archivists and historians have --- that our present era may be so concerned with secrecy that nothing remains of common life, and only "carefully curated" information survives. That
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by disgu 6y ago
Are there any big differences between iOS and Android versions?
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by disgu 6y ago
Isn't the number of Americans wanting to emigrate into other first world countries (Austria, Norway, Germany, etc) at an all time high, though?
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by disgu 6y ago
To be fair, pretty much every country aside from Germany is whitewashing their past with the help of the media. Some call it propaganda, some call it patriotism, some call it "promoting of state policy" but it's all the same
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by disgu 6y ago
> There you go. While they're at it, try critiquing the CCP on TikTok. Watch it get removed instantaneously. It doesn't get removed. Neither does LGBT content or Hong Kong protest content for that matter. Just because people re
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by disgu 6y ago
So you're in favor of the EU forcing Tesla, Facebook, Microsoft to sell their European business to European companies then because those American companies are clearly not up to European privacy standards? We literally know for a fact
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by disgu 6y ago
I'm not trying to be a negative nancy here but from what you write you really don't seem to understand the potential risks of medical trials or how they work. I'm not saying you should not participate but you seem a bit misin
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by disgu 6y ago
> You did not address the fundamental point which is that an Executive Order can be challenged in a Court of Law - it will be, in fact. > Do you think a decision by the CCP, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-Un or Mohammad Bin Salman would be affo
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by disgu 6y ago
I'm not sure what you're on about. Authoritarian states do have laws to justify what they do. Even Saudi Arabia has them. You can get a lawyer, you can get a judge to review your case, you can appeal decisions. They do have separa
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by disgu 6y ago
> China is an authoritarian regime, not a democracy under the rule of law. There are laws in China, but ultimately a corporation is subject to the whims of the Chinese Communist Party. Would you say it's kind of like the US Presiden
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by disgu 6y ago
The dude on Reddit is most likely a fraud, though. There's just nothing that indicates that he reverse engineered anything whatsoever. There's just no proof for anything at all. Every single thing he said was known publicly before
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by disgu 6y ago
The LGBTQ+ community on TikTok is actually ridiculously huge. The videos using the LGBT and LGBTQ hash tags have a combined view count of more than 50 billion. Maybe you're talking about the chinese app, because LGBTQ+ is doing great o
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by disgu 6y ago
Maybe I missed something but an American law would be required to answer the question I asked.

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