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by eiaoa 8y ago
> What Google services are required for daily life? Don't they all have competitors? Not really. It's sort of like RMS with open-source hardware: yes there are a handful of modern computers that can be made to work without bin
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> I think you misunderstand investment. I understand investment, I'm just telling you that your original statement is wrong. If you're an owner, you don't have to create any value to get paid. Mere ownership gets own
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Nearly completely idle, except for the part about building a whole new steel mill. That's... not very idle. No one said they built it, just that they owned it. It's totally possible (and common!) to own something that you di
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Not sure what you mean here, but I'm saying investors are entitled to the returns stipulated in the investment agreement. You said "...(efficient) economics [means y]ou don't earn more money unless you're producing
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Good question! That’s the “investment” part. They risked the funds to create the value in the first place in exchange for returns on their investment. That's not really an answer. You're just saying their entitled to the pas
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> It's not "shitting on" anyone; it's how (efficient) economics works. You don't earn more money unless you're producing more value. If a steel mill increases its output by way of some new automation, the ac
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Isn't it standard for companies to never/rarely disclose why an employee is being fired (or even if it is being fired)? IIRC, they do that because disclosing the reason could open the company up to legal liability if the reas
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> I don't buy it. Facial recognition has had as many failures as successes, probably more because we only hear about the times it works, not all the times it fails. It seems like it is something ridiculously easy to fool. I know you
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Gait analysis and recognition is big too, and more prevalent than you might think. The video did talk about changing gait, though it did mention it was difficult because it's so unconscious, so you have to use some object to make
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> I think Microsoft is in a different boat here. The applications seem to be removed when there isn't compatiblity with a new breaking release. Should they provide messaging about what was removed and why? Sure, that'd definite
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by eiaoa 8y ago
>> Since the implants were small, the amount of code they contained was small as well. But they were capable of doing two very important things: telling the device to communicate with one of several anonymous computers elsewhere on t
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> You can even get a Tesla without remote connectivity Does it lack the hardware for the connection or did Tesla just disable the features that use it in those cars? A car only lacks remote connectivity if it lacks the required hardware,
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> You can even get a Tesla without remote connectivity Does it lack the hardware for the connection or did Tesla just disable the features that use it in those cars? A car only lacks remote connectivity if it lacks the required hardware.
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> I hope you'll be able to find one. Finding a decent TV that isn't "smart" is pretty difficult. If you don't want a smart TV you should by a "professional display" (I don't remember the exact term
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> so in the event of a war the DOD can disable the civilian signal as the M code will work standalone, hence a third party nation cannot rely on GPS. They also had the option in older satellites of turning on selective availability, whic
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Sidenote: the ublox M8 chips are a pleasure to work with, and there are variants that have IMUs (gyros and accelerometers) on board for sensor fusion. All for <10$. What an exciting time we live in! I wish someone would build a USB
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> If I could only erase one person from history, Keynes would be very close to the top of the list. The damage caused by his malevolent theories has done immeasurable harm to all humankind. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or any dictator that&#x27
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> You're setting up quite the extreme straw man. Amazon was using the site in a 'normal' fashion to do something that eBay did not want. This has nothing to do with hacking or other sorts of nonsense. That hacking aside is
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Because tyranny of the minority is much better... That comment is basically a repetition of your last one with no further explanation or elaboration. It's pretty clear that you have the opinion that political representation shoul
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by eiaoa 8y ago
>> It's only over-representation if representation must only be proportional to population. > Right, it's only over-representation if you believe that all men are created equal. You're being glib and forgetting impor
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> If this were proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, China would be shown to be guilty of a massive act of corporate espionage. > Surely geopolitical pressure combined with the commercial pressure for that not to happen is enough for Blo
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Small states are slightly overrepresented in the House, radically overrepresented in the Senate and in judging electoral votes, and overrepresented at a level between those two in the Electoral College. It's only over-representati
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Just one nitpick: the anti-democratic nature of the Senate (and the Electoral college, while we're at it) is very much seen as a problem by a lot of people living outside the sparsely populated rural states; It really depends on h
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by eiaoa 8y ago
Let me put it simply and clearly: Amazon has no right to use Ebay's systems however it chooses and against Ebay's wishes, full stop. Ebay has every right to forbid that its systems be used for anything it dislikes, including as a
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> Let's put the blame where it belongs: on the consumer. If there was a market demand for repairable products, companies would make them. It's not like Apple is using IP law to keep you from repairing an iPhone. If people wante
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> It's important to safe guard how that data is used, but I'm not sure driving on a public road counts as a private activity. It's already illegal to drive an unregistered vehicle on a public road or to drive without the l
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> I don't understand how some people are saying this would be an unethical action. This is competition, which is how better services end up being provided to users, and for better prices. It's not competing that's unethica
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> And most importantly, civil law is still a series of well defined laws. You can't pursue a civil case on a whim, there needs to have been some law that was broken. Can't you sue civilly for breach of contract? I don't t
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> It’s important to note that VTL technology ... let[s] nearby cars communicate wirelessly. DSRC developers envisioned various uses, including electronic toll collection and cooperative adaptive cruise control—and also precisely the func
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by eiaoa 8y ago
> The UK government then decided to honour the will demonstrated by the 37.5% of the population that cast a vote in favour of leaving the EU (51.9% of the result at a 72.2% turnout). That's how elections work. Your logic only serve

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