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by floe 7y ago
Agreed, but I think actions that only target Amazon can still help us get closer to that solution - by raising awareness of the issue.
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by floe 7y ago
In theory, the market could push Android manufacturers to offer longer support terms. In practice... not really, so, fair point.
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by floe 7y ago
These incentives aren't enough for any single rational actor to change their behavior. At the national level, sure, there's an argument for protectionism. But, not at the individual level as whenchamenia suggested.
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by floe 7y ago
I agree, but a complete solution is often out of reach. Also, many bosses aren't crazed gunmen, but they're still uncareful about how they communicate and wield their power. By being careful as a worker, you can reduce the acciden
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by floe 7y ago
The pressure isn't internal, it comes from a boss pointing to one worker's schedule to get leverage over another. I think it's responsible to keep such ammunition out of the hands of bosses.
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by floe 7y ago
Not a very hard-hitting analysis.
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by floe 7y ago
What would prevent you from just spending / donating your whole estate before you passed and then paying zero taxes? Or is that a feature in your system?
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by floe 7y ago
It does, if you would have redistributed the proceeds from the estate tax. But I'm guessing you really have a different objection.
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by floe 8y ago
Please see my reply to icebraining in this thread.
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by floe 8y ago
I'm not saying that people shouldn't have the choice whether or not to sell their data - I'm saying that even if they have that choice, it doesn't prevent many society-wide harms. (Edit: Which implies that we do need to
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by floe 8y ago
When you're talking about 'me' or 'my data' here, do you mean 'me' as in 'scarejunba' or 'me' as in 'the hypothetical CEO of a large health insurance corporation that wants to set
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by floe 8y ago
> High risk applicants should pay more. I disagree because I believe that everyone should have health insurance. Forcing people to pay different amounts for insurance isn't much of 'insurance' at all, then, in my view. At
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by floe 8y ago
Yes, you hit the nail on the head! The societal impacts have to be considered. If you rely on each person to rationally decide whether or not to sell 'their own' data, you'll have a tragedy of the commons situation. Maybe we
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by floe 8y ago
Well, what I'm saying is that I'm not certain that the social credit system is actually an effort to surveil and stratify all people in China. My understanding is that, in its current form, it only targets irresponsible business o
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by floe 8y ago
> I believe that any proprietary-tech built on my code will not be able to compete in the end game with any also OSS-tech built on my code I'm worried that you face a forever-uphill climb. Whenever a proprietary group pulls ahead by
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by floe 8y ago
I think the above poster is talking about corporate bankruptcy, while you are talking about personal bankruptcy. I agree with both of you :)
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by floe 8y ago
While not an expert myself, when I have looked deeper into the reporting that makes claims like this, I often find that they're speculating based on one-off statements, not describing an actual extant system. I feel like the US media,
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by floe 8y ago
You could also pay taxes with tulips, if you exchanged them for the correct currency, yeah...?
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by floe 8y ago
> Google, Amazon, Microsoft will always do business with them Really? Always? What about the Project Maven cancellation?
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by floe 8y ago
It's certainly a dim way of looking at corporations, but, oh well. I don't think they deserve better. And I think GPL actually embodies a really positive mindset. To release GPL code is to believe that there are others out there w
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by floe 8y ago
Right, it does end up harming the aristocrats as a whole, but no single aristocrat will actually be incentivized to stop hoarding any of their wealth.
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by floe 8y ago
>But what would they suggest Facebook do instead of tracking? Why do they need to care whether Facebook is successful?
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by floe 8y ago
>Facebook has your phone number; well, do they have a new 2nd-factor token that makes the phone number useless without the token? Useless? They already used it to infer my social graph by correlating it with my friends' contact list