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by fwn 8y ago
> They can do so without a single reason. > There is no expectation to have access to any private service. Does that mean that people just expect to get banned from Facebook without reason? I'm not quite sure I get that.
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by fwn 8y ago
I think it is because ISPs (unlike Facebook et al.) are not very successful at participating in the public discourse. If they would manage their brand as well as Apple, people would probably praise the end of net neutrality.
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by fwn 8y ago
The same way you would ban Swedish trolls on Twitter. Fun and russiophobia aside, there is an article by Eugen Rochko (maintainer of mastodon) somewhat covering that topic: https://medium.com/tootsuite/learning-from-twi
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by fwn 8y ago
Compared to the current mode of a few centralized services, a federated social networking landscape will be harder for companies or institutions to control and contain, yes. Depending on the world view that can be perceived as a bug or a fe
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by fwn 8y ago
A sentence has always a correcting, an deterring, a protecting and a vengeance component. (Not very educated on law though. That's what I learned in my mandatory philosophy of law class as an undergrad long ago.)
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by fwn 8y ago
Funding rarely determines process or outcome. It's a common argument, but unworldly, given that there are huge amounts of largely autonomous institutions that rely on single donors, may it be public or private money.
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by fwn 8y ago
It is relevant since the Nobel prize in economics indicates academic achievements in the field of economics. If it would've been a Nobel prize winner for peace there would be little signal attached to it regarding the economic quality
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by fwn 8y ago
I always wondered whether mandatory voting isn't just a plain duty, like paying taxes. If you get penalized for not voting all the modern democratic idealism which portraits voting as a right is pretty stale. I completely get why the c
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by fwn 8y ago
I'm an European and I strongly believe in the freedom from getting told when to quit my job. ...that is just to examplify that the freedom from/to distinction requires a very specific worldview to function as a robust differentiat
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by fwn 8y ago
But parent said that laws from non-home countries are irrelevant, which is factually wrong and not the same as some expected enforcement difficulties.
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by fwn 8y ago
The tenth Asian user is not as lucrative as the first. Those numbers have to be averages.
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by fwn 8y ago
Assuming that their earnings per Asian user do not increase, they need 10 Asian users for every US American user? That doesn't sound unrealistic.
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by fwn 8y ago
The strong argumentative edge one gains by turning the debate towards security led to this cool concept in international relations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitization_(international_...
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by fwn 8y ago
I have to admit that it has been a while since I have read about it, but reading the introduction right now, it sounds pretty consistent with what I remembered. It states it is neutral, which it obviously can not be. Just because a language
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by fwn 8y ago
I did not want to say that speaking a second language to communicate with everyone is a bad thing. In my opinion, having one or a few well established communication languages works pretty well right now, although adoption could of course im
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by fwn 8y ago
It would be great to have a common language in the EU that close to nobody ever heard of. Fun aside, language is not only shaped by culture, but also shapes culture. It couldn't get any harder for people to affiliate with the EU if the
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by fwn 8y ago
> Is this much different than the iPad pro which sells the pen separately No, they are both deceptive. Apart from that: For my very own usage patterns, no Windows machine is in the same market as an iPad. I see that they pitch it this wa
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by fwn 8y ago
You might find it short sighted, but that does not mean that people shouldn't have a choice. I get offers for my domains, all unwanted. If I at some point decide to sell one of those to one of them, all the cold approaches from the pas
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by fwn 8y ago
If the domain owner doesn't provide an email on the website reached through the respective domain itself it's probably a signal that they don't want to be approached. So ideally, in case they don't provide an email, one
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by fwn 8y ago
I think that those "Google gives xyz access to your emails" headlines are part of a bigger trend. Somehow perception changed and now having the ability to actually use and treat data self-responsible as an individual is a bad thin
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by fwn 8y ago
> The Economist acts like good governance is a feature of geography Where did they say that? It's a common and well researched problem that institutions are not easily transplanted. I am also not really sure what "government is
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by fwn 8y ago
The proposition that all gains in productivity are absorbed by rental charges sounds completely off to me. How would that even work? Just imagine: If housing were that great of an investment, everyone would get enough credit to build, makin
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by fwn 8y ago
I interacted with their German hardware support twice and the experience was great. I'm no expert, but maybe it's the free-to-use products that lack support.
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by fwn 8y ago
Supporting the GDPR shouldn't lead to supporting the EU as a whole like disapproving parts of European copyright law shouldn't lead to the disapproval of the EU as a whole. It's in the nature of the institution that is has no
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by fwn 8y ago
The article features three views. 1. A paper from the Roosevelt Institute [1] 2. the McKinsey Global Institute and 3. Michael Strain, a scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. Summarized ideas introduced in the article:
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by fwn 8y ago
> Why, nobody knows. Wait what? I thought that's obvious. Facebook and WhatsApp don't even have the same type of social graph, multi-brand approaches are probably always strategically superior and changing the fundamental conce
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by fwn 8y ago
Your frontpage is junkfree after you unfollowed all the defaults and blocked the ads. After that, it's literally empty. Now follow subs on topics you are interested in. I do it that way and I only have to unfollow in very few cases du
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by fwn 8y ago
It does not get more political than human rights and supporting basic human rights is a genuinely political position. Not sure what concept of politics would be needed to manage to exclude such hot-topics from its plate.
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by fwn 8y ago
But that is, at least in the Western concept of social iteration, the only way to scale & accelerate discourse. No public discourse is just no discourse for most of its purposes. (Except for maybe personal entertainment.)
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by fwn 8y ago
> “Without Sci-Hub the researchers would be screaming at the libraries and state agencies not to cut them off,” he says. I think this is the money quote. The strength they show in contract negotiations is only possible since no access ju

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