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by genericid 8y ago
Of course, all politicians are the same. Of course, taxes go directly to them so they have a motive to increase tax revenues more than would be otherwise sensible.
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by genericid 8y ago
Let's go further: If no one has done it, it must be impossible.
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by genericid 8y ago
> That's a theoretical problem. Currently. > You wouldn't be able to realistically intimidate 10,000 people and watch each one drop their ballot into a box. Your fanatical followers and/or henchman can do that. You can
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by genericid 8y ago
How about 99.99%? The Soviet Union managed that in 1984. If your elections aren't secret, you may as well not bother. And it's impossible to have secret electronic elections. > The counterpoint of decentralization - there is a
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by genericid 8y ago
Third option: You deploy TLS 1.3, the middleboxes break, but that's neither your fault nor your problem. Hopfully they're makers or users will learn from this and not make respectively buy broken garbage. All major browser vendors
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by genericid 8y ago
> Edit: It's potentially productive if they open source some of their new stuff? I'm guessing the whole point is that the firm is developing its competitive edge. In a way, it's even productive if the workers at Jane Stree
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by genericid 8y ago
Egoism and intelligence are not the same.
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by genericid 8y ago
> It should be a formal logical fallacy to critique the economic activity of other people just because they're choosing not to engage in whatever your favorite flavor of saving the world entails. It should be a formal logical fallac
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by genericid 8y ago
Chapter VII of the Audiovidual Media Services Directive [2010/13/EU] sets rules on "television advertising and teleshopping". Maybe member states can set stricter limits. [2010/13/EU] http://eur-lex.
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by genericid 8y ago
Do you think that was product placement?
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by genericid 8y ago
It is, however, way more manipulative. Disruptive advertising at least makes it obvious that it is advertising.
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by genericid 8y ago
> trade [...] for a free service You cannot do that not because of the EU but because of basic logic.
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by genericid 8y ago
Facebook has a monopoly on social networks used to communicate with people you know IRL.
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by genericid 8y ago
So their content is available in those places.
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by genericid 8y ago
The problem is that Apple and Google are not trying to give people the ability to download the software they want without catching malware, but to make a profit. If Google were trying to provide that service they would not ban ad blockers f
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by genericid 8y ago
I hope this crowd knows their Joseph Goebbels. "When our enemies say: But we used to grant you freedom of opinion -- yes, you granted it to us, that is no proof that we should do the same for you! That you gave us that just proves how
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by genericid 8y ago
> My real pain point with Signal is that there is no real desktop application for it Signal is open source, you can write your own -- just kidding. Moxie Marlinspike wants to lock you into his client as Facebook, Google and their ilk loc
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by genericid 8y ago
Of course. It's called the Great Despicable Prohibition of Rendering for a reason. It also applies to absolutely everyone, especially local Baltimore newspapers. The EU cares about local newspapers of foreign cities. It hates them. If
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by genericid 8y ago
> I switched from Facebook to [...] Insta. Well done! That will show them.
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by genericid 8y ago
So if Google started to say that Google is primarily an interface to Google products, their anti-competetive behaviour would suddenly be okay?
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by genericid 8y ago
"Natural monopoly" does not mean that.
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by genericid 8y ago
Yes, politics are necessary.
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by genericid 8y ago
So, external factors.
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by genericid 8y ago
What does one's character depend on in your opinion?
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by genericid 8y ago
Good idea. As a starting point, let's define "HTML Lite" as "HTML without Javascript". Then "HTML Fat" and "HTML Light" could even be served as one document. If you execute the Javascript, you ge
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by genericid 8y ago
Do you also never question other individuals because they have their reasons?
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by genericid 8y ago
But how will you find a good enough doctor to begin with?
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by genericid 8y ago
More pessimistically, it could make you disagree posts because they're made by someone you disagree with.
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by genericid 8y ago
It is pretty easy to verify that a plane or an elevator behaves correctly. Did it transport its passengers to their destination? Pass. Did everyone die? Fail. (This is obviously simplified). You cannot do that with voting software. To verif
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by genericid 8y ago
Proper link: https://xkcd.com/2030/

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