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by hda2 5y ago
Nope. I don't have an issue with price discrimination if those being favored are given a price bellow the baseline that everyone else gets. That is not what's happening here. Tinder is charging certain people more than other for n
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by hda2 5y ago
I don't know what you're going on about, but this "crap" was in reference to increasing price without offering something in return. If a store sold a woman an specific item for 5x the price they offer to men, they would
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by hda2 5y ago
Because sex, age, and race are statistically significant factors in how much the insurance companies will pay out for each demographic. Personalized pricing for a digital service with a more-or-less constant cost-per-user doesn't make
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by hda2 5y ago
Because I'm being charged 5x for the exact same service. Want more money from your wealthy customers? Offer more in return.
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by hda2 5y ago
yep, just warn citizens that the country will no longer be protecting Apple's IPs. Apple is now generic. Anyone buying apple products is responsible for the damages he or she sustains.
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by hda2 5y ago
> It's really sad that we have to read these stories weekly, but somehow the word just isn't getting out there It's because companies - sometimes purposefully - continue to make it difficult to maintain an off-line backup
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by hda2 5y ago
Well, clean-room reverse-engineering something as complex as Windows will take time. I'm sure most are fine using their machines (virtual or otherwise) while they wait however more years until ReactOS reaches feature parity.
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by hda2 5y ago
I don't like low effort clones either. My only concern is the susceptibility of this project to being weaponized by dishonest actors. Some of us have been on the receiving end of false-flag spamming campaigns by competitors and have be
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by hda2 5y ago
Two important questions I don't see answered in the readme: 1. What is the criteria for a github copycat? 2. What is the process for having a website removed? I ask #1 because many businesses use their own git-hosting solutions to host
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by hda2 5y ago
For me, Duckduckgo finds technical information that google doesn't and vise versa. I use both.
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by hda2 5y ago
> I am not sure how Sci-hub can get past this Quite trivially, actually, thanks to the good old analogue hole: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30084193 All sci-hub would have to do in this case is download the same
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by hda2 5y ago
I don't think this difference is relevant here. We've seen many technological features that were supposed to be only used in a very narrow use-cases be abused by governments. Contact tracing technologies (for covid-19) being the m
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by hda2 5y ago
Would you reconsider naming the provider?
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by hda2 5y ago
> Only when syncing photos to iCloud is enabled and the photo is being uploaded. For now. If a "feature" like this exists, it WILL be abused like many before it.
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by hda2 5y ago
What you're suggesting is exactly what those corrupt senators want. The reason why popular E2EE messengers are such a problem for authoritarian governments/regimes is the fact that it's transparent and enabled by default. Thi
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by hda2 5y ago
US law does not apply for people living in the US. These people have no rights.
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by hda2 5y ago
That's why we offer .onion addresses for our services (websites, APIs, everything). These addresses connect customers to tor/onion services hosted on our property. Customers who need to keep disruption at a minimum are advised to
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by hda2 5y ago
It should be, and I'd argue how it used to be.
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by hda2 5y ago
Conversion fees are a problem for the time being[1], but the Bitcoin lightning network solves the issues of gas and payment processing. There are entire countries using crypto currencies now. Cheaper doesn't mean free. 1: assuming you
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by hda2 5y ago
It exists. It works. And governments, companies, and individuals have started to adopt it for real transactions (rather that speculation). The ship has already sailed. Get over it.
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by hda2 5y ago
Damages. Offer two licenses. One GPL and the other commercial. Make the commercial license as costly as possible, even Oracle grade by charging per core. Include language stating that the licensing agreement falls back to the commercial lic
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by hda2 5y ago
The same happens with image search. Google is just broken in this regard.
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by hda2 5y ago
It's not that they can't do security without going full authoritarian, I think they do it because they want to go authoritarian. The new security benefits are just a vehicle. They're a lot like the common politician who smu
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by hda2 5y ago
Moxie is missing a very important point: 0. People want control. People run servers because they don't want their operations to be affected by the arbitrary whims of some third party. When issues inevitably occur, they want to have as
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by hda2 5y ago
True. Feel free to word it better but my main point still stands.
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by hda2 5y ago
I was also negatively effected by stackoverflow's refusal to comply with the law until I blocked the pop up using ublock orgin. Users shouldn't be forced to do this but here we are. Hopefully every EU state fines these companies a
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by hda2 5y ago
Like it or not, cryptocurrency is real money and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Rather than throwing a tantrum, it might be a better idea to work on a solution to its downsides (PoW or whatever irks you about crypto). Until th
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by hda2 5y ago
I'm pretty sure the majority of countries can. We're talking 90s-era infrastructure that costs less than a single modern passenger airplane to build and run. Governments can subsidize their use in local industries or even build th
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by hda2 5y ago
> So then you just run these plants at a loss? If there is no demand then yes, absolutely. It's normal for countries (inc. the US) to run and subsidize their infrastructure at a loss if it is critical to their national security.
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by hda2 5y ago
Most countries I know of already consider power and basic manufacturing (chemical, construction) to be crucial, and do their best to secure their production or procurement. My argument is that semiconductor manufacturing must also be added

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