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by iamdave 8y ago
It isn't, but for a good number of people it certainly does appear to be a more comforting approach to stop short of making any sort of ethical claims about the 'free speech' question because it means getting what they want:
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by iamdave 8y ago
Here here, re: content. My usage of Facebook would probably increase if there was a way to filter-on site-keywords in and out of my newsfeed instead of relying on a browser extension. As it is, I'm constantly hiding posts, snoozing or
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by iamdave 8y ago
So an online cable company? I was wondering if I'd see the day where the "buy from one get access to all" content consumption model came back, but applied to streaming services.
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by iamdave 8y ago
The problem is that virtually all those things could harm, interfere with, or annoy human activity. In the context of how to respond and if possible disabled a weaponized remote controlled aircraft, I think being dead or seriously wound
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by iamdave 8y ago
at the two telecom jobs in my past DID only got called a "DID" when specifically talking about configuring routes for DID or some other associated configuration. Even as telecom engineers unless that was the specific context the n
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by iamdave 8y ago
That's the one (lo and behold it was Voyager, after all)! Curious if that's where your mind was when you threw the idea of writing that story of yours?
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by iamdave 8y ago
I kind of want to write a dystopian story about babies being bartered based on their social network rating, which of course is derived from their family history. I'd have to go look for it but I swear there's an episode of eithe
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by iamdave 8y ago
Are we sure? Did you read the thread? Or is my sarcasm meter broken this morning? reaches for another coffee
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by iamdave 8y ago
This is a great point and an even greater counter I think to give a more explicit argument as to the usefulness of the Internet.
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by iamdave 8y ago
Don't ask me how I know, don't believe me, but its Wells Fargo. I'm asking anyway because a statement like this absolutely demands more than what you're offering for anyone to take a statement like this, in this contex
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by iamdave 8y ago
I often wonder if there's a way to talk about this without the C word coming up, as it seems to quickly slide down the rabbit hole of definitions and what the substantive merit of 'censorship' is. Okay, sure YouTube telling A
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by iamdave 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action
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by iamdave 8y ago
I admit I wasn't at all surprised to see it getting downvoted so heavily-I was not one of them I as I agree; it's a good question-even if, directed at me-I'm not inclined to go through all of the setup and groundwork necessar
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by iamdave 8y ago
I suppose that question would require a bit of insight into how you define "affect" and a deeper inquiry into what my "real" politics currently are, in order to draw a meaningful contrast-wouldn't it? As asked-I&#x2
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by iamdave 8y ago
Would you say John Oliver serves that role pretty decently?
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by iamdave 8y ago
Oh, heard, understood and acknowledged. I get that completely (don't know that I agree that it's a good reason to take him off the air). My story wasn't meant to suggest this isn't the case for many, but to just share an
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by iamdave 8y ago
As an Austinite (well now Iowan) who grew up with plenty of Alex Jones on the airwaves, it's stuff like this I'll actually-in a morbid kind of way-really miss. I suppose you have to be exposed to it long enough to grow numb to it
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by iamdave 8y ago
.....isn't HostGator by chance is it? Sounds like the kind of stuff they would have pulled back in their days
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by iamdave 8y ago
It was a feature set that was supposed to provide additional reporting views and expose data to customers when queried. Turns out one exec had some very embarrassing transactions that emerged from this and he wanted that info suppressed and
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by iamdave 8y ago
I once got pulled into an arbitration hearing to explain how certain code functions operated. While not necessarily unethical it was a moral moment because I knew the inquiry came with the loaded intent to twist whatever explanation I gave
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by iamdave 8y ago
Gotcha. Thank you, for some reason that wasn't immediately clicking in my brain.
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by iamdave 8y ago
Further I don't think anyone understands Identity well enough to be able to provide transitively collected data without breaching confidence of similar third-parties. Would you be willing to unpack this statement a bit, please? I&#x2
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by iamdave 8y ago
That referring to an aircraft controlled by a human a 'drone' isn't accurate.
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by iamdave 8y ago
Not necessarily against lowering the barrier to flying quadcopters for recreational use (commercial use different story-and I say that as someone who took and passed the FAA Part 107 test). I'm chiefly curious how/if this system a
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by iamdave 8y ago
Overall, the scientists compared their torso strategies to joystick control in 39 individuals. They found that torso drone control outperformed joystick control in precision, reliability and with minimal training sessions. Until you sneez
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by iamdave 8y ago
This may be an unpopular opinion: What happened to our capacity to just ignore and in our own circles mock whackos like Alex Jones? He's been a laughing stock here in Austin for years, and personally...I kind of enjoy watching his show
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by iamdave 8y ago
I actually pretty quickly found a link of the Pentagon ban and updated my post to comment as such. So far sitting at +6 vote wise-for whatever it's worth.
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by iamdave 8y ago
Since we're sharing anecdotes as qualitative data points, my experience has been the exact opposite: every last one of my friends that were on WhatsApp have migrated to Signal. I followed them. We're all US based, with two excepti
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by iamdave 8y ago
I think that was ZTE, but may be mistaken Edit: I went and looked it up, as far as the DoD is concerned, they're both verboten from usage in official DoD capacities it seems, and from being sold on military bases. https:/&#x2
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by iamdave 8y ago
Question about that, if it's something that takes us too far into the weeds I'll stuff it and save it for later in the interest of keeping us on topic: When people make the argument of-wrt suppression or censorship of speech &quot

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