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by intopieces 6y ago
Subsequent comments have pointed to the founder’s background. What’s the evidence that DDG itself is not privacy centric as claimed?
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by intopieces 6y ago
FOSS software is free. It’s even in the name!
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by intopieces 6y ago
There are two really important caveats to this statement: (1) Just because you pay for a service doesn’t mean the company isn’t also “double dipping” and collecting your data. (2) There are plenty of free services — NextDNS, for example - f
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by intopieces 6y ago
I would love to work for Mozilla on this effort full time. I have experience in voice data collection / annotation / processing at 2 FAANG companies. Anyone have an in? Thinking of reaching out to the person on who wrote this post
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by intopieces 6y ago
FTA: > And it could potentially have been even worse. Had their few competitors also gone down, literally all electronic payments would have broken at once. This... is not true. As noted by another comment here, a vast majority of the va
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by intopieces 6y ago
> What's wrong with just saying that it's their platform and they have the right to set the rules? That would be a major shift in strategy for the site. It has always been billed a freewheeling place that belonged to the users,
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by intopieces 6y ago
> Seeing stuff like this makes me wonder why people keep using social media at all. I also wonder this. I know this is a common theme on this board, but I haven’t posted anything under my own name since 2015, when I left Facebook during
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by intopieces 6y ago
It’s very difficult to make the sort of comparison you are making because it ignores the key difference between the two societies. That is, one is based in Confucianism, which values social harmony, while the other is based on the the pro
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by intopieces 6y ago
I would like the free speech absolutists in these Facebook threads to answer for this. Seriously.
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by intopieces 6y ago
Some books you might benefit from reading on this topic: “Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us” “The Attention Merchants” by Tim Wu
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by intopieces 6y ago
Yes, upon more careful reading, especially this part, I see what might be the issue: >The workers... said they both received the notices last week from Tesla's human resources department citing their apparent failure to show up and
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by intopieces 6y ago
Hm, then Musk, who is notoriously not careful with his words, should have clarified long before it reached this point.
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by intopieces 6y ago
> disincentivizes investment in housing. Great! Housing shouldn't be an investment anyway. There's no reason it has to be; there are plenty of places -- like Japan -- where houses are depreciating assets that expected to be tor
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by intopieces 6y ago
Shots fired - Apple will take Google’s money to be the default search engine but won’t let them track “their” users.
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by intopieces 6y ago
Which is a better user experience: the new implementation, or the original?
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by intopieces 6y ago
>Wired standards are not free from complex protocols and error-filled implementations. Sure, but once you figure it out for the set of devices you are using, that's it! It just works until it breaks for good. Wireless stuff... not s
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by intopieces 6y ago
>The government constantly forces people to sponsor things they disagree with, quite literally with tax dollars. Do you believe that this is also objectionable, per your last paragraph? No, I don't think it's objectionable, sin
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by intopieces 6y ago
>You might not be imprisoned, but you can be made homeless, unemployed, unsafe, and alone. But this has always been true; it's now just easier to be put in that state if you misread the Overton Window [0], or the Overton Window shif
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by intopieces 6y ago
This is true, in the same way that not hiring a candidate who is unqualified is a form of discrimination.
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by intopieces 6y ago
"Censorship" in this context is shorthand for censorship by public institutions . That is, institutions which are funded by the public and serve that public best by having the fewest restrictions. This is your public street corne
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by intopieces 6y ago
The freedom of the press is the right of like minded people to print what they want (barring slander and libel). It is not a requirement that those like minded people print content they object to.
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by intopieces 6y ago
For what it’s worth, this is the best in-depth summary of a phrase I’ve also been using: The right to speak to is not the right to sponsorship. The freedom from censorship is not the freedom from social consequences inflicted by other free
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by intopieces 6y ago
It certainly makes sense for Apple to aim there. But I'm not sure that I want to go there. Perhaps I will have to in order to keep up.
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by intopieces 6y ago
It’s interesting that Ive had hesitations about building a product that takes the user out of reality. I also have that hesitation about VR; that is, I don’t like the fact that it takes up my entire field of vision, and I am hesitant to ado
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by intopieces 6y ago
I don’t doubt that you could, but in my experience spammers are invested enough in a single individual to get clever. We’ll see. I enjoy having a predictably unique login for each site {site@firstandlast.com}.
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by intopieces 6y ago
Fastmail's domain feature is the killer app for me. I have my @firstandlast.com secured for $7/year or something, and I can make anything@firstandlast.com and if someone starts spamming me I can just block it.
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by intopieces 6y ago
Isn’t this what PWAs are for?
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by intopieces 6y ago
So Google takes a 30% cut? Meaning, Apple’s cut is the market rate?
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by intopieces 6y ago
I used to think this too, primarily because I read Cryptonomicon and it states as much. But it’s simply a myth, and one that I wish would die.
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by intopieces 6y ago
Is it incumbent on Apple to act in the best interest of Google? Because that’s what giving Google a 30% cut would do. Google could demand it, but they haven’t. I don’t go to a car dealership and ask what the maximum price they’re willing to

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