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by ionised 7y ago
> It’s not entirely uncommon to grow from liberal to conservative as you get older, it certainly happened to me and allowed me to see different perspectives. This is a thinly veiled personal attack implying that the person you are respon
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by ionised 7y ago
Certain employees were discovered to have been using these tools to spy on wives, partners, love interests, children etc. That's just the stuff we actually heard about.
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by ionised 7y ago
Seems naive to believe that any announcement coming from the NSA is truthful or positive.
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by ionised 7y ago
That's why I mentioned G4S. They run prisons, young offenders institutions and offer private security etc. They are not known for good behaviour though. They are known for cost-cutting, hiring people with questionable qualifications an
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by ionised 7y ago
A profit motive brings its own perverse incentives though. Look at companies like G4S in the UK or Blackwater (or whatever their new name is) for private security horror stories. I'm sure other countries have even worse tales.
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by ionised 7y ago
Of course they can. PMCs are already a thing and some companies (and individuals) are wealthier than entire countries. Private military forces are going to become a lot more common.
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by ionised 7y ago
On HN I see lot of hand-waving away of ethics and a lot of defence of straightforward greed.
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by ionised 7y ago
> Is it greedy to want to pay off your student loans or provide for your family? Perhaps not greedy, but definitely selfish. It's YOUR student loans and YOUR family (thus, YOUR genetic code) that you're helping without regard f
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by ionised 7y ago
It's not like the American colonies gained independence because they were just that special compared to everyone else. They did it because France (a major power) helped them to do it (France being at war with Britain at the time). With
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by ionised 7y ago
Greed has become something we celebrate instead of condemn.
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by ionised 7y ago
I'm still confused as to why people are holding meritocracy up as something we should aspire to. Meritocracy was originally devised as a negative concept, simply because the idea of what constitutes 'merit' is subjective and
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by ionised 7y ago
Seems like he just posted 10 points to counter your shaky 1, then you proceeded to ignore every one of them before finishing off with an accusation of a straw-man argument.
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by ionised 7y ago
I'd be more inclined to blame society itself for the individual feeling that way. Much of our modern western society is highly individualistic and exploitative. We are encouraged to exploit as much and as often as we can to reap wealth
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by ionised 7y ago
Why do you think Amazon has 'won' elsewhere in the world?
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by ionised 7y ago
People have been killed in SWAT'ing in the past. This isn't a far cry from that. I wouldn't trust US police to make a peaceful arrest of anyone at this point. It's a potentially lethal encounter depending on how trigger
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by ionised 7y ago
> Dark patterns in Windows 10 were used to get people to upgrade, and the exec behind those decisions was let go. Don't care. They are still using dark patterns all over Windows 10 to convince people to disable various privacy setti
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by ionised 7y ago
Facebook isn't the internet. There is more to it than just one social media service.
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by ionised 7y ago
> If you're in the room, you might have a chance of affecting a decision. This is either hopelessy naive cynically deceptive.
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by ionised 7y ago
Are you trolling? Windows 10 and its heavy use of dark patterns for excessive data collection is reason enough for me to loathe the company. Plus those decades of ruthless antitrust/monopoly abuse by MS under Bill Gates has left its m
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by ionised 7y ago
Decades of shady practices and cutthroat anti-competitive business decisions. Microsoft is going to have to behave itself for an equal or greater period of time before I risk thinking it has changed for the better.
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by ionised 7y ago
Technology has allowed people to create music in different and original ways, as well as proving entirely new instruments. Painting materials have evolved and become cheaper, making art more accessible to the average person, expanding the a
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by ionised 7y ago
That's the excuse, not the reason.
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by ionised 8y ago
It's still a meme because it is clearly still how Zuckerberg thinks. His words and actions are those of someone who gives zero fucks about his user base as long as he gets to continue exploiting their private information.
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by ionised 8y ago
And how many people who have done worse have received similar punishments since?
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by ionised 8y ago
And in that sense, the purpose of copyright has never changed. It is still used to decide who gets access to what information, with all the complicated licensing arrangements and insane life of author plus 70 years terms.
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by ionised 8y ago
Nobody ever backs up this assertion.
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by ionised 8y ago
They are already seeing less innovation from phone makers. Phone makers have been short on ideas for a long time now. It didn't require any IP theft for that to happen.
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by ionised 8y ago
> But you lack the fundamental understanding that nothing in China has this protection. While our allies do. You asked for a justification and you've answered your own question. It happens because there are no protections for these
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by ionised 8y ago
I was actually intending to reply to somebody else (or the parent post has been edited since I posted my reply) that stated Assange and Wikileaks only ever released stuff about the west and its allies. My accusation of lies was about that,
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by ionised 8y ago
The Collateral Murder leaks that showed the United States guilty of war crimes.

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