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jasonfarnon
6y ago
Do you think there is something inherent in MS's DNA that makes it more dangerous in a position of dominance than its competitors? Where you can extrapolate from MS in 2000 to now? (In any event, I personally don't think MS when i
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Of course there is an argument but it doesn't square with torts law in most states, at present. The main reason is that it is too hard to establish whatever harm you claim occurred is proximately caused by the breach. A more practical
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6y ago
they didn't rollout the no dislikes interface quick enough
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6y ago
Maybe the Streisand effect is imaginary. Ie you don't know how many stories are successfully suppressed. Just bc barbara streisand bungled concealing something, doesn't mean something as sophisticated as fb, decades later, is as i
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6y ago
Surely there is a public figure exception? You can't post a pic of Barbara Streisand's house on facebook?
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6y ago
"and the only useful one" Actually this is a useless definition, because what constitutes "private information" is exactly at issue
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How do credit bureaus "enforce morality"? I think the point is that the effect of a bad credit rating is much more limited than a universal blackout on the internet. In fact strictly more limited, to the extent that many creditors
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6y ago
It could be that apple places a greater premium on thinness and that position just so happens to have as a byproduct early obsolescence and better profits. But I don't see why that's any more plausible than what you call conspirac
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You think those issues began in 2021?
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It doesn't need to be that dislikes are embarrassing to their pet causes. There were a few instances where business partners would, e.g., post an ad campaign that got so many dislikes the dislike ratio entered the news cycle. I'm
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Once my bad health-related decisions are costing others money, society has a much stronger case to stop me from making those decisions. And I don't want to leave the determination of what constitutes a bad health-related decision to th
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The most important thing is that it includes 0.