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by joejohnson 6y ago
That was a lot of words to say “what if the AirPods had a programmable button so apps could favorite songs or add a bookmark?”
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by joejohnson 6y ago
Pretty lame obituary from the Washington Post, self-styled champion of democracy.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
The United States will not be a part of the “developed” world in 20 years; too much aging infrastructure is being neglected because the country is too corrupt to actually govern effectively.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
Bela Lugosi’s in bed
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by joejohnson 6y ago
Companies finding their way around rules by manipulating lawmakers sounds “systemic” or “structural”. And the example I gave was literally a law banning use of slave labor. Only difference is where the slaves are located.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
You can be outraged at two things at the same time. But the apartheid situation in Israel is perhaps a more blatant example of ongoing human rights abuse, and thus easier to understand compared to the more subtle racism as class subjection
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by joejohnson 6y ago
Look at an example from the other end of the spectrum, Switzerland, a capitalist society with a good human rights record (at least that’s the general consensus among western nations). One of their largest multinationals, Nestlé, successful
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by joejohnson 6y ago
No more than any capitalist society. The gulf states are just an extreme examples of exploitation, but capitalism necessitates treating a slice of society as expendable labor.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
bought more
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by joejohnson 6y ago
What does “no matter your stance on climate change” mean? (parent comment) For the record, I am also pro-gravity.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
Absolutely. I am pro-climate change and I still think the US’s relationship with Saudi Arabia is strategically stupid.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
The motivation for a lot of this discussion lately is people leaving WhatsApp for something that is more privacy respecting; for the reasons I said above (especially the monetization point), Telegram is maybe no better than sticking with Wh
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by joejohnson 6y ago
Telegram’s group chats are unencrypted. Telegram’s direct messages are not E2E by defaulted, and when secure messaging is enabled, many features stop working (like desktop support). Telegram has plans to monetize metadata just like WhatsA
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by joejohnson 6y ago
This must be an error because Bill Gates said he was going to give all of his wealth away.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
This is definitely not the “world’s largest” right now.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
Apple should get a cut of every check deposited through the Chase mobile app.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
Because those that would be regulated and forced to pay for these negative externalities make the rules. Oil and gas companies simply pay off the regulators and it costs them orders of magnitude less than the actual damage they cause to th
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by joejohnson 6y ago
Seems sort of pointless when corporations that know they are destroying the ecosystem which makes human life possible are among the most well-funded organizations in the world. And these corporations set the global rules on everything from
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by joejohnson 6y ago
Came here to comment on this too. I guess the author included the maritime borders? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_New_York_(state...
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by joejohnson 6y ago
When did they buy these oil futures which they were selling throughout the day?
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by joejohnson 6y ago
If these products all needed to compete for users, maybe google would get left behind. But many of the bad examples mentioned are from Docs and Gmail and things with large networks effects and huge frictional costs for users wishing to swi
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by joejohnson 6y ago
Which the article states very clearly was not the data stolen.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
The video game industry needs to learn from the film industry and unionize for better pay and working conditions.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
what would the correct command be on windows?
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by joejohnson 6y ago
This is good to hear. I presume that this practice will soon be banned because America is a democracy.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
It’s an insane society that would force someone to work through their recovery to an injury in the first place.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
What is the best ad blocker / content blocker for Safari now?
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by joejohnson 6y ago
It appears they collect much of the same data, but likely less of it because of their smaller scale and inability to cross-tabulate this data with other user activity (like Google search): https://legal.here.com/en-gb/p
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by joejohnson 6y ago
The last point (that there are alternatives but they’re all not as good) is why anti-trust action against Google/Alphabet can’t come soon enough. The acquisition of so many competitors should have been blocked by the FCC.
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by joejohnson 6y ago
Non-mobile link: https://www.fhfa.gov/Media/PublicAffairs/Pages/Adverse-Marke... (if a mod wants to change this) Looks like this was announced 25 August?

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