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by josho 6y ago
> Name me a socialist/communist gov that did any better. America has done everything in their power to destroy democratic populist movements. If you do your research you'll find that anytime a South or Central American country
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by josho 6y ago
Somehow if my teenaged kids spent as much time in LinkedIn networking business relationships as they did in Snapchat I wouldn't quite mind as much. Regardless, I think you've missed the part where the FTC said what they were gathe
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by josho 6y ago
Apple Message is a message service. Its features include a way to personalize messages. It's not collecting personal/demographic information, it's not trying to increase user engagement (addictiveness), it's not serving
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by josho 6y ago
The intersection of centos users and IBM customers is likely quite small. Even the tech teams inside large organizations aren’t IBM’s customer.
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by josho 6y ago
Here's this page with no JS. https://remove-js.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2... CSS seems to break somewhat. Does hacker news rely on JS for CSS styling?
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by josho 6y ago
Maybe generalize that further, a right to privacy.
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by josho 6y ago
To provide a data point to your assertion my brand new tp-link wifi router has a setting for ipv6 firewall, but it does nothing. Yes all my home devices are exposed to the public internet. Yikes! The tech support team even confirmed that ip
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by josho 6y ago
If they are fakes then it’s fraud and the courts should get involved. But why would Amazon give the courts that power when they can just do whatever they want.
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by josho 6y ago
The X was just bad for tiny scratches. Mine had a bunch and it was stored in my pocket without anything else in the pocket to scratch it. It was the only phone I had that scratched like this.
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by josho 6y ago
The question was “what real value does an investment like this yield for the economy as a whole?” If I understand your comment correctly then your answer is essentially: it provide no value to society, but few other businesses do either. To
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by josho 6y ago
And trades out a $100 device for what $1000 worth of gadgets?
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by josho 6y ago
Fair point, add a QR code tag to the cable that contains the specs. The general point here is that the industry could, and should, be doing something to address consumer confusion.
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by josho 6y ago
But that's not a USB-C problem, that's a consumer protection issue. I'm surprised that we don't have a bunch of class action lawsuits against Amazon for misleading advertising through their marketplace. (yes, I know many
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by josho 6y ago
A good (read expensive) dongle will work fine. I have one that reliably powers 2 monitors (a 5k and a 4k), 1gb network and powers my macbook. I think the real problem is we get a lot of cheap products coming from China with very little qual
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by josho 6y ago
The solution, I believe, is rather simple. The standards group should require any cable/device with USB 3 support to include a label on its packaging detailing which capabilities of USB 3 are supported. Think of the nutrition labels on
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by josho 6y ago
The free market solves for things that we price. It often fails when externalities are not accounted for. Ironically free market advocates often are against pricing in externalities through things like a carbon tax. If we priced carbon appr
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by josho 6y ago
> a bad electric car is outright better than almost any ICE car. You are right, and I want to add more perspective that in your proposal there are now 2 cars on the road. Your electric and your used ICE car. The better situation is to dr
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by josho 6y ago
What events would drive a future with high interest rates? I’m not imaginative enough to come up that scenario. Nor would it seem all mainstream analysts. But I am curious as to what might drive that change.
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by josho 6y ago
> Go to the beach and forget your water bottle? You better like Coca-Cola because that's all they'll sell you! Your comment reveals your age. The parent and myself are old enough to remember a time when you could go to numerous
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by josho 6y ago
So, they lied when they didn't even need to. Doesn't that make the lie that much worse?
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by josho 6y ago
The industry and their advocacy groups reduced their costs by switching to packaging, proceeded to lie to consumers and government that all this new packaging was going to be easily recycled and not to worry. I don't see where consumer
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by josho 6y ago
Many companies hire contractors because they are seen as a capital expenditure on the finances. While employees are classified as an operational expense. This has several accounting benefits, and in some jurisdictions makes it easier to dis
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by josho 6y ago
> peddle truly egregious lies on a regular basis I know that CNN, NBC, etc are biased, but I've found that their bias generally skews to corporate or US government interests. As an example, look at the negative coverage that Bernie
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by josho 6y ago
This illustrates just how hard it is to stay anonymous while conducting commerce. Ie. the pirate bay has been de-anonymized across several political jurisdictions and is one VPN bug or compromise away from being exposed and being shutdown a
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by josho 6y ago
My understanding is that amp forces pages to stop doing the things they’ve been doing for years that made their pages bloated and slow to load. It’s too bad the sites just couldn’t do that on their own and avoid the need for amp.
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by josho 6y ago
The core of it stands that 'urban populations have become mainly passive'. Perhaps I'd consider revising to replace passive with consumers. So, we've been taught and continually urged to spend our idle hours consuming. S
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by josho 6y ago
For content on webpages that I want to keep I use this bookmarklet ( http://pdf.fivefilters.org/simple-print/url.php ) to save the page as a nicely formatted PDF then I save the PDF to my cloud drive for permanent storag
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by josho 6y ago
> feel the pain for the mistakes here otherwise the root cause, whatever it is, will not be fixed. In my opinion the mistakes are the decades long eroding of public services paired with the tolerance for growing inequality in society. Un
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by josho 6y ago
I swear that the MBAs are ruining the world. This is the crap that mature industries pull to grow profit since they've saturated other growth channels. Instead of product growth, MBAs come up with product bundlings to maximize profit b
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by josho 6y ago
The market size for intel mac users is far larger than arm on mac, and will be for the next several years.

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