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by jtrip 10y ago
The documentary mentioned above implies that the car was killed, not because it was uneconomical, because the law that insentivised them to make the car wasn't worked out properly and the car companies found killing the law insidiously
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How did they succeed?
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I ask, what is the qualitative difference?
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I agree, the problem is social. To be more specific, the problem is that the corporate clout is too thick and the corporate social structure is broken. Running after the money stick, with total disregard for the person at the other end of t
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Because the inherent idea is control of power. One would trust a small company over the government because the small company can't do much damage with only that much data, whereas the government can, combined with all the other data. T
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I personally block adds, not because of annoyance, but because of tracking. I find private collection of information a bigger threat than I do government tracking. I like neither, but given the option, I would rather be tracked by the gover
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by jtrip 10y ago
That last video is supremely interesting. If only we could be shown how the printing head worked, mechanically. Does the head 'suck' up the character bits to strike the paper?
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The article mentions an anonymous letter sent to Mao's wife chastising her former love life. The letter was written on a typewriter. I think the idea was that there should be no means of communication that cannot be traced. Whoever pen
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Ubiquity.
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That is assuming that the media, backed by recent and coming economic figures won't scaremonger and break away all the other popular arguments against Brexit, as 'no foreigners' wasn't the only argument. Not to mention t
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Then would you suggest anarchy? If not, then where would you draw the line? Also, pardon my ignorance on the topic, but other than the free movement treaty (and the others) that Switzerland signed itself, how does the EU control the country
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The best part, Nokia gets shafted in all of this. Nokia got dragged along in this clown show and we lose out on getting great hardware. Not to mention the software side of things that drowned as Nokia got torpedoed. Here's hoping they
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I'm interested. Did you apply graph theory to categorise words and language? Was it machine learning or was it more hand-crafted algorithms?