kanox

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by kanox 6y ago
> Racism? Where? Fascists famously accused foreigners of promoting "degeneracy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art . Parent poster used this term with the exact same meaning and intention.
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This argument can be used to ban all foreign press. It's nonsense, but unfortunately common in 2020.
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Even if this is cost-cutting move by advertisers it is still a huge win for all promoters of censorship.
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> India is absolutely right in banning TikTok as it is a significant national securities threat. This is just a lame attempt at economic warfare and "misinformation campaigns" is a very weak excuse. What concerns me the most is
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Not advertiser friendly.
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> > If there is an API to get information on you, your contacts, or your device... well, they're using it. For what it's worth I've reversed the Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter apps. They don't collect any
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by kanox 6y ago
Is it really whataboutism to compare TikTok with American social media apps? They seem to be very similar products and I'm not convinced that chinese applications collect more data. Shouldn't this be controlled by OS permissions a
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How is "tolerance" relevant to banning apps based on national origin? This is nothing but good old fashion economic escalation.
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You're completely missing the point: no government should get to decide what apps to ban.
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> its entirely unconvincing to say society must reduce our standard of living by force when you won't do it voluntarily. I think that "reducing standards of living by force" is an extremist position and it's unhelpful
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Is there any data as to how much climate change can be affected by personal lifestyle choices? The biggest CO2 emitters are electricity generation and transport and these can be affected by government policy that encourages renewable source
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A lot of these policing issues seems to come from progressive localities so I'm not sure it's even due to government unwillingness to solve the issues. Most organizations are really extremely bad at dealing with internal abuses wh
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Only reason I've used flash in the last few years was to file PTO.
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Creating a new federal body to specifically deal with use-of-force by law enforcement could correct many issues by conducting investigates in a more impartial manner. It could also issue nation-wide guidelines such as making it impossible t
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This is a ridiculously shallow dismisal. Android and iOS "won" because the phones were vastly more capable.
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> You are not responsible for those people being offended. This is objectively false, you can get fired for offending people both at your job or outside it.
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> The biggest gain would be in how to refine the aluminum without shipping across the world twice. I keep seeing this about "shipping" being a major contributor to greenhouse emissions but some brief googling shows it's on
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I'd imagine it also contains personal data of various crime suspects and victims.
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From the article: > The group’s account, @DDoSecrets, was permanently suspended, a Twitter spokesperson told Gizmodo, citing the company’s policy against the distribution of hacked materials. The policy specifically prohibits accounts fr
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The argument seems to be that those files contains lots of personal data of innocent people so it falls outside any sort of free-speech debate.
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> It would have to be a device that's as simple to use as a phone. Not a cell phone, a regular phone that sits on a desk, the old-fashioned kind. Why? Smartphones are already ubiquitous and there are plenty of extremely capable dirt
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Personally I can't wait for this to come back to normal: being inside an office for 9 hours every day helps me be productive and focus.
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Completely agree: China is the world largest economy and any attempt at withholding technology from them will just result in them building domestic equivalents faster. I don't see what the US can gain from the war.
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> They could park a boat in the ocean between London and NYC with equipment to act as a repeater. They could, but I bet they won't. Speculation is fun but permanent floating platforms are expensive, it's easier to just wait unt
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> > Impact on earth based telescopes has not been discussed > What? You're literally discussing it. It is pretty easy to find articles from astronomers getting upset. I can tell you that everyone in my community (which include
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> It is widely believed that a huge chunk of Starlink’s revenue, if not ~all of it, will come from leasing faster-than-currently-available low latency links to HFT companies for nyc-lon and such. This is speculation. Without inter-satell
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> The only untrusted programs I run are Steam games and FPGA tools, and for those I created a separate user account. Do you also run a separate display server? I'm not convinced a truly malicious executable can be stopped by boundar
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As far as I know hydrogen is currently mostly derived from fossil fuels. Electrolysis would be possible but it's expensive and still less energy efficient than a pure battery-electric vehicle. People are willing to pay a premium for el
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I'm not sure that's required, at least for urban areas cables are not that expensive. The problem might be deliberate anti-competitive collusion between the major ISPs.
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> expensive, unfamiliar, specialized hardware when you can instead use cheap, well-known, store-bought CPUs that everyone is familiar with My impression (from wikipedia) is that several popular radiation-hardened CPUs are just embedded C

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