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by ksk 6y ago
Yeah, who needs warning labels on products?! People ignore them anyway.
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by ksk 6y ago
Right, I'm suggesting that we generate push back as much as possible. One way to do that is to make future Google employees hesitate about supporting their unethical anti-privacy practices. Nerds have to stop giving Google a free pass.
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by ksk 6y ago
Well, they can only do as much as we let them. Sadly, they can spy on the world and nobody cares, because privacy matters don't generate a strong push-back. OTOH, If they had an exec who so much as commented on a woman programmer&#x27
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by ksk 6y ago
Google as a private corporation should not be collecting evidence for the police before a crime as occurred. Spying and surveillance of the general public should never be accepted as the norm.
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by ksk 6y ago
The issue here is that Google has the data in the first place. No data - No Warrant.
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by ksk 6y ago
I would wager that an employer would just shift their office overseas, rather than be forced to increase wages. See what happened to manufacturing around the world. By and large, I think its a quid-pro-quo between the US wanting foreign mar
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by ksk 6y ago
You are 100% correct. As a manager I would love to test for work ethic, honesty, being a team-player, etc. The problem is I can only infer those qualities based on signals that are inherently noisy. The only way you really know of those qua
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by ksk 6y ago
Its a win-by-default stance. Democrats embrace science, Republicans are anti-science; science is the truth, ergo dems good, repubs bad. QED. Ironically, I've had far more left-leaning friends who believe in crackpot stuff like aroma he
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by ksk 6y ago
The alternative explanation is that your view is simply an opinion, one that is not shared by others. Why must it be some kind of conspiracy theory of Microsoft trying to "buy" goodwill? They certainly have goodwill from our compa
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by ksk 6y ago
Exactly how have you established what the commenters have or haven't considered? To me, its silly to make this about class or economic status. Also, this is not just a made up "policy" . Its the law (well, in most countries).
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by ksk 6y ago
Don't try to normalize this behavior or generate sympathy for these idiots. People like you make my blood boil. I have had multiple family members almost killed (one suffered horrific brain damage) because of drunk/drowsy drivers.
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by ksk 6y ago
Is your view based on data available to everyone else? If so, that would be nice to see. Its far easier for you to convince others with data. Why would anyone want to change your view?
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by ksk 6y ago
Yes, and we have to guard against knowledge regressions (dark ages) too. It is critical that we preserve our human tradition of passing inter-generational knowledge to the next generation. As an example, I see several older nerds complain t
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by ksk 6y ago
Oh, I didn't mean to imply that we should simply accept it as fact. I'm merely saying that we can have multiple theories. Certainly, we should only go where the evidence leads us.
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by ksk 6y ago
There are multiple definitions of god. The crude one that is commonly used doesn't have to be only one. Its within the realm of possibility that there are entities that exist in a completely different substrate of existence. For us, ti
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by ksk 6y ago
I think you have the right approach. We all have to be humble and accept wherever science leads us. If god is part of the natural order, and we find evidence for this phenomenon, then it should be accepted.
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by ksk 6y ago
Yeah and maybe some people blamed Obama when their car wouldn't start, or people blame the restaurant when they spill hot coffee over themselves. There's a lot of things "some people do". With all due respect to those &q
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by ksk 6y ago
Yeah, repair companies often buy these broken devices so they can salvage parts. Its really sad that they're forced to do this as Apple forces third-party parts manufacturers to only sell parts to them. Its ironic, since Apple doesn&#x
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by ksk 6y ago
One of the reasons Apple does this is to block repair companies from buying broken Apple products to stock up on parts. They choke the repair supply chain by forcing parts manufacturers to only sell to them.
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by ksk 6y ago
It's a fake argument anyway. People perfectly understand that when they buy a used car, it could have had damage from the previous owner or other wear and tear. Is this common-sense somehow magically forgotten when Apple is concerned?
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by ksk 6y ago
What a silly reason to ruin the environment! Apple (and to be fair most electronics companies) are already designing irreparable land-fill-ready devices. We have companies who are willing to do the hard work of repairing/refurbishing t
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by ksk 6y ago
>Many people are likely to have realized something long before a team of scientists got funded, figured out how to test the idea, analyzed results, wrote papers, published, and officially confirmed it. Can you expand on that? Who are the
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by ksk 6y ago
There are also a group of people who take a simple study model, and apply it to anything and everything in their lives - that's about as anti-science as you can get. Maybe I'm more sensitive to this behavior since I spend a lot of
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by ksk 6y ago
>instead of focusing their efforts on disrupting the Chrome/Webkit monopoly. How do you know they're not doing that? Its a large organization. Also, it is very hard to hire quality people at lower salaries, its just the nature
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by ksk 6y ago
In which organization do people not make mistakes? Also, if you're going to accuse someone, I think its fair to ask for hard-proof (not speculation).
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by ksk 6y ago
I think its the best browser out there (along with Pale Moon). What is FF preventing you from doing?
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by ksk 6y ago
>Right now, if you can only create $7/hr of economic value, no employer can legally employ you for a regular job in a way that's profitable for them. Sure, but its just a shifting of costs. Either the employer pays them the ext
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by ksk 6y ago
Neat, a useful feature that I'd like to see on iOS too. I typically just put the call on speaker-phone and go about my work.
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by ksk 6y ago
>There is no reason to think that this is never advantageous for the employee, and the workers who don't find those terms advantageous remain free to work for any other employer. Your use of "never" is a red-herring. You h
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by ksk 6y ago
> and Apple sells more products when people trust them. I am interested to know how you have estimated/measured this increase. Is it 1%? 20%? What does your data show?

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