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by lgleason 8y ago
Yes, but the preamble tells a much different story as to the intent of the act.... There is also talk about updating the act as well which is a better solution IMHO because a lot has changed since it was written.
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by lgleason 8y ago
For all of the people saying that Joyent can do this because they are a private company that statement there is a catch to this. All service providers are exempt from being sued for content on their platform under safe harbor under the argu
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by lgleason 8y ago
Irregardless of what you think of Gab etc.. Unless the platform is being used for illegal activity and or it is engaging in something that breaks the law these service providers can and should be treated like the phone company. In other w
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by lgleason 8y ago
I feel bad for all of the local providers down there such as Afrihost, CloudAfrica etc.. Big companies pushing out the little guys sadly...
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by lgleason 8y ago
While Aptoide is probably not the ultimate answer, Google does not have a leg to stand on here given the amount of censorship they have been practicing on the app store by banning apps such as Gab.ai. Irregardless of whether you agree wit
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by lgleason 8y ago
For #1 and #2, there is a thing called emotional resilience that we have lost today. More importantly, the conversations do not get any less antagonistic in communities with this policies. If anything I have seen them get more vicious towa
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by lgleason 8y ago
Long term I expect to see the quality of GNU and Linux software falter over efforts like this. This is not because I don't advocate for treating other people well, on the contrary I do. It is because in practice these are politicall
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by lgleason 8y ago
That is a fair point, though it was a different dynamic. For example in rural farming areas they were an extra set of hands to work on the family farm etc..
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by lgleason 8y ago
I'm sure I will get down voted for this but.... In times past, most parents would have kicked them out of the house and told them to get a job. Now we regularly have parents that let their kids live at home, even when they have high pa
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by lgleason 8y ago
There is a new documentary called "The Creepy Line", it's on both Amazon Prime and Apple I-Tunes that also talks about this. Well worth watching. This is a big issue today, and makes it far too easy for big tech to have enor
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by lgleason 8y ago
This 100000% over. Otherwise they are becoming the new kingmakers, manipulating people often without them even knowing. Incidentally there is a good documentary that is now on Amazon Prime called "The Creepy Line" that is worth wa
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by lgleason 8y ago
TBH Google's decision to drive their left leaning politics turned my opinion of them.....this is not based on lies, but actually seeing what they've done (some first hand). They would have been well served to have stayed non-pol
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by lgleason 8y ago
I'll bet you that behind the scenes a different story is being told.
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by lgleason 8y ago
We need to break up Google ASAP.
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by lgleason 8y ago
I think their reaction to him being there shows the anti-conservative bias still at Facebook. The statement from Zuck on respecting other views is a vein attempt at appeasing conservative concerns now that Trump + the Congress and Senate ar
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by lgleason 8y ago
I'm sure the people at Gab would disagree with this assessment.
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by lgleason 8y ago
16GB is the bare minimum, but with some thrashing. 32 to really be usable, especially when running emulators.
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by lgleason 8y ago
Repeating what I said in an earlier comment....they were able to grow to the size they have become because they are exempted from liable laws under safe harbor. The argument for that was that they were neutral platforms. They no longer are
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by lgleason 8y ago
Part if this is about enforcing the safe harbor provisions that exempted them from liable lawsuits for content posted on their sites. Media outlets can be sued but these tech platforms cannot but the entire argument for that was that they w
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by lgleason 8y ago
It's one thing to oppose Trump. It's another when you control 80-90% of search traffic and you are banning certain people (moreso on the conservative side) and are biasing search results etc.. These companies were able to grow to
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by lgleason 8y ago
Black conservatives such as Candice Owens also talk about this. Basically one side will label any idea they don't like as racist and call black conservatives white nationalists etc.. The other is saying that there should be diversity o
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by lgleason 8y ago
How so? As it is the only people who's standard of living has been rising in the past 30 years has been those at the top while the middle class etc. continue to lose ground.
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by lgleason 8y ago
Honest question, how would we lose in that scenario?
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by lgleason 8y ago
If your running a trade deficit how exactly are you shooting yourself in the foot?
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by lgleason 8y ago
As much as some people here may hate Trump, the fact is that he was right when we said that it is difficult for us to lose a trade war with China since we import more from them than we export. Is there going to be some short term pain? Abs
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by lgleason 8y ago
These things have nothing to do with civility etc. They are at their core as you said, mechanisms to try to force out political beliefs. Sounds like the culture wars have claimed another...and the community will not be better for it.
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by lgleason 8y ago
Every good thing must come to an end. Sounds like linux is going to go down this path and the industry and innovation will suffer as a result of this. They've been gunning for Linus for a long time. My guess is that they got some dirt
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by lgleason 8y ago
Reality is more important than one's feelings which is why he has been effective in making linux what it is today. Throwing that out the window and caving to the postmodernist "feels" will not bode well for the project as a w
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by lgleason 8y ago
Linus's revelation kind of looks like he has been infected with "feels over reals" postmodernism. Not a good omen for engineering where reality needs to come first.
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by lgleason 8y ago
Partpic was founded by two non tech founders and Amanzon aqui hired them. Not sure what technology they are brining to the table there.....and of course the buyout was for a non disclosed amount... Typical Atlanta.

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