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by losteric 8y ago
whoops: otherwise the implication is the rich deserve more rights than the rest of us.
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Privacy is a right. Hiding behind corporations is not a right, otherwise the implication is the right deserve more rights than the rest of us. Anything that enables tax evasion, subversive campaign influence, or otherwise inhibiting the gen
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Developing an offensive weapon is different than working on domestic surveillance technology. Personally, I prefer a world where China has big-brother technology that the US does not.
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I have never been religious, but anecdotally death has actually disenfranchised many of my previously religious friends and done nothing to persuade the nonbelievers... There are no miracles in modern healthcare, only science and humans. Se
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I think the issue is still all the background activity. My phone (moto x pure) lasts multiple days in airplane+battery saver mode. It was 30% charged after using it for GPS/maps and occasional music on a 4-day backpacking (hiking) trip
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It's not really "favors". The person selling individual chips profits because they don't have the overhead of a formal business. There are open markets for formal businesses, which also expect you to be a formal busi
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What you're describing parallels the struggle between monarchs. Territory is a zero-sum game so conquer your neighbors or risk being conquered. Unless you trust your neighbors, in which case peace can be even more profitable. The argum
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Why can't progress in technology replace population growth through higher productivity? We tend to cut costs and reward the capital managers... but why not maintain costs while rewarding employees?
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I think it's a toss up between Python and Ruby, but my bet is on Python. Python is simple by design. It has optional typing (as of 3.6), beautiful async constructs (ala ES6), nice integration with C/assembly (in CPython), comprehe
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> Are these people born with "only allowed to work as a car driver" stamped on their forehead? Did you see what I said about poverty traps? Once someone is stuck, it's very challenging to break out without outside help. &g
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The job market is so bad people are willing to scrounge for scrapes - their reserves have been depleted and credit maxed out. Unemployment is low because people can no longer say no. One of many reasons people draw parallels between today a
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The labor market is never free, because living isn't free - almost every participant is coerced. We're all trading time and willpower for money. If the gig economy has a poor ROI, people can end up in poverty traps - stuck working
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Considering they drew parallels with strike breakers, I don't think that was the point. Many Americans are stuck with dead-end low-wage low/no-benefit part-time jobs (plural) trying to make ends meet - the weak job market offers f
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You're right, equal representation simply requires that Google's new hires reflect the current underlying labor market demographics. Attempting to skew that distribution in either direction is discrimination. However, I would like
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It's even in the name: news The deregulated "news" industry is primarily motivated by profit, informing the public is secondary. That's why we see a handful of stories on repeat for days - maximizes profit, minimize jo
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My family is similarly divided, except we do talk about politics. If anything, our last Thanksgiving was longer than usual... Politics is not "squabbling". America is a democracy - decentralized discussion of ideas is how democrac
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My theory is CEOs that pay attention to smaller things miss fewer opportunities, and build a culture of doing so across the company. Look up Bezos' infamous "?" emails.
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I don't think they should be fined, but they should be required to fix security vulnerabilities. Default passwords are a vulnerability, and defective by design is not an excuse... My Netgear router came with a secure unique password pr
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My admittedly ambiguous threshold is "significant impact to quality of life" Battery fires can kill so even a handful is significant, but a security vulnerability that impacts thousands of routers has lower but wider impact. Some
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Safety liability follows and ends with the chain of financial transactions. No commerce, no liability.
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Companies should be liable for deficiencies in their commercial products... that's basic consumer protection. Samsung had to recall and repair dangerously defective hardware - why not Cisco? Does it matter whether the public risk is in
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It's the right analogy in the context of this research - the anhydrides survived longer when they formed a bubble, but still decayed. A car in the rain rusts faster than a car in a garage. The sheltered vehicle still rusts... but the l
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Why do you say they're "absurdly" under-capitalized? They already make laptops. The phone's hardware seems fairly standard, no risky R&D gambles, and the software is Linux/OSS...
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The search data alone is valuable, even if they never advertise through the device.
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I think you might be underestimating physicists, or over-estimating yourself... rest assured, modern physics is not a blind cargo-cult. The mainstream complex models are the simplest explanations consistent with empirical evidence, and gaps
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Youtube seems worse because the comments are public and global... but same folks are posting the same bigotry on Facebook.
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In a democracy, politics does deserve the front-page. What's shameful is how the masses and media cover current events...
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Yesterday and today look identical to me?
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Meanwhile Chinese citizens "subsidize" the rest of our economy... The only difference is we can't move all our food factories abroad, so the labor travels here.
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Employing immigrants in unskilled labor is a good thing if we're on the cusp of an automation revolution. Immigrants are not citizens - these are employable people who invested in traveling to America because we pay more for their sk

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