mattsfrey

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by mattsfrey 9y ago
Great, it's 2003 again. Even have good ole' Bolton back in there just in time.
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
Facebook _users_ do. I highly doubt they are going to try and enforce this on google search results, that would be absurd, and if so it will just hurt the publishers for not getting hits. Where is it detailed that this is aimed at google&#x
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
The way I look at it is it will constrain the ability to deliver news to those who can afford to produce original content, which will be larger outlets with more resources. This allows a vastly smaller group to control the narrative. How wi
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
TIL "ecumenical" I assume you mean this in a sense of people from disparate backgrounds coming together on a common ground? Is this even used in the context you meant it? Can you cite a text using it in a non-christian context? Ju
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
The cookie regs seem largely a moot effort given the pervasiveness of cookie usage, GDPR though I think is actually a generally good idea. The "nightmare scenario" that certain articles have detailed might be overburdening for com
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
My point may seem facetious, but wouldn't ensuring (through proper catches and guards) that a 500 doesn't happen at all inside your own systems be the best resiliency? And when you experience one, it's a red alert and you har
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
This takes a very heavy analytical approach to the reasons for seeking an entrepreneurship path. I think it misses the larger point - most people go into it for highly personal subjective reasons. Mine, and most I feel like are simply choos
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
"The biggest and most worrisome changes are to the "link tax" proposal, which would establish a special copyright-like fee to be paid by websites to news publishers, in exchange for the privilege of using short snippets of qu
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
The problem with this is that so many companies (especially startups with young ceos) have _no idea_ how valuable an employee is. They negotiate hard and underpay often because that's just a general prescription in business. From my pe
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
I can't think of a single time a mechanic or shop has given any details about the manufacturer of a part, just "do you want the expensive shit or the cheap shit". Of course in the auto parts world virtually everything is afte
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
The most disconcerting thing about this is how effective their security measures appear to be. One has to imagine how pervasive their surveillance is to catch this many leakers.
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
First two points - semantics. The point is that once the physical product was sold, consumers have the right to do whatever the hell they like with it, including sell it. As to your latter statements, opinions will vary on this, but I belie
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
I mostly just meant you wouldn't be breaking laws technically to go around them via reverse engineering. To your second statement that's actually a good point, it could be. I mean in general overall it's going to be pretty ou
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
Technically that's just them locking you out of their distribution platform, I don't think they'd have a legal case against you though. People sell apps outside of the app store and haven't suffered any recourse from app
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
For the time being, at least in the US, reverse engineering is fully protected by well established precedent. Some nations have laws designed to stop "hackers" that outlaw some of the methodologies used in reverse engineering, whi
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
"Apple does not ‘own’ the product after they have sold it" I think this is the crux of the issue. The guy was importing refurbished parts with the logos covered even. They weren't counterfeits. How does a manufacturer have th
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
These guys were undoubtedly sleazeballs but I find it shocking to see this sudden wave of legistlation and enforcement against prostitution and its fa cilitation regardless. Craigslist, backpages, et al have been around for decades practica
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
This needs to be rejected whole sale. One nation does NOT have the authority to dictate what a company can do outside of it's borders and concerns. The censorship issues that have been cropping up lately in these regards are appalling.
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
The US government coming after you for facilitating massive fraud and countless other illegal activities is hardly the same as some idiot suing you.
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
Which is why I started my comment with "US citizens.." but also, if you're not a US citizen (for most countries anyway) you can register a corporation in a dozen other tax havens and avoid any taxation without those ludicrous
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
US citizens still owe taxes on any income over a certain threshold as per: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_earned_income_exclusio... There is no more tax advantage to the law abiding citizen in this scheme versus
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
Seeing some downvotes on this but TBH Silk Road and the underground economy _is_ what originally drove the lions share of demand for bitcoin as a currency, not miners and enthusiasts - everything else ballooned out from there.
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
If you work in the software industry there is a huge probability adtech dollars somewhere upstream are contributing to your income.
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
True, I have more faith in that guy though. Maybe he is just another money grubbing hackjob that will eventually morph his companies into evil enterprises but it just doesn't seem like thats his schtick atm.
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
Yet another reason Musk's new satellite internet will be awesome. I'd personally sacrifice some bandwidth for privacy.
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
https://outline.com/Vg4R7C For non subscribers
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
Agreed, I think a lot of people at this point are tired of identity divisions period and just want everyone to be treated the same regardless. It comes down to your principles in the end, I'm really hoping the culture moves in this dir
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
Pretty incredible to see people making jokes in response to the tweet literally in real time. Journalists trying to get him to call them and give updates. Our society is completely fucked.
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
The alarmist in me thinks there is a huge crash coming and companies are seeking to allow stakeholders to quietly cash out in the public markets. Given the numbers on some of these companies they definitely wouldn't be acquired for the
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by mattsfrey 9y ago
Regardless of your political persuasion / values, it seems the common theme in the last year and moving forward is an insidious removal of civil liberties. This is how it begins, with the fringe. It only balloons out further from there

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