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by moate 3y ago
I don’t think the state has excised itself from moral dictation to the individual based on the desires of the representatives anywhere on a national level, so the current government is not a plumber, it’s a collection of people who tell you
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by moate 3y ago
I never did a single group project at school that had a legally binding contractual agreement or a board of shareholders, so I imagine these are entirely different situations.
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by moate 3y ago
The fact that police can access a private database to circumvent warrants also helps create a perverse feedback loop from within the public sector side as well, I promise. The call to preserve the status quo of massive data brokerage is com
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by moate 3y ago
The government is paternalistic by nature, so just say "I don't want government" instead of some weird statement that most people would likely feel is fundamentally opposite of how privacy should work (Most private by default
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by moate 3y ago
Also, as someone who works in the Pharma advertising space, trust me, HIPAA doesn't matter when private non-healthcare companies (read- entities that fall outside the regulations) are able to hoover up so much personal information that
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by moate 3y ago
Asking “what are you optimizing for/building towards” and getting different answers for different products isn’t proof that either is inferior, just that they may be better at different things. Your comment makes it seem like their pos
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by moate 3y ago
I mean, they basically are, so yes? I guess there might be some part of the process where you have to explain your serving size and that might be the hard part
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by moate 3y ago
Well yea. Nothing white dudes hate more than being told women and minorities are allowed to do something they aren't (and since it appears to be just us talking here, I think we can both admit that's really all that's going o
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by moate 3y ago
I can assure you that the hosting costs alone make these very different animals. A gig of storage gets you 20 minutes of hi-def video or 200 songs. There are also a LOT more people who have to get paid in order to make a TV show vs an album
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by moate 3y ago
Oh I know, I once got into a massive Twitter blowout with Brendan Eich because he believes that all computing conferences should invite "the best" speakers (how do you determine that? well I assume "invented JS" would be
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by moate 3y ago
Exactly. I could give a fuck who owns the houses in an area, as long as it's lots of individuals vs a single mega-corp that can then singlehandedly influence inventory and pricing.
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by moate 3y ago
Such is the problem with free speech: it enables free association. Alternative language for what you're saying: Should we force people to allow everyone access to them/their company/their spaces? If not, how do we determine w
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by moate 3y ago
Because when we cast the bloody knucklebones the spirts foretold it, 6 and 6 years shall it be 'til the money runs free.
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by moate 3y ago
Nah, punishing capital is always the best outcome. You want to privatize gains, take your fucking lumps and/or die as a corporate entity.
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by moate 3y ago
There is no neutral reporting. The act of deciding to publish something on page one is an inherent choice NOT to publish other things there. The facts are there, show me the lie in this article (vs the “choice of what to highlight”) which i
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by moate 3y ago
The irony being that sharing with more states is WORSE but because the (true) headline is tied to a specific hot button issue you find it bad?
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by moate 3y ago
Privacy is gone if you need to exist digitally in any way, so I agree that your goal should be just not drawing attention to yourself.
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by moate 3y ago
It's also bad for accurate science. Unless you have a team of researchers that can feed 100% accurate data talking points to you in real time, someone is going to make a "mistaken" claim at some point that could lead the deba
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by moate 3y ago
Prudence. (See we can all make "pithy" one word comment in order to undermine attacks on our stance, but it's not really like, useful. I think this comment is actually cowardly as you seem to either be baiting someone else in
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by moate 3y ago
A question I pose to myself whenever someone posits something that's literally true (ie, "vaccines can cause harmful side effects) but leads them to a different conclusion than myself (ie "therefor nobody should get the jab&q
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by moate 3y ago
This is a lot of words that don't explain at all why you think seeing a movie in a theater vs your home and playing a "new" vs "stale" video game are similar experiences. Based on the other comments, you seem to be
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by moate 3y ago
I can't speak for the OP, but for me, the problem is the obvious arbitrage on the used games by GS. I think I can say the market agrees with us, the company has been slowly dying for years and would likely be in a position like Bed Bat
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by moate 3y ago
Exactly. And obviously the biz model isn't working anymore or they wouldn't be in this situation.
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by moate 3y ago
Some thoughts: 1- Physical games don't go away with GameStop, and their decline coincides with a larger contraction around physical retail stores generally as people shift to buying things online (even, ironically, physical copies of g
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by moate 3y ago
Likely more regulation around handling and slaughter, like the article says. Most farm animals are also considered sentient, but obviously still eaten throughout the country, but unlike with a lobster or octopus you currently can't jus
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by moate 3y ago
No, it comes from the strike. Clean water doesn't come from the EPA, despite it regulating that water should be clean. Unions have one power in their neutered, current state: collectivism. That's it. It's that simple. Absent
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by moate 3y ago
It's a "wealthier nation" tactic going back to Spanish/Portuguese first contact. Fuck, it's called "Latin America" and I'm pretty sure Latin isn't native language. Rich people love pillaging and
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by moate 3y ago
(Mostly) Worked for Sinclair…
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by moate 3y ago
Get bonus in stock, cut staffing, use savings for stock buyback. Seems like capital doing capitalism
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by moate 3y ago
Who’s “they”? This is the important part from the article you’re not discussion: “So a growing number of employers around the country have decided to build their own housing for workers, mostly for them to rent but sometimes to buy.” Rentin

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