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by nebabyte 9y ago
Isn't that up to the cities?
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Good ol' wire fraud!
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by nebabyte 9y ago
This would be one of the eggs they're putting in the basket of "we'll just corner self-driving cars"
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by nebabyte 9y ago
0/100 (or 100/0 or whatever). "Above my pay grade" The code is the property of the company. Whoever ordered it be created and/or used would be culpable.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
You should dig that up! Sounds like an interesting read.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Sure: https://www.google.com/search?q=yelp+mafia
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Yeah, IANAL but it sounds like the definition of obstruction of justice
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Stop trying to handle env at the domestic level; measures only work at an international level (UN regulations or tariffs/sanctions or whatever). But that's for later society (ones with people with stable livelihoods) to figure out
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> instead it's the general communications (including for banking) that the rest of us perform online that will be made vulnerable Hardly ironic at all, since as long as someone stands to gain either money or power from doing so, the
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Censorship is illegal suppression of information. You can tell your kids to shut up, that isn't censoring them. You try and choose a meaning to support your argument just as much as anyone else does. Welcome to terminology.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Yeah, I was thinking this might have a niche in medium businesses/etc, but tbh if they have a bored tech guy they've probably already asked him/her to help automate basic tasks (for which any number of Python/AHK scripts
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by nebabyte 9y ago
or, y'know AHK
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> Yes, if they leave you're in deep trouble, but that's the business they're in Yep, your job is then to ensure they don't leave. "All your eggs in one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET" and all that
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by nebabyte 9y ago
There absolutely is. Medium is in that "one of X top sites" while blogs would be in the long tail. "Without having to buy X" just means you've yet learned nothing of the past. "Without having to buy" is ju
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by nebabyte 9y ago
I'm guessing they're holding out for a meshnet. Less realistically likely to be implemented at scale (and scale is what makes the internet as wonderful as it is) anytime soon than uber's moonshot of building their autonomous
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by nebabyte 9y ago
"Imagine some service came along tomorrow that was a better fb or youtube, and real fb/youtube got even shittier (play to anything you know annoys said friend about those plats, or think up things they could do for profit that wou
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> This isn’t capitalism — it’s corporatism. Capitalism is messy. It’s wasteful. But it’s much healthier in the long run for society as a whole than central planning and government trying to pick the winners. > Capitalism allows for sm
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> It turns out that the logistics of throwing giant festivals in remote locations are difficult! Who would have guessed? 2017 is the "back to school" year. Things people have learned so far are "harder than they thought&qu
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Incorrect, if you define of 'censorship' as the illegal suppression of information, as I and others do. Any structural changes (including withholding information - or will you no longer complacently consent to living under a syste
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> subtle search '[forum name]' or 'recently trending phrase'. subtle indeed
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by nebabyte 9y ago
To provide you refuge from the inevitable deluge of sarcastic comments in this comment section, here is a genuine/sincere comment: I like cats. > sarcasm is labelled by the author They literally just searched out "/s"
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by nebabyte 9y ago
So what was that you were saying about "trying to fix governments being pointless"? Or is this proposal not "a government" in your eyes. > Then go up from there with committees filled with delegates from the local-dem
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by nebabyte 9y ago
It's not possible. There will always be organization and hierarchy, whether or not it's under an egalitarian effort (gov't) or a libertarian one ("my gang has more guns than yours, give us money/food/your lan
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Decentralization just leads to non-agreed-upon authorities taking power. There will always be a monkey or monkeys with bigger or more sticks than you, and you'll always have something they can use more of. Until such a time that you ha
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> Sad part is, much of Turkey appears to agree with these actions. What? jeez, why? That's gotta be a pushback/countermovement to something. What is that majority concerned with/about, immigrant issues or something? (bad w
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> Finally i think the problem remains, that any sufficiently enough supressing regime, would force its citizens to uninstall such software. Not force to uninstall - rather regulate, requiring licensure for operation; giving people a reas
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by nebabyte 9y ago
There is never a technical solution, because technical solutions can be regulated, illegallized, require licensures, or so on. People will not mind requiring a license for "thing X" (esp. when airwaves are involved), and will not
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by nebabyte 9y ago
let's, a lot, address, control*, and a meshnet does not solve your fundamental problem [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14220269 TL;DR people will not act to maintain an "illegally unregulated" sy
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by nebabyte 9y ago
We're not a fucking monarchy. The entirety of the executive branch serves at the pleasure of the president. And he's entirely within his rights to shut programs down; that isn't censorship. Learn your definitions lest you ser
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by nebabyte 9y ago
That's hilarious. I suppose the lack of .ru trips them up

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