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by newbie789 5y ago
1. Who are the folks behind this? 2. How is this funded? 3. The You.com domain must have been an incredibly expensive purchase. The folks that wrote the check for that were cool with never selling user data at any point down the road? 3a. D
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by newbie789 5y ago
It’s a real bummer that you couldn’t answer my question.
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by newbie789 5y ago
> Is someone better off making $12 an hour or $0 an hour? I like how this gun-to-your-head reasoning only applies to workers and not companies. Are businesses better off staying closed indefinitely to avoid paying more than $12/hr?
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by newbie789 5y ago
Wait, if I as an individual were to say “I want higher wages and better working conditions” what I’m actually saying is “I’m engaging in a concerted conspiracy to drive down wages because uh, I love corporate profits so much“? What sort
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by newbie789 5y ago
> Workers are not socialized labor systems for private business profits. I love this phrasing and agree 100%. There are a lot of people in the comments to this story making convoluted partial analogies trying to argue against your point
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That was Wayfair IIRC
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by newbie789 5y ago
This is so odd to me. There seems to be some sort of obsession with making sure everybody knows that programmers “Aren’t Normal People.” It’s just a job, doing it well doesn’t make you some Superhuman Logic Machine. I’d love to see a post l
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by newbie789 5y ago
I’m surprised that an 11 story building would be considered in that area. There are very, very few tall buildings in Santa Barbara. Then again, “rich old people doing outlandishly ridiculous bullshit” is pretty much what that town is all ab
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by newbie789 5y ago
That part of the Twitter thread actually made me laugh out loud. In the middle of talking about how modern finance is messed up he has a kind of unprompted little aside about how “taxes are bad!!!” Dear lord the amount of smug “wE aRe ThE m
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by newbie789 5y ago
What the actual fuck are you talking about? Police unions (who entirely derive their power from their memberships) will decide that they want less power?
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by newbie789 5y ago
> …My opinion is that the police as an institution needs technology to keep up with the world, especially if we want a smaller police force with better training, higher qualifications and accountability… Do you think that that’s the goal
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by newbie789 5y ago
The point of contention is indeed how Amazon interacts with local police. I am pointing out that one second-hand example of one police force and their access to one technology does not necessarily describe an entire surveillance apparatus
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by newbie789 5y ago
So your wife has access to [Amazon surveillance product x], therefore the existence of [trivially producible Amazon surveillance product y] can’t be possible. Is your wife the head of the police intelligence unit of The World?
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by newbie789 5y ago
Cool, I wasn’t aware that Amazon and regional police were the same organization. I was under the impression that a multibillion dollar corporation could keep secrets from a an HN poster’s wife, but I guess your point that she’s some sort of
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by newbie789 5y ago
> Disclaimer3: The police only get ring videos that are forwarded to them from ring users, they have no generic access to ring data. The victims of crime tend to forward videos of the criminals in hopes the police can catch them. That’s
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by newbie789 5y ago
I only smoke weed in my own home, as do most of my (adult) friends. Are stoners blowing weed smoke into your windows?
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by newbie789 5y ago
Is “not wanting to work with surveillance” an example of a political opinion from the left, or from the right? It kinda just seems like a personal preference.
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by newbie789 5y ago
I think there may be a slight causal disconnect between “guy tweets” and “stuff gets fixed.” I’d bet stuff got fixed after lots of stakeholders complained!
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by newbie789 5y ago
>Better dead than enslaved. and >I advocate for nothing… are incompatible statements. Either you are stating that you would prefer that people (other than yourself) die rather than being “enslaved” (having an employer exercise at-will
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by newbie789 5y ago
> But for the record, I am willing to suffer whatever consequences are necessary in order that the aggressive violation of individual bodily integrity and autonomy of peaceful people is unacceptable, up to and including the immediate des
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by newbie789 5y ago
> Not wanting to take medication is not the same as actively wanting to inflict misery on other parties Did you see the part where I was talking about gloating about the harm they’re planning on causing? It includes (as the majority of f
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by newbie789 5y ago
>All you’re doing here is restating your argument without actually understanding my criticism of it. My criticism of your argument is that it’s silly to decide that nobody in town can leave their houses during the winter because you don’
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by newbie789 5y ago
I didn’t mention anything about gene therapy or whatever other bananas theory that can be inserted into literally any conversation nowadays. What I did bring up is the fact that people are willing to deny themselves, their families and ne
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by newbie789 5y ago
>…He has come to believe there is only one weapon that can defeat our extreme political polarization: love. Oh my, what a silly way to pitch a possible reader on your book. There is a (VERY conservative) town in my state where every sing
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by newbie789 5y ago
The castaways wouldn’t have been rescued if it weren’t for Gilligan’s goofy exploits in Rescue From Gilligan’s Island. It would be suboptimal to kill him.
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by newbie789 5y ago
“Everything will be radically different in 500 years to an extent that might strain our imaginations” seems about right. I’d go so far as to wager that if you time traveled back to 1521 and brought somebody to the present, they’d find it to
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by newbie789 5y ago
This seems like a bit of a departure from one of the authors’ papers from 2017(1). I wonder what the big differences are that somehow the US is immune to disenfranchisement but France isn’t. 1. https://scholar.google.com/sch
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by newbie789 5y ago
> I have nothing personal to gain by this lawsuit and a lot to lose professionally… >Many of you have asked how you can support me and my efforts to challenge coercive mandates. My first answer is to consider becoming a paid subscrib
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> I sometimes get the feeling that people are actually envious, sometimes even respectful of the ingenuity it takes to manufacture these schemes. I think this is an accurate assessment (at least for the US). One of the only logical reaso
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by newbie789 5y ago
> It's not decision-makers looking for a policy recommendation. It's investors who want to know what will happen to their investments. Ohhh. Your position is that the intended audience is your everyday Joe looking out for their

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