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by nextstep 4y ago
I saw that too. What’s the justification for such a carve out?
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by nextstep 4y ago
Can you explain how this is a spy tool and how Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, etc. are not? I haven't really used TikTok. How does it collect data beyond the videos I've watched?
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by nextstep 4y ago
The US has a massive budget for regime change, both overt and covert, and has for almost 7 decades. And we wonder why right wing politics seems to be flourishing?
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by nextstep 4y ago
It’s incredible how deeply war culture propaganda permeates American society
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by nextstep 4y ago
This is a low cost to pay if someday we can live in a world where there are American/EU chain stores on every corner of Kyiv.
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by nextstep 4y ago
Is there a similar tool for Sony smart TVs running Android TV? That OS has become so awful, plenty of ads you can’t disable and just generally unpolished in the unique Android way.
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by nextstep 4y ago
this is something that people only on HN would write/believe. Missed the boat on what? Giving away free images from a prompt? This is all early days and these demos are neat but the real value is yet to be seen. Maybe when this tech
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by nextstep 4y ago
It makes you create an account mid conversation? That’s a dark pattern.
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by nextstep 4y ago
More like how to get your kids to resent you
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by nextstep 4y ago
Switzerland is not a member of the EU
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by nextstep 4y ago
“If the country is forced to ration gas, it could do…” How is this news? This will likely never become law.
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by nextstep 4y ago
Braindead comments which add nothing to the discussion are allowed if they are bland, pro-monarchy messages. Anything critical of the queen will need to be carefully supported or it will be flagged.
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by nextstep 4y ago
Because in a capitalist society, democracy is a means of settling disputes among the ruling classes. The system favors the wealthy because the wealthy control the system.
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by nextstep 4y ago
So was giving millions away to wealthy people as forgiven PPP loans.
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by nextstep 4y ago
What’s wrong with Safari privacy-wise?
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by nextstep 4y ago
This is a great example of why neoliberalism is a scam. This is also true when a city or country begins to “privatize” it’s parks and fire department and water infrastructure, etc.
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by nextstep 4y ago
The real issue here is that VPNs for security purposes has always been a hack or misuse of virtual private networks. The real intended use case for VPNs is right there in the name: extending a private network remotely. Persistent connecti
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by nextstep 4y ago
Because the EU respects the One China policy (like virtually every UN member) and because the EU does not have hundreds of military bases surrounding China.
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by nextstep 4y ago
The war on drugs is not winnable, but the cartels can be defeated by legalizing all drugs.
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by nextstep 4y ago
How many of these were targeted by Pegasus?
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by nextstep 4y ago
It’s hard to monetize walking, so unfortunately pedestrians have undersized representation in the political process.
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by nextstep 4y ago
“An outsider”? Trump is a billionaire who has been directly involved in politics for decades.
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by nextstep 4y ago
Marx saw this problem 100 years ago. Democracy under capitalism is just a mechanism for settling disputes among the ruling class.
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by nextstep 4y ago
That coordinated effort is not some big mystery; the exchanges that operate in major jurisdictions cannot offer Monero due to AML/KYC compliance rules. Monero is only available on the exchanges operating on the fringes of the banking n
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by nextstep 4y ago
This is cheap compared to a lot of what the US government spends money on, and it won’t kill anybody! So really quite a non-issue.
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by nextstep 4y ago
How did Twitter avoid this same fate? Twitter has an iOS app (sort of their main interface nowadays) and they have tons of adult content. Is Twitter powerful enough to stand up to Apple and Tumblr was not?
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by nextstep 4y ago
Many people pointing out the impracticality of this because of the pound and the border issue if there were an independent Scotland. This would be a logistical nightmare, but the EU would likely welcome Scotland back into the union and sup
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by nextstep 4y ago
This is the funniest comment in this whole thread. Many of the ideas of UKIP and the others have been adopted by the Tories! And the main opposition party (Labour) has been taken over by centre-right neoliberals. The left had a tiny bit o
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by nextstep 4y ago
Well, their business model will continue to work in all the other countries they operate in where they can avoid paying drivers a living wage.
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by nextstep 4y ago
Google should stop building a massive surveillance apparatus for the entire world, but this would hurt their ad business, plus any other monetizeable ways they can shape public opinion. And those changes would certainly enrage their shareh

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