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by nomdep 6y ago
Beign able to stop trading with them would be a previous step. I don't want an actual war, but a cold war seems to be neccesary.
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by nomdep 6y ago
Except those are also private conpanies that can and will kick you out if what you say is inconvinient in any form. And so my question.
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by nomdep 6y ago
> Anyone can spin up a website for negligible cost and put in place whatever legal content they so choose. And host it where exactly?
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by nomdep 6y ago
Some americans went insane after Trump won in 2016 and the media fed that insanity for harvesting clicks. As a reaction, the "with me or against me" mantra was increasingly strong for the last four and a half years. I hope people
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by nomdep 6y ago
Covid is not really airborne in the sense it doesn't float by itself but travels through micro droplets of saliva, which is... (dramatic pause) a bodily fluid! How on Earth, after a year, you are so ignorant about it?
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by nomdep 6y ago
The most effective thing is to eliminate close contact with anyone you don't live with, but is something all of us can't do. So reducing contact and wearing a mask IS the most effective and realistic measure. I find apalling that
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by nomdep 6y ago
At least in my country, in the week just after christmas, in several children cable channels, the ads dissapear. Instead the run "ads" for other shows in the channel. I guess that how TV without ads would look like.
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by nomdep 6y ago
You are right, although Cameron is also considered a genius by her peers multiple times.
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by nomdep 6y ago
Exactly. But in this syllabus they are the victims of the evil men.
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by nomdep 6y ago
That's how you know they really care about this: They could do anything and are choosing to do this.
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by nomdep 6y ago
At least for the Flo set of apps, yes, everything: https://mashable.com/article/flo-period-tracking-app-will-st... https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-give-apps-sensitive-persona...
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by nomdep 6y ago
Yes. AWS is so big that the common carrier laws should apply to it.
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by nomdep 6y ago
Because more blacks are poor, not (directly) because the color of their skin.
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The Platform Is the Enemy(danielbmarkham.com)
203 points by nomdep 6y ago|80 comments
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by nomdep 6y ago
Not doing it put the entire world at risk. Is their failure beign unable to depose those leaders.
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Clean Advertising(adactio.com)
3 points by nomdep 6y ago|1 comments
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by nomdep 6y ago
The media has make you believe things like that to make money from your fear and anger. Nothing will be so dramatic.
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by nomdep 6y ago
The solution is very simple, but is not technical: make advertising targeted with personal data illegal.
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by nomdep 6y ago
NO ONE is saying death threats are ok. But receiving menacing tweets from a few random accounts, specially when you can fabricate them yourself, doesn't even qualify as death threath.
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by nomdep 6y ago
Is using an example everybody agrees on to justify supression of free speech on platform that are de-facto public spaces. There is a lot of middle ground bewtween moderation in a small forum and a complete digital exile of dissenting opinio
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by nomdep 6y ago
> "Without Section 230, sites that removed sexual content could be held legally responsible for that action (...) even if they wanted to create online spaces free of sexual content." The old "think of the children!".
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by nomdep 6y ago
Agreed. But should be contained in specific subreddits/forums, in my opinion. Yes, I'm one of those people that doesn't buy the "everything is politics!" mantra
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by nomdep 6y ago
Not for him > Santa Clara County alleges that Mr Sung held back issuing concealed weapons permits to Apple's security team
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by nomdep 6y ago
1. Everyone stop tipping. 2. Greedy enployers can't use the promise of tipping as an excuse so they start to paying minimun wage. 3. Government intervenes making sure minimum wage is paid. It starts with (1).
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by nomdep 6y ago
That only works of you know you are dealing with people rariobal and with good intentions. We human tend not to be thos things when acting in large groups.
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by nomdep 6y ago
dict1 + dict2 is syntactic sugar, you had been able to do `dict1.update(dict2)` since forever.
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by nomdep 6y ago
You can say exactly the same about the new "left". Eg: "if anyone disagree in the slightest with me is attacking me and he is a nazi"
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by nomdep 6y ago
So I suppose that is also part of the culture. At companies like Basecamp or Twist, the cover letter matters way more than the CV.
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by nomdep 6y ago
Obviuosly. No one is an island. I should have said "individualistic-leaning".
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by nomdep 6y ago
Many techies are individualistic. That used to be considered left-leaning, but in the last years some people have been pushing the idea that is something from the right, instead. We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us.

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