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by p49k 7y ago
In some places/situations, it is impossible to function in society due to how ubiquitous WhatsApp is. Not using it is not an option. Solution here IMO has to be regulation and/or breaking up companies like Facebook, who would care
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by p49k 7y ago
It’s for listening to clips of old music, not email or banking. It’s literally replicating data that is otherwise being publicly broadcast through the air unencrypted.
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by p49k 7y ago
We’re not talking about copyright, though - we’re taking about privacy rights, and - even if we discard compelling fair use arguments - everyone who uses Facebook gives them a license to distribute the photos they upload to the site to oth
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by p49k 7y ago
I don’t know if you’ve used Facebook for a long time, but no matter how many times you’ve gone and managed Facebook settings, if you come back a year later you’ll find that you’ve been opted into all kinds of new garbage, you’ll find that
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by p49k 7y ago
It’s the law. Technically only required when the cumulative amount of donations reaches $200, but impractical not to collect it for every donation as the org may get in a situation where they realized they collected that much from one perso
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by p49k 7y ago
Our policies should be driven by the desire to improve society, and we should not be afraid to trial/measure policy ideas that might go against our intuition to accomplish this goal. Policy based on emotions, extreme anger, etc. genera
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by p49k 7y ago
You should read “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts” - might change your perspective. It would be far more beneficial for society to learn and understand how addiction and the brain work and develop policies around that - more penalties are not
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by p49k 7y ago
You’re ignoring that a small minority of people can effectively repress the majority. The majority of Persians have been resisting as best they can for decades. You’re right that it’s not just the government (every repressive regime has som
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by p49k 7y ago
There is a “hide” button made specifically for your situation.
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by p49k 7y ago
Apple is not like Tesla; iPhones are often touted as a “luxury brand” but the truth is that they offer products of quality that are roughly in proportion to their pricing, and their high margins are due to better/more efficient operati
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by p49k 7y ago
It has one of the best privacy policies I’ve ever read. “ Everything Lockdown Firewall does stays on your phone, so no data is transmitted to any of our servers. This can be confirmed by checking the source code, which is 100% open and publ
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by p49k 7y ago
And that one was quickly hidden on page 4 or 5 despite older articles with far fewer votes being placed before it. Why? It was the #1 story on page one, mentioned it to a colleague a few minutes later and he couldn’t even find it.
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by p49k 7y ago
The Denmark/Germany land border check has been there for around 5 years and is still operating.
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by p49k 7y ago
To be fair, some of these borders are de facto permanently closed and the listed end dates listed are bullshit. Some have been maintained for nearly 5 years, with a new “temporary” 6-month closure being announced immediately after the last
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by p49k 7y ago
Having lived in the EU for a while now, random passport check roadblocks can appear at any border and can occur within a country’s border (including on a local bus, train, etc) - it happens in most Schengen countries and Germany’s random ch
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by p49k 7y ago
Should be noted that one stated advantage of 5G over 4G is latency, which is certainly a component of determining what is “faster.”
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by p49k 7y ago
A distinction that almost no end user would realistically be expected to know and which Google doesn’t bother to inform users about in clear terms in the UI.
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by p49k 7y ago
Not everyone goes out and buys a brand new reusable bag to replace plastic. Many people already had them lying around. Many people use their backpacks. Many people just carry things in their hands in situations where they would have otherwi
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by p49k 7y ago
That’s beside the point of my post, which was to counter the claim that essentially stated, “you are only opted in to credit bureau tracking because you made the choice to take advantage of a product that is not essential in life”
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by p49k 7y ago
I’m sorry, but it’s pretty absurd to boldly claim that credit scores are provably objective with regard to race, etc. I’d recommend reading _The Big Test_ for another history of a supposedly objective measurement of merit (the SAT) which tu
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by p49k 7y ago
For me, the alternative is to use something that already exists in my house (my backpack, a bag that was already given to me, etc) rather than consuming multiple plastic bags on every trip. Not everyone is going out and buying cotton bags t
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by p49k 7y ago
Credit checks are often required in job applications and almost always when renting a home; it’s not like you can opt out of those.
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by p49k 7y ago
Gizmodo posts the headline on their front page, "You Might Want to Uninstall VLC. Immediately" Following the debunking of the story, what does Gizmodo do? Leave it on the front page and change the headline to "You Might Want
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by p49k 7y ago
Renouncing your citizenship involves first settling any tax obligations, so that would get you nowhere.
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by p49k 7y ago
You’re arguing in circles. Maybe you would care, but the point OP is making is that the people who are engaging in the transactions that cause it to be pegged at $1 don’t care if Tether is lying because it doesn’t affect their use case in a
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by p49k 7y ago
That's what's great about GDPR. It makes privacy a fundamental right that can't be bargained away, much like you can't sign a contract binding you to slavery and you can't accept a bonus from your employer in exchan
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by p49k 7y ago
Why would that not already be factored into the current price, especially given how established Bitcoin is by now?
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by p49k 7y ago
It’s slightly better to load the (often wrong) blogspam answers into a box than to link to the blogspam, although in doing so, it gives the wrong answer more authority. It’s much better to actually spend resources to filter blogspam from re
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by p49k 7y ago
They are stealing the (often wrong) answers from the blogspam and putting it in their own box - how is that better? They should just filter out the blogspam - that’s ostensibly what a search engine company should be investing their time doi
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by p49k 7y ago
They aren't just doing it for simple utilities, they are literally trying to create some kind of "box" above search results for every possible query, subjective or objective. "Best movies of 2019", "What are th

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