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by plandis 6y ago
I see it the same as robbing billionaire and giving half the proceeds to poor people. Just because you’ve done some good doesn’t absolve you of wrongdoing. If we look at the Wikileaks case, Assange decided to release tens of thousands of do
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by plandis 6y ago
Saying “hello” with no immediate follow up is just as useless as saying “I have a problem” without context. It provides no useful/actionable information and just shows how little the person saying hello values your time because it forc
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by plandis 6y ago
Assange is charged with helping Manning with decrypting stolen files and offering advice on how to best cover her tracks among other things according to the DOJ indictment. Why are you so convinced of his innocence? Do you have information
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by plandis 6y ago
Disagree with solely the CEO but in general Boeing’s leadership seems to be somewhat disconnected from their actual product. Just take a look at Boeing’s HQ in relation to where they actually make things. Boeing’s c-suite is now in Chicago
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by plandis 6y ago
If your intention is to hinder foreign competition, then yes. If it ends up doing that then I’d expect the US to take it to the WTO.
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by plandis 6y ago
> Furthermore, the law specifies that local officials can send cross-border orders to make tech firms remove content or provide access to information, wherever their EU headquarter is based. That just sounds like the opposite of privacy
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by plandis 6y ago
I feel bad for the people that will inevitably need to cancel their time off work in one of the worst years on record to be able to meet this 45 day deadline.
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by plandis 6y ago
I'm kind of confused by this. When Facebook acquired WhatsApp didn't it have to get government approval? For example here [1] is an article from Reuters. It seems like "corporate entrapment" to approve a deal and then la
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by plandis 6y ago
I am always curious how data are compared between countries which will pretty much always have different reporting standards. For example, how does one doctor in Germany attribute a death to smoking vs. a doctor in the US? The reason why I
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by plandis 6y ago
What school did you go to? Was it private? We only covered this at my public school (in Ohio) in AP US History class, meaning that the vast majority of students were never exposed to either set or arguments
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by plandis 6y ago
Last time I checked it was either Harvard or Yale that admitted about 30% of legacy students but only single digit percentages for regular people — so to some extent you are right.
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by plandis 6y ago
> Dealing with Apple is like living under an authoritarian regime. We don't have any choice but to deal with them because of the power they wield. I’m not sure I’m following. You are being forced to develop for Apple devices against
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by plandis 6y ago
> No developer should be required to use an app store exclusively, or to use ancillary services of the app store owner, including payment systems, or to accept other supplementary obligations in order to have access to the app store. App
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by plandis 6y ago
You don’t think it’s valid to critique the bad actions that the App Store generally protects (non tech savvy) consumers from?
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by plandis 6y ago
Apple doesn’t even have 50% of the smartphone market. It sounds like you’re an App developer so perhaps it would be more honest to just explicitly state that you want to make more money rather than claim youre on the verge of tears?
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by plandis 6y ago
Apple doesn’t even have 50% of the smartphone market. It sounds like you’re an App developer so perhaps it would be more honest to just explicitly state that you want to make more money rather than claim your on the verge of tears?
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by plandis 6y ago
Assange is alleged to have sought classified material from the US, and for aiding and abetting Manning in obtaining classified material. This would be like is Australia asked the UK to extradite someone who recruited Australians to rob a ba
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by plandis 6y ago
> Not sending mail? Is sending physical mail / calling someone on the phone impossible in China?
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by plandis 6y ago
> In a democracy, people are responsible for their governments. Last time I checked I don’t get to vote for policies directly. Last time I checked I didn’t get to vote for every representative position and in some cases people won those
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by plandis 6y ago
Amazon doesn’t own the Washington Post.
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by plandis 6y ago
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-usa-embassy/iranians... Just do a google search there are many many instances.
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by plandis 6y ago
There are government organized protests literally chanting for the deaths of Americans. Here is one such instance from the recent past: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-usa-embassy/iranians...
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by plandis 6y ago
> First, not all Iranian people are chanting your death. Yeah I have no problem with your average Iranian. But the Iranian government routinely organizes protests where people are literally calling for the death of Americans. Sanctions
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by plandis 6y ago
We will have to agree to disagree. I’m American and all I’ve ever seen from Iran is people chanting for my death and the death of the people I love. I was born in the 90s and had no bearing on foreign policy. If sanctions prevents Iran from
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by plandis 6y ago
These types of warnings are pretty routine from the state department aren’t they? The warning level for NZ (“exercise caution”) is lower than most of Europe where the guidance is (“reconsider travel”) It seems reasonable for the US to warn
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by plandis 6y ago
China has been doing moves like this for a long time so I don’t know how the US is the first aggressor here. Several US tech companies have been banned in China for a while at this point.
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by plandis 6y ago
The government dictating how businesses are allowed to interact with its citizens is a statement that equally applies to both the US banning TikTok and GDPR.
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by plandis 6y ago
This just seems protectionist to me. I imagine anything the US is doing is being done by spy/sigint agencies within the EU
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by plandis 6y ago
Why live in the US if you dislike it so much? Why are you willing to live in a “dumpster fire”?
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by plandis 6y ago
How has the US mistreated him? He’s not even in US custody and the charges are public information. He he’s done what he’s accused of I think he deserves to be in jail.

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