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by rbecker 6y ago
Uber probably saw the backlash to Coinbase trying to remain politically neutral, and decided they had to do this to avoid being seen as unethical. Since there's no such thing as politically neutral.
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by rbecker 6y ago
I get the impression that the semiconductor industry is slowly disappearing from the US, and even from the West as a whole. It'll be a lot harder to regain that expertise than it is to lose it.
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Barbary Wars(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by rbecker 6y ago|0 comments
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San Diego Unified School District Changes Grading System to ‘Combat Racism'(nbcsandiego.com)
3 points by rbecker 6y ago|0 comments
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by rbecker 6y ago
> All of the mainstream "left-wing" publications are more centrist and neoliberal than anything. Depends on the topic. Ask them about mass immigration, and they'll be falling over each-other to tell you how great it is, wh
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Sony will let PS5 owners record their voice chats and snitch on fellow players(theverge.com)
33 points by rbecker 6y ago|10 comments
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SPLC: Equity Through Accuracy: Changes to Our Hate Map(splcenter.org)
5 points by rbecker 6y ago|0 comments
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by rbecker 6y ago
The article doesn't claim that what Facebook and Twitter did was illegal . You're conflating whether they had the legal right to censor, with if they should have used it.
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by rbecker 6y ago
Net neutrality means it's not fine for the ISP to do the filtering - that's all it does. It says nothing on whether it's fine if Facebook or Twitter do it.
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by rbecker 6y ago
Top 10 lists can be misleading. If there are fewer popular right-leaning news sources, then all the right-leaning audience will be concentrated there, pushing them into the top 10, while the left's audience is diluted. Like splitting t
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by rbecker 6y ago
> a customer fell for a common scam No, the bank fell for the scam. They cleared the fraudulent check. But their TOS says their customers are on the hook for mistakes made (and hidden - there's no way to tell if a transaction r
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by rbecker 6y ago
That's a good idea, but not nearly enough. I haven't bought a single smart TV, but despite this, non-smart options have nearly disappeared from the consumer market. The only way to win this battle is through collective action in t
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by rbecker 6y ago
> If you don't buy products with these conditions you never once face these problems. Until they're the only kind of products left. See smart TVs.
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by rbecker 6y ago
> I happen to absolutely love copyrights, I just don’t believe in taking the rights of the authors too far. Not to the point of screwing the consumer over. And I say this not just as a consumer, but as a producer of copyrighted material
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by rbecker 6y ago
The sibling comment pointed out how that Monsanto lawsuit is mischaracterized. But focusing on that lawsuit misses the bigger point - they don't need to sue when they can drive farmers that don't buy from them to bankruptcy becaus
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Group working behind the scenes to change the stories you see on TV(edition.cnn.com)
1 points by rbecker 6y ago|0 comments
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by rbecker 6y ago
Lest anyone think seed patents are simply a fact of life, there are (or were) countries where they were not valid. For example Iraq, until the US occupying force issued its 100 orders, among them order 81, which prohibits the planting and s
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by rbecker 6y ago
Sounds interesting - I'd love a source on it.
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Princeton will drop Woodrow Wilson and rename school after Black finance expert(nydailynews.com)
1 points by rbecker 6y ago|1 comments
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by rbecker 6y ago
I'm sure they've learned their lesson, and next time it won't be a ban, but a difficult-to-prove reduction in visibility.
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by rbecker 6y ago
And if you shop at a grocery store, your money goes to pay their expenses. One of those expenses if stocking Coca-Cola. See how easy it is to make it seem like you contribute to something if you join all capital flows into one big pool? Y
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by rbecker 6y ago
> If I buy a Coke at my grocery store, Coke's getting some of that money. If I buy a Pepsi, Coke gets none of that. And if you subscribe to Spotify but don't listen to Rogan, Rogan also gets none of that. If you believe other
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Google Employees Are Free to Speak Up. Except on Antitrust(nytimes.com)
4 points by rbecker 6y ago|0 comments
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by rbecker 6y ago
Could it be about https://nypost.com/2018/03/15/inside-the-shady-private-equit... ?
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by rbecker 6y ago
> You can't subscribe to Spotify without part of that money going to Rogan. Can't you? Rogan's compensation isn't based on Spotify's total profits, and if you don't listen to him, you won't be contribut
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by rbecker 6y ago
What if they were promoting a company that funds misleading nutrition research to fool people into thinking sugar is less harmful, leading to countless early deaths and diabetes? What about a company that's the largest plastic polluter
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by rbecker 6y ago
Disable Javascript to bypass the paywall.
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David Starkey investigated by police for interview 'stirring up racial hatred'(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by rbecker 6y ago|1 comments
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Rosenstock wrote [..], adding that no material from Apple products ever makes it to a landfill after being recycled. > Rosenstock won’t say how much of a recycled iPhone gets reused. Well which is it? Does 100% get re-used, or does
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by rbecker 6y ago
Revealing the hidden workings of gigantic corporations benefits the public, regardless of the leaker's moral failings.

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