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by rmc 8y ago
Another idea: A co-op company where the owners are the people who recieve money. This is the "platform co-op" idea.
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by rmc 8y ago
Defamation law exists for a reason. Or harassment law.
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by rmc 8y ago
Or use copyright licences which the big tech companies are scared of. Affero GPL or some of the more radical "copyfarleft" licences.
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by rmc 8y ago
"The market is the solution". Er nope.
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by rmc 8y ago
> Whether we like it or not, tracking data used for ads is the currency of the free internet. It is how things are paid for. You're right, it's the currency now . It would be great if it wasn't. If there was some way to
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by rmc 8y ago
There's been laws about that sort of thing for decades . A business can no longer refuse to serve black people. So we, as a society, are using that logic.
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by rmc 8y ago
There are many legal reasons for processing personal data. Consent is one, and that's what all this is about. "Legitimate reasons" is another. You can process personal data (use cookies) under that reason, and you don't
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by rmc 8y ago
> Is this really what we want? To continue chucking up cookie warnings to everyone and somehow expecting them to make an informed decision about the risks they present? 99% of people are going to click through them anyway (note: this is
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by rmc 8y ago
> Hell, they literally use (not just copy) OpenStreetMaps, yet you won't see that in the App Store description, just a mention in their website's FAQ OSM wants people to use the data! That's why we're making the dat
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by rmc 8y ago
Most of the "disagreement" is from Mapbox.
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Before Bing, Yahoo allowed OSM to trace.
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by rmc 8y ago
It walks like a union, talks like a union, and quacks like a union. It's the same idea. Workers doing things collectively.
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by rmc 8y ago
One easy answers: We're suckers.
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by rmc 8y ago
> I have heard that openstreetmap in Europe has flawless coverage but in America its fairly bad. It's not quite that simple. OSM in Germany is very good, but Google Maps is still popular. OSM in many other European countries is pr
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by rmc 8y ago
But the optics aren't good
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by rmc 8y ago
Apple does pay people to make edits to OSM: https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/
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by rmc 8y ago
Brexit was sold as "Take back control of our borders" and "Limit Immigration". You're telling me the UK doesn't want border checks ?!?
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by rmc 8y ago
The Good Friday Agreement, an international treaty between the UK & Ireland makes NI a slightly special place anyway. People born there can choose Irish or British citizenship. "Treating NI special" is part of the UK's tr
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by rmc 8y ago
> If you can get a brexit deal passed that still allows the UK to 'brexit' in name only, but otherwise retains all of the actual agreements of being in the EU it could be a win-win. People get to pretend they left, but it does
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by rmc 8y ago
The Brexit promise was that there would be no downsides, that there would still be frictionless trade with the EU (which so much of the UK economy relies on), that nonUK EU citizens in the UK would have to leave, but UK citizens in the EU27
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by rmc 8y ago
Because the EU has a lot more to offer than the UK alone.
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by rmc 8y ago
In a way they did just that. David Cameron negotated some changes to EU law (minor tweaks), and said to the British people: "I went to the EU and got these changes, shall we stay in or leave?"
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OSM data is constantly changing, being improved and expanded.
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by rmc 8y ago
CEO of Mapbox said at State of the Map US 2018 that they are continuously collecting lots of location data (which they use to improve the map). They do not believe this amounts to the collection of personal data.
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by rmc 8y ago
But even if it's a fork, then I know it's not the same thing. It could be very similar, but I expect some differences.
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by rmc 8y ago
> You have to read all of that pretty carefully to understand that it's NOT MongoDB I disagree. If I see "Blah-compatible" I know it's not blah.
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by rmc 8y ago
Microsoft have been very helpful to OpenStreetMap. Since 2010 they allow the OSM community to trace from the Bing aerial imagery to add things to OSM. Roads, buildings, everything you can see with the aerial imagery. It's fantastica
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by rmc 8y ago
37signals sold 0.000000001% of the company in exchange for $1. They put out a press release that they were now valued at $100 billion. https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...
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by rmc 8y ago
Y'know I wonder if there was some legal way to guarantee this promise? ToS's are often "we can change whenever we want, we make no promises".
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Remember SourceForge?

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