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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
Bill Gates also doesn't support the Green New Deal or government involvement (god forbid his taxes go up) in mitigating climate change. His public prayers for a technocratic solution to climate change are ridiculous and embarrassing fo
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
is there evidence that soldiers follow their rules of engagement?
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
It's 15 months, not years.
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
The only part of your argument that's relevant is the part about selling personal information for profit. The rest is immaterial to the problem with unregulated industry, and in fact incorrect when it comes to the end-result of things
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
Nothing more than a cynical play by Microsoft to get a seat at the table for the inevitable avalanche of regulation coming.
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
> too busy counting their money. Or lack of money. The current economy, even for those in the professional class (given the absurd costs of living in tech cities), is designed to maximize precarity and force people into such a hustle men
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
I mean, regulation was introduced due to the Three Mile Island meltdown. Acting like it's irrational to regulate an industry that has proven itself unable to self-regulate is entirely dogmatic, especially given the disastrous consequen
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
Meanwhile, incidence rates of thyroid cancer continue to rise.
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
The point of every Vox article is to justify the existence of Matthew Yglesias-style centrist neoliberal wonks. "All problems are too complicated for the average American to understand! The answer is always somewhere in the middle! Go
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
I'm guessing it's the VW part people are against since they cheat on their emissions tests.
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
Deregulation of nuclear cannot and will not ever happen.
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
If it's really the case that the only way to make nuclear viable is to deregulate the industry , then Bernie is absolutely right that we need to end reliance on nuclear power.
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
Twitter is all about broadcasting people's unfiltered thoughts.
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
From my perspective, HyperCard lives on in 2 distinct branches: webapps and PowerPoint.
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
This was my gut reaction, but on further thought, this whole thing seems so needlessly petty that it could have easily been the author attempting to make the other person look bad.
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
Remember this the next time a photographer cries about "theft" of their intellectual property on social media.
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
That's nice and all, but the reality is that these multinational companies actively and willingly accept these terms (and more!) in order to exploit Chinese labor. The rhetoric about IP and censorship is all bark, no bite because the p
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
I have a friend who has done the "just get the cheapest thing" for the past few years. Unfortunately, the cheapest has been Rachel Ray Nutrish in the clearance bin, which is on the list.
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
Proprietary messengers are never secure.
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
Not sure if this is the same issue, but apparently the cheaper insulin syringes are thicker and cause more pain and bruising. From my understanding, these are shots that need to be administered several times a day in perpetuity. The savvy c
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
This is how I see it, too. Colleges at this point are just siphoning money out of the federal government by jacking up tuition by rates several times the rate of inflation every year, and it doesn't take much effort to realize that the
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
The thing is, given a large enough voting bloc, you can vote out everyone that disagrees with you and pass sweeping legislation without needing to compromise. The goal is to force every legislator in Congress to pick a side for the sake of
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
If we're getting into company-specific bans, I'd much rather be using the one that banned Palantir than one that bans FAANG, and the one that banned Palantir resulted in a massive backlash.
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
The author is suggesting to curb source-available licenses by modifying open source licences to become... source-available licenses.
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
Every content site implements AMP for fear of losing Google traffic, not because customers wanted or demanded it.
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
Not sure what to make of this. All of the points the author makes are obvious; of course a project originated at Google would have a majority-Google membership. Of course anyone is free to fork Go. Of course the code can be considered
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
Many mortgage backing companies still routinely deny loans to black people because their models inversely correlate black homeowners to lower surrounding property values. When a mortgage backer also backs the loans of those same surrounding
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
It's not as simple as "just make sure it works on everyone". Even if it were physically possible to capture the face of all 7 billion people on Earth, you'd start running into issues of false positives/negatives, ov
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
> Prohibition doesn't work You're appropriating sociological behaviors of the individual to maxims at the corporate level, which is ridiculous. Corporations need to be regulated, not coddled in some kind of convoluted, scaled-u
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by rmrfrmrf 7y ago
I didn't even know until about a month ago that the USPS is one of the only constitutionally-mandated federal institutions (in school, we focused a lot on the Bill of Rights, not so much on the articles themselves).

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