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by rumanator 6y ago
> I don’t think there is as quite widespread consensus that all federal crimes are legitimately crime as you seem to think. Your comment makes no sense at all. For something to be a crime it has to be explicitly defined in law. Consensus
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by rumanator 6y ago
> At least you'd have due process and couldn't be deplatformed for legal activity. Now you have neither. I don't understand your train of thought. I mean, you are arguing for a monopoly controlling a centralized service ju
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by rumanator 6y ago
> Do we, though? Why, yes? Isn't it blatantly obvious? What exactly leads you to believe we don't? > I don't know whether the answer is distributed blockchains, or the Department of the Treasury creating an API for USD,
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by rumanator 6y ago
All of them? Unless you confuse capitalism with an extremist Ann Rayndian neoliberal framework, and in that sense you can pretty much look at countries such as the Netherlands.
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by rumanator 6y ago
> With sex being such a huge part of our lives, why aren't we bending out backs to _help_ the sex industry thrive, instead of defending corrupt oligopolies? Because the "sex industry" is a bunch of corrupt oligopolies?! I
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by rumanator 6y ago
> you then realize his fortune is more a symbolic attribute than This isn't much if an epiphany. These net worth values are just loose estimates of hypothetical values obtained by blindly summing coarse appraisals given the current
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by rumanator 6y ago
You got it entirely backwards: software support document formats, not the other way around. And no, Kindle Paperwhite is not Amazon's flagship e-reader. The first gen Paperwhite was released way back in 2012. I don't expect any co
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by rumanator 6y ago
Yawn. Clickbaity drama. So Kindle Direct Publishing supports formats that are supported by all kindle readers except some old hardware e-reader devices that don't support some capabilities. And those formats are supported as one of man
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by rumanator 6y ago
Paywalled.
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by rumanator 6y ago
> Real socialism is dangerous and people are scared of it for a reason. Let's be honest: the only reason people in the US are scared of "socialism" is the fact that they've been immersed inanti-socialism propaganda th
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by rumanator 6y ago
> Slums are usually the result of government restricting or failing to build enough housing (of the right kind) which forces people to build their own permanent housing without any permits at all. Your conspiracy theory makes no sense at
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by rumanator 6y ago
> where 90k people live in the streets of LA False dichotomy, and a gross misrepresentation of the problem. Homelessness is not caused by low purchasing power, and there are also other factors at play such as mental health issues. You do
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by rumanator 6y ago
> Zoning keeps supply scarce. Not really. Zoning specifies density limits but demand depends of far more factors. If you replace a mansion with a low density housing project, the reason the price will go down is not due to an increase in
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by rumanator 6y ago
> Those are real, but minor issues. Increased density also brings good externalities, like more services, retail etc. Not necessarily. Just because you add a residential tower that doesn't mean you'll get a grocery store in its
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by rumanator 6y ago
You're literally commenting in a thread where people are complaining against building regulation that stops people from building extra houses in their backyard as they please. Worse than that, you're intentionally ignoring half t
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by rumanator 6y ago
Not really. The guy selling you apples is just selling you apples, but the guy trying to sell you a bridge might just be abusing your naiveness.
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by rumanator 6y ago
> A proper transit network and walkable design ensures that this doesn't become a problem. How do you expect to put together a working transit network, which is very sensitive to urban planning, if you are also argue in favour of ig
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by rumanator 6y ago
> We need blanket legislation outlawing the notion that by virtue of purchasing a plot of land one is also purchasing control over everything visible from said plot at the time of purchase. We already have that, in the form of urban plan
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by rumanator 6y ago
> This is IMO the big thing here. Cities used to allow this kind of construction. And cities were awful due to that, I'm afraid. > Our auto-friendly culture and the desire of landowners to keep poor people off their block has led
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by rumanator 6y ago
> Star forts in europe are purely decorative, Your assertion is simply wrong. "Star forts" is what you get when you optimize a defensive structure where you want to maximize line of sight from loop holes, minimize blind spots,
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by rumanator 6y ago
> It's all up in the air; some claim there is, others the opposite. And there's no way to prove anything. The fact that those pushing the idea that there is something also depend exclusively on your believing the idea to make a
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by rumanator 6y ago
> Was anyone doing any of that prior to gutenbergs bet on the printing press.. That comment is disingenuous and outright deceitful. Guttemberg wasn't selling ebooks that downloaded books from an online store. My question was who els
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by rumanator 6y ago
You're the only one fabricating accusations about "analysing" in a discussion about how Kindles send data with whispersync, a system widely known to be used to sync data across devices. More importantly, the only usecase ment
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by rumanator 6y ago
> Every video in marricks's post started after things started happening; If you really believe that pulling the "they did it first" card helps your case in any way, I'm sorry to break it to you but people only started
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by rumanator 6y ago
> I feel strongly that Amazon can sell kindles and we're ok, and amazon can sell content and we're ok but having amazon able to sell both kindle and content, and direct IPR outcomes across the platform and the content, is actua
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by rumanator 6y ago
Speakingof dumbing down, why didn't you addressed any of the points made in the post you're replying to,and instead chose to go on a non-sequitur?
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by rumanator 6y ago
So the best reply you could come up with was to assert that those videos are lies with weasel words without addressing facts or providing any substance or counterpoint? Burying your head in the sand does not count as honest discourse or obj
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by rumanator 6y ago
What do you believe syncing means? This discussion talks about whispersync reporting last page read and most recent page read events. What do you think that's supposed to do?
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by rumanator 6y ago
> Most of the world-famous libre software is built without their developers study of massively collected usage data ("telemetry"). The sort of telemetry mentioned in the article is used for UX purposes, and God knows FLOSS suck
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by rumanator 6y ago
> If so, why don't they loudly advertise the data collection and do it only with opt-in? But they do. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yg70ojfWXnk

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