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by shittyadmin 8y ago
> As the actual person who receives these complaints... this isn't true. Once it's explained, though, the users still stick around and get angry because they made dumb, uninformed choices as a consumer and think it's our f
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
I find those spotify generated playlists are really bad. I think they try to prefer music that's cheaper for them to play or something. Definitely not a great discovery tool for me.
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
Most music is freely available on YouTube now and there's even desktop clients that just grab the audio stream from YouTube videos. Spotify in my experience often has less content than YouTube so I'd say it's probably worth n
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
I didn't mean to suggest that no regulation was the superior option - just that the market isn't efficient because it can't be operated efficiently. The limitations on distribution of spectrum makes it an inherently inefficie
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
Governments are both creating and enforcing a monopoly here, that doesn't sound like any efficient market I've ever heard of. You wouldn't call it efficient if a government came in and decided that they're going to sell
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
To be clear, this just means that PHP has libsodium as an official language extension. Most modern languages have better package management than PHP and make pulling it in as a library trivial. This has nothing to do with homomorphic encryp
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
Sure, but it doesn't mean that the method of regulating it that's used is best - should spectrum be transfered on sale of a company? Is selling spectrum to the highest bidder the best thing for a competitive market? Perhaps larger
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
You missed step 0: Regulate RF spectrum such that setting up a new provider is almost impossible but spectrum is extremely valuable so big providers will have incentives to buy smaller ones to stop competition.
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
I hear what you're saying, but if someone's not paying for the services they're using in taxes, they're a burden being carried by other tax payers. No need to consider land or housing issues or view the whole thing as a
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
You're joking, right? Broken transit systems, barely maintained roads, large backlogs of intersections that need lights leading to safety incidents even deaths, planners that accept everything a developer or NIMBY can say... No, we don
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
Perhaps "profit" isn't the best way to put it, but "wellbeing per dollar" in some way - ultimately a measurable optimization factor of some sort needs to be decided on and used. Instead we see cities without any sor
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
See - that seems like it has some validity - that's exactly the kind of data I'm talking about - why couldn't the author have brought this kind of thing up in the original post? Instead they seemed to critique it with no data
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
Those mainly follow from attracting underemployed people - I don't think it's particularly contentious to say that a low-income person paying less in property tax means that a higher income person must pay more in tax to offer the
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
> This is not even getting to the question of the purpose of government - it is not a business trying to achieve maximum profit, so why should it be seeking to drive out low-income residents? Can I move somewhere that is run like a bus
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
This is basic price curves - make more affordable housing for the underemployed, people come to you for it or stay for it. Just like most anyone I know prefers buying the cheapest tolerable toilet paper or dropping the price on a fast food
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
It's a bit like saying that math is wrong though - logically speaking, low-income housing has costs associated with it in more ways than one, not just housing but for law enforcement, education, etc, all of which will clearly have dema
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
While I think I'm somewhat in agreement with this, this post seems to be making some claims without backing them up at all: > To Forrester, low-income housing was an especially egregious example of a “counterproductive” urban progra
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
The people who designed their systems such that they could be easily transitioned off of IBM have done so long ago. Those systems now run exponentially cheaper and have access to more resources. Vendor lock-in was just as much of a problem
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
I think you're missing the point - you may need to move to your own infrastructure for security, privacy, regulatory or accountability reasons. You may encounter new needs which AWS may no longer meet, cheap bandwidth for example (AWS
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
It means somethings fucked with the VC system and they're finding companies that should be worthless.
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
I was more just making the point that it's actually easier to do library organization for movies and TV as a pirate than it is as a legit owner of Blu-Rays for example. Sad state for the industry, really.
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
There's actually great tools to help you build and organize that library... assuming you pirate everything. I'm just hoping the movie/TV industry gets the picture soon and goes the way the music industry has with streaming.
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
I can comment on this - it's flawed. They encrypt locally and only send encrypted data to their servers, true, but they deduplicate that data between customers meaning they know file hashes or something similar and could remove pirated
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
At 315Mhz you might even be able to do it with a $10 RTL-SDR.
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
A 15 year old likely makes some of their own financial decisions, occasionally, or even often, buys their own food, entertainment, etc. 15 year olds buy game consoles, computers and games all the time.
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
A 15 year old could be working in many places - probably at least has a functional understanding of value for money based on past experiences, a 5 year old almost certainly doesn't.
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
It's most likely targeted only at relevant sites.
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
Sounds quite similar to the way TV ratings are done - is this really such an issue? It's very much an opt in service designed to measure audiences. Unlike hidden terms in privacy policies it's made quite clear what's going on
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
Unless you're a European citizen interacting with a European company GDPR changed nothing, they can show you a different ToS and play entirely in your court system where GDPR is meaningless.
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by shittyadmin 8y ago
There've been similar issues in both iOS and Android before - iOS had one recently where a text would cause repeated app crashes. Back in 2009 there was a full exploit via SMS on iOS, and just a few years back the Android stagefright e

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