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by vageli 6y ago
Whataboutism: "the technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counteraccusation or raising a different issue." Seems like a textbook case actually.
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by vageli 6y ago
Personally, when I was commuting for work I would spend the 90 min ride in or back working on some things, though I spent more time with the OP-Z. Sure it takes time to reacclimate to the controls but these things are not simple machines li
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by vageli 6y ago
> Without public knowledge and access to the media directly, what incentive or pressure does government have to pursue consequences for these crimes? I agree with you, but to play devil's advocate, without public knowledge and acces
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by vageli 6y ago
This is precisely the point I was trying to make.
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by vageli 6y ago
CCTV has been around since the 40s.
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by vageli 6y ago
> Like I said, “getting directions” used to be a service. Specifically, back then—and still today, in many places!—you’d be expected to retain the services of a guide when you were in a foreign city/country. Who would often double a
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by vageli 6y ago
> Similarly, you are by and far more likely to be shot by your town’s police department than any other member of the government, because there are a lot more of them and they are a lot less trained and monitored than their federal counte
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by vageli 6y ago
> Well, the majority still aren't buying. The initial assertion was "in every home", which is false in the majority of homes. Are we assuming that all the individuals who purchased the devices live completely alone? There
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by vageli 6y ago
> It's already a well known novel[1]. You will have copyright issues. > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_for_the_Dead I thought book titles are not subject to copyright? https://www.googl
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by vageli 6y ago
> Well the modern countries use documents such as ID card or passport, you can't just walk to a bank and start opening accounts from that little data. It's actually insane Americans have that archaic system. It's archaic t
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by vageli 6y ago
> Brazil would require a "CPF", which is a unique number assigned to individuals. If you are doing something simple such as an online purchase or monetary transfers(to someone else's account), the number alone could be suf
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by vageli 6y ago
> In most countries, bank account numbers are not sensitive information. That is an american oddity. They're not really secret in America either. I mean, the account details are on every check for instance.
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by vageli 6y ago
> > The resources in the US are simply too scarce to support unfettered immigration. > I fundamentally disagree with you, but I’m interested in hearing your viewpoint. Is there any country with unfettered immigration?
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by vageli 6y ago
> The headline is odd, this has been going on for 870 days, as documented on his site. It looks like the last update is from 2019. The headline reads like he cant come in for the next 870 days. Maybe adding "for the last 870 days&qu
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by vageli 6y ago
Here you go: https://outline.com/UvsHMf
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by vageli 6y ago
> It cuts both ways - the most lucrative investments are also the riskiest ones. We tend to look down our noses (sometimes masking it as sympathy) at those who spend their money on lottery tickets or gambling, taking on large amounts of
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by vageli 6y ago
> > The crazy thing is that a foreign citizen can invest in an American start up without any of these credentials, yet a US citizen cannot. > These rules are generally based on the residence of the investor, not their citizenship.
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by vageli 6y ago
Are you aware of cloud custodian out of Capital One? [0] Does this and much, much more (like delete noncompliant security groups, etc). [0]: https://cloudcustodian.io/
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by vageli 6y ago
We use armored cars and people licensed to carry firearms for the transport of "just about everything else"? Also, most currency transfer being digital is a non-sequitor Businesses still need to move the money from their location
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by vageli 6y ago
> It is not a tax on sales. It is the cost of using their channel to market. > If you host the app yourself on your website then how are people going to discover it. For most developers they would buy ads or invest in content or influ
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by vageli 6y ago
Transporting physical currency requires a tremendous amount of infrastructure.
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by vageli 6y ago
It doesn't seem like they verify every app to ensure it is free from malware. Since they respond in the affirmative if they app is signed (by not warning), it seems reasonable for a lay person to believe that an app that doesn't t
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by vageli 6y ago
> That feels like using an existing monopoly (actually a duopoly w/ google's similar practices) to force developers to purchase products they don't want. Hey didn't want to accept payments via apple, but Apple's
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by vageli 6y ago
What I mean is, in what practical way could the EU ban ARM/Nvidia from their market, considering these manufacturers' chips are in many devices? Would that mean devices with those components would also be banned? What I'm try
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by vageli 6y ago
From the article, it doesn't sound _too_ hard to not be a customer of any of the companies (and I was Google-free for a long while until I had to use an Android for work purposes); what is difficult is not interacting with any customer
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by vageli 6y ago
> I see this claim often and while I don't deny its possibility I have yet to see any evidence to substantiate it. There have been news articles about governments employing this practice [0], so it is not much of a stretch to imagin
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by vageli 6y ago
> Antitrust regulators power is determined by the size of the market, not the location of the company HQ. > Antitrust regulators for big markets like the US, EU can effectively block mergers from any internationally operating company.
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by vageli 6y ago
> In a merger of this scale all the big powers (US, EU, China, and I assume also UK now) have basically veto right. > There are countless examples where country 1 has stopped a merger between a company from country 2 and one from coun
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by vageli 6y ago
These companies are shipping new features every day. If they have the bandwidth to work on those projects then the failure to meet legal requirements is an issue of prioritization, leaving no excuse.
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by vageli 6y ago
> DNS level adblocking is fantastic, especially since it can be done network wide so easily and used as an extra layer of ad filtering. It's great, but DNS over HTTPS will end the party soon enough (if I was a smart TV manufacturer,

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