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by xp84 2mo ago
LOL. That security bogeyman argument is a convenient post-hoc justification. The real reason is much simpler: Because "computers" started out with "Owner can run code of their choice on it" as one of the main definitiona
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by xp84 2mo ago
yeah, I think for as much as many of us hold out hope that the EU will break the back of these brazen monopolists, there's a limit to their friendliness to the actual interests of consumer freedom when it's got to be balanced by t
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by xp84 2mo ago
Maybe ReactOS can be a good base for this actually becoming a reality!
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by xp84 2mo ago
> because they'd try to make it up by charging more for Apple products. > Developers might prefer to shift the burden to consumers's wallets I vigorously disagree with this. It sounds very confused about economics, specifica
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by xp84 2mo ago
You're not wrong there. The bad actors still suck and ruin good companies and people's lives. I guess what I should have said it's the downside is limited in private business, compared to a public agency where they not only
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by xp84 2mo ago
Somehow this doesn't scare me at all. Fast food restaurants have been doing this for like 8 years. Almost any order you could make normally, you could get a buck or two off of it if you order through their incredibly sluggish, bloated
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by xp84 2mo ago
ok but the vast majority of businesses aren't lucky enough to expect those. The government didn't bail out Kmart, or Spirit Airlines. And when Washington Mutual got fire-saled to Chase, I don't think a lot of the decision-mak
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by xp84 2mo ago
In non-government organizations, if you as a manager find out someone on your staff is scamming the company for a huge amount of money, you can choose to fire him and know that your P&L will improve, which is the metric you're eval
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by xp84 2mo ago
This seems like the kind of thing that exposes the uncomfortable truth about our civil society. In the natural pre-civilized state of things, people did bad things out of selfishness and greed just because they can. Like, one comes upon a w
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by xp84 2mo ago
I'm betting it looked something like this, repeated every day for who knows how many years: - [Fetch reports] - "Select All" - "Mark as Reviewed" - Log 7 hours of OT - Go home
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by xp84 2mo ago
Care to elaborate?
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by xp84 2mo ago
> It just looks like the attorney general in this area has been asleep at the wheel. Whoever it is, that's always the case in government. It's not their money and any accountability like this is so rare, that there's no ne
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by xp84 2mo ago
> why not provide it for free and monetize opportunistically on the data itself? Interesting proposition. It seems to me like the first round of this (Hotmail, Yahoo, the free types of accounts AOL offered, Juno, etc) was not about mone
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by xp84 2mo ago
Don’t worry, a Google product can’t survive long enough to build a proper Skynet without being terminated itself.
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by xp84 2mo ago
The idea that there’s a nefarious plot to do something super evil with this data is a bit crackpot though based on their incentives. Remember, Google = Ads. Their only focus and only care. Their mission statement, rendered accurately, is “A
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by xp84 2mo ago
That’s a bit unfair. They also catered to broke people who weren’t crazy or argumentative. On a planeload of 100 people, there must have been 60 of them at least who were just broke. Or on some routes, Spirit was the only carrier with a d
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by xp84 2mo ago
Just a reminder that about 40% of the email conversations in the last 20 years are already in Google’s possession with the identifying data. (About another 40% are in Microsoft’s.) If they want to do that they already can, thanks to the p
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by xp84 2mo ago
Sounds like a case of “there’s not enough scrutiny unless the decision ends up agreeing with my position”
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by xp84 2mo ago
> excuses to turn normal citizens into prison feed What felonies are those normal citizens being convicted of that's landed them in prison? I get the basic 'not wanting everyone's comms to be monitored' part. I think
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by xp84 2mo ago
Kmart once had 2,323 stores in the US, and today they have just this one comical one[1] (the picture is worth it, trust me). Nobody's too big to fail, and the way you fail is by making no innovation in your business, not doing optimiza
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by xp84 2mo ago
Put yourself in the shoes of someone who has no idea what systemwide dark and light mode settings are. There is exactly one reason they are seeking out this control: "It's in dark mode and I want it light" or "It's
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by xp84 2mo ago
> Suppose you're editing [...] but you want it to always be in light mode. Your whole objection here hinges on you coming to that realization during the day when it's already in light mode by default. The 99.9% likelihood of
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by xp84 2mo ago
I'm inclined to believe that. Either way - publicly-run or private contractor, if the government is a good steward of public funds, they'll monitor well to avoid waste and remove people who are trying to unjustly enrich themselves
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by xp84 2mo ago
I have that RFC on my iPhone 9
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by xp84 2mo ago
For sure, the ridiculous promo games are best skipped (when even possible to skip!!) as 99% of the time they're just that you win the right to get a discount on a future order based on this next order. And those discounts are always de
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by xp84 2mo ago
I think this is exactly the trap of imaginaryness the author is talking about. For this scenario to unfold the following has to happen: 1. OS is set to auto mode 2. It's late afternoon 3. User finds they have (for some reason) in the p
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by xp84 2mo ago
They’ll be back for the less rich people too until no more rich people are dumb enough to stay. Look at CAHSR. There’s no end to how much money California politicians can spend. There’s not a revenue problem in California. There’s a spendin
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by xp84 2mo ago
Main problem with that is that 90% of us are on group plans and the insurance company doesn’t get to know who’s in the group when they price the premiums for your employer, and on the (Obamacare) individual plans they can only use broad th
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by xp84 2mo ago
Agree. I think everyone is just in a bad mood about so-called “privacy” such that any “data” that is “about” you sounds automatically creepy. A shoe store that filed a duplicate of every receipt in a file cabinet is storing the same amount
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by xp84 2mo ago
Other chains have had lots of franchises fail though. A&W used to be big. Long John Silvers. Are you saying McD specifically can’t fail? Or that none can?

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