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by zpeti 6y ago
Across the country - means Palo Alto and Denver - and dance theatre against Palantir in new york. I guess literally it is "across the country", but not quite how that phrase is used imo.
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More than 40% of all free Android VPNs are leaking personal data(proprivacy.com)
1 points by zpeti 6y ago|0 comments
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by zpeti 6y ago
I think this is almost the inevitable path of public companies. Even worse if its not founder run, but manager run. In that case the incentive structure is inevitably going to be about share prices. And share price incentives will slowly er
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by zpeti 6y ago
I'll raise you: "It's called Rebo and it's the first bottle that cleans the planet as you drink. One Rebo drunk is one plastic bottle collected as simple as that. Rebo is a smart bottle equipped with a laser time-of-flig
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by zpeti 6y ago
What exactly is a corporation in your opinion? Something that’s completely independent of “people”? Corporations are people and they produce things that people want and use. If suddenly we had 0 corporations according to your theory, what w
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by zpeti 6y ago
Believe it or not all human beings care about the environment they live in, and I imagine most west coast Silicon Valley billionaires wouldn’t actually like to move in the case of flooding or wild fires “just because they’re rich”. Also - m
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by zpeti 6y ago
The underlying deeper point is that you are assuming you, or your point of view is good, and perfect, and his is bad. And because he made a mistake he should have his house burned down (and should die). What you are missing is that you also
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by zpeti 6y ago
I think this is partly the purpose. The US administration does actually want to cut off communication between China and chinese in the US. It's a feature of this legislation, not a bug.
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by zpeti 6y ago
Every time you buy a US made phone, or use Google for searches, you are supporting the existence or the development of this situation. There was nothing stopping a European company (Nokia?) from making a good phone. But they didn't - a
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by zpeti 6y ago
If you are so good on facts, please point to some (other than speculation) that confirm your theory that Elon somehow benefitted from family money, or is currently living off family money not Tesla and SpaceX. Your statement was extremely l
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by zpeti 6y ago
How do you include record adults not paying taxes in that then, along with record employment? Do you want everyone paying more, and the poor paying tax as well, or more income inequality but less people paying tax? You can’t have both.
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by zpeti 6y ago
Why does privacy have anything to do with conspiracy theories and “disinformation”. Privacy should in fact be about respecting the individual and choices, and believing in people being intelligent enough (as groups) to make good choices. Ba
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by zpeti 6y ago
Yet in the UK the amount of tax paid by the 1% is the highest ever (34%), 42% of adults pay NO income tax. And the tax take as a proportion of GDP is 34.4%, the highest EVER. We are living in the most taxed time in history with the rich con
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by zpeti 6y ago
Let me be clearer then about my previous post, republicans are just as bad in practice. But the most vocal people who want government intervention are left leaning.
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by zpeti 6y ago
No, it's zombie companies kept alive by stimulus cheques, and management who get to stick around and failing companies that should have gone under 20 years ago.
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by zpeti 6y ago
I think people need to start realising just how incredibly much the government is now stepping in at each of these crises to make them as smooth as possible. But there is a downside to this. You are not allowing the normal economic effects
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by zpeti 6y ago
Yeah, because Elon is obviously where he is now because of family money... jesus christ. Ever heard of Zip2 and Paypal? Your resentment and jealousy based communist thinking is pretty ugly.
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by zpeti 6y ago
Also - does he actually "have money"? Tesla and SpaceX don't make a profit or pay dividends. My guess is he finances his entire life from taking on debt which is secured against his stock. So how exactly are people like him s
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by zpeti 6y ago
I am amazed at how easily you skip over the fact that this means government gets to spend that money. As if that were some ideal outcome which would solve all problems. Which government exactly is it that you think is excellent at solving s
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by zpeti 6y ago
Actually, another interesting argument that gets ignored is that global warming is not proportional to emissions. You need exponential increase in emissions for a linear increase in warming. Therefore since we are actually close to starting
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by zpeti 6y ago
The IPCC predicts 2 degrees of temperature increase by 2050, which is the same as between 1950-2000. I believe they also think world GDP _increase_ (not actual GDP) might be 6% less due to this, but don't quote me on that. This is the
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Exposing the hidden data ecosystem of the UK’s most trusted charities(proprivacy.com)
4 points by zpeti 6y ago|0 comments
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by zpeti 6y ago
As with almost everything these days, this topic is NOT black and white despite what initial comments say. Take a look at the vaccine for the 1976 swine flu outbreak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_swine_flu_outbrea
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by zpeti 6y ago
All they are doing is voiding the warranty, so you're not exactly "leasing" the car. Change it all you want, but don't expect Tesla to fix your car once you've messed with it yourself. And don't expect to sue t
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by zpeti 6y ago
This is a result of low interest rates in the last 20 years. There is an insane amount of institutional money looking for a home, and it is also impossible to get decent yields with money right now. Therefore any businesses with potential t
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by zpeti 6y ago
I think Apple have no incentive right now to change anything, although the PR and perception of them is shifting slightly against them. I think there are two things that can happen here: 1. There are more and more cases like wordpress, Hey
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by zpeti 6y ago
I think most people would have heard about him from Peter Thiel. Based on his recommendations I read The Scapegoat last year and it was a real eye opener, with many "mind blown" moments. For me the really fascinating thought is th
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Apple lets China's WeChat bypass its rules, former app review chief claims(telegraph.co.uk)
17 points by zpeti 6y ago|0 comments
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by zpeti 6y ago
It does look pretty tragic at this point. But it’s worth noting that every tech business so far was talked about as if it’s taken over the world, forever, and without 5-10-20 years they were overtaken. IBM, Intel, Microsoft. I think google
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by zpeti 6y ago
Hard to presume they are innocent when a search for Hong Kong during the protests got you a few dance videos from HK...

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