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by mtgx 4y ago
They don't have authority and jurisdiction to just "arrest" (aka kidnap in this case) people from other countries. If they actually want to arrest someone, the local authorities need to do it, and they would agree only if the
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by mtgx 4y ago
Lightweight = NSA-crackable, right?
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by mtgx 4y ago
The most frustrating thing about Waze is that it doesn't have offline maps. I get that the main selling point is live traffic data, but that's not necessarily an either/or with offline maps.
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by mtgx 4y ago
> Telegram disguises itself as encrypted chat app, when it is actually just a regular centralized plaintext messenger that has an encryption feature that nobody uses. Best description of Telegram that I've seen so far. I do trust Si
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by mtgx 4y ago
Wait before they start complaining about "car piracy" and how they can't afford to stay in business unless they do all of this stuff and show you ads on your windshield while driving. I mean you already here such arguments fr
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by mtgx 4y ago
I know it's sarcasm, but you don't have to have "big secrets" in order to want privacy. Everyone knows what you're doing in the restroom, doesn't mean you're ok to going to a see-through public restroom.
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by mtgx 4y ago
Maybe the real problem here is that the police shouldn't be shooting people on sight just because they were told on the phone that someone is dangerous in a building, and instead should be properly assess the situation before getting t
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by mtgx 4y ago
Doesn't seem like they agreed on the same legal meaning, so pretty much smoke and mirrors change. https://noyb.eu/en/new-us-executive-order-unlikely-satisfy-e...
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by mtgx 4y ago
Adobe is a large company. I think markets benefit more from large companies being forced to create their own competitors to the threats they perceive rather than buying out the largest threat and thus eliminating that large threat at the sa
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by mtgx 4y ago
Probably around 7-10 years, which is the time limit it originally had. Copyright is meant to be a "public pact" to encourage creation and innovation. But think about that goal for a minute. It doesn't necessarily mean you sho
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by mtgx 4y ago
Every acquisition over $100m should automatically trigger a review, especially if said company is a "leader" in ANY market, and looked at from the perspective of: "Is the company removing this competitor from the market hurti
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by mtgx 4y ago
"Humans overestimate progress in the short term and over estimate it in the long term." You're discounting the law of accelerated returns. It might take another 50 years to make a "big discovery/milestone in curing
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by mtgx 4y ago
I can't tell if serious or ... Windows 10 is a privacy disaster compared to previous versions of Windows. They track every single app and website you open, what files you have on your PC, and much more.
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by mtgx 4y ago
Sundar Pichai has been destroying the company from inside out since he took over as CEO. But all of that has been masked by the fact that he's been aggressively pushing the ad team to keep increasing the revenue each quarter - and he&#
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by mtgx 4y ago
Actual liability for data breaches? Color me impressed. When the data companies want on you becomes a liability in case of data breaches, one of 2 things will happen: 1. They'll drastically improve their security 2. They'll stop a
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by mtgx 4y ago
> If it was 1 Billion per offense Good point. Why are sentence times stacked for people, but not corporations? Corporations are people, too!
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by mtgx 4y ago
Bitwarden.
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by mtgx 4y ago
They've gone backward and the "spirit" of the old Google was literally killed when Sundar Pichai took over. The only reason he's still CEO is that he's milked the Google brand for all its worth and has made everyone
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by mtgx 4y ago
> unreadable online conversations are scary Why are they scary? Are people's private conversations in their homes scary, too? Are private meetups scary? I feel like people have by default fallen for the government propaganda and the
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by mtgx 4y ago
YouTube has ads? In all seriousness, every now and then I open YouTube by mistake in another browser that doesn't have ublock, and the experience is infuriating - having to waatch 5+ second ads on every video I search for or look at. H
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by mtgx 4y ago
Yes, this is known: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
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by mtgx 4y ago
Unions are the most useful when you're dealing with monopolies. Where there is fierce competition in an industry, most workers probably feel that unions are not needed, as they can get a better paying job by switching companies within
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by mtgx 4y ago
Reminder that Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, who's been giving police full access to the Ring cameras without a warrant.
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by mtgx 5y ago
> Diesel motors generate a substantial amount of fine particulate that is unhealthy for anybody, and particularly unhealthy for children. This is one of the biggest issues with US' private healthcare system. The U.S. government just
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by mtgx 5y ago
In other words, victim blaming.
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by mtgx 5y ago
There needs to be some kind of law that mandates that a company MUST reply to customers and/or users within a given time and offer a proper redress process. I remember years ago FB would block your site and they would give you NO OPTIO
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by mtgx 5y ago
But the Google Play service will still get data on everything , right?
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by mtgx 5y ago
He was an NSA contractor, not a CIA one.
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by mtgx 5y ago
you're assuming that those IDs can't be forged. Pretty big assumprion. When in history has existed an id or authentication method that couldn't be forged or broken?
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by mtgx 5y ago
Being offered to the sun god - Achievement Unlocked!

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