rbecker

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by rbecker 6y ago
> not a system that works as intended [..] flooding the market with warm bodies to undercut local labor. Are you sure that's not intended? "Not enough migrants arriving to keep pay down - [Irish] Central Bank" - https:&#x
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by rbecker 6y ago
Google is using Widevine to control the browser market. Can't make a competitive browser without their permission. That is the purpose of DRM, and it works.
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by rbecker 6y ago
Instead, they're chanting "White silence equals violence". I'm sure demonization of a group that's on the way to becoming a minority will work out great.
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Even as Trump Cut Immigration, Immigrants Transformed U.S.(nytimes.com)
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by rbecker 6y ago
The point isn't to protect content, but to need permission from the DRM makers to make a viable browser (or TV, or music player, or ebook reader, or...) Without their blessing, it won't work with locked content, and your users wil
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French museum suspends Genghis exhibition in reaction to Chinese censorship bid(rfi.fr)
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by rbecker 6y ago
Justifiably so. For example, social science research proposals likely to have findings with an unwanted political impact have a 40-50% chance of being granted, compared to 95% for otherwise identical proposals without such impact: https:&#
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by rbecker 6y ago
> the most fundamental idea is minimizing the amount of surprises a user faces I wouldn't call being given the master key to my own computer "surprising".
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by rbecker 6y ago
Without principles, your freedom will be (is being!) slowly chiseled away, pragmatically accepting each small step. By the time even pragmatism tells you to refuse, it'll be too late. That's exactly what happened in Hong Kong: ht
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Freedom and computer security are in fundamental opposition. Only if you interpret "freedom" as "freedom for apps" instead of "freedom for the user". None of what you said precludes the user (I won't
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Walled gardens are safer, and usually have some implicit or explicit quality guarantee (like the Nintendo seal of quality). And consumers who want to limit themselves to the safety of Apple's app store are free to do so. But Apple
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by rbecker 6y ago
It must be very convenient to be able to dismiss research done by anyone that might be remotely interested in publishing findings you dislike. When a left-leaning institution publishes findings that broadly align with the left, do you also
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Surprised to see the level of anger here about this. Anger could be due to: 1) Kill competition by offering product at a loss. 2) Once competition is dead and people are invested in the product and ecosystem, start charging.
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by rbecker 6y ago
Even the Brookings link cites a few studies, while the rest of this thread's posts offer nothing but hand-wringing and loaded questions. And you're right, the links aren't exclusively about marriage. So if "married"
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by rbecker 6y ago
It seems what you consider odd enough to require a citation depends on your political orientation. Citations for the original claim: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0e3d/640709c889472858054c8f... https://ww
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by rbecker 6y ago
Dating experience corresponds to less stable marriage: https://img.ifunny.co/images/0b11659d375d3cc296d5683e8e54e28...
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by rbecker 6y ago
You're not wrong. Both can be (and often are) abuses of market power.
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by rbecker 6y ago
Do you think it's possible to hold an opinion other than "this should be illegal" and "this is OK"? Do you think even free speech purists can see the danger in allowing too much influence concentrated in too few han
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by rbecker 6y ago
The citations can only include mistakes, not the enormous (and much more effective) bias in choosing which stories to run and how to frame them. Do you think it's a coincidence you only hear of police killings when the victim is black?
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by rbecker 6y ago
But when it's your sacred cows that science is slaying, you're not a "denialist", you're just wisely cautious about misinterpreting narrow studies, that are confounded by environmental and social influences, and i
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by rbecker 6y ago
Instead, circumventing it is illegal.
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by rbecker 6y ago
> It is a huge leap to go from "there's less Vitamin C in this supermarket carrot" to "you will get fewer diseases and/or live longer or better if you eat carrots from soil 100 years ago". If only there was
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by rbecker 6y ago
Is there a specific "senior citizen" version of iPhone you have to request? Or is it as simple as toggling and password-protecting a "senior citizen/parental" mode somewhere in the settings? Or maybe the parental mo
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by rbecker 6y ago
If a publisher is found to have published a book without license, would it be reasonable to find all who bought the book, break into their homes, take the book, and leave in its place the purchase price in cash? If not, then why is doing th
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by rbecker 6y ago
> You are avoiding my point. I addressed your point directly. You claimed content might not be available otherwise (and that this is the reason consumers want DRM), I gave examples that showed that to be obviously false. And DRM is muc
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by rbecker 6y ago
> might not be available otherwise. Like how they stopped showing movies on TV once VCRs entered the market, or stopped playing music on the radio once home taping killed it. If only we had had DRM on radios and TVs back then, perhaps th
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by rbecker 6y ago
So when media and technology conglomerates conspire to include unasked-for, unadvertised DRM on consumer devices, that's "consenting relationships". When I point out consumers are harmed by this, that's "interferenc
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by rbecker 6y ago
https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-patent-could-remotely-di... https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/10/apple-removes-police-trackin...
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by rbecker 6y ago
> prevent screenshotting licensed content. [..] good for 99% of the people Is this a parody, or do you truly think DRM is good?
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by rbecker 6y ago
It was a bug - this time. It's not your phone, you're just using it.

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