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by splaytreemap 6y ago
This comment has no relevance to anything. I never said law-abiding is a requirement for life. But I can all but guarantee you will not be able to find more than one or two examples of police killing a law-abiding citizen and receiving no p
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
And for those that aren't familiar with Caltrain, that train blasts its horn two or three times before each stop and the horn is so loud that you can hear it from a mile away. Living as close to the train as that house is would be mise
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
You're essentially saying "don't use data to inform your decisions." This is trolling at best. No idea how this is the top comment here.
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
Every website on the open web is a walled garden. Attacking Facebook for doing something every other website does is an attack on the open web. Your argument is tantamount to saying the US isn't a free country because you have to take
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
They could very easily opt out of getting scraped by Google. They choose not to though because it is beneficial to them to have Google help people find their content. Also note, Australia has specifically said removing article snippets from
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
Metallica almost certainly still got paid, so I doubt they care much. Blizzard is probably furious.
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
"Money is made up therefore it serves no purpose" is just a bafflingly implication. Care to provide any detail at all about how your moneyless society is going to work?
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
Google Play Store is a monopoly. Developers literally can't leave unless they want their android installs to decline by 99%.
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
That post is three hours old with 1000+ points but is somehow ranked below multiple older posts with fewer points. It's currently ranked #27 putting it at the bottom of the homepage. It seems somebody is manipulating HN's ranking
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
Let's see if the DOJ goes after them for predatory pricing first. Twitter may have bought themselves enough favor with the Biden administration that he'll let it slide.
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
Yup, the argument that they must be evil because they're named after a crystal ball from Lord of the Rings is one of the least convincing things I've ever heard. I have no idea why this is so consistently parroted on this forum.
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
It's the exact opposite of parasitic. Search engines scrape your site so that they can help users find your site. If you don't want Google scraping your content, add a noindex directive or robots.txt to your site and Google won&#x
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
How exactly do you think Australia is going to enforce this mandate if Google has no presence in Australia. Are they going to have the military invade California?
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
The mainstream media won't pick this up because they like Twitter. If Facebook had done this, WaPo and CNN would be all over it.
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
I'm starting to think that the degeneration of society into a 1984-style dystopia may now be unavoidable. We need to take power back from big tech and we need to do it now.
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
Entirely depends on what the goals of the union are. If you want to improve your position in search rankings, a union is not going to help you. If you're a youtube creator who wants a larger cut of advertising revenue, a youtube creato
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
Twitter censoring content is only a problem because they have a near monopoly in their domain and present themselves as a platform for everybody. There's no national discussion about HN moderation because it's a much smaller websi
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
Pouring gasoline on the fire is kind of the point. Take away people's option to peacefully voice their opinion and violence is the only remaining option. The hope is that these people will commit more violence so that the government ca
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
Not surprising. The election of a Democrat government has emboldened them to start censoring their political enemies with less fear of government reprisal. This should hopefully spur more competition in the micro-blogging space as conservat
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
Because it serves as a jumping off point for people of a certain political persuasion to agitate for political change.
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
Pretty much every politician ever has used manipulative language to try to make themselves sound better than they are. It's why abortion activists call themselves pro-life/pro-choice. To take their words at face value is incredibl
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
So then why would California force them into that very situation?
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
It's very much deniable. This now forces restaurants to sign an agreement and start paying a commission. Previously, they got a free delivery service at no cost to them. Now they either have to pay or lose business. This is bad for the
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
Some companies (Southwest Airlines for example) will refuse service to you if you're wearing a non-standard mask. Wearing the disposable blue surgical masks is the best bet if you don't want to be randomly denied access to somewhe
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
The fact that there are only two significant payment processors, and they act in lockstep to deny service to minority groups is a way bigger monopoly threat than Facebook owning both Instagram and WhatsApp. How Visa and MasterCard have esca
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
The media doesn't care right now because it's only Trump's orders getting baselessly delayed. After four years of Biden getting every single one of his executive orders blocked because the Republicans challenged it in the fri
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
If Facebook, Google, Twitter, et al are not allowed to operate in China, I see no reason why we should allow chinese social media companies to operate here. It would give Chinese companies a huge competitive advantage if they were the only
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
Yup. You can even hear her complaining about the cops pointing guns at her children while she's outside the house and can't possibly know what the police are pointing guns at. I'd bet she was planning this smear campaign from
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
Not really. If your girlfriend told you she was planning on breaking up with you after her birthday, would you stay with her until she did it or would you end it immediately?
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by splaytreemap 6y ago
I think the fact that she had a huge salary is why she feels comfortable doing this. The average person needs their job to pay the bills so they don't want to rock the boat. She's already set for life so she doesn't care who

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