such12

7 ms·

1.
by such12 4y ago
Again, a macroeconomic analysis with no explanation of how this is relevant.
2.
by such12 4y ago
> You say I should not be silly but I can believe what I like. Which is it? They aren’t mutually exclusive. > The government does not “own assets” on paper but it has a whole lot of influence over agency Feel free to believe that your
3.
by such12 4y ago
I agree. I have no argument against this.
4.
by such12 4y ago
Nobody is forced to use gmail as a provider. Remember it’s a free service with less commitment to you than a pay as you go mobile phone. Anyone can buy their own domain and there are many providers who will provide email service.
5.
by such12 4y ago
I’m aware of Parler, but are there other examples?
6.
by such12 4y ago
> I'm pretty sure this is a carrier feature that hasn't been standardised. So not actually part of what it means to be a phone then.
7.
by such12 4y ago
> Different phones have different capabilities, what's there to explain? That your definition of ‘phone’ is meaningless. If phones can have any capability you like, then ‘phone’ doesn’t mean anything. Once you are playing that game
8.
by such12 4y ago
Anti-spam legislation doesn’t regulate the technology. It legislates the behavior of the spammers. This is no different from say, assault, which doesn’t regulate hammers and baseball bats, but makes it illegal to hit people with them witho
9.
by such12 4y ago
Don’t be silly. The government doesn’t regulate how these services operate. If you are going to argue that macroeconomic policy means ‘control’, then the government ‘controls’ everything in everyone’s lives at all times. You are welcome t
10.
by such12 4y ago
Why? They seem to work fine as they are.
11.
by such12 4y ago
The phone system doesn’t lack regulation. Phone spam is already illegal. The reason for phone/VoIP spam is because the system is too inflexible to make it easy to prevent, and the reason the system is inflexible is that it is regulate
12.
by such12 4y ago
This sounds like you are simply describing how advertising works. Cattle do not respond to advertising. People do.
13.
by such12 4y ago
Can you give an example of the kind of conflict you thought was pointless? Early TNG seemed like a new age cult to me, and then it became more real without losing the positivity.
14.
by such12 4y ago
That’s exactly why email has persisted, without any need for regulation.
15.
by such12 4y ago
She seems like exactly the kind of user the iPhone lockdown mode is intended for. Looks like she was using Android.
16.
by such12 4y ago
> Wouldn't these points also apply to the internet itself? Large monopolies in infrastructure, having to teach people what domains are, diplomatic conflicts between nations over access to information/infrastructure, prolific sp
17.
by such12 4y ago
How do you explain why landline phones can’t send and receive SMS?
18.
by such12 4y ago
> I think the thing is that people like yourself are probably conscientiously indifferent to the attraction, influence and dependency that “Big Tech” produces. Not at all. I just think it’s obvious that the sentiment has been waning for
19.
by such12 4y ago
SMS isn’t the telephone. VoIP mostly isn’t done using phone numbers, and to the extent that it is, is a way to grandfather in a legacy technology. The iPhone is not primarily a telephone. If you are going to argue that it is, you really a
20.
by such12 4y ago
You can say the same thing about any technology that worked in the past but then failed. It doesn’t mean we should go back to it.
21.
by such12 4y ago
> that could possibly be applied to social media companies as well. No, it can’t because social media isn’t based on phone numbers, and social networks aren’t telephone networks, and each one works differently.
22.
by such12 4y ago
I just text or FaceTime my relatives who are on Facebook. It works just fine. My mother, who doesn’t even have a cellphone, I call via skype to her landline phone. No problem.
23.
by such12 4y ago
How is this relevant?
24.
by such12 4y ago
It doesn’t work well. Telephones haven’t changed for decades and are now practically a dead technology. The wires are used for data, and phone service is grandfathered in. You can reasonably say this is the result of a lack of innovation
25.
by such12 4y ago
The phone system is a great counterexample . The government effectively established monopolies in phone service. Telephone numbering was not even close to seamless and painless. When dialing was introduced there was pushback and plenty o
26.
by such12 4y ago
> API cannot transfer blocks of data? This seems like a deliberate and silly misunderstand on your part. If you don’t realize that most API’s generally do more than simply transfer arbitrary blocks of data, then you have lied about you
27.
by such12 4y ago
It seems like it shouldn’t be more than 25,000. Why is it 100x more than that?
28.
by such12 4y ago
This is a piece that argues in favor of government regulation of internet communications platforms. I think he’s got a lot of good points about how bad current social media is as controlled by billionaires. I think he’s completely misguided
29.
by such12 4y ago
> You don't need to know what kind of web server is running when you send a request and the WEB server don't need to know what kind of client is sending the request to answer. Exactly. It’s not an API - it’s a way to transfer
30.
by such12 4y ago
It seems odd that Microsoft hasn’t added whatever this feature is.

More ›