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If can dismiss what he said because it's one data point then we can dismiss the original argument altogether.

I was under the impression that, like chicken, cows became less edible as time passed?

I disagree that this is a social media, I don't even look at the names of those who leave comments or those I reply to. It's like I'm reading and talking to the hivemind.

If I had to guess, I would say that the designers who have been in charge of Windows for years are twenty-something year olds who have never used Windows in their lives.

It's not a moral problem, the morality angle is an excuse, these are just artists who don't want to be out of a job because of technological advances

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You have to have some big balls to run a Mastodon server on AWS. You are just one pissed off guy away from a bill that will cost you dearly.

Given that practically every family has at least one car, I don't see how this is useful.

I don't know if things have changed but the last time I tried SL the client was so rough and awkward it seemed like an alpha. Even moving was laggy and annoying.

They don't mean someone should put a fence to stop people from leaving obviously.

Seems logical if you disproportionately treat poor and old/retired people you have to spend more per capita than a healthcare system that treats much younger and therefore healthie…

That's not a problem as long as people exist outside the US.

I have always wondered why "x" and "conspiracy to commit x" are different counts.

That's false. The api was called friends permission and was public. There are references to it everywhere in the web. For example here you have a rando asking about it in SO: https…

>An informed consent from users who's information is going to be collected. That consent was granted the day they accepted/sent the friend request. Once the friendship was establis…

>An informed consent must be required. While I don't know what the prompt exactly said, I bet it was specific enough. The fact that people just click Accept without reading it shou…

Sure - if you give a 3rd party application API access using your account, they can see whatever your friends have made available to you. This is as if my friends sued Facebook beca…

Let's remember that this is because Facebook had an open API that a 3rd party developer abused with the consent of the users. In case you wonder why nobody bothers to have open API…

I suppose you are being ironic because that sounds quite close to...