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Post by sandworm101 »

koheripbal wrote: post #225
sandworm101 wrote: post #110

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Lol. Kneecapping competitors is what billionaires do. You dont win capitalism by following all the rules.

It's what all people do when they have the ability.

Maybe the Machiavellian among us. The average person or company doesn't pull literally every lever of power to defeat competitors out of principal. When someone stole the coke recipe and tried to sell it to Pepsi, Pepsi called the cops. When the power goes out, power companies work together to get it back... Except Enron, which is now dead.

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Post by SilverBirch »

hgdfhgdhgfdg wrote: post #195
dragontamer wrote: post #189

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ElonJet pointed out where the flight was. The journalists simply pointed out that ElonJet was using public data from the FAA. So no, its not considered doxxing. All airplanes must be tracked, otherwise there's a chance that they'll crash into each other. If you don't like that, then maybe don't fly in a private jet all the time. Share your jet with others. Or God forbid, use a cheaper, more efficient, better-for-the-…

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You can track Elon’s flight from the tail number using the ADS-B system and the tail number is public information. You can find it all over photos all over the internet, even if you couldn’t you could just drive over to the airport, you can also verify it by checking the plane is registered to a company co-located at SpaceX. It’s all public information in about 200 different ways.

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Post by JumpinJack_Cash »

ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #228
JumpinJack_Cash wrote: post #188

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> > There's something in the German soul that makes them great at building cars. But lacking in design. See how German supercars look plain vis-a-vis the Italian ones

Yeah, but the Italians are rubbish at buildings (source: I went to Rome and half the buildings are in ruins)

I don't think Germany can claim buildings superiority either given the lack of skyscrapers

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Post by drexlspivey »

yardie wrote: post #162
drexlspivey wrote: post #107

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What if your server that is run by a hobbyist suddenly shuts down without any notice? If they had an accident for example or they got hacked or whatever

Well that sucks. But commercially businesses fail all the time. Sometimes you get a heads up and can plan accordingly. And other times it’s like FTX and the site is down the next day, after a major scandal. The only thing you can do is own your data, running on servers you own, at a domain you own. The internet owes you nothing.

> The only thing you can do is own your data, running on servers you own, at a domain you own.

No, that’s a failure of the specific protocol. Your identity could simply be a public key. This way it’s:

1) Tamperproof

2) Not dependant on any specific server

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Post by rdpintqogeogsaa »

ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #208
rdpintqogeogsaa wrote: post #182

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GDPR exists right now, actually, and most instances are far from in compliance.

How are they not in compliance?

For example by not providing a privacy policy that contains all the information required by GDPR article 14.

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Post by concordDance »

rgbrenner wrote: post #149
SilverBirch wrote: post #116

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I actually think this is quite a long way away from funny. We've been able to watch Elon Musk get radicalized in real time. That's quite worrying when you consider the amount of resources he has available to him. During the Trump years there was a lot of talk about how Trump is bad, but fundamentally incompetent. Well now we're going to see what extremism looks like when a far more competent person is orchestrating i…

Are we watching musk "get" radicalized? Or has he always been that way? Because I remember way back, when journalists would write poor reviews of Tesla, he would go after them... typically accusing them of being compromised in some way, or not really being a journalist. Then there's the swatting of a tesla wistleblower. Or when a customer was "rude", he canceled their tesla pre-order. Or when that tesla employee post…

Its the right wing radicalization that the parent is talking about. That's disturbing to watch.

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Post by lettergram »

lapcat wrote: post #220
lettergram wrote: post #179

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Pretty sure Musk was discussing freedom of ideas. That said; many of us also thought Kanye shouldn’t have been banned. Few on hacker news agreed lol You either have absolute freedom of speech or none, in many ways. That said, I appreciate that at least people are being told why they are banned. The prior set of billionaires who owned Twitter often wouldn’t say why. Blocking links to competitors, blocking real-time tr…

> at least people are being told why they are banned This is not even true. "i did not delete anything. i received no notification about which tweet got me suspended. i still have no idea" https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1604227164416925696

Fair enough, perhaps it just seemed that way? Idk

Also, interesting to see you on HN (didn’t realize you were in the tech space). I saw you on Tim Pools show, recognized the name

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Post by skissane »

dragontamer wrote: post #221
skissane wrote: post #217

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> but I also know people who are bipolar. Anti-semitism is _NOT_ on the list of symptoms. Obsessing over some socially unacceptable idea absolutely can be a manifestation of bipolar disorder for some people. Especially when one considers that bipolar can sometimes be associated with psychosis, and obsessive antisemitic/racist/etc thoughts are not uncommon in people with psychosis (famous example: Terry Davis, who I t…

> But ASD absolutely can make some people behave in a way which others perceive as being an “asshole”, so if he does have it, those behaviours could well in part be contributed to by it. Autistic people do things because they don't understand social norms. Sociopaths do things because they don't _care_ about social norms. There's a difference, and I can tell the difference. It is in a sociopath's best interest to pre…

ASD absolutely can make people care less about social norms, see for example https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3198313/ (“Insensitivity to social reputation in autism”)

ASD can be a mixture of both not understanding and not caring. Sociopathy is all about the later without any of the former.

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Post by concordDance »

ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #218
A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote: post #154

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Yes. However, I would argue that is a good thing. Musk has become a poster child one can easily point to and ask a question along the lines of 'is it reasonable for society to allow a person with resources near some nation-state levels to exist and not limit their ability to gather that amount of resources?' While in general I am very permissive and I hate imposition on my individual freedoms, I am increasingly convi…

When a game is rigged, you don't have to be competent to win

Do you think you can become a billionaire with $25k from Daddy?
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