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Post by CivBase »

robertlagrant wrote: post #203
TheDong wrote: post #195

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America will continue to cripple EU consumer protection too. The EU ruled that the app store has to allow side-loading in the EU, but y'all still won't get a good browser because both Chrome and Mozilla have said making a side-loadable browser for iOS is only worth it if it can target the American market too, and the side-loading is region-locked. So sure, y'all can side-load apps in the EU now, but you still can't i…

> you still can't install uBlock origin on firefox on your iphone thanks to america I'm not American, but this stance seems extremely biased. We only have Chrome and Mozilla due to America. Nothing's stopping an EU-originated browser from appearing, and with the America-funded open source Chromium, they would have 99.999% of the work already done.

Making this example even worse, both Firefox and Chrome are open source (except for a few proprietary add-ons). An EU company wouldn't even need to make their own browser. They could just hard-fork one of those.

Re: The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available

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Post by latexr »

whiplash451 wrote: post #189
everdrive wrote: post #186

People don't really care about privacy, it's as simple as that. Yes, they worry about privacy, and complain about violations of privacy. But if they cared, they never would have purchased this product in the first place. There are bits of technology which violate privacy, but are extremely difficult to fully avoid: Social Media, (I know a lot of HN isn't on it, but how about most of your family and friends?) smart ph…

This kind of apathic statement is not very useful. By your logic, we should not care about climate change either. "People don't care about privacy" doesn't mean that regulators and the tech community should not lead a charge.

> This kind of apathic statement is not very useful.

Except for corporations who want to exploit us to no end. I’m sure they love this type of defeatist attitude. There’s no one easier to take advantage of than someone who confirms they have given up and won’t fight back.

Re: The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available

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Post by h2zizzle »

nielsbot wrote: post #257
analog31 wrote: post #237

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It means that GDP doesn't buy prosperity. We've been told for decades that letting our economy turn out like Europe's was something to fear, while they outpaced us in virtually all quality of life measures. We can no longer claim being the richest country in the world as a source of uniqueness or justification -- handed to us by the gods. I think this is part of the reason for the present descent into authoritarianis…

the descent into authoritarianism is a result of the failure of neo-liberals to represent the working class. unfortunately the wealthy are going to concede more wealth and power or it will continue.

To finish the story here, a look back:

https://bsalert.com/news/2596/Who_Are_You_Better_Than.html

People in this country perennially choose wanting to be "better than" over wanting to be happy.

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Post by nerdponx »

redserk wrote: post #231
eadmund wrote: post #194

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Well, the per-capita GDP of the poorest U.S. state — Mississippi — is greater than that of the U.K., France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Poland and many others, and within 10% of Finland, Germany, Belgium and Austria. 34 of the 47 European states have lower per-capita GDPs than Mississippi. The median per-capita U.S. state GDP is $78,649; the median per-capita European state GDP is $28,713. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.or…

Strictly looking at GDP is a terrible way to compare economic conditions between US states and countries. GDP of Mississippi looks great only because of a strong dollar. It doesn’t really account for living conditions.

It's great if you are a wealthy business owner or investor, and you want to push deregulation propaganda, because deregulation would allow you to get even richer.

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Post by balamatom »

influx wrote: post #302
A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 wrote: post #278

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George Carlin said something similar: "Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation." If true, one could argue it is a real issue, because it is not clear that the country's 'management' is intellectually on the high end either.

So should I be sending my kids to government schools or home schooling?

False dichotomy. After a certain age you should let them have a voice in their educational goals, and before they are able to express their preferences you should be helping them figure out what those are. You should be creating a family environment where your kids feel like people, and where they feel safe no matter what happens. You should be teaching your children to think critically and stand up for what they believe in, and setting a good example for them in terms of your personal values. If you don't have a self-consistent set of ethical values, and expect everyone else to determine those for you, I hate to break it to you, but you shouldn't have had kids.

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Post by chabes »

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #289
grafmax wrote: post #242

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Mississippi has much higher rates of infant mortality, poverty, preventable deaths, and lower overall education levels than most of the EU. Economic output fails to capture the degree to which the economy serves its people. While average GDP sounds like it’s something that everyone participates in, in reality, under capitalism wealth and income follow a Pareto distribution. As a result, GDP per capita tells us more a…

> under capitalism wealth and income follow a Pareto distribution. And under the other forms of government thus far tried? Anyway, Capitalism doesn't explain wealth inequality. The ability to accumulate capital and apply it to industry with limited liability doesn't inherently cause wealth inequality. That's the fault of Greedism, Over-inflated-sense-of-selfism, and Giving Money to Politicians is like giving Whiskey…

Capitalism isn’t a form of government. It’s an economic system. Politicized, sure.

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Post by crims0n »

influx wrote: post #302
A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 wrote: post #278

Earlier quoted context omitted.

George Carlin said something similar: "Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation." If true, one could argue it is a real issue, because it is not clear that the country's 'management' is intellectually on the high end either.

So should I be sending my kids to government schools or home schooling?

My wife and I homeschool because we feel we can provide a better education to our kids than the local public schools can - making this decision after giving them a trial run. If you do decide to homeschool, it is important that you never grow complacent in how much responsibility you are taking on.

So many families around us homeschool for religious/dogmatic reasons and the quality of their kids education is a secondary concern. Naturally, they tend to do worse than public school children.

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Post by TheDong »

CivBase wrote: post #321
robertlagrant wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> you still can't install uBlock origin on firefox on your iphone thanks to america I'm not American, but this stance seems extremely biased. We only have Chrome and Mozilla due to America. Nothing's stopping an EU-originated browser from appearing, and with the America-funded open source Chromium, they would have 99.999% of the work already done.

Making this example even worse, both Firefox and Chrome are open source (except for a few proprietary add-ons). An EU company wouldn't even need to make their own browser. They could just hard-fork one of those.

I mean, currently they couldn't because EU's laws are too weak too.

An EU company that released chrome for iOS would have to pay Apple 0.50€ per side-load in "core technology fees", so if they didn't charge a bit, they couldn't, and no one pays for browsers.

They'd also have to pay apple I think 15% "Non-apple Payment Service Providers" fee for anything the user purchased in the app on their device, so i.e. if the user used amazon.com in the browser, the author of the browser would owe apple a percentage of each purchase.

But also it would take I would guess about 5 developers a year to actually port chrome to iOS, so you'd need a roughly 1 million dollar initial investment too.

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Post by xandrius »

Semaphor wrote: post #151
vladde wrote: post #127

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When I'm cooking food and hands dirty, setting a timer with my voice is extremely convenient. When I'm driving and want to switch ANC mode, it's convenient as well.

Timers, and converting those insane units US recipes use.

So people don't read (and convert) their recipes before they actually start them? That's wild.
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