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8,133 karmajoined 16 jaar geleden
opinions 100% my own storytelling at The Aerospace Corporation former editor at techcrunch

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devindotcom
·10 dagen geleden·discuss
Piramidal was doing that last I checked: https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/23/piramidals-foundation-mode...
devindotcom
·11 dagen geleden·discuss
the graph actually makes it look like the jump was due to Trump's policies, since the spike started in his term. if anything the graph shows that Biden policies arrested it shortly after. I recall reading deportations were actually very high during Biden's term.
devindotcom
·11 dagen geleden·discuss
Got it. If the diner says "whites only" we should wait a few years to see if racism is actually good, otherwise we are discriminating against racists.
devindotcom
·11 dagen geleden·discuss
sorry but your argument is sophomoric and disingenuous. and your absurd complaint about "killing" makes it pretty clear you're not engaging in good faith.
devindotcom
·11 dagen geleden·discuss
just a friendly note that the idiom is "one and the same"
devindotcom
·11 dagen geleden·discuss
insightful like your crude, substanceless objection?
devindotcom
·11 dagen geleden·discuss
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devindotcom
·11 dagen geleden·discuss
If we're going to sealion, why don't you first explain what you think my argument is and why the quote does not support it?
devindotcom
·11 dagen geleden·discuss
I see... so the people boycotting companies over jim crow policies in the civil rights era were the intolerant ones?
devindotcom
·11 dagen geleden·discuss
Is IKEA's founder alive and currently donating lots of money to a political party advocating for mass deportation of "parasites"? If so let me know and I will stop buying IKEA furniture!
devindotcom
·11 dagen geleden·discuss
brave! but fortunately you are safe because no one is challenging his right to say it.
devindotcom
·11 dagen geleden·discuss
you value privacy, but you don't think privacy is a political topic? VPNs, encryption, and other privacy tools are regularly under attack or protected by legislation and policy that is actively debated and lobbied for.

I think that you do care about politics, you just don't care about this particular topic or policy. That's your prerogative of course, but don't pretend you are wholly above the fray. I suspect if a company's founder had donated millions to a party aiming to mandate backdoored encryption you would suddenly find yourself to be a very political person.
devindotcom
·11 dagen geleden·discuss
"It should be obvious that Daniel's private donation to a political party is not part of Mullvad's values or mission."
devindotcom
·12 dagen geleden·discuss
in a global market, principles don't stop at the border
devindotcom
·12 dagen geleden·discuss
I understand Mullvad has historically been a leader in privacy among the big VPN options. What are some other equally affordable and user friendly options that you all have been satisfied with? Think for someone who saw Mullvad advertised during the Super Bowl but looking to leave because of this news.
devindotcom
·12 dagen geleden·discuss
Curious: edit for readability in what way? Surely just layout stuff, not changing the content of the books?
devindotcom
·15 dagen geleden·discuss
Don't forget self check out at the grocery store. I don't mind personally (I find ways to make it worth my while..) but it's a version of the same thing. Shifting labor under the guise of convenience. Like all the other versions of this, the savings are absorbed by the company, not passed on to the consumer. It's rare that the opposite happens.
devindotcom
·15 dagen geleden·discuss
My favorite version of this is robotic and drone-based package delivery. In many ways it could be useful and add efficiency to a congested system. But then you find out just what it is that delivery people actually do, the variety of security systems, steps and walkways, exceptions to rules, and so on and realize that what drones and robots automate is not really "the job" at all.

The last mile, in logistics, hospitality, retail or elsewhere is not just a mile, it's an interdependent series of several distances each with its own rules and restrictions. Tech-based solutions tend to solve an idealized, abstracted version of these and end up being only a very limited solution if they solve anything at all.
devindotcom
·15 dagen geleden·discuss
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devindotcom
·18 dagen geleden·discuss
it's not about filming in public. it's about systematic data collection by law enforcement, using private infrastructure present by its nature in public. that's why the Carpenter decision is relevant.