Comment Phone please (Score 1) 29
Sounds good, how about a landscape slider phone? My F(x)tec Pro1 is getting a bit long in the tooth...
Sounds good, how about a landscape slider phone? My F(x)tec Pro1 is getting a bit long in the tooth...
Yep. Mr. Raghavan isn't the illness, he's just a symptom of ordinary market forces that innovative tech startups can only resist for so long.
Mr. President, we must not allow an exotic helicopter gap!
Marxism doesn't reject democracy at all and could hardly be any more pro-democratic, the only remotely undemocratic thought within Marxism is the concept that a "dictatorship of the proletariat" may be required during a transitional revolutionary period that would exist for the purpose of establishing a highly democratic communal society, and it seems to be only an assumption that this would be supported by the majority. If a majority voted to collectively seize all means of production (not private property, that's a red-scare strawman), you could call that populist or perhaps even authoritarian, but there's nothing undemocratic or anti-democratic about it.
Do you think having a command economy (a debatable label, but they are certainly closer to one than anywhere in the first world) makes them socialist or communist in some way? They have private ownership of the means of production, undemocratic workplaces, and billionaires that the state treats as royalty like Meng Wanzhou. State capitalism is still very much capitalism.
Biometrics: Credentials that can be stolen off your body, can't be hashed, and can never be reset...and stealing them off your body can be legal too.
Previous protests did result in a significant delay and eventual cancellation of Project Dragonfly, so the answer is yes, probably:
Unfortunately that's pretty much all of the companies...
It's worse than limited symptom-treating, they'll have no need to purchase data at all when they can just compel domestic companies to hand the data over China-style:
Actually, if Biden gets in again, there may not be a "next guy" either but for a different reason.
I'm really curious about what this might be. Sure, there would almost certainly be a "next girl" but there could be subsequent "next guys" after that...
US to China: Nobody gets away with turning all their megacorporations into arms of a giant state surveillance apparatus - except us!
It's good news that this "DRM developer" took 6 months to do what a DRM cracker did in less than 2 weeks. "DRM developer" is also one of the most openly villainous job titles I've ever run across.
Canada seems like a poster child for the failures of FPTP voting. For many decades they've had 2-3 leftist-to-centrist parties that attract voters who would all agree to put the tories well down the list of parties they'd like to have in charge (just above any far-right fringe parties that might appear, maybe also the most leftist party for some), and these parties get significant fractions of the vote, but the tories often win because they get more votes than any one of those 2-3 parties. In a ranked-choice system the tories wouldn't win just because the majority doesn't agree on their #1 choice for who they'd vastly prefer to have in power instead.
FPTP's tendency to force moderate outcomes is not an advantage even if it can seem appealing at times - it merely acts as a pressure vessel for extremism, holding it in with Kang vs. Kodos/Douche vs. Turd choices that disappoint a majority of voters across the spectrum until it explodes with the election of an anti-democratic candidate like Trump.
I agree that most people merely tolerate democracy rather than actually want it. FPTP does have a tendency to produce 2-party systems however:
You have to weigh the greening against crop losses due to less predictable/more extreme weather and reduced crop nutrition beyond 400ppm (the point where plants stop benefiting from increased CO2, which was passed many years ago). By 2030 the overall effect is expected to be signficant double-digit percentage drops in crop yields:
How about improved forms of democracy? Countries with primitive forms of democracy like first-past-the-post should upgrade to ranked-choice voting with proportional representation to break 2-party strangleholds and end strategic voting. The next step would be to move toward liquid democracy.
Business is a good game -- lots of competition and minimum of rules. You keep score with money. -- Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari
