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literallyaduck··on Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016
When Apple and HP collaborated, HP was forced to cram iTunes on its devices for years. China isn't known for respecting IP, not sure who is the "good guy" in this collaboration, almost like the Borg and Cylons joined forces.
literallyaduck··on Facebook and Snapchat iOS Apps Still Tracking Users Despite Opt-Out
Users indicated they didn't want to be tracked. Wiretapping, and other stalking laws can be used for this, it isn't Facebook's first brush with the law so the fines should reflect that.
literallyaduck··on Ask HN: How to manage a large static HTML site?
Replace:

Deploy as is in read only mode, and strangle the pages with the new system. Keep the urls the same so you don't brake links.

Reduce:

Collect logs of the traffic and suggest culling pages unused for 1 year, 6 months etc.

Reuse:

Move the media items first and keep the links the same.

Keep a separation between content and application code.

Blogspam:

Open source your product and list yourself as the expert.

Be your own boss:

Now that you are the expert sell consulting services.

literallyaduck··on Intel updates mysterious ‘software-defined silicon’ code in the Linux kernel
Binary blobs are a security threat, a right to repairs threat, an ownership threat.
literallyaduck··on Facebook and Snapchat iOS Apps Still Tracking Users Despite Opt-Out
Severe fines starting with 25% of gross and making them pay for mandatory audits, coupled with jail for executives would mitigate this.
literallyaduck··on Kamala Is Right. Bluetooth Is a Risk
An investigation should be done to determine the extent the Biden administration used Bluetooth vulnerabilities against their political rivals.
literallyaduck··on Australians to create climate 'black box'
The pitch drop 1930's science experiment is the longest running, and they hope their steel monolith lasts that long.

If it isn't a dwelling, likely leaks which corrode will happen quickly and be untreated.

If the atmosphere is unrecoverable then they are hoping for an alien to recover it which has a host of other problems. If the earth does recover and people find this before it rots are we anticipating they will be able to retrieve the data?

It is more likely some chieftain will have a nice magnetic platter disc necklace, than it is for a civilization to have the right understanding and capability to get back the data. On the off chance it is recovered for its intended purpose, it will be a wealth of information.

literallyaduck··on Tim Cook reportedly signed five-year $275bn deal with Chinese officials
Don't forget 10% for the big guy.
literallyaduck··on Amazon services down for thousands of users
It doesn't matter how fast your car can drive if the ferry it takes breaks down.
literallyaduck··on There are over one trillion SQLite databases in active use
Sqlite is just that, lightweight. If you want better JSON support specialized for what you want, extend it. The product allows extensions easily.
literallyaduck··on The U.S. productivity slowdown: an economy-wide and industry-level analysis
And just like in the classic Animal Farm, the animals threw off their shackles and became the elites who crushed the downtrodden.
literallyaduck··on The U.S. productivity slowdown: an economy-wide and industry-level analysis
Romans attempted to feed its slaves to lamprey. They also refused automation because it would displace the slaves. They worked slaves to death on occasion. Rome had crucifixion and boiled people in oil for trivial reasons. Human cruelty knows no bounds and as a species we haven't changed much. If you look at modern examples:

https://www.history.com/news/ukrainian-famine-stalin

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017839/Madman-star...

literallyaduck··on The U.S. productivity slowdown: an economy-wide and industry-level analysis
Let's take the states for example 99.95 are nonentities so that leaves 330,150,668 *.0005 = 165,075.

That doesn't count the sex workers, security, or workers programming and running the bots. That is still a lot of people for one country, and shopping will change a bit, and they will all pat themselves on the back for saving the planet now that the population is under control.

You will have resistance but in the end the deathbots will win.

literallyaduck··on The U.S. productivity slowdown: an economy-wide and industry-level analysis
Should robots appear tomorrow and replace 99.95% of the workforce do you really believe the robot owners will be altruistic enough to provide charity to the displaced workforce?

The attractive people who are out of work will end up in the sex industry. The rest will go to protection zones, ghettos, and will be sterilized to prevent reproduction, and possibly starved depending on how things go.

Society is not shock resistant and needs time to grow into things. Look at oligarchies and tell me socialism, capitalism, and communism are really any different beyond the rhetoric.

How many dev shops said they are agile when they were clearly waterfall?

No matter what you call it the ruling class will always call the tune and the poor and middle class will dance.

literallyaduck··on U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware
Why would heads roll?

Congress has blocked inquiries into their split loyalty as far as them having multiple citizenship in other countries. If you were McDonald's board of directors would you allow someone to be on both the McDonald's board and Wendy's?

Congress isn't personally harmed by a surveillance state unless you consider they may all be being blackmailed but that is another conversation. In fact mass surveillance widens the barrier to new entries into politics as they can use whatever dirty they find and give it to federally funded media mouthpieces.

This week we saw articles of sexual crimes against children being swept under the rug to "protect our country" do we really think that congress would actively pursuit this line of inquiry?

literallyaduck··on Buried in Infrastructure Bill Is a Mandatory Backdoor Kill Switch for Your Car
The mandatory interlock for alcohol could be used for the same purpose. Sure don't want citizens moving around the country without their permission, they might get ideas of freedom and liberty and forget about the benefits of having a big brother to check up on you.
literallyaduck··on React: The Perils of Rehydration
Trying to couple client server might seem like a good idea, but you are always left guessing as to how the component got in the state it is in, which defeats a lot of the stateless ideas and puts us in a bad place debugging. Express is a good idea, React is a good idea, NextJs and the like make the developers guess until they get burned enough and then by that time a new concept like hooks vs class components comes to popularity and you start the process of learning where the new pit traps are located, until the next big shakeup.
literallyaduck··on CIA Files Say Staffers Committed Sex Crimes Involving Children
It isn't too late. Crimes against children has high or no limitations in many places.
literallyaduck··on Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse policy
Meta will have a new young owner before this is done.
literallyaduck··on Trump's Social Media Site Quietly Admits It's Based on Mastodon
The site:

https://www.truthsocial.com/

Mastodon:

https://joinmastodon.org/

Source:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon

License:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/LICENSE

Disclosure and same license are required.

literallyaduck··on Texas woman wins round in lawsuit challenging swat teams destruction of her home
The rhetoric of the day around protests has been, property is irrelevant and lives matter. Aside from the dog, the police didn't kill anyone, this time. The rhetoric also says insurance will cover it.

That was a lie.

In this case and in many of the victims of last year's unrest people are finding insurance doesn't cover it. Ethically the city would cover the actions of the officers and the voters and taxpayers would consider that in the next election cycle. If the incumbents win, the people have spoken that the actions are valid. Currently qualified immunity has given a wide path for police to rush in and worry later.

Sadly a dog got hurt, in other cases it has been a flashbang in a crib mutilating a minor. Elections show the will of the people.

literallyaduck··on Twitter bans sharing images/videos of private individuals without their consent
Twitter does what it wants. They will bend their rules when it favors them or their party. People will still be filmed posted on Twitter demonized and picked up by the outrage industry and paraded until they have their apology tour and are unemployable. Twitter must be held civilly liable for their publications before they truly stop ruining lives and feeding the syndication of divisive fear.
literallyaduck··on Searchable flight logs from Jeffrey Epstein’s plane
https://epstein.flights/flight/57

Naomi Campbell and Clinton on the same flight. I bet that was an interesting flight.

literallyaduck··on Wanted: A Town Willing to Host a Dump for U.S. Nuclear Waste
Think you are better than the Mexicans? That isn't very nice.

No one wants a homeless shelter in their neighborhood, but if you ever are homeless you will appreciate it.

literallyaduck··on Modeling suggests friendships may lead to lopsided elections
I should have made it clearer that the voided contracts are so the leader could sign big juicy contracts for their own cronies.
literallyaduck··on Wanted: A Town Willing to Host a Dump for U.S. Nuclear Waste
Unpopular opinion, but using the border would kill at least two birds with one stone. Further federal security funds must be spent to protect it so why not reduce the surface area of protected areas.
literallyaduck··on Back end developers on hackathons are not needed
Just skip everyone except an invision prototyper and a LOB. Done ! Reductive and missing the point of Hackathons, and simply a poor shark tank style pitch-a-thon.
literallyaduck··on U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy
How about holding Facebook responsible for the stolen IP available on Giphy with the same fervent prosecution which was shown to the Love Guru pirate?
literallyaduck··on Modeling suggests friendships may lead to lopsided elections
Democracy is unrecoverable. Imagine for a moment that the employees of McDonald's get to vote for a CEO every four years.

A bunch of employees get together and vote their friend Reggie in. Reggie doesn't do anything crazy, but his supporters now all are promoted to management, he signs a bunch of contracts to supply things from his brother in law and he takes the company jet to Thailand and never leaves.

Reggie gets voted out and Sally gets voted in.

The company is making a little less money but it is her turn and she throws out all of the Reggie followers in management and promotes the Sally followers to management, voids the contracts causing costly lawsuits and gives a bracelet for free McFlurries for life.

She then mandates that Wendy's employees get a vote. She takes a flight to Thailand and stays for two terms thanks to the Wendy's vote.

Dave III takes over and promises to heal the burger divide and promises that Wendy's employees votes will count double because they have been disenfranchised for years, he voids all Sally's contracts once again a costly move that almost bankrupts the company. He leaves her employees because of the Wendy's deal. With new brother in laws and new contracts signed, Dave rallys the voters and tells them he is going to protect their future by putting their pensions and retirement into the company's trust, and appoints his wife as trustee. They take the remaining money and retire in New Zealand.

Every shift in power weakens the company. Every clean out and replacement of staff is a huge cost to the company.

Common people can never exert enough influence to better their situation beyond short term nepotism.

literallyaduck··on Video shows San Francisco police watching as burglary unfolds
Last year people argued that property rights don't matter and lives are more important. It seems the SFPD is following that practice.
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