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decoyworkeron GlobalFoundries sues TSMC, wants U.S. import ban on some products

Microsoft and Apple do not make good products?

decoyworkeron Opioid crisis: Johnson and Johnson hit by landmark ruling

I had wisdom teeth removed and never even filled my Vicodin prescription- shredded it. I was told by a family member that I should have filled it since, "It's good to have that on hand." No thanks.

This attitude toward this stuff makes me think that most just don't realize how bad it is. Most people mean well but don't know any better.

decoyworkeron Opioid crisis: Johnson and Johnson hit by landmark ruling

Insightful and true.

In America it's practically taboo to tell someone they don't need a thing and the tolerance for any discomfort is extremely low.

decoyworkeron Our Food Is Killing Too Many of Us

That's boring though and don't you know that whole grains are poison? /s

For real though- the big battle is convincing people of this simple but boring fact. Limiting portion size and adding a little moderate exercise is all you need but it doesn't sell books and make the social media rounds. What is the best way to portray this to the public?

decoyworkeron Our Food Is Killing Too Many of Us

>More than 100 million adults — almost half the entire adult population — have pre-diabetes or diabetes. Cardiovascular disease afflicts about 122 million people and causes roughly 840,000 deaths each year, or about 2,300 deaths each day. Three in four adults are overweight or obese. More Americans are sick, in other words, than are healthy.

Jesus Christ. Aside from many of the obvious causes I think the public just has no idea what a "good" scientifically supported eating habit looks like. They turn to fad diets that go around social media. Their heart is in the right place but it's become difficult to determine BS from scientifically supported habits- even on this site I see fad diets being promoted. Internet searches usually turn up blogs touting fad diets and not real science. The deck is stacked against the average citizen in this regard.

decoyworkeron Android 10: Google Confirms 193 Security Vulnerabilities Need Fixing

There should me a method of taking this further. Like having the real radio, sensor, etc information but also having a mocked version of these interfaces. The user can toggle mocked or real interface and the app has no idea which it is receiving. Each one can be faked in its own specific way (spoofed GPS looks different than spoofed accelerometer, etc).

Edit: Disclaimer I have almost 0 knowledge of Android development.

decoyworkeron Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on the web

Constructive! So a solution to this Internet issue is to stop using the Internet?

decoyworkeron Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on the web

If people want fewer ads and tracking then more content will be paywalled. This is bad for a few reasons. For one, people who can't afford to pay their way thru paywalls go get their news from Facebook or sources backed by people like the Kochs or Breitbart.

Awesome, we killed advertising and fixed privacy but now what have we gained? A walled-garden on the truth?

decoyworkeron Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest tycoon

The Vietnamese had room to maneuver and hide and had the support of the locals. In addition you overestimate how little the Chinese government gives a shit about the average citizen. In such an engagement there will be no "hearts and minds" war. If they decide to go the military route they will flood HK and massacre anybody who gives off the slightest whiff of sedition.

Personally I think they'll just continue arresting and making people disappear to the mainland so there is nothing damaging on the news.

decoyworkeron Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest tycoon

Has not been formally withdrawn.

decoyworkeron Google's software mistreats or harms the user

I think it's also that his entire livelihood depends on him continuing to do so.

decoyworkeron Google's software mistreats or harms the user

If we are in the business of telling society what they SHOULD care about I'd wager about a hundred other things are more important than free software.

decoyworkeron Google's software mistreats or harms the user

Nope. AOSP runs on a mobile device which is malware

https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-mobiles.html

decoyworkeron Google's software mistreats or harms the user

https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.html

Apple's Operating Systems are Malware

Is there anything these guys like? Stallman and Gnu are extremists

decoyworkeron China Missiles Could Overwhelm U.S. Military in Asia in ‘Hours’, Says Think Tank

I've served over there and of the bases I've seen I doubt a single one would be "destroyed" in the total sense. There are just so many, most of them are large and spread out, and the structures are usually reinforced concrete. At the start of this soft targets would be moved anyway. Meh.

decoyworkeron China Missiles Could Overwhelm U.S. Military in Asia in ‘Hours’, Says Think Tank

Actual think-tank paper: https://www.ussc.edu.au/analysis/averting-crisis-american-st...

After skimming I'm not too impressed with this. It makes a lot of sweeping assumptions, some totally inaccurate, about our readiness in the area and seems to disapprove of them not being at peak war-time levels. More alarmist than anything.

I might be biased since I served in Okinawa for a few years.

decoyworkeron Twitter is displaying China-made ads attacking Hong Kong protesters

Why is there such a disconnect between the tech elite and the generally well-intentioned and helpful people of this site? What happens between fighting to make your way in the tech world and becoming a cynical fuck-the-world jerk like Dorsey, Thiel, or Zuck?

Is it really that hard to benefit humanity and do the right thing?

decoyworkeron She Wanted a Man with a Good Job Who Is Nice to Animals

What need? The need to continue doing what they were already doing but under contract?

decoyworkeron Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye

The market has spoken.

decoyworkeron I feel like im talking to the borg

The title of this post is an ad hominem. It's an insult/joke that adds nothing to the discussion. Saying someone sounds like the Borg isn't an insult?

decoyworkeron I feel like im talking to the borg

I'm going to keep asking the same question and resort to ad hominem attacks until I get the answer that I am looking for!

decoyworkeron America’s elderly seem more screen-obsessed than the young

we play the game with the bravery of being out of range

decoyworkeron Protests Put Hong Kong on Collision Course with China’s Communist Party

Could you explain what you mean by that?

decoyworkeron Protests Put Hong Kong on Collision Course with China’s Communist Party

The title calls one side Communists (as it should). That word has an effect on the reader.

decoyworkeron Protests Put Hong Kong on Collision Course with China’s Communist Party

In your view they have moved past simply being an anti-extradition bill protest? In other words- if the bill was withdrawn your sentiment is that the protests would continue?

decoyworkeron Chinese military entering Shenzen, just across the border with Hong Kong

Live thread that I've been following: https://old.reddit.com/live/133sixros7tu5/

decoyworkeron Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye

I blame RMS for forcing an ideology down our throats that a majority don't care about for the sake of some unfeasible purity. It's like he said to himself, "What would I have to do to be the smuggest most technically correct man in existence? Alright, I'm going to live like that regardless of the world and shove it in everyone's face."

I use my computer to do work. I don't have time for my computer to be some social battleground first-world-problem and quite frankly I don't care. RMS is right but he has the answer to an irrelevant question that nobody asked.

decoyworkeron Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye

Why is it always talked about as a battle with winners and losers? I think that everyone "wins" and the only real losers are those who see this as a battle at all. To me everyone has been elevated by the Linux and FOSS movement.

decoyworkeron Health insurance companies are useless

Rent seeking.

Literally getting paid to have a pile of money and sometimes pay part of people's medical care while skimming fat profits.

decoyworkeron Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019

I was considering picking up one of these but they seem incredibly overpriced for the specs listed.