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marindez | 8 years ago | on: What Happens When a Suburb Begins to Die?

>If a population is too poor to support its municipal costs, the solution cannot be to let the suburb rot. There is no creative destruction option. If you let the suburb rot, all you’ll have is a more rotten suburb.

A rotten suburb is not a problem if nobody lives in it.

marindez | 8 years ago | on: Tracking friends and strangers using WhatsApp

It's free (unlike SMS or MMS) and back in the day it was the only service that worked reliably on all mobile platforms and didn't use PINs or usernames--just the phone numbers in your contact list so it was plug&play: just install it and you can talk to everybody.

marindez | 8 years ago | on: Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile

>For more niche apps they ran promotions for students and independent developers giving away free phones etc.

I remember they were giving Lumia 925's to computer engineering students here years ago if they made and uploaded an app. You can imagine the quality of the apps they were uploading. Most of them were slideshows or just a wall of text.

That's not how you incentivise app developers, that's how you inflate your numbers.

marindez | 8 years ago | on: PureVPN Logs Helped FBI Net Alleged Cyberstalker

That's one way to put it.

Another way is: there are two options. Either we have strong anonimity on the Internet, or the authorities have the power to catch criminals. Which one do you think would win in a vote?

marindez | 8 years ago | on: Debian 9.2 released

As someone who hasn't used CentOS much, when I've had to use it I've found the package selection (packages/versions) to be lacking, requiring me to use one of the countless 3rd party repos that may or may not contain what I need

marindez | 8 years ago | on: The rise of drug overdoses in New Hampshire has created a backlog of autopsies

I’ve heard this argument many times now and I still fail to see how we’re feeling sympathy for these people. Every time this conversation is brought up I see 0 solutions and people that very low-key suggest these people have to die because coal must disappear, because outsourcing to China is good because we’re living in a global economy, because they vote Trump and they don’t share our liberal view of society and they might not like black people or feminists, etc.
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