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by 1shooner 1y ago
There is much more diversity of perspective among friends and colleagues than there is in my algorithmic social media feed. This is the whole problem: we no longer see perspectives we respect but don't share.
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by 1shooner 1y ago
Aside from resolving the cause, I had to use a foam wedge knee bolster to stabilize me while I slept for an unrelated injury, and I was amazed how much that almost immediately also reduced my lumbar pain.
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by 1shooner 1y ago
I think you're comparing apples and oranges: a federal rule vs a state law. I don't know what kind of federal click-to-cancel legislation initiatives exist, but I know the last two federal digital privacy bills have failed because
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by 1shooner 1y ago
>I mean they’re not cartoon villains. Sure. I'm not assuming the worst from them, but in lieu of a reason, I am expecting the same.
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>if Zuck doesn’t want to re-hash his old original sin (distracting algorithmic feeds) into this new form factor Out of curiosity, is there a specific reason to expect different? To me this is designed for attention primacy, for exactly t
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by 1shooner 1y ago
See also centuries of chrysopoeia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysopoeia . To be fair, they did synthesize gold in 1984, "although the production cost is estimated to be a trillion times the market price of gol
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> the industrial revolution has corrupted the human genome far more than we can measure. Ok, but do you have any objective measure to back up this claim?
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by 1shooner 1y ago
I never regret not commenting.
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> It’s capitalism eating itself. I thought that was kind of a definition, or at least broad explanation, of fascism.
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>You need to be top 0.01% to make a living. The point was that people do it for the enjoyment of learning and improving, not because they are compensated.
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>We have fully modeled worst-case - as well as lesser-case - scenarios for an accident or leak. The analysis has shown zero impact experienced by the public. Well that's a relief.
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by 1shooner 1y ago
There is a product category around this, e.g.: https://docs.browserbase.com/features/stealth-mode#captcha-s... Personally, I see this as ToS violation-as-a-service, but I guess ethics left the AI stack space a while ag
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by 1shooner 1y ago
I don't need PR from my free mobile OS developer. I just need regular secure updates, which they seem to do a good job providing.
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by 1shooner 1y ago
Most of my Tailwind objections have gone away with the availability of CSS layers. Now using a library for a utility layer, which can surgically override your component layer, makes perfect sense. And using a library for that component laye
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by 1shooner 1y ago
>I plainly do not accept that propaganda === war crimes I'd say propaganda is often necessary, and usually successful, at allowing governments to execute war crimes. I think most modern war crimes are lied out of existence by propag
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by 1shooner 1y ago
I can't vouch for the source, but this provides a factual chronology of Yandex's (forced) integration into Russian state propaganda: https://www.zois-berlin.de/en/publications/zois-spotlight/th...
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by 1shooner 1y ago
>Do you boycott google and amazon It's odd to put this as some kind of inconceivable checkmate. I have several family members that avoid Amazon, some strictly, some when possible, some when convenient. This thread is about Kagi, of
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by 1shooner 1y ago
I left Chase because their anti-fraud detection was so suspicious that Chase's own customer service told me it was fraud and had me close my checking account in the middle of a vacation. Only later I put together it was legitimate frau
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by 1shooner 1y ago
>The demands on kids and families I'd like to understand this more. Families like this that I know talk about it as though it's as unavoidable as their mortgage, but functionally isn't this entirely self-imposed? Is it a l
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by 1shooner 1y ago
I consider myself an introvert, and this article seems like an impossible anxiety spiral-inducing checklist. >Don’t waste their time with “Great party.” Say something more vivid. “The lighting is perfect.” What? I think someone needing t
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by 1shooner 1y ago
>some APAC conspiracy This is not a binary of either NWO conspiracy or paranoid antisemitism . AIPAC is a lobby, just like many other lobbies. They boast on their website[1] that they've paid $53M to politicians. Just like any other
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by 1shooner 1y ago
Do you encounter people that would rather you not point a Meta camera at them as a condition of interacting with you? Or is it more task-specific?
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by 1shooner 1y ago
I don't recall the details, but I think he was explaining that the city paid more to avoid Flock reusing the data. Of course governments use third party vendors to store and handle their data all the time, that doesn't necessarily
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by 1shooner 1y ago
I once had a firepit conversation with the Floc coordinator of a small US city's PD. A big part of the value he saw in Floc was being able to query the data within some window (maybe 30 days?) then no longer being responsible for it. I
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by 1shooner 1y ago
I experienced this at an boy's prep high school in the late 90s. It really was alienating to have friends I'd known since kindergarten start to refer to me by my last name out of sheer conformity.
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by 1shooner 1y ago
>TFA doesn't say where they are, or what currency they're using They say California, and I'm seeing the dollar amount in the title and metadata as $1,3k, was that an edit?
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by 1shooner 1y ago
>(1) With limited well scoped exclusions for lawyers, medical records, erc. Is this referring to some actual legal precedent, or just your personal opinion?
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I'm just saying administrators would not take these measures if they didn't see less risk in taking them than in not. Anecdotally, I see Xennial/Millennial 'helicopter' parents expect universities to take broad, oft
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by 1shooner 1y ago
Reminds me of this project that just came up on DC's reddit: https://github.com/TokyoExpress/metrobox/
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by 1shooner 1y ago
Society generally puts maximal responsibility on school administrators for the well-being of students, so it should not be surprising that they will take maximal measures in response to that expectation. They are ultimately risk mitigators,

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