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by Arainach 7mo ago
Is there a writeup of the objectives of lobbying/spending here? Are specific bills/topics proposed for the upcoming session?
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by Arainach 7mo ago
Someone wrote and deleted a comment saying > I don't get it. LLMs are supposed to have 100% bridged this gap from "normie" to "DIY website." What's missing? This is an all too common thought process among te
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by Arainach 7mo ago
> E.g., Nobody wants to continue working with someone who create sound effects, movie player, operating system, etc. What do you mean by this?
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by Arainach 7mo ago
The contribution of salt in hypertension and other issues is overblown in popular media. I'm on blood pressure meds. I regularly check in with doctors on things. No, you shouldn't be eating unlimited salt, but sugar and choleste
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by Arainach 7mo ago
....which should be compared against other premade patties and how people make and serve beef patties, not against the theoretical option that people could choose to omit salt. The whole "salt" angle is bikeshedding - no one advoc
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by Arainach 7mo ago
"natural" does not mean healthy. "Processed" does not mean bad. Something that feels and tastes like a reasonable substitute for meat but doesn't jack up my cholesterol is very much appreciated.
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by Arainach 7mo ago
Given that it held up against 13 years of dedicated efforts by people with physical access to the device, many years after its successor was launched, it seems merited in this case. This talk about some of what went into it is fascinating:
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by Arainach 7mo ago
I don't even agree with that. In many cases the rich people at best paid the salaries of other innovative people and then claimed the IP rights and the overwhelming share of the proceeds. Elon didn't invent anything about rockets
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by Arainach 7mo ago
> Most of the American innovation came from a small number of very rich people Replace "came from" with "was purchased by" or "was copied by an entity with the resources to push the inventor out of the market&quo
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by Arainach 7mo ago
The US does not limit the number of doctors that can graduate. The limit is on the number of residencies funded by medicare. If the private sector wanted more doctors in order to pay doctors less, they could just offer paid residencies th
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by Arainach 7mo ago
If the businesses that want data centers want to pay the full construction costs for the new power plants, great. Otherwise consumers are paying for them in the rates they pay to energy companies. It should not be considered shocking or co
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by Arainach 7mo ago
Holes such as what? There have always been rules and laws. The US has never been a totally free market. Most of the laws and rules we have were written in blood by people professing a "free market" right to poison our people, ri
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by Arainach 7mo ago
Never has been. A totally free market doesn't work and has failed every time it was tried. You want one today, go set up shop in Somalia.
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by Arainach 7mo ago
Because these data centers are at best overstressing utility grids and elevating prices for everyone and at worse running dirty generators and poisoning entire communities, for a start.
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by Arainach 7mo ago
>Since when did we restrict people's ability to do things? When those things impact other people - such as by skyrocketing utility prices, overloading the electrical grid, and more.
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by Arainach 7mo ago
>The latter statement implies the former It does not, unless you have previously instructed not to intermix ingredients in their container.
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by Arainach 7mo ago
I've been building machines myself for nearly 30 years, including multiple in the last 5, and I assure you I've needed to do nothing besides connect to the internet and let it get updates each time.
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by Arainach 7mo ago
When is the last time you used Windows? XP? It hasn't been an issue for decades. Graphics drivers moved out of kernel space in Windows Vista.
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by Arainach 7mo ago
Unless you have very specialized needs, the driver experience on Windows is "turn the machine on". The driver update experience is "connect to the internet" and occasionally "reboot". That's it. Linux is
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by Arainach 8mo ago
I'd argue an internal framework isn't a "product", but the confusion is real.
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by Arainach 8mo ago
> If your repo requires a colleague's approval before merge, and that colleague is on level 2, still manually reviewing PRs, that stifles your throughput. So it is in your best interest to pull your team up. Until you build an AI on
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by Arainach 8mo ago
> It never stopped a thing. Imperfect does not mean ineffective. Every time you make something more difficult it reduces the number of people who will do it. Pardon my 1990s metaphor, but: * If you have no DRM and people can just share
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by Arainach 8mo ago
That may work for you , but it does not work for anyone running a platform and dealing with the needs of all users. That requires real moderation for both legal and practical purposes, as previously described.
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by Arainach 8mo ago
"friends and followees" Only allowing posts between mutual friends is instant messaging, not a social network. Discovery, engagement, and platform growth comes from people wanting to hear from and interact with followers who they
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by Arainach 8mo ago
No, because that puts the effort of fighting bad actors on everyone. It means that every day you have new trolls spewing hate in your comments, and that your users have to constantly keep blocking trolls who follow them (and who recruit ot
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by Arainach 8mo ago
I listed some of the real world consequences already. Allowing disinformation to spread and assuming that people will figure out what's wrong on their own does not scale and does not work.
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by Arainach 8mo ago
> what's there to win? there is nothing to win for anybody. There are ideological battles to be fought by all sorts of parties - convincing groups to hate each other, to support or oppose the governments in power, to spread division
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by Arainach 8mo ago
Community members are a finite resource. Moderators are a downright scare resource. When you let people spew hateful things you drive away the people you want in the community and are left with a toxic cesspool that no one wants to visit.
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by Arainach 8mo ago
What dark patterns is the Pixel Camera app using, or what bad things is it doing with my data? In what way is my camera app infringing on my freedom? "It was written by company X I don't like" is not an answer - why should
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by Arainach 8mo ago
Dismissing the stock apps as "shitware" without bothering to try them or offer specific examples of areas where Opencam is better does not inspire confidence in your opinions. Full manual controls does not mean "better".

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