Bratmon

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by Bratmon 1y ago
> it's just dns lookups for now It's not even doing that- It wanted me to "Buy Now" google.com
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by Bratmon 1y ago
R is an entire language based around the idea of making code as unreadable as possible by means of bizarrely stacked syntactic sugar. It shouldn't surprise anyone that it didn't win out.
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by Bratmon 1y ago
So what's your explanation?
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by Bratmon 1y ago
Manufacturing jobs are mostly unionized and service jobs aren't. Americans actually want unions back, but because anti-union propaganda is so prevalent, they confused themselves into thinking they want manufacturing jobs back
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by Bratmon 1y ago
Fun fact: If you click the headline, it usually links to a full article which answers those kinds of questions.
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by Bratmon 1y ago
> It's self-defeating to simply assume everyone that voted for Trump in 2024 continues to support cozying up to middle eastern autocrats, covering up the Epstein case, bully pulpit led cryptocurrency fraud, middle of the night raids
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by Bratmon 1y ago
This is why I don't like the term "AI". Because it leads to people thinking that ChatGPT is somehow relevant to the field of robotics.
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by Bratmon 1y ago
> Do you have any idea for an alternative to process? Any bank that asks for a federal bailout should get immediately nationalized no questions asked. If you're too big to fail, you're too big to be run by executives with golde
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by Bratmon 1y ago
Saving this for next time the big banks fail and demand a government bailout.
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by Bratmon 1y ago
Prop 13 is a religious document in California. You'd have more luck persuading the Catholic Church to repeal the Bible.
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by Bratmon 1y ago
The US literally just tried that with gambling, and we discovered that making gambling legal increased the number of addicts by so much that it shows up in "total bankruptcies" statistics.
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by Bratmon 1y ago
This is a distinction without a difference. "Regressive", "reactionary", and "conservative" are three words that refer to the exact same people and mean the exact same thing.
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by Bratmon 1y ago
Fun fact: During the actual Renaissance, they had "tournaments" which were just medieval fairs.
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by Bratmon 1y ago
...made by a company that's really good at releasing cool demos and taking people's money, but really bad at actually delivering products to those people.
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by Bratmon 1y ago
Computer usage is nothing new in the U.S., people just used to find a university or business to buy mainframe time from. Microcomputers just meant that they didn't have to maintain a relationship with a university.
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by Bratmon 1y ago
But it is their device. That's why the legalese at the beginning makes such a big deal of explaining that it's licensed not sold.
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by Bratmon 1y ago
But in this case, the government threatened to yank ABC's broadcast licenses (worth way more than $1m) if they didn't cancel Kimmel for criticizing the regime.
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by Bratmon 1y ago
No. "If he were more profitable, his company would have spent money on a legal defense instead" is not a valid counterargument to "It is bad that the government threatened a company into cancelling a show because they critic
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by Bratmon 1y ago
But there is a massive difference here. The left uses social pressure to silence people they don't like, the right uses government power to silence people they don't like. These are not even close to the same.
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by Bratmon 1y ago
So if the government passed a million-dollar fine for criticism of the ruling party, you would find that acceptable?
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by Bratmon 1y ago
The FCC made a direct threat to the affiliate owners that if they kept Jimmy Kimmel on the air, their broadcast licenses would be terminated. That is absolutely government pressure.
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by Bratmon 1y ago
You can tell someone has worked in the cloud for too long when they start to think of $6 per database query as a reasonable price.
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by Bratmon 1y ago
I'm curious as to what people in Phoenix would select as their timezone under your proposed solution?
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by Bratmon 1y ago
Or companies could, you know, train people to fill permanent positions instead of claiming permanent positions are temporary and acting shocked when they aren't.
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by Bratmon 1y ago
Fun fact: Meta was fined 57 minutes of revenue for these practices.
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by Bratmon 1y ago
I don't understand how that justifies Instacart suing the organization that is reposting the job ads in a more accessible way.
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by Bratmon 1y ago
Abolish the H1B. Now.
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by Bratmon 1y ago
That's an obvious lie. If it were true, companies wouldn't be suing to keep their job postings hidden from American citizens (source: the article)
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Why would that be?
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by Bratmon 1y ago
Payment processors demonstrated that they can, with a handful of keystrokes, destroy any industry they dislike. I don't think it's "whataboutism" to ask why they don't do something that helps society with that power

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