BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 1y ago
The problem is that if you're very very bad, you can do a good thing and still be very bad.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
It looks like the link should actually be to https://financeunlock.substack.com/p/5-simple-steps-to-take-... .
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I agree. I would say in practical terms the most impactful subcategory here is companies and their consolidation. This is especially so because they tend to be more strict about funneling money to the top, which generally means they funne
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> So in the face of these market failures, legislation to combat the low hanging fruit like this is probably the only way to make life for consumers bearable without actually fixing the underlying issues. I tend to think that makes thing
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I too really miss the old OKCupid. I was on it from near its inception (around 2003 I think) until they started requiring phone numbers (2020 I think) and I agree its decline was tragic. That said, I think the world has changed in ways tha
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I don't see it so much as protecting people from bad information as protecting people from bad actors, among whom entities like Facebook are prominent. If people want to disseminate quackery they can do it like in the old days by stan
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
To me this is sort of like saying why do we need seat belts when we could just have people go to the gym so they're strong off to push back an oncoming car. Well, you can't get that strong, and also you can't really educate
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
The thing is that burying information in a firehose of nonsense is just another way of denying access to it. A great way to hide a sharp needle is to dump a bunch of blunt ones on top of it.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
But it is because of the deluge that that happens. We can only process so much information. If the amount of "content" coming through is orders of magnitude larger, it makes sense to just reject everything that looks even slight
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I just stretch as much as possible to use Python for every task.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I'm not sure the article really backs up the point that the difference here was markets. As it says, the problem with the initial system was that it "operated in ignorance of what food banks needed". It looks down its nose
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
It's so hilarious that people are upset that their favorite pseudoscientific nonsense was passed over in favor of some slightly different pseudoscientific nonsense. The movie Lone Star has a great line that's relevant: "It&#x
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
$10k is a slap on the wrist. He should be disbarred.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
It is true that this is a hypothesis that has been made, but it's a reach to say that "we know that's what these are".
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Well, Mario is Italian, right?
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
The article blurs the distinction between general symbolic representation and writing , which is specifically the symbolic representation of language . Thus this statement is self-contradictory: "[...] those prehistoric forms of wri
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> Google's Android customers, in contrast, were lied to They were, but I think for most users this is a sort of technical lie that they don't really care about, like if a restaurant says you can choose one of these four side di
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
It's like the meme with "they're the same picture". Standard modern business practices are evil.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
It's hard to call any vulnerability "hidden" when it occurs in a tool that openly claims to be "AI".
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
When I finally switched fully to Linux a few years ago I decided to go with Kubuntu and overall I've been satisfied. It's customizable so I can make it look and feel pretty similar to Win98 (always my goal :-) and works pretty sm
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
It's not just cloud SaaS apps, it's everything that is based on unbounded transactions. Every subscription-model service, every Uber-like service, every social media site, every "free" email provider, everything. If yo
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I'll take your question in good faith. What I want is for people to be free to immigrate to the US if they are a) not known to be dangerous; and b) prepared to commit to the US and support it. That means I am more in favor of permanen
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Maybe. I think one thing that contributes to my interpretation is that "peace" is something you can have more or less of, but you can't have more or less Erdős. So seeing "Erdős number" I just think "measurin
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
This is a nitpick but it's a bit awkward to call something "Global Peace Index" and then have it be a number where lower scores indicate more peace. It seems like it would make more sense to invert the scores.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I agree with this and it's something I've encountered when just trying to understand a codebase or track down a bug. There's a bit of the tail wagging the dog as an increasing proportion of commits are "meta-code"
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
It's certainly possible that some of those weird brands are of decent quality. My point is just that, if they're not, they'll just change the name from DYBOOP to CYEER and keep selling the same thing. There's no reputa
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
This is a nice perspective, especially with the brief comments that follow the main post. A part of me wants to disagree with the sentiment the author expresses in the last comment, but more and more I'm finding it hard to deny: >
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
What I find depressing is that so many of these cases lead to various authorities issuing a limited statement on behalf of just their particular in-group. We do see some wider condemnation going on. But like, the right thing for the Korea
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Indeed, what is the surveillance state/economy but a "massive attack" against us all?
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
A business trading on a name without some kind of sunk cost that incentivizes them to protect that name should be a red flag for consumers. It's the same thing that's made Amazon a surreal morass of brands like DYBOOP and BIPLOZA

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