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by Bud 4y ago
Can we? That seems to very much depend on who is in power and who has benefitted from the shadiness in question.
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by Bud 4y ago
The claim wasn't that they did so for the Chinese government. But Facebook, for example, did so, for its own purposes. This is just as bad. We can't really have journalism being threatened, regardless of whether it's threaten
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by Bud 4y ago
Except that this story reveals the obvious reason this wouldn't work. How do you reliably keep that US "arm" from being co-opted? How do you make sure that the software isn't phoning home to China regardless of what the
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by Bud 4y ago
Let's not fool ourselves. US companies have been doing the same thing, and they will continue to.
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by Bud 4y ago
If they won't follow one set of laws, how will another set of laws reliably solve the problem? They can just disobey those laws, too. Anonymous login credentials can be de-anonymized in all kinds of ways.
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by Bud 4y ago
I sing Bach professionally, for the last 25 years or so. So I just wanted to echo this recommendation. The All of Bach project is a great way to experience the best of today's Bach performance practice online, for free. It's a gre
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by Bud 4y ago
Mendelssohn is also responsible for reviving Bach's St. Matthew Passion, which I've performed around 60 times.
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by Bud 4y ago
Sounds easy, but I think you'll find that in practice, it's not so easy to just toss around murder (or accessory to murder) charges because something annoys you. Even if it annoys you a lot. It's a slippery slope from that to
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by Bud 4y ago
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/19/ftc-fines-fortnite-maker-e...
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Epic Games to Pay $520M over Children’s Privacy and Trickery Charges(nytimes.com)
10 points by Bud 4y ago|2 comments
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by Bud 4y ago
Jeez, and I thought my -12.5 prescription was bad!
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by Bud 4y ago
Worst of all is how the following page inexplicably has a rather dark gray filter applied to it until it's fully visible. Just awful.
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by Bud 4y ago
To be fair, it was almost required to be unrecognizable. The original novels consist mostly of two people in a room, alone, talking to each other. Not exactly workable for a major TV series.
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by Bud 4y ago
Except that we have all kinds of other indicators of this phenomenon as well.
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by Bud 4y ago
This is misleading. Some vaccines do use two fetal cell lines in their development or testing. NOT in their "manufacturing". These cell lines were derived from two elective abortions in the 1960s and 1970s. The same cell lines h
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by Bud 4y ago
Please explain how the car in question was found in the first place, at an airport the size of a small city. Flight-tracking data will have been of absolutely zero help in doing that, of course.
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by Bud 4y ago
This is kind of a huge spoiler of one of the great moments in TV of the last decade. It might be kinder if you deleted it.
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by Bud 4y ago
Yes. Especially when they put it in quotation marks and pretend that others said it, when they didn't.
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by Bud 4y ago
I'd prefer that we not all pretend that 2000-year-old religions somehow magically dictated that vaccines were bad. They obviously didn't. These obviously are not legitimate "religious" beliefs. Religion is transparently
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by Bud 4y ago
I guess it's fortunate that we have almost three years' worth of data conclusively establishing this fact, then! https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/...
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by Bud 4y ago
No part of this happened. Also, experts are actually experts, so let's lose the quotation marks. Please cite instances of "browbeating" from Fauci or other prominent public health figures. Please support this wild story in, w
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by Bud 4y ago
There are multiple X1 Carbon models. I Googled this and it looks like starting with the 9th-generation model, Lenovo finally got wise and switched from a 16:9 to 16:10. This is an improvement and I'm glad to see it, but I prefer the 14
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by Bud 4y ago
To repeat: I set up and supported 200 of these. For over two years. Mine were admittedly running Windows, so I'm glad you are having a good Linux experience, but I guess our opinions just differ. In an extreme fashion. To be fair, ther
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by Bud 4y ago
I set up and supported 200 X1 Carbons over the past few years. This is terribly inadequate as a MacBook replacement. It's noticeably slower than any Apple Silicon machine, it has terrible battery life, the screen has the same absurdly-
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by Bud 4y ago
Apple doesn't have any monopolistic positions. None. At all. And they also manifestly have not "driven out" their product people. They're still making genius products.
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by Bud 4y ago
Indeed, the study seems to conclude that it's not rinsed off completely and residue remains on the "clean" dishes.
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by Bud 4y ago
Wouldn't metal be far preferable? Especially double-walled metal bottles that can hold liquid at a temperature. They don't break. I do have some glass bottles as well for occasional use by guests, but when on the go, the popular m
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by Bud 4y ago
Not always. Major data security issues can be life-threatening for people who are in a vulnerable position.
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by Bud 4y ago
Great. Now balance this against a century or so of injustice pointing the other direction, and just honestly consider whether it might be worth it.
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by Bud 4y ago
One key problem I see is that Plzen is now underwater too, which means, no more Pilsner Urquell. That would be bad.

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