FussyZeus

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by FussyZeus 7y ago
Mine is to continue doing it. I've rid myself of everything but Search. Recommendations?
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
> This is so true. I really wonder about all the people installing these WiFi enabled light bulbs into lamps that end up being connected to some regular dumb switch next to the door in the wall... Personally, for the bulbs that are smart
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
It blows my mind that a company the size of and with the resources of Google can't get this right, even after all this time. It reeks of apathy to me. And even though I've been a dedicated iPhone user since the 6 Plus, I'd ge
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
> The government is elected by the people, it doesn't fit that definition. At the risk of invoking Godwin's law, the Furher was elected by the people. It's a disservice to society at large to so casually brush off judgemen
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
Markets created this mess. Markets will not solve it. Single payer takes insurance out of the game entirely, just run the entire industry out of town and be done with it. Doctors fix people, Doctors are paid by the Government what is reliab
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
A community is not a business. In fact it's hard for me to conceive of two conceptual entities further away from each other. A business is interested in profit. Apple is no different. If you're not paying in, they're directly
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
I believe Hercules solved this one by cutting all the heads off at the same time. So, in theory, you just need one guillotine per head.
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
> without forcing anything into others You are not an island. Neither am I. If we only act in our own individual best interests, we denigrate society as a whole. We are social animals. We do our best work and are at our most capable when
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
Civil unrest. Protests that devolve into riots. Ever seen the painting "Bastille Day"? There are always options when the powerful fail the powerless. Large amounts of modern society were put in place to prevent this sort of thing
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
If you're sincerely asking these questions, I suggest you read up on climate change at large. This an incredibly large and dense topic and simply asking "how do we fix the planet" as though it's some busted code isn&#x27
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
What is authority if not a kind of power?
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
The answer to this question is far too vast and complex for a hacker news comment. The real problem is that the people who hold the levers of power to create change are far too invested in the status quo. They may have an ethical and humani
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
Right? Any of those photos that they composited together into the final would've been great, or to just release them as a collection of wallpapers. Instead they took them all and rammed them together into something that looked less i
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
Or the myriad of ways I struggle with my Apple products that are almost universally black boxes in which stuff goes and functionality comes out, without any way to change or debug behaviors. Apple seems to get it right pretty consistently,
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
I mean, PewDiePie remarked several times over the years of moving house because his fans would regularly stalk him to find his address. I think they have it better in this specific regard because their fans are younger and therefore have mo
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
The key difference is celebrities (at least now) have staff; publicists, assistants, and all manner of other support. And a influencer I guess could , but how many will hire one? How many can even afford to? Being Internet-famous seems lik
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
Except the guesses need to be good . I make it a point to avoid criticizing applications for not being power usery enough but there's a line you can draw where it becomes clear that the guesses are too frequent and consuming too muc
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
Pretty much any social media job like this, be it YouTuber or Instagram influencer or whatever, seems to be all life-consuming. I would never advise any friend to enter this business. Burnout is practically guaranteed with the level of cont
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
You add regulation to businesses based in the US and that sell in the US specifying, explicitly, that they cannot use resources mined via exploitative practices. And then when businesses do anyway, because they will, you confiscate profits
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
It's impossible for me to say with certainty if it didn't just interpret something I said as it's trigger. Nevertheless, I was playing Halo online and yelling about a match going badly, saying something to the effect of &quot
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
https://i.imgur.com/4KZe4UO.png
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
> It's just unrealistic. Here's a challenge - cut cobalt out of your life. I'll bet you can't. "Realistic" is determined entirely by the values of the overarching system. The fate of the people at the long t
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
> This is one of those feel-good solutions that lets us feel superior but doesn't actually help the people suffering. So because we can't fix their situation for them, we're allowed to actively make it worse? This is such
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
> unless the buyers choose to stop using the minerals altogether. BINGO. That's what you do. If the ass end of Mogadishu can't provide the minerals without using exploitative labor practices, THEN DON'T BUY FROM THE ASS EN
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
False dichotomy. Or Strawman. Both apply.
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
This is not some arcane magic here. This is making companies responsible for the vetting of their suppliers. Do you know how hard it would be for Apple to check out a mining operation? A plane trip and a few days of a couple people's t
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
They know enough to get the damn cobalt. They can know more if they want to, or, more likely, not do business with the sort of shady ass organizations who use child labor specifically because they can't get the documentation. I reall
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
> I don't think this makes much sense. The mineral supply chain in that part of the world is ridiculously hard to track. It's been designed to be hard to track. Just because the infrastructure is a little hit and miss and the
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
For clarity, Alexa responded to my comments without being triggered. It's always listening (which makes sense, by virtue of listening for the trigger) but in this case, it reacted without the "Alexa" key word.
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by FussyZeus 7y ago
Can confirm. My alexa went in the drawer after she was offering to call the crisis line for me during a spirited session of gaming. I genuinely think the Amazon team (at least in that particular regard) want to do some good. But until they

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