McDyver

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by McDyver 2y ago
I think that, at some level, people want to feel shocked and angry, or another strong (mainly negative) emotion. We use the opportunity to validate our biases and we become blind to evidence that would negate our strong feelings. It takes a
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by McDyver 2y ago
How about politicians setting the standard for not fucking up the whole world and their fellow humans? Why must it be the people suffering the consequence of greedy politicians, who must be the ones behaving with the high moral compass? Thi
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by McDyver 2y ago
"Why were you at X when you told me you were at Y? And why did you order for 2 people? Why have you been going there for the last Z months?" "By following the pattern of when you were there and what you ordered, I found the o
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by McDyver 2y ago
On mobile, if you type something before selecting a room, then selectimg a room (Back to the futire in this example) the AI replies: (Me): Hey! Question: What decade did Marty McFly travel to in Back to the Future Part II Max: Hello! Here&#
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by McDyver 2y ago
In some countries (namely Portugal and France) you are not allowed to be contacted by your employer out of office hours, so that you can get that disconnect. At the same time, children are targeted to be constantly "on" and "
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by McDyver 2y ago
This opinion piece is so loaded with fear mongering, divisiveness and subtle suggestions of "faits accomplis", that I can't read it without propaganda alarms sounding everywhere
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by McDyver 2y ago
And then the new "adblockers" will be AI based too, and will take the AI's answer as input and remove all product placement. It's just a cat and mouse game, really
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by McDyver 2y ago
The _directive_ entered into force. > Member States have to transpose it into national rules and apply it from 31 July 2026. Still good news
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by McDyver 2y ago
That seems like the business model for streaming. You subscribe to X provider to watch Y series. So, as for streaming, I suppose a pirate bay search engine will come up
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by McDyver 2y ago
Or they wouldn't cost this little if the workers weren't exploited. How can people look into the costs and think: "it's fine, these people don't deserve compensation for their work. You know who worked hard, the sha
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by McDyver 2y ago
> forfeit your right to live That's a very interesting point of view, I had never thought of it that way: you can do whatever you want, but you will no longer be allowed to live. The consequence is almost presented as a choice, inst
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by McDyver 2y ago
Talking of half-baked, one thing I find really frustrating is that on the mobile app you can't even see the mail headers of a message. Absurd
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by McDyver 2y ago
I was hoping for a diving article... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds_(diving)
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by McDyver 2y ago
That's the point the article makes, you are _not_ legally required to hand over the password. > Officers routinely ask travellers to provide their passcode or password to devices so they can be examined, but they do not have the pow
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by McDyver 2y ago
I really like https://wireframesketcher.com/ No cloud dependencies, and a lifetime license for $99. These are becoming rarer and rarer
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by McDyver 2y ago
That would be a net win for Europe, European citizens and companies. As soon as Apple/Meta/Google/... sulk and leave, other companies would find the space to grow and fill that space with similar products which would respect
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by McDyver 2y ago
This logic is akin to blaming the victim and removing all the responsibility from the perpretator. Why not have the parents of the CEOs teach them that it's bad to make addictive products that have nefarious consequences to people and
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by McDyver 2y ago
People protect what they love. And unfortunately we as a society are taught to love money, not the environment. We should be able to do better
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by McDyver 2y ago
You can't follow the russian disinformation playbook without the good old Whataboutism ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism )
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by McDyver 3y ago
The Explorers Podcast did an excelent series on his adventure. https://explorerspodcast.com/ernest-shackleton/
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by McDyver 3y ago
"Please generate domain names based on given query. Give multiple creative options. You are an expert domain name generator. Be presise and always output code in Domains Code <list of domains with new lines> format."
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by McDyver 3y ago
If there wasn't a DMA, and no prospect of probe or accountability, google, and the likes, wouldn't give a shit. As we can see from the current state of affairs (that led to DMA and all that)
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by McDyver 3y ago
Reminds me of this: "The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes. As for cost, we selected initial values based upon data from the Open Beta and other adjustments made to mil
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by McDyver 3y ago
I would also mention Street Complete, as the companion app to contribute all that data. https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete
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by McDyver 3y ago
FTA: "Apple's fine, however, is about a quarter of the 8.25 billion euro fines the EU regulator meted out to Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google in three cases in the previous decade."
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by McDyver 3y ago
There's a book that addresses that, and might be helpful to you: "When I Say No, I Feel Guilty" - Manuel J. Smith
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by McDyver 3y ago
It might not even be needed to actually perform the refund, but just agree to it. Like the recent example of the air travel refund, that a court forced the company to fulfil. It will lead to lots of "disclaimer, whatever reply you get
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by McDyver 3y ago
This seems like the early days of search engines and seo poisoning, where random sites were referencing others to make them climb up the search results.
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by McDyver 3y ago
> Some say the store has an ethical duty to reunite people with their lost luggage — especially highly personal items, like jewelry inscribed with names and dates, or electronics with identifiable information. > But historically, the
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by McDyver 3y ago
Yes, although that doesn't seem correct. That would be 7500 a year. When they say the founder was buying 3k a month, either the RF ids are great at reducing the losses worldwide, or something is wrong with those numbers.

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