OwenFM

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by OwenFM 2y ago
This sets things up for all sorts of problems when people don't notice that the IDs aren't exactly the same. At the moment, Google happens to be choosing car dealers as a fallback, but what if it instead fell back to a page "
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by OwenFM 2y ago
I couldn't see any way for me to specify my location, to ensure I could actually buy the plants. Upon clicking one of the plants, I see it was only American sites. I get that this is just a hobby for the moment, but even if there was j
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by OwenFM 2y ago
My first reaction is that it's not a bug, it's a side-effect of them being forced by the US government to break VPNs in certain scenarios.
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by OwenFM 2y ago
This project seems wildly unscaleable − how much money and carbon emissions go into growing one piece of coral under this setup? A government or philanthropist somewhere is throwing cash at corals, trying to keep them alive, without fixing
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by OwenFM 3y ago
What did Anguilla ever do to you? For all the trash-talk about .ai domains, it's disappointing that the authors fail to clarify that .ai doesn't necessarily stand for "artificial intelligence".
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by OwenFM 3y ago
What did people do before Google Image search and the Internet existed? Let's block everything because a few entitled hobbyists no longer have a world revolving around them.
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by OwenFM 3y ago
Idk, if your aim is to find the "best talent", then what's the chance that they stumble along and you treat them like shit? That's what's going to happen when you say "out of this other group, this 99% of peopl
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by OwenFM 3y ago
When I lived in the US, I primarily used Google Voice, as I could still use it in foreign countries. When I had asked T-Mobile to enable international roaming on a particular date, they said they would, but then didn't end up doing it,
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by OwenFM 3y ago
Not all advertising is for capitalist GDP maximisation − as a member of a political party, our biggest challenge is informing people that we exist, and that they don't have to vote for the incumbent parties that have kicked problems al
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by OwenFM 3y ago
https://nonhuman.party/ I write all the content for the Non-Human Party, explaining how we can transition to a digital-first, opt-in society that respects robots, plants and animals. The idea of Nationality as a Service was
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by OwenFM 3y ago
If people get left behind, it mightn't be such a bad thing − the cheaper software will lower the cost of living, making UBI more feasible. The glut of unemployed people will hopefully popularise UBI rather than trying to jump back on t
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by OwenFM 3y ago
I like the explanations, but it's jarring to see Bézier treated with such little respect that he doesn't even get his name spelled correctly.
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by OwenFM 3y ago
The expected return might still be positive, even if it's not 100% likely.
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by OwenFM 3y ago
Were the people wearing glasses? Did they have curly hair? It's not mentioned because it makes no difference. Calling out that they're US citizens or Canadian citizens implies that these people are somehow first-class people, and