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by Permit 5y ago
> I want them to ban the business model of stalking people online and selling intimate details of their lives. When you say "selling intimate details of their lives" you are misleading your reader. I don't know if this is
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I suspect the original poster was not complaining about these topics showing up on their timeline; they don't want them showing up on anyone's timeline.
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> Can you point me to a well done study on cloth masks and their efficacy? I'm guessing you've hidden away a lot of meaning in the words "well done" but here's one: https://www.preprints.org/manus
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> Of course the media is against Stallman: it's the same media that is controlled by the companies that makes billions with proprietary software at the expenses of the users! I've been struggling with putting my thoughts into w
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> This isn't going to be a typical outcome for you or me. Can you elaborate? What makes you say that with such confidence? Is amateur rugby non-contact? Edit: Digging into it a little bit there does appear to be some anecdotal evide
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This article is from 2015. It looks like this year (2021) they announced that they have removed all of the ants from Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge: https://lmtribune.com/outdoors/crazy-ant-strike-team-complet.
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I think the reason "steal" can feel strange here is that we've spent the last 15 years arguing that copyright infringement is "not stealing" because the original creator has not been deprived of anything. The phrase
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> According to the filing, when she told a manager in November about her IBS and that she needed to use the bathroom up to six times a day, the manager told her to get a doctor's note. It appeared from the filing that Olivero didn&#
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I am not familiar with the story (or Wikipedia's standards for new pages) but there are some 2014 dates here as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donna_Strickland&...
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> Why wouldn't North Koeans hold hands? Most have normal lives in an abnormal place. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that they wouldn't. What I'm trying to convey is: I have no idea what life in North Korea is like beca
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> Bitmex is absolutely legit and it is disturbing that charges against their founders continue When you say "absolutely legit" what exactly do you mean? That they clearly have anti-money laundering programs in place? Or do you
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> What sort of manipulative amplification/suppression, specifically? I don't know if this counts but I was surprised to run into this pro-DPRK account while scrolling recently: https://www.tiktok.com/@dprkorea_?
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> - Decreasing per capita emissions in the US starting in 1973 (-27%) > - A decrease in the countries emission starting in- 2007 (-13%) > Meanwhile for the same period China has had > - a 7x increase per capita since 1973 (+532%
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> If prices rise gradually, people will adapt. I think this is where you and I disagree. I would contend that the average citizen will resist this. I am basing this off what we saw in France when they introduced a very modest fuel tax. I
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> So? You have made peace with these things which is commendable. That said, you must still understand how big of a change this would be for other people who have not. For example, I suspect the Canadian government would have a hard time
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I often hear that as individuals we can't really be held responsible for climate change and that instead we should look to our government to impose laws that restrict carbon output. This made me curious: what is the "fair" am
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I think it was clear that you want to destroy Facebook. What is not clear is how 0.1% of users publishing their Facebook passwords on Twitter or Reddit would bring about the destruction of Facebook. It looks like[1] Facebook grows by a litt
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> there is a difference in approach in how this should be done correctly vs incorrectly I imagine you're getting downvotes because you need to expand on this. What specifically is NYU doing correctly that Cambridge Analytica was doi
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> But they are completely convinced that it's just around the corner, because they are full of contempt for the skill and intelligence of ordinary people. Can you think of any other reasons that people might believe something like a
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> I personally think we should abolish JavaScript and not allow arbitrary remotely loaded code to execute on our computers. > "I want web sites to do everything a native app can do" is a suicidal mistake. If you think you&#x
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> Of the millions of open source projects, a large portion of the contributors ARE speaking up because they don't find this to be acceptable. Is this true? Is there really a large portion of contributors speaking up against this? I
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The Bitter Lesson (From AI Research)(incompleteideas.net)
2 points by Permit 5y ago|1 comments
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I'm not trying to argue that transaction capacity is the most important metric, but it's a metric you yourself mentioned as important and it's a metric I have not been able to verify for many cryptocurrencies I've looked
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How many transactions/day does Bitcoin facilitate? How does it compare to traditional currencies? Has it increased over the last year? Also, how many transactions/day does the second-most-used cryptocurrency facilitate?
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You're right, I was mistaken in the original post. I should have said natural gas, not oil.
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I am not familiar with the environmental laws in India but in Canada you are often on the hook for closing down and cleaning up a site once it is abandoned (that is, you can't just walk away from it). My understanding is this can cost
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> Great way to catch those who share/sell your email and to set up filtering. Couldn’t the seller just remove the prefix from all emails before selling them?
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How do these graphs demonstrate this? I can imagine similar graphs for "Discord vs Slack" (or even individual servers within Discord). I agree with your premise that open standards, protocols and decentralization are important, bu
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> Daily reminder that cryptocurrencies are not == bitcoin This is an interesting feature of cryptocurrencies. Someone levels a fair criticism of a particular implementation but it can be handwaved away because an entirely separate crypto
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The Problem with the ‘BlackRock Buying Houses’ Meme(prospect.org)
2 points by Permit 5y ago|0 comments

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