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by Sebguer 3y ago
Mostly because these companies are very rarely letting people make an informed choice. Though, random homeopathic remedies in the store are far from the leading culprit for this.
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by Sebguer 3y ago
Amusing, vaguely similar story about a company that made loans based on collateral related to a ships that were to be broken up, that completely ignored the ship vanishing from tracking for years: https://markets.businessinsider.
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by Sebguer 3y ago
I think this is a bit unfair, there's a real significant FTC upswell happening, but they're contending with decades of atrophy and an antitrust lobby that is extraordinarily powerful, not to mention the number of monopoly-friendly
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by Sebguer 3y ago
You realize they're not a business, right?
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by Sebguer 3y ago
It was a joke.
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by Sebguer 3y ago
Matt Levine's money stuff offered the hypothesis that it could just be normal gambling. But, it's almost definitely insider trading, and either way, someone will definitely be getting an SEC visit.
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by Sebguer 3y ago
It's harder to prove consumer harm with something as abstract as IP addresses, and there's a bunch of other pieces that make this much less unlikely, such as the fact that USBs already become obsolete and need to be replaced, so y
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by Sebguer 3y ago
The announcement of the iPhone, presumably, to save people a google.
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by Sebguer 3y ago
By and large leadership of engineering companies have been subsumed by finance heads. Boeing is the canonical example, but Intel also (and their attempts to course-correct haven't been super successful).
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by Sebguer 3y ago
There are still sustainable, pay-to-play MUDs. No one should be surprised that Neopets has clung to life!
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by Sebguer 3y ago
Does Peertube address all of the moderation / illegal content problems enumerated here, as they relate especially to video? https://telegra.ph/why-not-matrix-08-07
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by Sebguer 3y ago
There's an entire follow-up video to this that points to errors in his original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll6-eGDpimU&t=2223s
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by Sebguer 3y ago
Quick google suggests that while more people use HMOs than PPOs, it's not a majority. My job offers both, but the HMOs are only available in a few states.
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by Sebguer 3y ago
Wernher von Braun was a monster, and just one of the many that the United States willfully rehabilitated. Another great example is Franz Halder, who was effectively allowed to write the history of the war and significantly de-emphasized the
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by Sebguer 3y ago
I'm interested in the mental gymnastics around how this kind of content manipulation is okay but the suggestion of inserting a suicide hotline at the top of search results around 'how to kill myself' was too political? https
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by Sebguer 3y ago
Yeah, Abbott is awful. This comment from someone who worked near Clark though suggests that he is not even capable of pretending to not be a complete piece of shit, though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37413442 Stil
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by Sebguer 3y ago
Dude was famous in his earlier career for being a giant narc and patrolling the warehouses for people to fire. Not sure he'd be anything but a ghoul given real power.
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by Sebguer 3y ago
... This isn't about the game, it's about psychedelics, the drugs.
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by Sebguer 3y ago
Nothing with the story, but the incorrect reference to 'Strip' came from the ChatGPT-generated answer Quora provides if you click on the question on their site. Which they seem to favor over an answer from the person who literally
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by Sebguer 3y ago
This is apparently a myth, and the Nova sold just fine in Spanish speaking countries.
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by Sebguer 3y ago
Not to mention the bizarre comic book that the CEO paid for that was basically an insane dystopian vision of schools filled with taser drones and replacing warfare with kidnap-bots...
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by Sebguer 3y ago
Because the LARPing is why most security professionals do the job.
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by Sebguer 3y ago
It was a bad faith question, much like your own.
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by Sebguer 3y ago
You've read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress too many times, and taken away the wrong lessons.
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by Sebguer 3y ago
There's a recurring myth, very prevalent in the US, that credit card companies would prefer people who pay off their bills every month as cheap margin versus being predatory. It's bizarre, and as you've pointed out, completel
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by Sebguer 3y ago
Fosta/Sesta 'accomplished' its goal, which was to kill a bunch of websites and further tighten speech on the internet.
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by Sebguer 3y ago
Are you sure you didn't just watch Contagion and get confused? I do not recall anything of this sort, in fact until March 2020, no one thought Covid was anything serious as far as I can really remember. I recall most people believing m
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by Sebguer 3y ago
This generally depends on the tier of service you're paying for. Every infra provider offers tiers that provide dedicated resources. AWS handles this via CPU credits, other providers are less sophisticated. Generally speaking you'
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by Sebguer 3y ago
You don't know what the word fraud means, and I recommend reading these crazy things called 'terms of service'.
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by Sebguer 3y ago
No, it's because it's an extraordinarily common fraud vector, and causes noisy neighbor problem because despite GP's remark about 'paying for resource usage', cloud providers don't actually anticipate anyone us

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