TchoBeer

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by TchoBeer 5y ago
We can have a discussion about ethics and utility if it's a starving person stealing from Jeff Bezos, but these ransomware firms are large-scale organizations just like the companies they're stealing from.
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The amount of value it produces for the theif is equal to the amount of value it takes away from the company
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Usually lowering a company's profits due to market competition produces value. Just stealing money does not produce value.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
>why is it ok to give it to oil companies? Why do you assume GP is ok with that.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Ransomware companies are also corporations
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Is clang not also open source?
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Chrome is fast, the UI is nice, it doesn't nag you, it doesn't break the UI all the time, etc
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
The lefty problem is why I'm baffled that languages like Hebrew or Arabic that write right to left exist at all. Surely most people are righties, and writing systems would be written with that in mind.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Alternatively, "sure all my sensitive data was stolen and leaked, but at least I made it to Italy" said no one ever.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
This is a useless hypothetical, no language models do that
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Copilot isn't intending to copy entire code bases either.
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The only OS endorsed by the Holy C.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
That first one is incredible. Getting offended on behalf of Jews for the millions of lives caused by... What, Christmas?
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
The thermal issue is also something a lot of laptops run afoul of, to be fair
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
I wonder if only allowing downvotes would lead to the same result as only allowing upvotes.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
This always bothered me in some subconscious part of my brain, thanks for putting it into words. Reddit even lets you sort by controversial posts, so they clearly store both upvotes and downvotes, why do they have to display them as one num
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Would it be better if you get down voted to hell and also get swamped with throwaway comments like "that's stupid"
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
There are many threads here about the politics of technology (big tech, open source vs closed source software, cryptocurrency and finance, the fabrication industry and China, etc) and there are also plenty of threads about politics unrelate
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Cable TV doesn't play every event: it can't, they overlap
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
So much this. Fencing was only played once at 5am EST. Finding somewhere to watch recordings is impossible.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Yes, and my experience with the <10 minute clips I did try to watch on Peacock turned me off from the service and the games in general.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
>Washington state alone lost ~1b to fraudulent claims during the pandemic Wild. Where did you see that?
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
The hydra too. Me and a friend used to pass time doing debates, and when one of us was too tired to research or argue we'd debate about dumb stuff, and I was a stalwart "the original hydra reproduced into two offspring" much
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
My school had a pretty good system, where AP grades got a boost proportional to how far from 100 they were, something like 40%, so if you got an 80 raw it would be boosted by 20x.4 = 8 to 88 final score. This effectively means that weaker s
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
In 2021, Under 50% of students got a 4/5 on compsci, econ (both of them), gov, and Art. The only thing which can charitably be included is AP drawing, which about 52% got a 4 or above. The high scores in your classes have more to do wi
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How well they do in college, I'd presume.
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
That's an excellent point. Maybe the point where it stops being "a fun thing to teach to kids" and becomes "teaching them a job" is when you force them to learn it even when they aren't having fun and don'
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
Owning a game doesn't make it legal to pirate it
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What are you afraid of them doing with that?
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by TchoBeer 5y ago
This was actually my first-glance answer. Consider that the Pepsi label can't possibly be the Pepsi button, but the other two can.

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