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by _jal 5y ago
I used to clean up near my front door, but it became overwhelming. I live in a "bad" part of SF, by choice - I have a huge, cheap apartment. Until about 5 or so years ago, the homeless situation was not that bad around me. There w
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by _jal 5y ago
The info I'm thinking of came from a Pew report that went around work, I'm not finding that on the public internet. There is this, which comes up with a similar number: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital
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by _jal 5y ago
I have offered no opinion on lobbying itself in this thread. The entire content of what I want to convey here is contained in the comment you're replying to.
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by _jal 5y ago
I'm the opposite. I want "internet but not TV". If you're in Comcast land, you'll pay for cable either way. > I don't think it's realistic to assume "no internet" is a standard default these d
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by _jal 5y ago
I was objecting to intentionally obfuscatory language that is frequently employed in attempts to obscure the fact that lobbying as commonly understood is an activity almost exclusively enjoyed by the well-resourced and/or powerful.
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by _jal 5y ago
> Citizens, or groups of citizens (eg. corporations) engaging with their representatives is part of the democratic process. That's the pretty way to present it. In practice, "Citizens, or groups of citizens" is true but un
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by _jal 5y ago
> autonomous money, as I half-jokingly think of them I don't think that is a joke. Corporations are old-school AIs. They still mostly run on meatware, but that's changing.
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by _jal 5y ago
>If there was someone who had more money than them, they'll still lose, and if there wasn't someone with more money, they'll still win. You're claiming there's no advantage to knowing your opponent's max bid
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by _jal 5y ago
I thought that too. But then I use vintage lab glassware labeled Hydrochloric Acid and Potassium Hydroxide for oil & vinegar containers.
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by _jal 5y ago
I would like to think the consumer would merit a thought, too. Fiction might be one thing; if it is entertaining, that's enough. But if I'm reading something supposedly nonfiction that is generated by a machine, I want to know pro
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by _jal 5y ago
Exactly right. If you need an app on my phone to take my money for normal, everyday transactions, you don't need my money. Side tangent - I used to be incorporated as a consultant, and think I need to be again because of crap like this
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by _jal 5y ago
Right, right. Also, the next zero day in Windows means Nadella should be tossed out of Redmond. It is very critical, no?
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by _jal 5y ago
Yeah, I got it to two accounts I use with ARIN, as well as another that is confusing me. That one is not very old, I know I have the entire outbound history for it, and have not used it for ARIN or anything similar.
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by _jal 5y ago
There are ways to regulate the burden. If I can't privately listen right now, I don't, and if they get annoyed, I'll tell them why. If something would require me to replay it multiple times to take notes, depending on the sit
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by _jal 5y ago
I actually agree. I never use app store discovery or search, and I don't think anyone who understands the app market does. I think it is mainly used by folks who don't know search engines work better, who are exactly the sort of f
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by _jal 5y ago
The Great Filter == Collective action problems.
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by _jal 5y ago
> Suppression of science [...] is self-defeating. That depends on what your goals are, doesn't it? If you were a tobacco exec in the 90s seeking a golden parachute, I rather suspect it was highly successful.
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by _jal 5y ago
Mostly true, although the ceiling at which you become interesting is dropping for multiple reasons. Given the time cost of retrofitting effective security, waiting until you become a worthwhile target doesn't work. But hiring secops an
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by _jal 5y ago
> These are arguably even less valuable than the cultural norms of Bible-thumping small towns. Since you seem to be a fan of intellectual rigor, can you describe the process by which you arrive at the relative worth of (apparently) socia
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by _jal 5y ago
Probably for the same reason you sometimes see unfinished drywall in basements and attics.
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by _jal 5y ago
The headline price is an artifact of congressional accounting. It is an estimate of the 10-year cost. The MSM uses that number when their corporate masters want you to be against the spending. They actually explain why it is a fairly meanin
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by _jal 5y ago
> ask her why she didn’t do well on her math test That sounds like a reasonable approach for some parent-kid combinations. But as far as this discussion goes... It was about an app that provided information like grades and that a test wa
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by _jal 5y ago
This is starting to get to the original intent of creating Bitcoin - attacking the nation state's taxation and enforcement capability. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
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by _jal 5y ago
I'm talking about telemetry, not FF. But whatever, I'm not going to have a pointless discussion with someone more interested in criticizing word choice than replying to what I wrote.
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by _jal 5y ago
> Telemetry isn't surveillance. As a categorical statement, this is false. "Not all telemetry is surveillance" is true. Telemetry is exfiltrated data the user did not ask to send. The line between telemetry and surveillan
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by _jal 5y ago
> If she is not good at managing that sort of thing, then she needs to get better. ...And how do you think that happens? "Sarah, I can't help but notice that you have emotional regulation issues. Go get better at it."
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by _jal 5y ago
Be careful what you wish for. I expect executions would become campaign propaganda events.
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by _jal 5y ago
> they've lost sight of what running a sustainable business in this space would look like Is the claim that it is economically impossible to create a browser without turning it in to surveillance malware? To the extent that's t
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by _jal 5y ago
Timeline-wise fastcgi was a thing at the same time that in-process interpreters were popular. I remember implementing a dumb polling feature as fastcgi in 1998 or thereabouts. (We were also running the Netscape web server, because we depend
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by _jal 5y ago
Craigslist felt at risk of being targeted the same way Backpage was. Not wishing to go to jail, they chose to remove anything that could possibly be used against them.

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