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by addicted 2y ago
Did anyone gush about it at any point though. Siri is probably one of the most, rightfully, panned product of all time. Even the day it was released it was panned because it was a gimped version of the app Apple had bought from the App Stor
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by addicted 2y ago
All of the above. Here are some key factors driving social media. The misincentives are obvious once you clearly see these. 1. It is fundamentally based on one of the strongest human impulses of community. 2. The economic model of social m
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by addicted 2y ago
You seem to have Chesterton’s fence completely backwards. Chesterton’s fence can never be an argument against creating something new. The whole point of it is that if you come across a fence then that was the result of a conscious human dec
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by addicted 2y ago
They would defend the Nazi right to free speech. You seem to be confused between principally defending everyone having the same rights vs defending everything anyone can do. The ACLU defends Nazi’s rights because they believe Nazis should h
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by addicted 2y ago
Should the ACLU defend the rights of someone to blow up nuclear bombs in their backyard? That’s a clear curtailment of their civil liberties. And assuming they’re in a rural area may not harm anyone else either. This is an obviously extreme
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by addicted 2y ago
Well they’re clearly wrong. Go read the SC unanimous judgment. It’s very clear and lays out exactly why they’re wrong. In fact they do a lot more than that because they state off the bat that there isn’t even a first amendment question (a C
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by addicted 2y ago
They didn’t need to turn off in the first place. The Biden administration had already said they wouldn’t impose any fines. This was literally nothing but a political play intended to give Trump a boost.
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by addicted 2y ago
There is literally no content being banned. All the talk about the U.S. trying to censor is nonsensical, as all the opinions by the members of the unanimous Supreme Court clearly pointed out, considering any of those opinions can be made in
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by addicted 2y ago
Imagine thinking the U.S. govt and corporate overlords are terrible because they’re banning TikTok and getting back at them by going to a Chinese app. China, the country which has a literal firewall preventing their people from getting info
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by addicted 2y ago
In general I don’t think that’s insane at all. There’s nothing inherently wrong with the idea that something that is normal in an authoritarian society is verboten and sacrilegious in a Democracy.
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by addicted 2y ago
India banned TikTok and a whole host of other Chinese apps and after a few days of moaning they moved completely on. So the evidence indicates that no one will actually care. And TikTok is even less sticky than say Twitter. TikTok isn’t abo
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by addicted 2y ago
That damage is like 10% of Florida’s GDP. That’s absolutely nuts. It’s also a lot worse than the pure numbers suggest because the damage here is taking away actual built up stock, so capacity for generating future GDP. And the GDP in Florid
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by addicted 2y ago
Since only apparently anecdotes count as pertinent for you, here’s one. I haven’t bought a bulb in over 12 years. My LEDs have simply not gone out. I had changed bulbs nearly every 6 months before that. Maybe spring the extra couple of doll
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by addicted 2y ago
Also, the Wikipedia link he points to has 2 references from the same research team the latest of which is over a decade old. If white LED lights were so awful you’d imagine at least somebody would have done a decent, fairly cheap paper to s
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by addicted 2y ago
Also, this is wrong. There is no quota for the H1B visa. There is a quota for the number of H1B visa holders who have then additionally been sponsored by their company (something which costs a company $20k at a minimum) that can get permane
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by addicted 2y ago
How about no quota at all based on nationality (actually place of birth) when you already have a limit of 65k visas a year being apportioned by lottery.
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by addicted 2y ago
It would take 100 years for a single demographic if they were using all the 65000 annual H1B visas to reach 2% of the population assuming the population doesn’t grow for a century. This argument makes no sense at all.
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by addicted 2y ago
The source is their research. Much of which was publicly available. You can draw your own conclusions but a company worth hundreds of billions of dollars being audited by a mom and pop shop is more evidence than anyone needs that their book
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by addicted 2y ago
I’m interested in the materials they open source. I wouldn’t be surprised if the sum of it is “has the company been caught doing fraud more than once and haven’t been shut down? They’re still doing fraud”.
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by addicted 2y ago
Except the article doesn’t claim what the drivers are doing is illegal. The article says that the street design causes drivers to speed up and makes the intersections unsafe. Instead of drivers always stopping, or at the very least slowing
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by addicted 2y ago
True, but relying on old units available on eBay is not a long term solution.
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by addicted 2y ago
$9 is for personal vehicles. Cabs get charged per trip with no limit. Delivery trucks get charged a higher amount and I don’t believe (I’m not sure on this) they have a daily cap, so they can also be charged multiple times.
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by addicted 2y ago
This wouldn’t work in NYC even if they did try because the congestion pricing start date has been moved around a lot, including days before it was supposed to start the last time. But even more relevant is the fact that people have seen Man
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by addicted 2y ago
The Chromecast Audio was a wonderful device. I unfortunately lost all mine in a move but there’s been absolutely no way to replace them :-(
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by addicted 2y ago
I have no idea whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, but this is not freedom of speech, for the obvious reason that its based entirely on the limitation of speech, in this case, the freedom to truthfully state who said something. I’m
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by addicted 2y ago
I don’t understand why people on this forum, who are 90+% in favor of remote work and don’t believe physical presence in an office matters at all, believe they companies will choose to replace H1-B employees with different people when they
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by addicted 2y ago
Why would the calves be kept near the cows? They’re not gonna feed the milk that their mothers are producing for them, because that would mean less milk to sell and less milk for people to consume. And so why keep the calves in the milking
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by addicted 2y ago
It’s ironic how accepted vegetarians, who have a dietary preference, are in society, and how hated vegans, who have an ethical argument against unnecessary killing of sentient animals, are in society. I only turned vegan a couple of years a
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by addicted 2y ago
$50/yr means you make up the entire cost of the RPi in a little more than 2 years if you’re running it as a home server of some sort, for example.
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by addicted 2y ago
One can easily see how high real estate prices can translate to all those being more expensive. Colleges pay rent. Colleges pay salaries to people who pay rent. All those go up with high real estate prices. Further, even if the college owns

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