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by alex1138 2mo ago
Elon annoys me. Waymo has AFAICT simply a better safety record than Tesla. And he runs SpaceX...?
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by alex1138 2mo ago
There was a story here about it hitting a child (I think) but it was determined to be much less serious than if a human driver was involved
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by alex1138 3mo ago
https://rumble.com/vt62y6-covid-19-a-second-opinion.html
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by alex1138 3mo ago
Yeah, that.
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by alex1138 3mo ago
In fairness to Google they do actually provide data portability something that cannot be said for FB
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by alex1138 3mo ago
It was sloppy wording, sorry. But there were plenty of scientists saying this is ridiculous Given the timing - you wouldn't be the one who flagged all those comments, would you?
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by alex1138 3mo ago
Not really. The scientific consensus is that the mainstream view of covid was dead wrong
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by alex1138 3mo ago
I'm convinced nobody works at these tech companies. It's like (another pop culture reference!) getting Homer Simpson's mechanical woodpecker that almost resulted in the nuclear explosion How can we piss off the MOST amount of
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by alex1138 3mo ago
Hello there Youtube with your lowest common denominator cheap trash in search results
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by alex1138 3mo ago
There are court documents/settlements/NDA-so-I-can't-talk-about-this (not me; I mean the people involved) so I'm sure one can find any number of things about ConnectU/houseSYSTEM (the latter being Aaron Greenspan&#x
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by alex1138 3mo ago
I get messages (and often don't answer my phone; my ringer is off) in which it's obviously this automated thing but they immediately dock it down to "press 1 if..." 'Kay. So you call people and just clearly have a t
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by alex1138 3mo ago
I dunno. I've only played on it a bit
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by alex1138 3mo ago
SWATing is a very common thing so police depts should be aware there's always a risk of it happening Take the call seriously, but be prepared it's not what you think it is, especially if you see a shocked gamer sitting at their co
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by alex1138 3mo ago
If you're on Linux, https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.github.k4zmu2a.spacecadetpin...
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by alex1138 3mo ago
I despise Imitation Game. Perhaps I put too much emphasis on 'reality' of films and would prefer artistic license (while allowed) is limited but it got so many things wrong Cdr. Denniston's family for example has said his por
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by alex1138 3mo ago
I just mean they verbatim copied it from another comment they wrote in this thread But it's quite possible I'm being too anal
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by alex1138 3mo ago
Please don't just copy paste existing comments
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by alex1138 3mo ago
That didn't work for me and so now I've added the specific cookie banner options. it's in the filter lists
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by alex1138 3mo ago
Am I misreading anything or are comparisons to Fable (and/or Mythos although AFAICT it was only a crackdown on Fable) always going to be a bit missing the mark now due to what the Trump admin did?
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by alex1138 3mo ago
Imagine an internet court of law where you can be punished for lying Half these fucking sites would be shut down instantly
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by alex1138 3mo ago
Except that Facebook has a rather nasty problem where friend-based social media is a soft monopoly (which they try very hard to enforce https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433 ) and its CEO already has a bad reputation
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by alex1138 3mo ago
Original Facebook was still stolen from ConnectU/houseSYSTEM and Myspace was reasonable about granular privacy controls (idk about Friendster. I imagine it was) whereas FB continually subverted it because MZ doesn't believe in pri
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by alex1138 3mo ago
I don't know his entire life history so this is maybe unfair but internet companies are full of people like this. They fail upward and extract value from content the users make spez/anyone else could very directly not do what they
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by alex1138 3mo ago
This is absolutely true and yet I know from experience the product forums for years were people screaming at Google for stripping away features And I know they removed the boolean + operator because of Google+
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by alex1138 3mo ago
[This comment removed due to protest of Reddit's API changes]
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by alex1138 3mo ago
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by alex1138 3mo ago
Oh I despise them You should become a pariah if you were anywhere close to companies like Reddit. Or at least Steve Huffman. There are some companies that clearly decided at some point "yeah, no. fuck the user"
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by alex1138 3mo ago
Orion on Artemis has a bunch of really cool stuff like redundant computers but it's certainly jarring to go from Verbs and Nouns of Apollo to seeing them tapping on screens with a GUI
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by alex1138 3mo ago
Fair enough
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by alex1138 3mo ago
I know that he referred to Twitter as "it's as if they drove a clown car into a gold mine and fell in" Yes Zuck because a product that didn't constantly fuck around with people's privacy settings and had real real-w

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