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by alexb_ 3y ago
> After all things seemed to work fine before credit scores. Perhaps we put too much "stock" in them in the first place. There has to be better ways to manage this. The old way to do it, pre-credit score, is that they would tak
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by alexb_ 3y ago
> As a first generation immigrant, I’m in no way “just as American” as my wife, whose family settled the west coast in the wagon trails. I don't know who convinced you of this notion, but it's 100% horseshit. You absolutely are
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by alexb_ 3y ago
> We believe in safe, responsible AI practices. This means we have taken and continue to take reasonable steps to prevent the misuse of Stable Diffusion 3 by bad actors. Safety starts when we begin training our model and continues throug
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Markdown has numbered lists, checkboxes, and bullet points - having ligatures that look better w/ those are not crazy.
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by alexb_ 3y ago
A really nice font I've gotten that fits the more "older" style is Berkeley Mono from United States Graphics. Maybe was not the greatest purchase, it is expensive for a font lol, but I really really enjoy how it looks. Not as
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by alexb_ 3y ago
This does not matter at all because foreign-born people are exactly as much American and exactly as much of a worthwhile person as native-born people
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by alexb_ 3y ago
> Today, much of poker theory is driven by analyzers that are supposed to implement a practice called "GTO" (game theory optimal). There have been a lot of interesting findings in the last ~5 years that have come from these tha
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by alexb_ 3y ago
If you're gonna take an image from /g/ and post it, upload it somewhere else first - 4chan posts deliberately go away after the thread gets bumped off. A direct link is going to rot very quickly.
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by alexb_ 3y ago
There's been some talk about ship emissions changing and created more global warming because some of the chemicals they pumped actually had a cooling effect. I can't remember the specifics, but was there ever a reason why we cou
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Oh yeah, I'm not denying that Netscape pioneered a lot of stuff. They also would have went out of business had they not been bought by AOL at a stupid, dot-com inflated price. You can do something that creates a lot of changes in the w
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Maybe I'm just being a hater, but the inspiration being a web browser that failed after being acquired by AOL at dot-com level stupid high prices, doesn't inspire confidence at all. Sure, it helped pave the way for Firefox, but Ne
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Just about everywhere in America requires you to drive to work. If you can't drive for 3 weeks, you can't work for 3 weeks. Do you see why this might be a problem
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by alexb_ 3y ago
It 100% is a security issue. If you think you can just trust people to "anonymize the data effectively" you are very mistaken.
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Legalize small housing. That's literally it. You do not have to do anything else, just legalize building.
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by alexb_ 3y ago
This is literally not true. OTA broadcasts are in HD and look great.
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by alexb_ 3y ago
I think about the Soviets gaining control of our "precious bodily fluids" all the time. One of the best comedies ever made. I also remember hearing that Kurbrick very intentionally put in a ton of sexual metaphors throughout the e
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by alexb_ 3y ago
This is just blatantly not true, anyone who has tried to gamble on sports can tell you that companies go to quite incredible lengths to make sure that nobody outside of the few jurisdictions where they're legal can gamble online. I liv
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Just – I don't like that word(todepond.com)
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Two exits do not require two stairwells - in any case, this is a very weak argument for denying people the ability to buy housing. Especially in Canada, where there is an absurdly large housing crisis due to an extremely small supply.
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by alexb_ 3y ago
The issue with regard to single stair buildings are for things taller than 3 stories. IIRC in America 3 stories is the most common limit by far, and in Canada it's even worse with most regulations having 2 stories as the limit for a si
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Land Value Tax being the main method of taxation would encourage municipalities to adopt things like this.
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Why are you acting as if this is some fantasy thing? Pollution taxes absolutely are exactly what that is. You're "using up" all the good air!
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Just charge people for the natural resources of the country via taxes. Resource and land taxes solve basically every single problem in the current American economy yet people do not want to even think about doing it.
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Not including the Nitrome library sucks so much. I think archive.org has a zip of all of them though.
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Not being sarcastic at all - if you think China would be a better world leader than America, that's just clearly wrong.
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by alexb_ 3y ago
This isn't true - China as a world leader is worse than the US, because China has a worse government and does not believe in the same freedoms the US does. The US dollar being proliferated everywhere is good because it helps the US sta
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by alexb_ 3y ago
It's not exactly a secret. The US dollar's proliferation is an extremely good thing to happen in the world - our modern banking system is one of our greatest inventions.
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Looks interesting but - $520?? Five Hundred and Twenty Dollars????
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by alexb_ 3y ago
Plus, future people don't have a say. If something you do could help 400 new people live a happy life if they moved there, but it angers the 40 people who already live there, you're never going to get the popular vote of the 40 pe
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by alexb_ 3y ago
I'm being "sarcastic" in that I completely agree with you.

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