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by almatabata 2y ago
> I am very okay with not seeing CSAM, but your argument doesn’t hold water. By this you mean that its very easy to define a clear set of rules for moderation?
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by almatabata 2y ago
The study seems to contradict this: "When broken out by size, small cars have the highest fatal accident rate while midsize and full-size cars are both below average." And later in the study, “When two small cars collide the force
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by almatabata 2y ago
You can add more parameters. Whats the temperament of the driver. Certain brands attract hot heads who will drive recklessly. I was kind of expecting more sports cars in the top 5. 2/5 is still a good score. Given the amount of SUVs as
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by almatabata 2y ago
They have the political power to do this: https://smex.org/algeria-another-year-another-exam-shutdown/
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by almatabata 2y ago
I remember seeing a paper ( https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4274624/ ) that talked about how physical writing helps kids learn to read later. Typing on a keyboard did not have the same effect. I expect the
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by almatabata 2y ago
One thing that helped me was accepting that it is not that I might fail but that I will fail initially. I will produce bad articles because to become good you have to start with your current skill level which probably sucks if you are avera
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by almatabata 2y ago
> Pretty much every business runs psychological experiments on their customers. That's what the ad industry is, that's why retailers run sales to gather pricing data, that's what A/B testing is for. Sure but there are
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by almatabata 2y ago
I will believe it when we get an actual impact in the relationship statistics. Right now its post election craziness where people post to vent their frustration. If that will have an impact in a year is to be seen. But honestly I doubt many
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by almatabata 2y ago
Remember when facebook got caught running psychological experiments on its users? ( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/facebook-... ) I do not trust myself with identifying when companies t
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by almatabata 2y ago
At a company I worked at they explicitly told us they will do anything to avoid upgrading the hardware from 1GB to 4GB because it increases costs. They would rather we optimize the software to use less RAM than upgrade the hardware. I remem
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by almatabata 2y ago
Will it work if the company stops supporting it after 6 years or goes bankrupt? ( https://www.businessinsider.com/fisker-owners-describe-chaos... ) This obsession with replacing robust proven solutions with brittle technologi
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by almatabata 2y ago
Their security track record does not really help. I will never trust them again after they refused to tell their customer about a workaround because they wanted that juicy DoD contract ( https://www.propublica.org/article&#x2
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by almatabata 2y ago
I think twitter is an outlier because people hated the employees already for various reasons. For example they thought that twitter had a bloated workforce because of videos like this ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buF4hB5
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by almatabata 2y ago
Would love to read those studies if you have a link. I keep hearing say that in theory EVs should cost less but then you read things like Tesla having very high insurance costs. When I search online I see a lot of back and forth. Some claim
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by almatabata 2y ago
Genuinely curious how they could not get a linux version running. If they can release a working android version for their other SoCs, what stops them from releasing a working Linux distro? I know they have tons of proprietary blobs but I su
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by almatabata 2y ago
Funnily I came across an interview from around 5 years ago where he straight up admitted that he had no clue how to generate a return on investment back then (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzcJlKg2Rc0&t=1920s ) &qu
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by almatabata 2y ago
> Go is a language that I started learning years ago, but did't change dramatically. A lot of people underrate that quality I feel. C had that quality but pushed it to neurotic levels where it would change so slowly even when it nee
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by almatabata 2y ago
If it only impacted automakers they might do it. However if you apply this standard to cars you will have to apply it to a lot of other sectors. After all why stop at car makers. Why should other appliances not get the same treatment like I
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by almatabata 2y ago
It can take responsibility for production code and get fired when it produces sub-standard work?
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by almatabata 2y ago
I do not have access to first hand accounts nor detailed records that would allow me to to make such an analysis. I only have access to stories that look irrational from the outside. I would like to see more rigorous study of it. If they fi
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by almatabata 2y ago
Aren't some of the interactions on OF private chats? Kind of like sexting and caming? Let us say you limit it all to one on one private interactions, it still causes the same issues you mention.
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by almatabata 2y ago
Well you have many examples of man and women who display this seemingly irrational behavior. Saying its not real leaves the question why the victims side with the perpetrator in those scenarios.
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by almatabata 2y ago
> It's the kind of idea that is captivating from a literary perspective but doesn't actually make any sense if you think about it As far as I understand we have no evidence either way that the phenomena has a basis in reality o
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by almatabata 2y ago
> Any healthy society would ban all OF type content immediately on national security threat grounds By this logic we should ban all extra marital relationships as well. Add to that mandatory DNA tests for all kids just in case. People wi
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by almatabata 2y ago
It does not. These companies do not even work in the same problem space. Amazon works in retail, cloud, book publishing, etc. Microsoft maintains their own cloud as well and a complete operating system. At least compare it to companies with
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by almatabata 2y ago
> Would you not have a relationship with someone you like and likes you back? For a lot of men the knowledge of the OF carrier kills the attraction that they had. Just like some women lose attraction when they learn that you subscribe to
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by almatabata 2y ago
> One District Court judge ruled against a similar suit: https://reason.com/volokh/2024/08/26/judge-preliminarily-blo ... Thanks for the link. The lawsuit looks slightly different to me. They blocked a
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by almatabata 2y ago
"maliciously fabricated side-by-side images of various advertisers’ posts on Plaintiff’s social media platform X depicted next to neo-Nazi or 2 other extremist content, and portrayed these designed images as if they were what the avera
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by almatabata 2y ago
> If there was such a commitment to Rust, why not pull funding and cut a check to Redox? You have an existent product line running on Linux. It looks like a no brainer to just get rust into Linux so you do not have to rewrite all your us
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by almatabata 2y ago
He does not make a very good case as to why we need to rewrite it completely and not simply update it. A lot of the principles still hold up to this day. Why make a completely new document if the basics still work. New does not necessarily

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