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by alt227 8mo ago
You are the one drawing that line for yourself. Everybodies line of principles is in a different place.
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by alt227 8mo ago
Agreed, but in this society of fear created after 9/11 it is a very popular sentiment across many millions of people.
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by alt227 8mo ago
We live in a capitalist economy. What do you expect, a company to just say 'Thats fine we have enough money we dont need any more'? How does a $100 billion dollar company grow? By taking on massive government and military contract
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by alt227 8mo ago
You can judge his actions all you like, but unless you know the man and sit down and discuss it with him everything you are saying is just speculation and opinion. That is fine, just realise that.
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by alt227 8mo ago
> He can fucking afford to have some fucking principles. Who is to say he doesnt? Just because they dont align with yours doesnt mean he doesnt have his own principles. > he's choosing to do the wrong thing To many millions he is
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by alt227 8mo ago
Wow when you put it like that it really hits hard.
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by alt227 8mo ago
My partner who is an accountant, so intelligent but not technical, watched some Veritasium documentaries the other day. Her comment was that she was really impressed that it didnt dumb anything down like normal documentaries do. She was abl
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by alt227 8mo ago
In the UK we call this 'Surface Dressing' and is a typical money saving meaasure to avoid the full cost of paving the road properly. It looks terrible and doenst last very long, so peronsally I dont see the point. https:/&#x
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by alt227 8mo ago
Bots need content from somewhre, they either copy something else or use ai to generate. The incentives to use bots are many.
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by alt227 8mo ago
Dont worry, soon LLMs will be trained to avoid using em dashes and then all will be right in your world again!
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by alt227 8mo ago
I did not do that intentionally apologies. However, this issue is complicated by the fact that Trump toured the factory in 2019 and claimed it was new, something the press picked up an and therefore the media stories of the time are pretty
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by alt227 8mo ago
> A huge part of that is rents. And this is becasue huge international investors still own sites like malls and retail centers and still remember the massive rents they used to command for those units. The bubble will burst when enough s
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by alt227 8mo ago
We didnt 'not adapt and loose' we welcomed it with open arms in order to get cheap prices. People voted with their wallets and collectively decided they didnt give 2 hoots about where something was made as long as the price was ri
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by alt227 8mo ago
All of those things you mentioned start small and build locally. As soon as they become big enough to want to manufacture and sell internationally, the only option is to move the production line to Asia. Unless somebody big like Apple inves
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by alt227 8mo ago
It was last time they did this, when they started producing Mac Pros in US in 2019, then promptly stopped again. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/09/apples-new-mac-pro-to... https://edition.cnn.
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by alt227 8mo ago
Cant view in Imgur due to international politics. Can you chare to an image host that isnt quite so rebellious?
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by alt227 8mo ago
In the UK amazon has completely removed free shipping in an effort to push everyone to prime. YUou used to be able to wait 5 days for free shipping, not any more.
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by alt227 8mo ago
You might prefer to put in the effort, but the majority of the population arent willing to. So we must make a system which protects the naive, instead of educating everybody properly.
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by alt227 8mo ago
No-one is selling pronography to minors. I guess your analogy lends itself more to minors walking into stores and seeing pornography magazines and DVDs for sale, which happens everywhere all the time. The point is it can be accidentally stu
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by alt227 8mo ago
Another person that doesnt seem to understand that the cost of using ai agents is going to skyrocket at some point in the near future.
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by alt227 8mo ago
> I was exposed to pornography online at age 9....allowing kids first sexual experiences to be pornography I was initially exposed to pornography at 8 years old, by finding a disgarded magazine in a hedge. However this was pretty soft. I
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by alt227 8mo ago
Not really. It just pushes the responsibility onto parents, who already have no idea how security works or what their kids are doing on their phones.
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by alt227 8mo ago
Free wifi generally is everywhere, however it is often heavily filtered and firewalled to stop being doing things the internet owner wouldnt approve of.
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by alt227 8mo ago
This will never work. I regularly talk to other parents at the school gates who have no idea that permissions on mobiles even exist, let alone that they can choose what they let each app have access to. The general public people just dont c
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by alt227 8mo ago
I like the solution Tim Burners-Lee is working on. Lets hope he has some success. https://solidproject.org/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/29/internet-...
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by alt227 8mo ago
So, do you want a slice of toast?
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by alt227 8mo ago
> CPC (the correct acronym) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party Read the very first sentence.
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by alt227 8mo ago
I agree but this is not only easy to tell, you also specify when you buy AFAIK. You either buy VPS or bare metal servers.
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by alt227 8mo ago
Thankyou, I have played many games of Universal Paperclips as I imagine you have as well. Releasing the Hypnodrones is always a very satisfying milestone.
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by alt227 8mo ago
> Edit: HN rate limit won't let me reply, so here - There is a reason for that...

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