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by altacc 7mo ago
This is nothing new, history repeats. Prior to the invasions of Afghanistan & Iraq there were numerous regional experts warning that the result would be chaos, failed states, a rise in extremism and long term instability in the region a
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by altacc 7mo ago
Elections are already being used for collectively applying "justice", just not the type that stops corruption. Instead it's right wing mob "justice" against the woke and immigrants and all the liberal tears are the
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by altacc 7mo ago
Good liars are able to avoid these tells and I reckon no system is perfect but the last point, trusting your gut, is probably the best as it combines a lot of conscious and subconscious observations into a judgement. I'm often unable t
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by altacc 7mo ago
Free (for now). Introducing or raising costs for a previously free or cheap service is normal practice for start ups.
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by altacc 7mo ago
Now I've got small children, we fly instead of taking the long bus, train or boat journey. But the long bus, train and boat journeys and the places we experienced along the way are half of what my wife and I talk about when we reminisc
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by altacc 7mo ago
Trump/Miller/whomever don't need to be actively involved in every decision. They have defined an approach to strong arm problem solving and weaponisation of the government that anyone that works for them is implicitly allowed
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by altacc 7mo ago
Hmm, I'm in 2 minds about this. The best online communities I've been in have been small & come across more human and the thought of "this is a person you're replying to" was innate. On larger forums a nudge tow
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by altacc 8mo ago
I'm obviously wondering which company this is but understand the anonymity. I have a LIDAR vacuum to avoid cameras and from connecting to its debug socket could see the point cloud enough to know that it was very granular.
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by altacc 8mo ago
I'd be more impressed if this wasn't the same Apple that's unable to keep Screen Time compatible across the latest minor iOS versions. Downloading updates seems fairly trivial. Host the file, maintain compatibility for the re
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by altacc 8mo ago
Yep, it sounds like it was written to be falsely reassuring and it doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Facial recognition works on data, not just images, such as the ratios between features, jawline, cheek structure, etc... Most people won&#x
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by altacc 8mo ago
What you describe is not a real choice that is being made. The unemployed in Ireland get unemployment benefits, so this isn't favouring one over the other. The Artist's UBI is not enough to live on (neither are most countries&#x27
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by altacc 8mo ago
Almost every young developer joins the enterprise I work at and spends the first 6 months ranting about how bad everything is and how we could do things so much better with xyz or whatever. We wait, we educate, we leave them to come to the
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by altacc 8mo ago
I think you're right that the ambitions in Europe are smaller and I'd say more likely healthier for those involved and maybe the world in general. I have spent some time working in a start up hub in Scandinavia and there was the u
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by altacc 9mo ago
The problem with "let the parents decide" is that so many parents take the option of least resistance and currently that's a terrible option. From what I see of my childrens' peers, it's not parents are deciding to
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by altacc 9mo ago
I moved from the UK to Scandinavia, where there is a federated ID (BankID) that you use to access pretty much everything and it removes all this complexity that the UK has. I can't imagine life without such an easy system. One of the d
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by altacc 9mo ago
The inefficiency of large companies is widespread. In many there are layers of managers whose jobs are little more than to attend meetings with each other and tickle down the bare minimum of requirements to delivery teams. So it's no s
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by altacc 9mo ago
A couple of decades ago most people I knew were spending considerable time thinking about the best folder structure to use to manage large collections of MP3s (and then making them available on Limewire). Then you'd move over selection
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by altacc 9mo ago
Perhaps they meant digital download sales such as Bandcamp & Beatport and less so for iTunes, Amazon, etc... as there are still real revenues to be made from selling digital music. It all depends upon how many middlemen between purchase
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by altacc 11mo ago
> Why hasn't the UK been able to create any local tech giants? In the UK there are several tech or tech adjacent companies valued in the tens or hundreds of billions such as ARM, BAE, Revolut, Sage and delivery companies like Delive
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by altacc 1y ago
The truth is more likely that both the junta and local militias have ties to different scam centres. The Myanmar government never does anything for its people, it's motivated by power and money and they were profiting heavily from scam
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by altacc 1y ago
It seems less about access and more about agreeing to the principle that publishing anything unapproved, or even asking anyone for more information than is not approved, is a national security risk and press privileges will be revoked if th
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by altacc 1y ago
A few years ago I moved to a country that didn't have Amazon. At first it was frustrating as I didn't know where to shop but now I see it as a benefit with some downsides. Before trips back home I'll look on Amazon for some s
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by altacc 1y ago
I am for a medium risk profile and I've already started diversifying. A lot of major "global" or "index" tracking funds are now majority comprised of holdings in Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet and also Tesla. I&#
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by altacc 1y ago
The other day I was helping somebody choose some funds to invest in. The majority of "global" or "index" funds we looked into either directly or indirectly had the largest share of holdings in Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Al
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by altacc 1y ago
"I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson There's lots of similar quotes throughout time, all about what you say in your list line: to be lucky you need to c
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by altacc 1y ago
> with Notion AI Agents at the center. Oh dear, more AI slop that's going to try to force itself on you, like a creepy uncle at a party. This "agents" thing seems to be a meaningless buzzword that every product must now us
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by altacc 1y ago
As evidenced by recent developments, smaller government these days seems to mean less controls for businesses and the government but many more controls on citizens.
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by altacc 1y ago
If this was Reddit I'd ask you what you were smoking! ;) Calling the U.S. ‘peaceful and benevolent’ overlooks the sheer volume, aims and consequences of its military actions. It may not colonize in the traditional sense but its interve
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by altacc 1y ago
Neither of these are something the US would ever react to diplomatically let alone militarily, except maybe to give Israel more weapons.
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by altacc 1y ago
The history justification is moot given that the reason for the name wasn't clarifying an existing role (the US is already very aggressive militarily and happy to attack whenever and wherever it pleases) instead the justification that

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