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by anonym29 1y ago
Is consciousness necessarily being implied here? That sort of reflective decision making can be indirectly influenced by what we might consider economics, but economics is fundamentally a process of allocating scarce resources across non-sc
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by anonym29 1y ago
Anecdotal observation / hypothesis: - there's an inverse relationship between quality of life and density, even within individual households - there's a higher premium on space in urbanized areas than in rural areas - there&#
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by anonym29 1y ago
Not the person you're asking, but I'm of the impression that colloquially, the verb "sex" includes more than strictly the traditional historical definition. I'll refrain from getting into specific details here, but
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by anonym29 1y ago
Is the snark really necessary here? These companies (Microsoft, Apple) have genuinely concerning practices regarding user ownership/control, data privacy, and there are legitimate concerns regarding the stewardship practices of Red Hat
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by anonym29 1y ago
Can you be more specific about what parts of my perspective appear crazy, or fan-fic to you? There is heaps of well-documented evidence from reputable sources to support all of my claims that I would be eager to offer. What specific claims
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by anonym29 1y ago
In the past, I would've said no. It absolutely had severe vulnerabilities, no question about it. Anything in userland monitoring keystrokes, mouse input, and display of anything else is userland is genuinely concerning; that said, thes
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by anonym29 1y ago
Habituate and condition users to abuse and lack of control. No pressure for OS developers to respect the agency of their users.
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by anonym29 1y ago
So just to be clear, your take here is that the president violating the constitution isn't bad as long as the president feels that the ends justify the means? The "rules" - the constitution, the law - must apply to everyone e
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by anonym29 1y ago
You know what? I was interpreting the question as regarding public perception of personality, rather than actual personality, but re-reading it, I think you're right, my bad.
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by anonym29 1y ago
Point taken, but I'd like to raise some serious questions - is the 18 millionth post of someone whining about having to read text written by an LLM that much more of a substantive contribution? Is it "thoughtful criticism" to
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by anonym29 1y ago
https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa... Banking and Credit Unions are a breeze for me. Grok is a no-go. Frustrating, given that's where all of xAI's new features go. Way better th
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GrapheneOS. Linux. Gecko-based browsers.
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by anonym29 1y ago
It's a risky game to leak the secrets of the gang that has a legal monopoly on violence.
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by anonym29 1y ago
For what it's worth, I'm no fan of Citizens United, and I'm sympathetic to wanting to get dark money out of politics, which is a completely separate conversation than the one about wealth inequality.
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by anonym29 1y ago
Consumption taxes, rather than production taxes. Taxes are a disincentive - this is why we tax vices. We want to disincentivize rampant, mindless consumerism that fuels the externality costs, right? Tax buying things - any things - all thin
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by anonym29 1y ago
I don't need to catch up or get anywhere remotely close to Bezos be financially satiated. If tens of millions of people can achieve financial independence, comfort, and safety, without the privileged upbringing, essentially just throu
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by anonym29 1y ago
59% of Americans can't cover an emergency expense of $1000. Economically disadvantaged people developing emergency funds and basic financial solvency is not going to destroy consumer spending. Further, consided that the top 10% are res
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by anonym29 1y ago
The average American might be able to save more and work fewer years if the average American didn't make the economically self-harming and unnecessary average spending decisions that average Americans make on social status signifiers,
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by anonym29 1y ago
There appears to be an unspoken normative view being asserted throughout the thread that people who do not invest their money and take advantage of compounding should achieve outcomes comparable to those who do invest their money and take a
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by anonym29 1y ago
>Pays to whom? Verifying this claim seems to require a definition of "the system." Taxes paid to governments. "The system" being governments - federal, state, county, city/locality. Cash receipts out of the syste
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by anonym29 1y ago
>Do you really believe that everyone gets the same amount of usage from, and contributes to the same amount of wear and tear on, municipal and infrastructural resources? No, I do not believe that, but it's worth noting that taxing i
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by anonym29 1y ago
Obviously he isn't working 130 billion times harder, but he may be some combination of 130 billion times as much (privileged upbringing × strategically focused × economically impactful × smarter × harder working × luckier × n other r
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by anonym29 1y ago
>Do you think videos like these need more animations/ visuals to be more entertaining or understandable? Or do you think content like this doesnt require those kinds of attention keeping tactics? I mean I try to be visual with code
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by anonym29 1y ago
Stream of consciousness as I hit play: You're getting 21 syllables out literally within the first three seconds of the video starting. You're speaking at a very quick pace, which demonstrates a degree of passion and engagement, bu
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by anonym29 1y ago
Non-paywalled: https://archive.is/w04aA In relation to TFA: normothermic regional perfusion and ECMO seem like basically the same medical technology being performed on the bodies of people who only differ in legal status. I
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$2/Mtok in and out but no caching discounts
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I had 9 seconds, earlier with Cline. That said, resulting output file I had requested generation of was over 122KB in 58.690 seconds, so I was approaching 2KB per second even factoring in high TTFT.
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Is there a reference to this functionality in docs anywhere?

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