anonymousab

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by anonymousab 2y ago
> Murder is always wrong. Vigilante justice is wrong. Plenty of problems with tyrants, dictators and flat out murderers themselves have been resolved by murder.
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by anonymousab 2y ago
If your first primary goal with a product line is that it will turn a profit per sale from the start, then you kinda have to start with the cost of goods sold as your baseline. If a customer pays you less than the product or service costs t
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by anonymousab 2y ago
More than made up for in 'savings' from killing off Medicare. But realistically, you don't really need to balance a budget sheet when you can just print more of that principle currency on demand.
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by anonymousab 2y ago
It's hard to tell how much of it is machiavellian plotting now that his "side" is in power and will benefit from a tighter crackdown on dissent, versus how much of the changes are just due to Elon getting more and more upset
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by anonymousab 2y ago
The free market interpretation is that a competitor will make this information available as a differentiating point, if they believe it would make a competitive advantage compared to everyone just not doing it. And that, should no competito
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by anonymousab 2y ago
Spirit of the law vs. letter of the law. You can't go all-in on the letter of the law because language is imprecise and very contextual, and cannot aptly express the intent behind the law perfectly for all edge cases.
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by anonymousab 2y ago
Matt's attorney - or someone claiming to be him - was saying that Matt is in the right and everything he's posted since the start was cleared by him. On here and on Twitter. That jives with Matt's claims that his lawyers were
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by anonymousab 2y ago
> restoring WPEngine’s and Related Entities’ access to wordpress.org in the > ... > slack.wordpress.org); and That is going to be a very awkward slack channel.
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by anonymousab 2y ago
There are right answers though. Certainly far more "right" than what they currently do. They can, in fact, have their billions of profits while not putting their customers in the grave. It's just slightly less profit than the
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by anonymousab 2y ago
The countless needlessly dead "customers" aren't really happy or unhappy anymore. They're dead. Wanting to not be dead or miserable in exchange for a company fulfilling their obligations and maybe having billions in prof
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by anonymousab 2y ago
There is a wide variety of jobs between "try to maximize denials and ensure maximal suffering and customer death as often as possible" American medical insurance company CEO, and useless trash job worker. Many of those jobs even i
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by anonymousab 2y ago
That companies will go with malicious compliance 9999 times out of 10,000. So ensuring compliance would require immense enforcement efforts from the get-go that still haven't really surfaced.
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by anonymousab 2y ago
One of the common meme answers is that a destroyed economy is easier and cheaper for an international megacapitalist to pick apart and buy up. The long-term profits and power from those acquisitions outweigh a decade or two of inconvenience
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by anonymousab 2y ago
> If we are ever subpoenaed, we will not comply It's hard to trust a promise to not comply with the law. It's a nice sentiment but you can't really know how anyone is going to respond to the full brunt and pressure of the
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by anonymousab 2y ago
One thing I have noticed with some newer coworkers / fresh grads is that they seem much more willing to copy someone's issue from slack into gpt and regurgitate out a "here's what gpt says", which muddies the water
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by anonymousab 2y ago
> filibuster-proof Well there's your problem. The GOP knows that you need to sidestep those kind of tedious anachronisms in order to wield power effectively and get what you want. The Dems needed to learn that lesson several adminis
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by anonymousab 2y ago
> but isn't lower wage people getting higher wages a good thing Their wages did not rise anywhere near commensurate with the increased costs of those goods and services - the same goods and services that those people would be buying
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by anonymousab 2y ago
There are hardware cheating setups that utilize an external camera+device with basic image recognition and spoof a normal mouse over USB. From software's perspective, all you see on the client side is normal mouse inputs from a Logitec
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by anonymousab 2y ago
Even having CE installed on your machine - or software like IDA or Olly back in the day - is enough for some games to immediately permaban you. In some cases, having virtualization enabled and having VM software on disk (VMware, wsl2, etc.)
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by anonymousab 2y ago
I take it community moderation tools like voteban/votekick aren't sufficient anymore? They worked pretty well for pub matches back in CSS and 1.6, where it was pretty trivial for anyone to cheat or bot for free with minimal effort
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by anonymousab 2y ago
Anonymity and lack of accountability/a target to attack on the internet is just a huge pain in the ass for most governments and corporate interests. It is also useful, to some extent, for bot farms, propaganda, opinion influencing and
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by anonymousab 2y ago
I assume there's some element of being very angry that "it's not me" but an even larger element of "but at least it's one of us rich elite ruling class techbros and not the proles".
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by anonymousab 2y ago
The entire affair around having to buy twitter.
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by anonymousab 2y ago
Lots of information about car ownership and usage is tracked by the government.
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by anonymousab 2y ago
> once a good not-Chromium alternative appears Betting on this not happening is probably a better decision than most of the ones Mozilla has made over the past decade. It could happen but it's really unlikely for anything to be comp
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by anonymousab 2y ago
The issue is that they are not closing the loophole at all. It is the same loophole every time, and the workaround/update is just a wording change. Just make up some new arbitrary criteria on a whim in an instant, as a response to very
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by anonymousab 2y ago
The vast majority of startups fail. Most attempts at business will fail. It's just the nature of things. But I think a not uncommon pattern with "too big to fail" startups is that they can change their definition of success o
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by anonymousab 2y ago
I would agree, but IA did eventually add a mechanism for removing a site/copyrighted content entirely. If they were straight up ignoring or rejecting DMCA takedown requests, then that would be a self-immolation that is similarly pyrrh
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by anonymousab 2y ago
They aren't really fighting it, because they never picked a winnable battle. Rather, they overextended themselves massively in a blunder akin to just throwing themselves on their enemy's sword. They decided to go all-or-nothing on
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by anonymousab 2y ago
SpaceX responded with an insulting low buyout-or-get-fucked offer so they lose any benefit of the doubt here. They should be assumed negligent by default at best.

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