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by ardy42 6y ago
> These same claims are being made in ongoing court cases. It's far out of Google's ambit to claim to resolve "the truth" at this juncture. Aren't you an actual lawyer? Do you think any of Giuliani's cases
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by ardy42 6y ago
> And your approach is to teach children to fear scissors instead of teaching them to use scissors carefully; to teach people that cotton swabs are "dangerous" and must never be used. No, that's not my approach. Literally
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by ardy42 6y ago
>>> Why spy on your own citizens when that makes them blackmail-able by foreign nation states? >>> Seriously, the quickest, cheapest, easiest way to spy on someone in the US (or any 5 eyes) is through our own "securit
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by ardy42 6y ago
> There’s also something to be said for sensible abstractions. Even if the power users don’t have the control they want, the solution works for 90% of all other users. There's something to be said for writing some things in some kin
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Wellll.. I mean the json has markdown syntax in it. That's a lot nicer than html tags for markup, but it's still markup. Isn't markdown literally just HTML shortcuts for a limited set of common markup cases? IIRC, it&#x
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Seriously, the quickest, cheapest, easiest way to spy on someone in the US (or any 5 eyes) is through our own "security" agencies, but I'm going to go with stupidity rather than malice on the NSA's part. No. The qui
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by ardy42 6y ago
> You don't think a job which massively inconveniences petty and violent criminals - some of whom will be part of larger crime families and networks - is inherently risky? Those jobs are, but regular people have dangerous stalkers,
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Pretty sure it's actually "cotton buds". That's what they are called outside America. The generic term is "cotton swab" in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_swab However, I
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Have you ever dealt with support tickets or read "normal" user forums for a consumer product that you work on? PEBKAC is often times a kind way to describe the problem. I totally understand that, but I think it's far les
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by ardy42 6y ago
> At least in the U.S., with for-profit medicine, you cannot and should not trust doctors. There is a financial motivation that is misaligned with trying to help you; they (and their employers) have very twisted incentives to try to get
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Has anyone ever heard of anyone, in their childhood or adult life, who suffered problems from using cotton swabs to clean their ears? Punctured eardrum out of clumsiness is not a qualifying case. > This warning always struck me as e
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by ardy42 6y ago
> There are many things that doctors do not recommend because they don't believe the average person can use it correctly. > ...She told me that they don't usually prescribe that one because they don't trust the parents
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by ardy42 6y ago
> You need to support people who need to isolate so that they can and do isolate. I think this is why the US (any maybe other places) ultimately failed so badly at containing COVID. There's strong, partisan resistance to the idea o
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Also, narcissistsic sociopaths can have a high capacity for empathy in the sense of knowing what others feel and think while also ruthlessly manipulating I initially thought this wasn't considered empathy, but TIL: https:/&#
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>> In our new research, we found that this seems to be what leads to a more satisfying life. Similarly, being prosocial – acting kindly, cooperatively and with compassion toward others – is also significantly linked with higher wellbe
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by ardy42 6y ago
> a serious intellectual is one that poses falsifiable arguments that other intellectuals attempt, and fail, to falsify. PG does no such thing. Not really, a serious intellectual is one that does their research and does it competently, a
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by ardy42 6y ago
> How big of a problem is 1800+ containers lost in what I assume is a major shipping route? It could be a big problem for someone. IIRC, when some people move overseas long term, they sometimes ship their personal possessions via contai
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Still I expect US intelligence would know all the side effects of this weapon and not have to struggle identifying it, I expect they tested it 50 years ago already You seem to be assuming US intelligence is as scarily competent as it i
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by ardy42 6y ago
Maybe ambassadors do, but it's not like they can run the show on their own. US embassies are pretty large operations with many different functions. IIRC, the people who think they were targeted by that weren't ambassadors, and a
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Possibly you should read Manufacturing Consent by Chomsky. You know that rando who came up with several core concepts in linguistics, computer science and politics... Talent in one area doesn't translate to the same level of tale
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by ardy42 6y ago
> One thing Americans and Canadians have in common is that we're both English-language readers who consume much of the same media. If that were the case, then I'd expect British and Australian diplomats would be affected as wel
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> If this is such an old known weapon why are walls not insulated or some detectors placed in this buildings? IIRC, most diplomats live in private residential areas, not in an embassy compound.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> For those not familiar with how flat purchases work in the U.K. We have a crazy system where people purchase “long-leases” for their flats, you don’t own the flat, your just renting it for a long period of time (normally 99 or 999 year
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by ardy42 6y ago
> In many cases it is true, but the one legitimate use case is helping out in countries where monetary freedom is restricted. Don't forget the other major use case: online retail for illegal goods and services. Cash is impractical,
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by ardy42 6y ago
> That is around when Bitcoin dropped its currency aspirations and went whole hog into being a vehicle for speculation. Was that when we started to see all the scammy pump and dump schemes around random new cryptocurrencies as well?
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>>> Says who? Who is going to enforce some random African country that is in the middle of a civil war to have those? > This is meant to be a completely different ecosystem, no? An ecosystem not controlled with the US. This isn&
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by ardy42 6y ago
> And fashions also come into play in these judgments. I will eat my 8G-networked collapsible VR headset if, 20 years from now, people aren't horribly cringing at the popular 2020 notions of "solving climate change" and &q
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No analogy is an exact mapping. But it is true outside observers spend far more time considering the few balls that were home runs than many more that were fouls.
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> But those are exactly the kind of changes that someone just browsing would be indifferent to, or even appreciate. The images/videos they're scrolling through are now big, front, and center. Many probably don't ever ventu
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Thankfully there are some browser extensions to redirect automatically, provided you're comfortable using them: And if you're not, greasemonkey scripts that do that aren't hard to write. If you know how to code in any l

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