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by autoexec 3mo ago
> Making money requires accurate information about the world. A company may have accurate information that their product causes cancer, but they aren't going to tell you that. They'll outright lie and say it doesn't, hire
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Private companies care ONLY about making money.
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Search does miss a lot of stuff. I hope they never get rid of the option for storing messages in MBOX because I find I have to grep through my messages all the time.
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> You customize extensively during your initial setup, followed only by minor tweaks to get your workspace just right. If all of your users customize extensively the moment they get your hands on the software that means your defaults suc
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by autoexec 3mo ago
If I were one of those 10 people I'd have told them that I love "dated" UIs. Most modern UIs are trash. I'd hate it if efforts to make Thunderbird shiny enough to attract users sacrificed functionality, ease of use, or c
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> The goal is economic growth, which matters more than anything else. That sounds like an argument for human slavery
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If it does I'm just going to start doing what AI does and make up bullshit like Calvin's dad. https://i.redd.it/egytd3v20qo81.jpg
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> That’s a misconception. Glass does not flow over time;...Physicists calculate that it would take longer than the age of the universe for room-temperature window glass to visibly deform under gravity. so then it does flow over time, jus
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We could replace a large number of plastics right now and be just fine. Society flourished and thrived before we used plastic for everything in our lives. Some people would make less profit though, so of course it's impossible to make
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by autoexec 3mo ago
I'm inclined to believe that the decline of our education system is intentional. Certain people don't want the masses to be capable of critical thinking.
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We're even bringing child labor back https://fortune.com/2023/05/25/labor-shortage-child-teenage-...
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The number of people who buy tickets to sit in theater to watch movies is not a good measure of people's interest in watching movies or the success of the medium. Most people are streaming films and while streaming services continue to
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“profit motivated” means taking as much as possible while giving as little as possible in return. The ideal situation for a profit motivated company would be collecting all of the money people have and delivering nothing. Thieves are also p
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by autoexec 3mo ago
I have a 10 year old cell phone that still gets regular use. Works just fine for things like phone calls, texts, youtube (newpipe), termux, and note taking. Original battery isn't great at this point, but a new one is maybe $15. Zero r
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by autoexec 3mo ago
uber's website already requires JS to book a ride. Fortunately taxi companies still exist and can just be called by phone.
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> I get that asking a commercial website to be as basic/supported as that website is a big ask. The trick isn't to get a commercial website to accept a site that basic, it's to get the website to test for capabilities and
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Why start at 1989? Why the 70s? https://economicsinsider.com/us-wealth-inequality-1965-2025/ the 1980s are where things starting going wrong.
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> They aren't part of the executive branch, period. The president has no control over their pay or performance. They are run by the comptroller general who is appointed by the president meaning that the president has total control o
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A very small number of people are taking (and often wasting) the majority of the worlds wealth and resources and harming everyone else in the process. We could probably stave off that decline for a lot longer if we did something about the l
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> At some point widespread desalination is probably inevitable, but that requires a lot of energy. We'll also need somewhere to put all that salt. It'd be best to stop the largest wastes of the clean water that we have. We hav
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Negro would have been the acceptable term.
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> It's the corporation's job to advocate for favorable regulations Bribery is not advocacy. > the government's job to enact regulations that benefit the general public rather than special interests. No argument there, b
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by autoexec 3mo ago
Signal doesn't have to backdoor the client (although they could) to be a risk. They upload and permanently store sensitive data in the cloud protected by nothing more than a pin and SGX ( https://web.archive.org/web&#x2F
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> the model was you go to an arcade cabinet and you get charged every time you died Worse, some arcade games drained your health continuously while you played so no matter how good you were you'd have to keep plugging quarters into
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> I can still play the games I bought on the nintendo switch 8 years ago. If those were digital copies you might have chance, otherwise don't count on them to keep working for long. The carts Nintendo used were made with memory that
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Screw fraud, it should be considered theft punishable by time behind bars the same way it would if some junkie broke into my house and stole my games or movies off my bookshelf.
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We should require companies to submit a DRM-free version of their product to the US copyright office in order to get copyright protection. If the company goes under, or the copyright term expires, the US Copyright office should then provide
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by autoexec 3mo ago
> Does such strawman regulation even exist? Yes, the DMCA is a great example, but corporations write those regulations and bribe government to pass them. That's not really an example of evil government as much as it is an example of
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In my country more people are killed by corporations than by their government's "warplanes and myriads of armed enforcers". Corporations have literally poisoned you and your entire family already. They've contaminated ev
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Netflix has made enough quality shows that I'm upset at how often they've canceled them before the story finishes. They can make good content. They just don't want to commit to seeing it through which leaves them left with a

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