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961.
by autoexec 7mo ago
> Punishing a corporate entity however is much easier. We don't seem to have much luck getting it to happen. The larger the corporate entity the more unlikely they'll see any meaningful punishment.
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by autoexec 7mo ago
In the worst cases you get people who just want to say they made an OS by slapping their name on an existing distro after changing the default background image or making a couple tweaks. That's a lot easier to than to contribute someth
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by autoexec 7mo ago
Generally, clearing caches will make programs run slower once (on first run after the clear), but it could speed things up if there's a massive amount of other stuff cached or if the cached thing you're trying to run got corrupted
964.
by autoexec 7mo ago
I think it's just supposed to make installing commonly used things seem easier. I have to admit that (assuming they both work flawlessly) it'd be easier to type "zen install steam" than it is to manually edit a file and
965.
by autoexec 7mo ago
"Optimized & Light" but also the system requirements say it needs 10 GB for the just the system itself with 25 GB+ recommended. Regular old Debian recommends 10 GB of disk space too (but allows for installations that come in u
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by autoexec 7mo ago
Don't forget the massive costs of lobbying governments to weaken regulations and reduce inspections and also the costs of bribing meat inspectors, and the legal expenses and lawyer fees required to defend themselves from lawsuits surro
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by autoexec 7mo ago
> The reason you think of the Catholic Church this way is BECAUSE it got more media attention earlier than elsewhere. I think what earned the Catholic Church their reputation was that the church was actively involved in protecting known
968.
by autoexec 7mo ago
You mean we do let them do that unless you aren't able to pay them for it. If you're the minority that has very large sums of money your doctors can decide what treatment works best, but for everyone else their healthcare is dicta
969.
by autoexec 7mo ago
It's really the insights you get from data that is of value. It's no problem at all if some company has a list of GPS coordinates showing everywhere I've been until they start looking to see what those places are and start u
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by autoexec 7mo ago
What we can say for certain is that heath insurance companies in the US stuff their pockets with tens of billions in profits each year and that Americans are paying far more while getting less for their money than other developed nations. I
971.
by autoexec 7mo ago
It sounds like you'd save a lot of time if you just didn't use the LLM.
972.
by autoexec 7mo ago
We can't be a developing country when we're doing the opposite of developing.
973.
by autoexec 7mo ago
Access to smartphones/tablets with unrestricted internet connection is only a problem today when parents give their children access to smartphones/tablets with unrestricted internet connections. Cell phones and tablets don't
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by autoexec 7mo ago
The nice thing about not being in jail is that you have the freedom to choose where and how you live. Feel free to move into a shack in the middle of the woods away from everyone. Plenty of people make the choice to live as hermits or shuti
975.
by autoexec 7mo ago
> But then it's not much of a jail anymore... If you aren't free to leave, and you're kept apart from society it's a jail. No one is ever sentenced to "10 years of eating bad food". Our prison system may to
976.
by autoexec 7mo ago
Yeah, I'm going to believe the many many documented cases of these problems in VA alone over your non-example https://www.businessinsider.com/living-next-to-data-centers-... https://www.businessinsider.com&#
977.
by autoexec 7mo ago
People don't usually pay for automated stores or rides because of the automated aspect. They just want to get the items or get to their destination. I think waymo was mostly upfront that humans are working behind the scenes, but if ama
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by autoexec 7mo ago
How is this not fraud, or at least false advertising? If I'm paying money to chat with a specific sex worker how is it even legal to let some random dude in a third world country pretend to be the person I'm supposed to be talking
979.
by autoexec 7mo ago
> if states can pass restrictive laws on AI in absence of a correspondingly negative motivating event... If you mean besides the extensive harm to air quality, the large land fingerprint of data centers, the massive strain on water resou
980.
by autoexec 7mo ago
The shutdown mechanism would have existed anyway and a "risk management review" sounds exactly like the sort of toothless policy that's supposed to make people feel better without actually putting any limits or enforcement on
981.
by autoexec 7mo ago
I'm sure that there can be situations where it's better to sacrifice sound quality and reliability for the convenience of wireless but I think the ability to replace cables is a huge advantage and not a pain point at all. The only
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by autoexec 7mo ago
Bluetooth also opens your devices up to spying/tracking/monitoring/hacking/fingerprinting.
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by autoexec 7mo ago
I'd get out the checkbook for this. It'd be worth a stamp on the off chance they actually tried to cash it.
984.
by autoexec 7mo ago
It's for kids and parents who bought into marketing and thinks that they need a apple product to be an artist or to be cool and not nerdy but can't afford an apple computer with decent specs.
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by autoexec 7mo ago
No, certain people will be a good fit for most jobs, but many jobs would leave you miserable even if you never knew anything else. People born into slavery weren't happy about it. What we know is that there is an amount of money/p
986.
by autoexec 7mo ago
I'm grateful that I got the best of both worlds. When I was young I could play outside with freedom and climb around on highly dangerous playground equipment and now that I'm older and more fragile I get to stay inside on the couc
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by autoexec 7mo ago
Most people only have phones period. Desktop computers are not common.
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by autoexec 7mo ago
Do we even want a bunch of people contributing slop upstream when (assuming it does anything worthwhile in the first place) somebody has to actually review/correct/document that code? A handful of well intentioned slop piles might
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by autoexec 7mo ago
> I don't think the best path is praying for failure. Embrace it "Embrace failure" is exactly the attitude every company is going to take. They've already been working at bottoming out our expectations. We should have
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by autoexec 7mo ago
I'd love to see their books to find out how they're burning that much money and then still digging a hole hundreds of millions deep. I suspect that they've got issues higher in the org chart than they're pruning, and I&#

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