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by avazhi 2y ago
This isn’t about data. This is about pubescent brain rot and foreign influence and misinformation and attention spans and depression and anti-sociality and suicide.
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by avazhi 2y ago
Same exact thing that happened in 2016: if you repeatedly demonise a section of the population, don’t expect that section of the population to be honest with you about its opinions when those opinions are what led you to demonise it in the
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by avazhi 2y ago
> It's a fairly pro-business paper, certainly not very critical of Israel Sorry, are we both talking about the New York Times in 2024 here? Not a day goes by that there isn’t an article crying about Palestinians and bashing Israel -
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by avazhi 2y ago
Well I’m sure intel hopes they are. But given the positions of AMD, Apple, and Nvidia, they aren’t. The only real concerns would be warranty obligations, but it isn’t like Intel would just disappear over night - they’d be gobbled up by some
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by avazhi 2y ago
And? You said: “ 1. No light mode (why does everyone want dark mode, it sucks for anyone older than 30)” I’ve had astigmatism literally my entire life and, once again, have loved dark mode anywhere it’s been offered (except my Kindle, whic
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by avazhi 2y ago
The scariest thing about COVID wasn’t diabetes or heart disease but the brain damage (microhemorrhages) and in particular the dementia-associated lesions it appears to cause in long-COVID patients.
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by avazhi 2y ago
Either way the passwords are being uploaded, which is the comment I was replying to.
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by avazhi 2y ago
If they are uploading the PW and not the hash then… they are uploading the passwords themselves, encrypted or not. And guess who has the decryption keys…?
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by avazhi 2y ago
I’m nearly 40 and I can’t use light mode anymore. Judging from how many older coders use it I think it’s just you, mate.
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by avazhi 2y ago
Because it’s not relevant.
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by avazhi 2y ago
I don’t think linking directly to real companies and referring to them as partners while using their logos is all that similar to the Falwell example. I haven’t visited the site from this story, but had they clearly marked the site as parod
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by avazhi 2y ago
Not a US lawyer but would love to hear from anybody that is: could the gas companies sue for defamation for this? In Australia I suspect defamation or misleading and deceptive conduct under our ACL might be possible avenues for the gas comp
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by avazhi 2y ago
Well, I guess what I’d say is this: if you told the story but left out the part about the tips, but then people asked if ever tipped and you said no, that would be a very different story from one where the fact he didn’t tip looms large bec
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by avazhi 2y ago
So you seem to think that simply because of his wealth he should have been tipping you? The corollary would be the notion that regardless of where you were working at the time, you would have expected a tip from him simply on account of his
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by avazhi 2y ago
Not sure I've spent more than 10 minutes combined over the past 20 years 'reading' a spam or scam email. When those things do manage to get through spam filters it's usually pretty obvious what they are. As for 'mar
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by avazhi 2y ago
I did upgrade to it after the first week and it was the worst MacOS upgrade I've ever done (since Leopard), so I went back to Sonoma. Firewall was broken, Wifi was broken, Contact key Verification was broken. It was the biggest pile of
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by avazhi 2y ago
You think you should have received a tip for working behind the counter? Or were you actually waiting tables and he'd be at a table? If it's the latter I apologise for the brusqueness.
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by avazhi 2y ago
I’ll take ‘not relying on my computer to do tasks that are inherently and inextricably human, like actually reading a text message from my mother or daughter, or replying to them,’ for $5, Alex. I’ll stay on Sonoma for as long as I safely c
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by avazhi 2y ago
> Please take a deep breath and step away from the Rupert Murdoch. On the off chance that you are actually attempting to persuade me in good faith, you might reconsider in the future the use of phrases like this one and the impact they a
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by avazhi 2y ago
I understand a lot of what you're saying, but the fact is that radical anything - whether it's the radical left or right, radical environmentalists, radical feminists, etc., are all ultimately trying to move their grievances and s
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by avazhi 2y ago
> The issue is clearly with maga/qanon right-wingers who were told this benign left-wing talking point was in fact a plot to keep them in their homes. The placard literally says 'Stay Home!'
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by avazhi 2y ago
I live in Melbourne (and have for 15 years), so I'm not some rural hillbilly crying about cars per se - in fact I'm not even talking about cars: That placard literally says: 'Stay Home!' I think bicycle paths and pedestr
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by avazhi 2y ago
I’ll take Britannica any day.
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by avazhi 2y ago
My apologies. I'm more than happy to admit that men exhibit 'innate bad behaviour' more often than women do. The fact that they do so is a function of them being men, and men and women are very different, as we've seen.
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by avazhi 2y ago
"Sex differences in motor vehicle accidents among teenagers skew heavily male along with other not fully thought through risk taking look at me behaviours." I'm glad you agree with me that certain male behaviours and thought
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by avazhi 2y ago
"Previous studies have reported differences between males and females in toy choice; that is, girls generally favor toys such as soft dolls, whereas boys generally favor construction and transportation toys (e.g., Connor and Serbin, 19
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by avazhi 2y ago
> Incorrect. Most states have at-will employment laws (or as I like to call them, right-to-be-fired laws), which mean that either party may terminate the employment at any time for any reason (or no reason) except for those specifically
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by avazhi 2y ago
"In 2016, Crikey ran a series on women in the tech industry and the factors that had led to women making up just 23% of the industry workforce: a lack of girls studying STEM subjects, long hours and an emphasis on hours worked rather t
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by avazhi 2y ago
This is not my experience. I've convinced two family members to get vaccinated on the basis of very strong evidence for protection against long COVID. Not all the 'uneducated rednecks' are as intransigent as you or the others
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by avazhi 2y ago
What’s disempowering is sending a family member a link to a study demonstrating that COVID vaccines reduce one’s risk of long COVID or dementia, and having that family member say ‘Oh this is Nature, they hate Trump and I’m not interested in

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