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by bdw5204 3y ago
The solution to this problem is for Google, Facebook and other web sites that link to news to limit links to web sites that agree that the free traffic they're receiving from extremely popular web sites is sufficient compensation for l
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by bdw5204 3y ago
To gain the confidence of gamers, Google would have needed to maintain Stadia for a long time, even if it cost them money. They'd also likely need an on demand subscription program more desirable than Xbox Game Pass or the higher tiers
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by bdw5204 3y ago
Game development has turned into the same kind of nightmare that music is for anybody who wants to go into it. Unless you're really good at marketing/get really lucky, you're never going to make a living doing it because the
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Most people have no desire to actually use their brain and think independently. For one thing, other people who've blindly accepted a point of view from some authority figure might be nasty to them. Also, they can't possibly imagi
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by bdw5204 3y ago
There are a few thousand people who still pay for AOL dialup every month.[0] It was around 2 million back in 2015 but AOL has intentionally made it almost impossible to sign up for dialup. They primarily sell a "computer security"
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by bdw5204 3y ago
There's an endless supply of people who want to moderate forums and are happy to do so for free even if they don't get to set the rules or operate as a dictator. The moderators who consider the lack of "a sense of ownership&q
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by bdw5204 3y ago
I don't see how they'd have difficulties replacing the mods. Even if it's hard to find replacements within the Reddit community there are lots of blue checks on Twitter who'd probably be thrilled to take over Reddit mode
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Or you just don't bother shopping in stores and just order from Amazon instead? Or you take the train/drive to somewhere where they still have free bags? Since the area where I live put in a paper bag fee and banned plastic bags a
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by bdw5204 3y ago
If the government is going to put a domain name on license plates, you'd think it would make sure the domain name stays registered as long as the license plates remain in use. They're lucky it was snatched up by a casino and not s
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I think the only real path forward is for somebody to create an open source "unaligned" version of GPT. Any corporate controlled AI is going to be nerfed to prevent it from doing things that its corporate master considers to not b
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The mistake people who ask this question make is assuming that growth must be contained on a single planet. As they used to say in a previous generation, mankind's destiny lies in the stars. And we don't get there by worrying abou
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If the agency won't offer a perpetual license at a reasonable price, their content shouldn't be included in the game. It's inexcusable that games are still being removed from sale in a medium where the cost of manufacturing a
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I had guessed 3DO but a Google search turned up an article about one for the NES. I don't know if it qualifies as "usable" though because it can only run a word processor that supports 8 files containing a screen each of text
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Disney itself was built on the back on works in the public domain. Snow White, Pinocchio, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty, The Jungle Book and Robin Hood were all based on public domain works.
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There's nothing whatsoever wrong with monetizing hobbies. What's wrong is when you change how you approach your hobbies to appeal to the people paying you money. Following a content upload schedule and unironically begging your au
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A "contract" where one party is clearly not of "sound mind" is supposed to be null and void according to basic principles of contract law[0]. Tricking an elderly person with dementia or a mentally handicapped person into
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In the early web (circa 2000 and earlier), search engines were awful so most people used human-curated directories (Yahoo, DMOZ), web rings or links pages to find new web sites to visit. The web rings were organized groups of web sites that
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On Windows, it is normal for applications to set themselves as the default for whatever files they open. The honest ones ask for user consent first. The dishonest ones just hijack file types. I don't see anything anti-competitive about
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by bdw5204 4y ago
The part that's concerning about ChatGPT is that a computer program that is "confidently wrong" is basically indistinguishable from what dumb people think smart people are like. This means people are going to believe ChatGPT&
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Just because something is in your organization's mission statement does not require you to make imprudent and likely suicidal decisions in pursuit of it. That is not a means to accomplish your cause but rather a means to harm it. But i
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by bdw5204 4y ago
How hard would it be to replace this entire algorithm with the following pseudocode? If !user.follows_author(author) then don't show tweet on timeline Else if tweet.timestamp is later than all other tweets show tweet first This is vast
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You basically need an external keyboard because the built in onscreen keyboard takes up about half the screen and the resolution doesn't get scaled down. And there's only one USB-C port so you need to buy a hub to extend it to mul
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What is "absolutely mind-boggling" is that there are parents who voluntarily send their kids to a school that openly admits it wants to dumb kids down to the lowest common denominator yet claim they care about their kids. If you k
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by bdw5204 4y ago
The problem there is that Google, Facebook and Twitter refused to export American values abroad and chose to comply with the censorship laws of foreign governments. I do regard it as morally unacceptable for an American tech company to coll
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The good part about the COPPA law is that it's an IQ test. If you're under 13, you have to be smart enough to understand that it's a "don't ask don't tell" situation and know to keep quiet. I did when I wa
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The solution is actually simpler than that. Just shut down any company operations in Utah, refuse to accept any payments from users with Utah addresses and require all of your employees that are located in Utah to relocate. But people in Ut
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That's one reason why I have no interest in purchasing a car or even getting a driver's license. If I can live in a walkable area with public transit and just walk or take the train/bus everywhere, I can save an enormous amou
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by bdw5204 4y ago
If the Internet Archive's digitizing and distribution of old books is fair use then so is a video game ROM site that distributes digital images of pre-PS360 era games that are no longer available to purchase legally. except at exorbita
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From the article, it isn't clear whether a pay range of minimum wage to 1 million euros would be in compliance with this new rule. This is an actual tactic that many US employers have used to follow the letter but not the spirit of sal
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by bdw5204 4y ago
During the 2016 campaign, one of the norms Trump was criticized, for breaking by both left and right was the norm that you don't prosecute your political opponents.[0][1] Specifically this was in the context of his campaign promise to

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