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by bena 6mo ago
I think the point is that up until she was fired, she was Meta. She wasn’t a random employee, she was their global public policy director. She wasn’t just implementing policy, she was responsible for creating it. The question remains whet
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by bena 7mo ago
I mean, yeah. I need to buy the album once. I can buy multiple shirts, posters, etc.
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by bena 7mo ago
Same here. I thought it was completely fictional. So, I immediately looked it up. There was a real d'Artagnan, he was kind of a big deal, so Dumas wrote some stories based on a fictionalized version of the real d'Artagnan.
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by bena 7mo ago
Talking about how you are bored about talking about the thing is still talking about the thing.
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by bena 7mo ago
It means he has a girlfriend. And she goes to a different school. In Canada. You've never heard of it.
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by bena 7mo ago
You are being disingenuous. The article is about the aviation industry as a whole. The article talks about various accidents that have occured in the past few years. What it means for airports, etc. Then there's a section about the air
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by bena 7mo ago
You're using a no-true-Scotsman to accuse the author of a strawman. Consider that.
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by bena 7mo ago
Which I'm sure people would have more sympathy for if the restaurant wasn't robbing Sysco to make their food in the first place.
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by bena 7mo ago
Heating milk to destroy pathogens has a name. It was named after the guy who originally discovered the process, Louis Pasteur.
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by bena 7mo ago
Ticket sales typically go to the distributor, those ads are how the theater makes money
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by bena 7mo ago
Our local AMC theater would be $13 a ticket, $8 a drink, and $11 for popcorn (rounding up and assuming the largest sizes, although the prices are in a narrow band so the price difference between the least and most is under a dollar). So, we
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by bena 7mo ago
Star Wars sets started coming out in 1998. They weren't the first licensed sets, but the first fictional license. Prior to Star Wars, they had Shell, Exxon, and Esso branded sets. I think sometimes they licensed the Ferrari brand as we
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by bena 7mo ago
What's also kind of whatever is that he cracked the iPhone and the PS3 and then... Most of the noise around him is who is hiring him and who is firing him. I can't think of anything that has been attributed to him in ages.
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by bena 7mo ago
The elements that are 1/3 the height of a brick is a plate if it has studs, and a tile if it does not. Lego did not have Star Wars sets until 1998. The original Lego Millenium Falcon set 4504 would have retailed for right around $100.
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by bena 7mo ago
Would he extend the same deal to his customers? He won't charge them unless they make money, then he just gets a percentage of that? Like where does that end?
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by bena 7mo ago
I have to ask, what's the custody split?
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by bena 7mo ago
You'd have receipts. Every shipment from overseas would essentially have a line item for tariffs due. Just add them up.
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by bena 7mo ago
Ideas are always cheap. Eventually you will have to tell people what the idea is, even if it is at product launch. And then, if execution is as cheap and easy as they claim, then anyone can replicate the idea without having to engage with t
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by bena 7mo ago
We've had other existential threats to worry about of late. People are way more alarmed by Rapid Local Temperature Rises By Mechanism of Thermonuclear Energy Being Suddenly Released.
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by bena 7mo ago
That's ok. They are also missing out on all the players who won't try it until it's a dating sim. Or a turn-based-rpg. Or a third thing. Everything doesn't have to be for everyone.
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by bena 7mo ago
My first question was: "Is this whitewashing LLM energy usage?" And yes, that seems to be the undercurrent here. Complete with linking to themselves to validate the data they used to make their estimates. Either these companies ne
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by bena 7mo ago
I'm not in the habit of giving mice cookies.
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by bena 7mo ago
You're a fucking text editor. You edit text. You do not need to know how old I am to edit text.
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by bena 7mo ago
I keep seeing the canard that "Anyone with an idea and access to an AI agent can ship a product. What used to take a team of twenty and six months now takes one person and a weekend. That's not hype. It's happening right now,
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by bena 8mo ago
No, the point was to conserve fuel for the winter months. Which was why dst was a wwi directive that was abandoned after the war. We reimplemented it during wwii and just never changed back
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by bena 8mo ago
No school in summer. When we start getting more sun, it’s fine in the morning even with the spring forward. We go back to standard time in winter because otherwise it stays dark too long. And all of this ignores the core fact that time zone
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by bena 8mo ago
Spain instead adjusted it's entire country around the time. And they still do DST. They're just on a different time zone than they should be because during WWII, they changed to the same time zone as Germany.
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by bena 8mo ago
But we care about the kids. It's not about whether or not the kids are having a good time, but whether or not groggy people on their way to work can see them.
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by bena 8mo ago
Yes, a lot of griping about "standard time" is really griping about winter. There are fewer hours of daylight in the winter. That's just the way it is. You can't fool time.
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by bena 8mo ago
So they chose the wrong way. Nice.

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