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by bigfudge 4y ago
Then mourn the social democratic consensus that built that prosperity, rather than the symbol of empire and privilege that it replaced?
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by bigfudge 4y ago
I had never considered before what the right course of action for the Queen (and now Charles) would have been, but this is it. That said, I do think it’s an unrealistic ask of someone who’s entire life and all those around her are dedicated
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by bigfudge 4y ago
I think you are just making a joke, which is fine, but I would reassert the point I think the OP was making that there is a qualitative difference in the nature of the abuses committed by individuals and firms.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
I love Signal, but in some jurisdictions government request for data can be accompanied by gagging orders with serious penalties for breach. I'm not sure that list can be considered complete.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
That doesn’t make much sense if the cirrhosis is also caused by the alcohol.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Tiktok optimises for what people spend a long time looking at, but I don’t think that anyone would claim the metric it uses is what we would want to define as quality in the broader sense.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Right, but there tend to be other children who are smaller not far away. It always strikes me as weird how many parents seem to have something against passing on clothes between kids.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Says someone who doesn’t have kids. I really don’t think it’s a big empathetic leap to imagine that young teens would want to take part in the modern world, and that includes some access to the internet. And no, constant supervision is not
579.
by bigfudge 4y ago
Do you have kids? It’s really not easy to withdraw all internet access without substantially disadvantaging them. But I don’t want them reading 4chan either. Anything which makes that less likely without fundamentally breaking things is wel
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by bigfudge 4y ago
I do too, but statistically we are "nobody".
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by bigfudge 4y ago
I agree. But I think the key thing is that deciding what phase to feed the system was still the key task. Creative people are unlikely to be out of a job anytime soon, even if they end up using something like Dalle to make quick prototypes.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
I doubt it, because the process of thinking of phrases to feed dall-e is really the hard bit. This is ok for a logo like this where it’s fair to say the base level expectation is not super creative. This logo is cool, but it doesn’t really
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Uber paid 6 figure sums for academic research as lobby fodder(theguardian.com)
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by bigfudge 4y ago
It’s kind of you to say ‘even’ the uk could muster, but at this point functioning government seems a forlorn hope here.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
The GP didn't claim this was a perfect or even good solution though: just the best currently available. That your vendor will sell you out to law enforcement/intelligence agencies is a given for ALL large tech companies. None has
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Agreed on pay gaps but There is plenty of evidence that women and minorities are interviewed at different rates and differently In Practice. That’s enough for my statement to be true (in the sense that they end up being paid different amoun
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by bigfudge 4y ago
The problem is, with so little information to go on I do actually think spamming quite a few women is probably the best policy, even if it has costs for the platform. Until you speak to someone a little you have not idea, so best to at leas
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by bigfudge 4y ago
I think you can if you pay. However, in my experience people often put Christian to indicate they were raised that way and it implies very little current belief. Unless hardcore atheism is itself a requirement I’m not sure it would be a goo
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by bigfudge 4y ago
It still does this and I like it. I do worry that the answer to the brexit question (good/bad?) is perhaps too diagnostic for me, but much better than cliched bios that all read the same. I wonder though if there is room for a. It’s tr
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by bigfudge 4y ago
For less confident people IRL, the ability to like with low cost is actually great. I have had dates with people I would probably never have approached in real life and online dating has been a confidence boost generally.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
If you mean descending into mysoginist bile and hate, then yes.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
> Wage is the result of adversarial relationships between demand and supply and not one of some arbitrary authority doling out favors left and right with strings attached Except there are: - systematic biases in access to the skills need
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Surely you are not processing data in this case though? The client (software) determines whether to make a connection to fonts.google.com. Your website never passed the information to google.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
In the US this may be true. It’s certainly not in Europe. 80%+ of tax take is spent on health and social benefits here which are broadly approved of by the population…
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by bigfudge 4y ago
I take you point in part (justice is the stronger version) but fairness as you describe only occurs in social animals which actually do have a more complex definition of fairness than simple equality. Chimp ‘morals’ would include the notion
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by bigfudge 4y ago
I think you have a narrower definition of ‘social’ function. I mean the things that are useful to society as a whole. Things we seem not helpful/useful/conducive to people leading best lives can be curtailed. Not everyone shares t
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Also, a lot of the dam/flood deaths are horrible corporate mining bund collapsing etc, not high end public power infra. Would be interesting to see the numbers on 1) first world countries and 2) first world countries excluding the US w
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Also onshore wind entirely compatible with most farming. Offshore wind makes land use mostly irrelevant.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Not in the US, but Germany and Scandinavian countries show this very much is a possibility. Medium sized firms in Germany just don’t behave the same way they do in the US and large enterprises are subject to far more state intervention. And
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by bigfudge 4y ago
The reason companies are given legal standing and privilege is because they serve a useful social function, in addition to being a legal nicety for investment. If companies don’t serve useful social purposes we can change the law to withdra

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