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by blfr 5y ago
If public opinion and attitudes about privacy and security have really evolved significantly since Mark Zuckerberg launched the Ivy League-only TheFacebook.com , they would be moving to Signal in droves. They aren't. Most people don
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by blfr 5y ago
$30-50/month is a wild price point for this 16GB of RAM and 16vCPUs. What a weird balancing of resources. They are probably doing things somewhat inefficiently in the beginning, like renting whole, generic VMs for every customer. B
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by blfr 6y ago
Was there actual wrongdoing that the buggy system allowed and made difficult/impossible to trace or was it bugs all the way down?
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by blfr 6y ago
An acute crisis requires a different mindset. When you shut down half of your economy, introduce curfew, try to keep people in their homes, and plenty of people are also dying, you're not at war but it's not quite peacetime either
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by blfr 6y ago
The quality of leadership has really declined. Western countries seem to be run exclusively by petty managers. There's almost no "we shall fight them on the beaches" or "not because they are easy but because they are har
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by blfr 6y ago
But that's just Google controlling your content rather than Spotify. Not really open either way.
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by blfr 6y ago
What are you favourite podcasts?
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by blfr 6y ago
I have Spotify Premium and hear no ads on JRE.
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by blfr 6y ago
Firefox is by far the superior browser for all your casual needs: browsing, reading, tweeting, banking, etc. It's good enough and fast enough but where it excels are addons. Adblocking works so much better on Firefox. It blocks even th
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by blfr 6y ago
> Lay the FB 'hate' aside, will ya? For all its dehumanizing power (as much as the rest of 'social media' and technology in general) FB has not committed the 1/10000th of the harm these champions of virtue in the
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by blfr 6y ago
> The investigation shows how Facebook has allowed major abuses of its platform in poor, small and non-western countries in order to prioritize addressing abuses that attract media attention or affect the US and other wealthy countries.
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by blfr 6y ago
Chrome is obviously better than IE. Not just based on open source Chromium but generally easier to work with. I use Firefox because the addons are superior but even if we traded a downright terrible browser dominating the web for a somewhat
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by blfr 6y ago
Saving money on the vaccine while enacting much more expensive lockdowns is beyond silly. https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2021/04/06/scientists-against...
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by blfr 6y ago
I'm not surprised by the level at the top but I straight-up don't believe the ~7% estimate at the bottom. Poorer people I knew always made significant (for their income) tax free money: tips, under the table, selling stuff, maybe
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by blfr 6y ago
It was in relation to widespread use and availability of pornography, like tobacco was in the 20th century. Or like obesity is now. We had obese people since at least the first settled societies. But it was nothing like today, both in how w
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by blfr 6y ago
I genuinely don't agree with this. Just like FBI providing a 78 IQ unfortunate loser with explosives is not an attempted terrorist attack.
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by blfr 6y ago
Alcohol and weed are not good examples because these are failed interventions if you consider them harmful. Consumption of both exploded in the last few decades. This is why I use smoking: it's also legal or semi-legal, it used to be p
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by blfr 6y ago
I don't see your point. Tobacco use is prehistoric, barely more recent than drawing.
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by blfr 6y ago
Trashing some offices is nowhere near overthrowing a government. And pornographers did much, much worse. They trafficked underage women, misrepresented the contracts, routinely provided drugs to dull their actors' senses, and engaged i
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by blfr 6y ago
In the world where entire sites are pulled over some silly Q conspiracy theory, we can surely do more to combat porn. We've largely dealt with smoking, also addictive, also once prevalent, also while cigarettes are still available at e
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by blfr 6y ago
You're right, fast food is probably not the primary offender, and there are many causes (HFCS, seed oils, not cooking, abundance in general), and future is overdetermined... but fast food definitely carries some responsibility for the
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by blfr 6y ago
Pornography is bad for its consumers, bad for willing actors, and obviously terrible for people featured without consent. Tolerating it will be one of the great shames of our time.
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by blfr 6y ago
OP is primarily about money, not credit. The songwriting is extremely valuable, otherwise just write your own damn songs. If it's so valuable, how can these companies find "hit" writers for £100 a piece? While it is entirel
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by blfr 6y ago
Are pop songs inherently valuable? Artistically they're not usually interesting but in the market sense, would people listen to them without the massive marketing push? I strongly support distribution of profits in the relation to the
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by blfr 6y ago
Probably not. The site linked uses imo numbers for ship ids.
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by blfr 6y ago
NYT tried to make this point. Judge disagreed. > The New York Times also attempted a Hail Mary claim that Project Veritas was “libel proof.” We have previously discussed such claims as very hard to establish. The court correctly and qu
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by blfr 6y ago
I use lftp. The website design tells you exactly how the tool works. https://lftp.yar.ru/ One of the most valuable features is its ability to download a single file over multiple connections pget -n 4 your.file.tar.gz
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by blfr 6y ago
I completely agree with your premise. It is unprincipled that you can make fun of some races, disabilities, and traits but not others. But I completely disagree with your conclusion. The debate was much healthier with fewer limitations. The
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by blfr 6y ago
I don't know about grandparent but I do think that we have become soft and accepting of circumstances our ancestors would not tolerate. How many people live pretty sad lives distracting themselves with toys, electronics, crappy content

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