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by bootlooped 5y ago
It's easy to think of ways this backfires if written too broadly. Such as the record label claiming the local record shop is hijacking their search results and stealing their sales, they want them delisted so searches always go to the
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by bootlooped 5y ago
At least the other way around is true sometimes, that the internet thinks Google's search results are theirs.
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by bootlooped 5y ago
The merchant is able to set something on that page, the one with the ordering options, that would label their own website "Preferred by business". If you ever see it, it's fairly prominent. To me this almost totally invalidat
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by bootlooped 5y ago
I'm skeptical of that claim. The screen has to be really bright since stores are brightly lit themselves. Then you're putting something generating heat right up against the cavity you want to keep cold. And then there's the a
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by bootlooped 5y ago
A DNS-based ad blocking solution helps with this problem on mobile.
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by bootlooped 5y ago
I support the economic warfare against Russia, not because I'm OK with hurting average Russians citizens, but because I don't know any better alternative. Would NATO entering Ukraine and engaging Russian troops be better? I don&#x
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by bootlooped 5y ago
My first thought is, with the current sanctions, how would you pay the remote worker? I can't imagine any company right now thinking it's optimal to hire somebody residing in Russia.
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by bootlooped 5y ago
I don't think that my US college education pushed forward the knowledge of humanity at all. The least it could have done was prepare me for the professional world, but it didn't even do that very well.
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by bootlooped 5y ago
Newly free from the European theater, I think Stalin wanted to move in. I'm against the nuclear bombings, but I think if it was between reality as it is now and an alternate history where Japan was cut in half like Korea, I'd choo
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by bootlooped 5y ago
I think there's a couple of counter-examples to the "they need to surrender for peace" argument. After World War 1 Germany surrendered. That did not result in a good outcome. After Desert Storm, Saddam Hussein never invaded K
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by bootlooped 5y ago
But what was clear to US command at the time was that the Imperial Japanese war machine had been thoroughly crushed by August 1945. They had been on a non-stop losing streak since Midway. What was the remaining risk to the US? What was the
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by bootlooped 5y ago
There was a This American Life about it, centered around a family that moved there from American Samoa. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/555/transcript
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by bootlooped 5y ago
The best example I can think of to illustrate feature creep was the face expression tracking. I read they were working on something where your webcam could see your face and map the expressions onto your character in game. The fact that tha
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by bootlooped 5y ago
My understanding is that this paradigm was incredibly dangerous, with a lot of workers losing hands and arms in accidents. Turning on or off a given machine involved physically putting the belt on or pulling it off, and you could easily get
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by bootlooped 5y ago
When I wear an N95 regularly I make sure to shave around my chin and beard. If I don't then I can feel all the airflow going through there instead of the filter material.
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by bootlooped 5y ago
I've frequently thought about how much net productivity loss automated phone systems cause for the economy. It seems like for every 10 minutes of my time is wasted on one the company I'm calling saved 1-2 minutes of customer servi
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by bootlooped 5y ago
She did sort of try to pivot. https://www.wired.com/2016/08/theranos-chance-clear-name-ins...
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by bootlooped 5y ago
I don't think history has proved the Streisand Effect materializes here. When Twitter and others deplatformed Trump after January 6, his direct lines to his followers were dissolved. He had a subscription email or something that was a
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by bootlooped 5y ago
I wonder what kids raised on iPads with big childproof cases will be like when they grow up, or even just when they get into high school.
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by bootlooped 5y ago
For those wondering, like me, what the hell the BNT162b2 vaccine is, it's the research name for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine. It's stated several paragraphs down the paper.
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by bootlooped 5y ago
The stickers don't have to be software related. My current ones are not.
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by bootlooped 5y ago
Also vehicle stability assist and automatic emergency braking. I would call those two lifesaving features. https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/life-saving-benefits-of-esc... Lane keeping assist and adaptive cruise co
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by bootlooped 5y ago
I think in most cases with NFTs, "own" is being defined at ownership of the off-chain artwork (or other thing). I think people are being sold the idea that they're buying a certificate that proves they own (in some sense of t
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by bootlooped 5y ago
If that's the case, then the NFT is no longer the thing proving authenticity, the artist is. Then what is the NFT for?
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by bootlooped 5y ago
But NFTs can be copied. In which case a third party outside the blockchain must attest to which NFT is original or legitimate. That kills the whole proof of ownership angle, I think. Having an NFT only means you control a digital file asser
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by bootlooped 5y ago
> the artist is the creator and arbiter of what the real NFT is Then why can't they just be the arbiter of what the real JPEG is and skip a whole step?
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by bootlooped 5y ago
And the provenance of which NFT is legitimate and/or original is not on the chain either. I create myartwork.jpeg. Somebody creates an NFT of it. Later, I create an NFT of it. Even later a bunch of people make NFT replicas of both. Whi
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by bootlooped 5y ago
It's a different token, but I think the only difference is token id and creation time. In all other respects it's identical. It's like having two brand new dollar bills, but they have different serial numbers.
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by bootlooped 5y ago
Funny part is that I don't think the actual image even has to be copied. What is on the blockchain is just metadata, including a URL (or multiple) where the actual image is stored. You can just copy the metadata.
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by bootlooped 5y ago
That social contract is stored off-chain (if at all), and the work itself is stored off-chain. Combined with the fact that you can perfectly duplicate the thing that is stored on the blockchain and I think that all radically reduces the val

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