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by braiamp 2y ago
And this is why NoScript is a required extension. Matrix if you use Chromium based browsers.
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by braiamp 2y ago
> the only stable ABI is the win32 one TBF, that's also true when compared to Windows. The only actually stable ABI in all major OS's are Linux Win32 via Wine.
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by braiamp 2y ago
Two things, Heroic implements a GOG Galaxy api [1], and second, the challenges work on Windows without Galaxy, the problem is that their build of SDL is not up to date [2] 1: https://github.com/imLinguin/comet 2: ht
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by braiamp 2y ago
And yet, the US constitution by all metrics is the one lagging behind every other constitution about guaranteeing rights. The US had a solid first draft, it's time to update it.
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by braiamp 2y ago
> First, people say things like they can't not use Facebook because it has marketplace, etc. shows there has clearly been an issue of not enforcing any kind of anti-trust laws for the past 20 years since US v Microsoft in the browse
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by braiamp 2y ago
Nah, it's not. Things sometimes needs to be spelled out so that there's ZERO wiggle room. That's why the universal declaration of human rights had to be so extensive and verbose. There are people that will justify a missing c
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by braiamp 2y ago
> I think a lot of people over-estimate what algorithmic curation is worth to them They don't. They are addicted to it. Imagine a world where you scroll in Instagram and you reach the end. What are you going to do?
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by braiamp 2y ago
Private companies looking for profit and leaving when they notice that is not profitable is not a undesired thing. If your margins depend on you screwing your customers, your business model shouldn't exist. California will figure somet
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by braiamp 2y ago
> Internet access is more or less a “natural monopoly” Finally someone with some economic sense. Natural monopolies don't get to dictate prices or conditions of services. That's something that monopolies, have to be content wit
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by braiamp 2y ago
Is not whenever they deny it or not, your device can attest to it. Both Google and Apple have no qualms screwing up with third parties in their apps. Also, apps have been datamined up the wazoo, if a company claims not to do something and d
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by braiamp 2y ago
Isn't cargo cult used because some dudes were using cargo pants? That's how I always understood the concept. TIL that there are other etymologies to it.
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by braiamp 2y ago
Interesting that many people take this as a further prof that Ehrlich was wrong, when actually he was unlucky. This "bet" doesn't further our understanding of how anything works, and the article probably should drive the poin
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by braiamp 2y ago
The problem with such prediction is that it presumes that the population would grow at a accelerating pace, while the opposite is happening.
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by braiamp 2y ago
So, why wasn't a mixed approach taken? That's the obvious question you should be asking. Paid fact checkers are leaps in quality and depth of research, meanwhile Jonny Twoblokes doesn't have the willingness to research such t
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by braiamp 2y ago
No, he's claiming breach of contract and unfair practices. Cooking stuffing is just a customer issue, not a partner one. He would have no standing on that front.
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by braiamp 2y ago
There hasn't been any fire lately, lets remove the fire extinguishers from the building. Just because you don't see it happening overtly, doesn't mean that it's not needed. When dealing with private interests you have to
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by braiamp 2y ago
Why not just prohibiting the practice? This isn't weed or alcohol.
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by braiamp 2y ago
I don't think most people will heed this warning. I warned people in a programming forum that Python ordering of objects by insertion time was a implementation detail, because it's not guaranteed by any PEP [0]. I could literally
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by braiamp 2y ago
People would buy healthier food if they can afford it (both time and money). So, either make healthier food cheaper and allow them to cook it, or give them prepared healthy food.
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by braiamp 2y ago
And that's not even the words used, they said: > I absolutely hate <stuff that does X> like this
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by braiamp 2y ago
Election finance laws that the state is the one that bankrolls the campaigns would go a long way to it.
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by braiamp 2y ago
Tik for tat exists, but only when you can have a clear communication about it. Veritasium did a piece about it for explaining for layman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScpHTIi-kM
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by braiamp 2y ago
Reader mode.
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by braiamp 2y ago
I don't think anyone went and checked the whois database at that time that can corroborate the story.
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by braiamp 2y ago
That's a problem of the Rules for Rulers. You think once you rule you have power, but unless you are literally Goku, you don't have power if nobody follow your orders.
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by braiamp 2y ago
That's because you don't give your brain a excuse to be lazy. If the brain knows that it can offload the information somewhere else, it will do so. Instead of you recalling from memory the image, you recall from memory where the i
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by braiamp 2y ago
I find stories about the opposite. How it was very good for the VMware company, so good that nobody ousted him, but he left for a bigger company instead.
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by braiamp 2y ago
So, the dns lookup is still there, it's just optional. You would have to pass a flag to tell it not to try to do the lookup or you would have to do something fancy trying to know if the passed parameter is an IP.
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by braiamp 2y ago
Ok, what if you are paid to create a office in your house?
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by braiamp 2y ago
The concept you are looking for is market power or monopoly power. But in reality it should be anti-competitive behavior and market domination. There isn't anyone that would argue that a single or a group of firms dominating a sizeable

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