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by brvsft 3y ago
Yes, it would be a bad thing to have someone randomly delete your data from a site you depend on or enjoy using.
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by brvsft 3y ago
As far as I know, they never figured out who did that. Could have been Russia although the reasoning seems absurd, with excuses like, Putin is so crazy he would blow up his own pipeline. Anyway, the fact that they just threw an accusation
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by brvsft 3y ago
> There are obvious parallels with the Lethby case. Statements in de Berk’s diary about ‘a very great secret’ and a ‘compulsion’ on a day that a patient had died were given a sinister interpretation. They didn't include any examples
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by brvsft 3y ago
Nice, looks like I have an actual reason to convince my wife that we switch to Instacart next year.
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by brvsft 3y ago
The "deal" is mandated by a regulation. These companies couldn't choose the deal if the regulation putting forth the deal did not exist at all. As a sibling commenter noted, people (and organizations) respond to incentives. W
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by brvsft 3y ago
You understand that there were years before 2016, right? In some of them, Democrats outnumbered Republicans in Congress. I still remember the plethora of articles about RBG's supercool workout regimen dating back to the early 2010s bec
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by brvsft 3y ago
Yeah, this. Also: > I politely decided to stop working with him after finding out and hearing horror stories from mutual connections and his previous employers (lawsuits, threats, etc). IMO this is not a valid reason to stop working wi
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by brvsft 3y ago
This reminds me that I find it hilarious when they ask permission to collect more data on you so they can make the ads "more relevant." This is close to their version of mutual respect, "We'll show you the ads you WANT t
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by brvsft 3y ago
People don't need money to not die, they need to work to not die. Until the fulfillment of everyone's basic needs can be automated, people are expected to work (disregarding some obvious exceptions). The money is just a proxy for
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by brvsft 3y ago
I think you have this reversed unless I am misunderstanding you. We do not owe the debt to ourselves. We are liable for the debt ourselves, directly and indirectly. We owe our debt to creditors, which can (and does) include other countrie
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by brvsft 3y ago
I think kids require more energy than the average 60-year-old has to spend. If the solution to that is then to just have the state look over the kids, then why bother messing with fertility? Just clone the children, or cook them up in vat
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by brvsft 3y ago
Large corporations are more likely to comply with a policy, so I think that would factor in to when and where policy is more effective than police, no? What I don't understand about your point is that policy already makes stealing cars
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by brvsft 3y ago
Reminds me of this recent tweet from an SF supervisor, suggesting an innovative new policy of victim-blaming: https://twitter.com/deanpreston/status/1704689172538347809
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by brvsft 3y ago
My guess is that in some cases, this sort of policy is actually a form of layoffs where they want to reduce costs through lower headcount without calling it a layoff. They know some sizable chunk of employees will balk and find another remo
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by brvsft 3y ago
> And the same problem of people becoming more rightist as they become more resource-starved, preferring the solution of demonizing people they think shouldn't get resources rather than anything else. Ironic, the post was about how
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by brvsft 3y ago
Hah. I've been playing with StableDiffusion locally and have gotten a few abominations like this myself.
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by brvsft 3y ago
The cart nonsense isn't the only measure of "bad"/good in society. Time to grow up now, but I hope you feel the endorphins from your righteous behavior toward a stranger on the internet. Bet you taught em a lesson.
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by brvsft 3y ago
Not really because many of us have a problem with the cameras that are literally everywhere too.
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by brvsft 3y ago
You're not sneering hard enough yet.
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by brvsft 3y ago
At best, government and civilization is a chicken-and-egg relationship, where you could perhaps argue that anywhere civilization occurs, a government does as well. I doubt that's even provably true anyway. But the idea that a governmen
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by brvsft 3y ago
Had to double check where this was. I saw a man kick a pigeon to death right in front of the Federal building. Definitely one of the more depraved things I've seen in my years. Good luck to everyone who still lives in SF.
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by brvsft 3y ago
Yep, like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37141370
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by brvsft 3y ago
Any and all policies that made SF a comfortable and welcoming place for the homeless to live, specifically chronically homeless people who have no desire to sincerely receive help that might lead to a job and a normal life. Oakland and Berk
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by brvsft 3y ago
Building a company based on fraud is potentially more of a marker of ruthlessness over intelligence, but certainly we don't know with certainty, and it is likely a combination of the two.
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by brvsft 3y ago
> whole-house "air conditioner" he made from a cleaning bucket and some coffee cans That sounds kind of cool. But yeah, I'd still be pissed if my dad left me a mess like this to clean up. The property is nice and all, but
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by brvsft 3y ago
> The increase in price and latency will probably result in my ordering less stuff. No, you just stated your generous intent. You have to order the same amount in order to properly support the UPS driver. Ordering less stuff will reduce
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by brvsft 3y ago
Wow, that's incredibly generous of you. If I start listing out thousands of other professions that are not well paid, do you promise to loudly state your intention of generosity on an internet comment? It's the least you could d
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by brvsft 3y ago
In what way is the commenter "blaming" the library? This is simply the reality, that many libraries are unsafe. We've got a library out here where the employees can get trained in adminstering Narcan because people frequently
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by brvsft 3y ago
Many animals 'think' it too. Grizzly bears come to mind.
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by brvsft 3y ago
Yeah, why isn't the headline Remote Work to Save $800B on Office Rent ?

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