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by bryan_w 3y ago
Well if an adult was found to be a nuisance and was unable to care for themselves, they would be put into the mental hospital. Unfortunately, due to some issues , those did not work out too well.
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by bryan_w 3y ago
"There's no way the earth can support 1 billion people, especially with peak oil within the next five years!" -Someone in the 1980's, probably.
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by bryan_w 3y ago
> It could be preemptive so that they don't get bad PR when they end up being "complicit" in getting people sent to jail for abortions (in the US) or being gay (in some African countries) or whatever Exactly this. With th
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by bryan_w 3y ago
Y'all are struggling so hard to describe newsgroups :) Check out alt.cryptography (I think) if you can.
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by bryan_w 3y ago
>Did a bug fly in your mouth yesterday, and you spit it out on the sidewalk in view of a camera? Better be extra obsequious when Officer No-Neck with "You're fucked" written on his service weapon pulls up to the gas statio
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by bryan_w 3y ago
I wish there was a list of non-unity sim games. I hate hitting the performance wall so soon on most of these games
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by bryan_w 3y ago
I remember 20 years ago when they would say,"They hate our way of life" and think it had to do with religion or something, but I've recently come to realize that they meant the sentiment that GGP poster is talking about.
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by bryan_w 3y ago
> There are important mergers which don’t get attention bc Lina is wasting her time with Microsoft and Google Especially in the non-big-tech sector. I would really like more options when it comes to grocery stores or eyeglasses or ISPs..
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by bryan_w 3y ago
It's interesting as from the videos I've seen, it seems like waymo doesn't even entertain the idea of allowing remote support staff that level of micromanagement to control a car. It makes sense too, as you really don't
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by bryan_w 3y ago
It's just representative of the news media these days
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by bryan_w 3y ago
For me it was when they evolved into daily "Windows vs Linux" articles that they would pump for content. You could see the manipulation from a mile away.
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by bryan_w 3y ago
Sounds like a cult.
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by bryan_w 3y ago
If Meta was still allowed to buy things, you'd be billionaires. This is pretty much as good as their horizon platform but can actually run on my phone. Good job
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by bryan_w 3y ago
> What's your move in this position? What about taking out an ad to let people know where to buy your cheaper item? People didn't know walmart.com existed until a tv ad told them. Doesn't seem unreasonable to take some of
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by bryan_w 3y ago
> The Federal Trade Commission orders a study done > the study corroborates the general sentiment Seems fishy ... Good thing that even corporations like Amazon get a day in court.
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by bryan_w 3y ago
That's what those who "hate our way of life" wants you to think
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by bryan_w 3y ago
Put it in a box and use it as a heat battery for solar/wind
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by bryan_w 3y ago
Perhaps in this case they would be able to go to Apple and negotiate a more reasonable 5 or 6% cut and stay in Apple's store. Amazon gets discoverability in the safe, Apple app store and Apple gets a cut of the revenue, win win.
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by bryan_w 3y ago
Spam. Isn't. The. Only. Concern.
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by bryan_w 3y ago
But is it ok for Apple to show you an ad in the first party Stocks or News app based on what you've searched for and purchased in the App store?
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by bryan_w 3y ago
But to be clear, Tiktok does have a tracking pixel for their ads program
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by bryan_w 3y ago
> so that even they can't access it. > scanning stuff on-device What do you think they were going to do once the scanning turned up a hit? Access the photos? Well that negates the first statement.
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by bryan_w 3y ago
> They then sell this data on dozens or hundreds of data broker platforms. Oh? Which platforms? How did you come to learn that they were selling data to those platforms? Surely from either the platforms themselves or a respected news art
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by bryan_w 3y ago
You didn't answer the question.
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by bryan_w 3y ago
> death of traditional media Well if adverting is so bad, and old media relied on advertising, Tech was doing the world a favor by starving them out. We should be thanking Google for exposing the corruption that was the old media adverti
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by bryan_w 3y ago
Indeed, not to be completely throw Klei under the bus, but I started playing Oxygen Not Included, and the simulation quality is night and day. ONI has race conditions, memory corruption bugs, non-seeded RNG, duplication bugs. You couldn&#x2
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by bryan_w 3y ago
> why are the supposed users of "Hacker News" site oblivious to these things? Because some people on this site aren't hackers and aren't even technical. They're from old media and are looking for "useful peo
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by bryan_w 3y ago
> a corporation that arbitrarily censors Free Speech. Ah, those tells me everything i need to know.
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by bryan_w 3y ago
Not necessarily, sender generates a private key for the piece of media, and shares the public key for that media item along with the download location to person 1&2 over their encrypted chat channels.
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by bryan_w 3y ago
Consider the following: You encrypt and upload the media to the storage server. You share the download URL and key with person #1 Now how long would it take to forward that same message with the url and key to person #2...n?

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