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by buran77 1y ago
> Not really sure ANY government service runs well I don't think you have perspective on that. What I'm telling you is that it can be a lot worse. I don't think you realize how much less accountable any private company i
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> This is not a sustainable situation in a democracy. Purging your enemies from everything and instead putting your buddies (especially as dishonest and unqualified as the ones this admin brought) will fix the current "unsustainable
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by buran77 1y ago
That's the intention of this administration. Destroy any service that the government could provide until people can genuinely think the government is useless. Then the people currently in power and their cronies will come out of the wo
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The following paragraph might shed some light on what that means (emphasis mine): > We have been clear that exiting the UK does not allow an organisation to avoid responsibility for any prior infringement of data protection law In that
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It wouldn't have killed you to look for something slightly older, seeing how I mentioned Babylon . The oldest European map, of Greek origin, unsurprisingly has the Aegean at the center, and North pointing up. Creativity historically p
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by buran77 1y ago
Hoods are a great addition but a closed kitchen is the real deal if you want to keep smells out of the house. Even the best hoods can't keep up with cooking anything remotely smelly. And in many places the hood doesn't extract out
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> Psychologically, we tend to view things nearer the top as ‘good’ and those lower as ‘bad.’ The oldest maps in the world and in Europe are oriented North at the top and the essential feature in the middle. For the Babylonians it was the
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by buran77 1y ago
Exactly, it's the dose that makes the poison. A week of camping is fun, a lifetime of camping is hell.
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> Hard does not mean negative or bad It does when it applies to your life. (Edit to reply to your edit) A bit of physical activity doesn't make your life harder. A lot of it might. And almost only hard physical activity is pure puni
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by buran77 1y ago
> an oversight in our billing process So you have a billing process that includes a step where you extort the customer and demand substantial amounts of money or else you delete the customer's data on very short notice? Because that
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by buran77 1y ago
People with comfortable enough lives sometimes have this attraction to the very romanticized versions of otherwise very hard lives. You see this with the coder who dreams of the farmer's life, or that of a "rover, wanderer, nomad,
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You discover it the day you a person dies and your relevant data is not there. Next time it's no longer a "missed edge case".
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> their software is built by software people rather than by car people The rogue engineer defense worked so well for VW and Dieselgate. The issue of missing crash data was raised repeatedly. Deleting or even just claiming it was deleted
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The process of collecting and uploading the data probably confuses a lot of non-technical readers even if it worked as per standard industry practices. The real issue is that Tesla claimed the company doesn't have the data after ever
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by buran77 1y ago
> Is that some kind of argument that we shouldn't do anything, or...? You keep trying to make it sound like we are doing "both". In reality we aren't doing the thing that works, and keep doing the thing that doesn&#x2
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by buran77 1y ago
So then let me ask you, do you feel like arbitrarily banning sites worked? Are we having less of a propaganda and misinformation as we are going ahead with the bans? Because if it's not actually working it sounds a lot like "it&#x
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by buran77 1y ago
What about all the propaganda sites you like? Would you ban all propaganda? Russian propaganda? Propaganda from countries engaged in illegal wars? How many social media or news sites survive? Heck, how many sites that allow comments and use
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by buran77 1y ago
You're doing it without Gmail.
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> I can’t repair a car. My friends would be correct in not trusting me to go under their cars’ hoods unsupervised What a let down of an answer. Who said anything about "going under the hood"? This is about simply using a devi
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by buran77 1y ago
What about when devices come with such a "feature" baked in? Android has Magic Cue, Windows has Recall. How long until they're opt-out, or "accidentally" enabled with an update, or just on at all times? And "se
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by buran77 1y ago
I'm sure that by having fewer parts in the logistics chain they can build a car cheaper. They then define models via software almost for free. And that would be great if the saving was passed to the consumer. Instead every saving is de
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by buran77 1y ago
Treaties in general aren't the best way to deal with anything. At best they're virtue signaling, at worst they're just misleading. The countries which benefit the most from ignoring the paper will ignore it in the shadows, th
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by buran77 1y ago
Not "necessarily", but "realistically". I think we need to start by clarifying what "processed" means from a practical (legal/commercial) perspective rather than common sense. What you call "processin
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by buran77 1y ago
Part of the processing is to add something harmful or remove something useful either as the target of the process, or as a byproduct. I give you a tomato, that's unprocessed. I squash it a bit and maybe add some salt? That's proce
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> I feel the outrage against Microsoft recall is largely artificial because of how useful this is for users It solves a problem for a small subset of users while creating a problem for all other users. The outrage you see is simply some
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With soldiers it makes sense to use it explicitly to enforce the "fight" mode as needed. This can range from "occasionally in emergencies" to "all the time". But militaries have famously not cared about the lon
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by buran77 1y ago
> compare deaths caused to others by cars vs deaths caused to others by bicycles (could even add in motorised bikes) Not the commenter you were answering to, but this is exactly the kind of thinking I was highlighting earlier myself. Peo
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by buran77 1y ago
> I'm not competent enough to drive one safety Underestimating your abilities in any vehicle is a good way to stay safe. In my encounters with motorcycles in traffic, as pedestrian, cyclist, or driver, even in those short few second
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by buran77 1y ago
It gets worse when you're looking for a movie only to realize it's different from what you remember. Either a change of substance (different scenes), or a change of form (adjusted color palette). Occasionally the original version
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UniFi OS Server is similar to the old self hosted solution (the controller) except it can run more of the applications. I used to self host some years ago and only the Network was available. Now the OS supports InnerSpace and Identity too.

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