byecomputer

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by byecomputer 5y ago
An easy one for me, that I sort of do automatically, is I'll see a man-made object around the house and be like, "How'd someone come up with that?" For example, the lawnmower. What a fun way to do something that was prob
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by byecomputer 5y ago
Gratitude and awe were just the two examples they used to demonstrate the underlying point, which was (paraphrasing) "if you practice being happy on a regular basis [by doing things that elicit positive feelings], even if just for a sh
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by byecomputer 5y ago
You can be friends with a colleague and also not hang out outside of work. And obviously in life you'll be closer with some co-workers than others, so it's useful to have the distinction of someone being a 'work friend'.
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by byecomputer 5y ago
Marketing. People got downright hyphy about Big Sur and the M1 chip, and Microsoft, by comparison, has had virtually zero excitement points in the past decade. Having a new product renews interest in the brand. I haven't run Windows in
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Maybe, but I'm still pretty confident that no important or meaningful speech will ever come from an ad server.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Honestly, the only reason I switched to Firefox, at first, was because of how ugly Chrome is to me -- on a literal basis, that is. I think Chrome is an eyesore.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Does believing in freedom of speech while blocking advertisements make one a hypocrite? If it does, well, I'm going to keep doing it. Happy to be a hypocrite on that count.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Eschewing Chrome for a browser based on Chromium doesn't do much to combat the browser monoculture, does it?
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Yeah they literally described the process of shorting a stock. Which, to me, is the best alternative to shorting a stock that one could ask for.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
I tend to go with a few "No, thank you"s at first and then, if the heat picks up, the ol' firm & fatherly "Look, I appreciate it, but I'm going to cancel today no matter what," informing them that there&#x2
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by byecomputer 6y ago
You typically get charged in advance for periodical subscriptions. If the charge doesn't go through, they simply won't send you the paper anymore.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
That's so scummy (but also kind of funny, just the sheer audacity of Comcast). Honestly, I feel like that's so bald-faced and abusive on Comcast's part that the regulators might be interested in your story
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by byecomputer 6y ago
They're in the US as well, both as a bank and as one of the bigger brokerage firms, TD Ameritrade
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by byecomputer 6y ago
My house is 140 years old and it's a sieve with 12 ft ceilings & 9 ft windows... in Iowa.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
> As long as no one dies it will all be fine. the latest is 10 deaths in the Houston area from some combination of the storm, the cold, and the loss of electricity
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Yeah, but we're a bunch of unionized atoms. They all vote on what I should do and then I execute their will by going in the kitchen and making spaghetti or whatever.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
I mean, the play on words in the gp is cute, and gives one the big Hmmm, but the accepted term is 'user' and some hills aren't worth dying on
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Wikipedia: "Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, activities, or information for the purpose of information gathering, influencing, managing or directing." Which I think most would agree is the standard definition of surveil
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by byecomputer 6y ago
It's a joke about normal distributions
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by byecomputer 6y ago
I'm under the impression that you didn't read the article, as that's not its argument whatsoever. It's about how ethics play too little a part in the design and implementation of AI systems. The blame is placed squarely
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Decreased... recently? I feel like Windows 10 has been a pretty predictable experience. If you didn't hate it in 2016, then I'm wondering what happened in the five years of marginal and incremental changes since then that would ca
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by byecomputer 6y ago
> Whatever regulatory outcome occurs here will affect all trading firms, which means that all advisors will have been paid by someone at some stage in the past affected by any outcome. That's unavoidable, but it doesn't change
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by byecomputer 6y ago
> Where else is the POTUS going to get advisors except from the firms who pay the most money to get the best employees / speakers? The local CPA? Ergo - the wider implication is bunk. I'm not convinced that everyone who's
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Some might argue that public officials being paid extraordinary sums by private investment firms in exchange for access and influence is nefarious in itself.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
1.) You misspelled your own URL, goof 2.) I truly enjoyed that, especially how it's interlinked with your other satire to create this dumb little alternate universe. Thanks for the laugh, you're funny, keep it up.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Citadel was clearly infusing cash into Melvin to compensate for Melvin's massive losses on GME, though. What's the significance of Melvin's position in the stock in the few days before or after Citadel bailed them out when th
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Even if you can avoid being liable for it, I'd think most people wouldn't want someone's death hanging over their head for reasons beyond the legal.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Ahh, okay. That part didn't stand out to me in the initial description. So, like, a Common Application for ToS agreements, right? One ToS to rule them all, and one ToS to (legally) bind them. One concern I'd have is that the level
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by byecomputer 6y ago
> I guess you just ignored the fact that the ToS exists in exchange for the stability and ease AWS provided you. But now you can't ignore that and reconcile your beliefs with your past behavior (i.e. using AWS as a platform). So AWS
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by byecomputer 6y ago
So the idea is a form with a checklist?

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