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by chihuahua 7d ago
> > Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris - all prominent right-wing figures > Are they? Only for those who follow the line of reasoning "anyone who doesn't follow the party line 100% is a fascist/rig
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by chihuahua 8d ago
> They are smarter than the plebs and so the plebs are barely if even human What's hilarious about that is that it's baked into the name of the group: rationalists. "We are rationalists, we think rationally. Anyone who doe
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by chihuahua 10d ago
"If that doesn't work, clear the cache and reboot again."
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by chihuahua 12d ago
If you really want to have your mind exploded, take a look at the logo of Apple Computer. There's an easter egg hidden in there.
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by chihuahua 12d ago
I know someone at FB who worked on a project whose entire goal was to use compiler/type checker technology to prevent intentional and unintentional leaking of personal data in FB back-end code. If you can believe that. The project had
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by chihuahua 14d ago
The peak of British engineering was in the 1990s when I briefly lived there, and you could not buy small appliances with a plug attached. You got the bare wire, and you had to buy a separate plug, and connect it yourself at home. Of course,
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by chihuahua 14d ago
The irony that caught my eye in the article is that American mass-produced sandwich bread is depicted as this old-fashioned, slow production process. It takes far too long for the time-crunched futuristic British bakers. Who can wait 5 hour
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by chihuahua 18d ago
It installs on Windows 11 with one or two clicks.
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by chihuahua 21d ago
The United States and Canada must have enjoyed that feeling of safety, knowing that the Netherlands would not invade them. And of course, if someone were to invade the United States (or Canada), knowing that the mighty Netherlands would com
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by chihuahua 26d ago
To be fair (as a joke), it's from Low Tech Magazine. Lithium batteries are too high-tech for them. They want you to power your mechanical blender, mixer, and other machines with a drive belt. Turn the drum of your washing machine with
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by chihuahua 28d ago
While your mouse is over the "place order" button, after the left mouse button has moved through the first 0.2mm of its 1mm travel, but before the click is registered, the checkbox next to "1 year subscription to McAfee Anti-
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by chihuahua 28d ago
"Speech is violence" is very popular with the campus groups that want to ban speakers they disagree with. I'm not sure if it's still going on, but a few years ago the same crowd kept insisting that "silence is viole
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by chihuahua 1mo ago
Looks like people are downvoting facts, in the hope that this will change the facts.
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by chihuahua 1mo ago
Without the watercooler conversations, we are nothing. All is lost.
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by chihuahua 1mo ago
I suspect some Clankertosh LLM came up with the name Clamiga.
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by chihuahua 2mo ago
Ghost Recon Breakpoint is a good example of lots of difficulty settings. You can turn off some annoying parts of the game, set enemy tactical difficulty, disable some survival aspects of the game if you don't care about them, and adjus
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by chihuahua 2mo ago
You can even die from a water overdose, so you can certainly die from an umami overdose. For example, imagine a person who ingests 100 kg of umami - I'd bet every penny I have that they won't survive. The lethal dose is somewhere
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by chihuahua 2mo ago
According to the Darknet Diaries podcast episode "Superbox", some of these devices are sold via multi-level marketing schemes, which would explain why there are random individuals selling these, collecting a commission for each de
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by chihuahua 2mo ago
It may be the case that these devices are front-ends for pirated content that's hosted in various places. They're not streaming it from Netflix servers. It's content similar to that offered by Netflix and other streaming serv
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by chihuahua 2mo ago
And if they miss even one of those 45, EU enforcers burn their business to the ground. Oops, now it's 46. No, 47.
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by chihuahua 2mo ago
The article mentions that stolen credit cards are being used to buy some of the tokens. Also credit card chargebacks (pay for tokens with CC, resell tokens, then do a chargeback.)
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by chihuahua 2mo ago
Using stolen credit cards, or chargebacks, to buy something, and then resell that thing, for profit. "Why is this practice considered unethical?" Next week: Shoplifting batteries and laundry detergent, and reselling it on Ebay. &q
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by chihuahua 2mo ago
Probably an instance of the "Thing :-| Thing in Japan 8-)" meme.
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by chihuahua 3mo ago
Maybe not everyone, but certainly lots of unethical people would do it, and there are lots of those. They'd post unbearably smug posts on LinkedIn about it too, calling everyone a sucker who didn't walk away from their $200k in st
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by chihuahua 3mo ago
Right. And also, when you have paid $240k for that degree, don't write endless screeds complaining that the degree was a "scam" and that it's someone else's fault that you're not earning much with that degree.
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by chihuahua 3mo ago
The fact that audiophools reject blind A-B tests should tell you everything you need to know.
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by chihuahua 3mo ago
"Now, Mr. Olive...." "DOCTOR Olive! I didn't spend 6 years in evil audiophool school to be called Mister, thank you very much."
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by chihuahua 3mo ago
"the absolute worst shopping experience I can think of" Indeed: * Short opening hours * checking the membership card at the entrance * cell phone salesmen inside * item locations change randomly * items randomly disappear for week
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by chihuahua 3mo ago
Let's recall that YC used to be run by Sam Altman of all people, which confirms what you are saying.
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by chihuahua 3mo ago
There's a pretty big difference between AirPods and AirPods Pro. The former just sort of loosely sit in the outer part of your ear. The latter form a pretty good seal in your ear canal. That's how you get good noise cancelling wit

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