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by criley2 4y ago
"Keying your neighbors car because they have a nicer one" is not an analogy that works for anything here. What is happening in NPM is not a car being keyed. There is a profit motive for doing this. Perhaps you could say "Stea
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by criley2 4y ago
I think you mean to say that you don't respect actors who justify their actions through "jealousy". In reality, jealously is a fine justification for actions and arguably the most used justification for any action in human hi
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by criley2 4y ago
The people who do this are likely not American or Western European, likely not from a wealthy background, likely don't have access to high end tech jobs, and probably can't even make 5% of what a Facebook or Google employee makes.
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by criley2 4y ago
Very true, and it's a well understood problem. For a variety of reasons it is better to charge during the day than overnight (not the least being that solar works better during the day, helping to mooting nightly storage concerns), and
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by criley2 4y ago
Another example of an art collective bringing very cool things into existence is MeowWolf. If you're ever in Vegas, check out Omega Mart and do the full story. https://meowwolf.com/about
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by criley2 4y ago
It's hardly a rewrite, everyone knows that your deposits with the big 5 are already 100% "too big too fail" anyway. The only change is that some smaller organizations might also get the same unspoken benefit that the big 5 al
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by criley2 4y ago
Ironically, the bank bailouts of 2008 were a wild success. The TARP program was paid back in under a year at a decent profit to the taxpayer. ("Through the Treasury, the US Government actually booked $15.3 billion in profit, as it earn
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by criley2 4y ago
> The problem is that the businesses have made customer's ability to access their previous purchases dependent upon continuing to have a business relationship with the account That's not a problem really. Think of country clubs
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by criley2 4y ago
Lol as someone who lived quite some time before 2000, we had all kinds of ways of bootlegging. Ear worms would bootleg grateful dead shows, we would tape everything we could off public TV, we'd record radio to tape, we'd trade it.
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by criley2 4y ago
I don't think this concept will fly broadly in America, it violates the way the American constitution sets up private vs public. Forcing private businesses to do businesses with the public without discrimination is only allowed in cert
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by criley2 4y ago
If people would accept 0% interest on their deposits, banking could be a fundamentally secure non-investment. But people do like their interest... and in order for banks to take your $100 and give you back $101, well, that $1 has to come fr
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by criley2 4y ago
Is it because the majority of people in American society are struggling financially and have less real money than their parents or grandparents, and are being nickel and dimed as their entire existence is converted to a subscription mechani
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by criley2 4y ago
The best part about storing your crypto in a cold wallet long term is how it's worth dramatically less cash when you exchange back.
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by criley2 4y ago
We aren't talking about "adaptive cruise control". We're talking about "Full Self-Driving". Your entire point is predicated on mislabeling Elon's fraudulent service. Yes, every time Elon's "Full
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by criley2 4y ago
Money isn't on the line w.r.t. to Firefox Nightly. I don't even think real money is on the line w.r.t. to Firefox entirely. We may love it, but Firefox is a big fat nobody in the browser space of 2023.
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by criley2 4y ago
Windows has a service called "Windows Hello" which can work with WebAuthn (otherwise it's hardware keys). It requires your computer to have various biometric or camera technology built in, such as a finger print scanner. I&#x
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by criley2 4y ago
Not a UX improvement. Most users need a yubikey for the computer unless they have a new Mac. Asking my 65 year old dad to keep up with a yubikey is not just bad UX, it's failing UX. It simply will not happen. I don't even think it
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by criley2 4y ago
I found out today that the PS5's user interface was written in ReactNative https://twitter.com/syke/status/1619413099861413889
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by criley2 4y ago
Honestly is that one really that bad? I get that 4Gb is offensive and I consider 8GB to be the minimum, but the reviews on that model are actually pretty universally positive. They say it actually has good performance on low-use tasks and h
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by criley2 4y ago
I don't think you can excuse what a chat bot says so easily. It's not an "infinite monkey typewriter". You could look at human users as an infinite monkey typewriter, and it's easy to see how some get banned and som
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by criley2 4y ago
I actually disagree. Middle range hardware is so much better than it was 5-6 years ago. I've built two computers recently around AMD Ryzen 5600 and that chip is so impressive. It runs circles around "high end" from the 5 year
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by criley2 4y ago
I'll be the counter opinion for this. Let's say you're Sprocket Masters, and you have to run two front ends (a Sprocket Sales site and a Sprocket Repair site) and a backend connecting them. But ultimately your sprockets are m
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by criley2 4y ago
I couldn't disagree more. ChatGPT would be extremely easy to convert to "HateGPT", and would be able to create some pretty powerful and useful political, racial, etc propaganda. I think it's right that the owners underst
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by criley2 4y ago
Lack of accessibility is a design defect, one which I assume would be resolved as they grew and invested. Notch didn't make all the right calls either. Letting other people have some control is almost always a good thing.
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by criley2 4y ago
Minecraft released in 2009 with a price of $13 a copy. How'd that work out for them? I am a bit older as a gamer so to hear that "2006 the market was small" is crazy to me! I grew up playing MUDs and believe me, the market fo
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by criley2 4y ago
We are in a post-Minecraft world, so I don't think your criticism has any merit. Minecraft was a sandbox single-dev game that broke every mold and trope, and sold for $4 billion. Me claiming that DF could be worth $100M in a world wher
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by criley2 4y ago
> Unless chatGPT is granted voting rights, it literally can't. If the majority of people vote for something and those people are all legally registered voters in the place where they vote and the votes are being tallied in a fair an
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by criley2 4y ago
This doesn't really make sense. They were a donations-run "charity" shop making a free game. They only decided to put it on Steam so they could fund a retirement as well as a future for the game. For any indie devs out there:
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by criley2 4y ago
I find it truly fascinating that "machine learning company doesn't want powerful tool to be weaponized for bigoted ends" and "modern citizens following major media expect their media to treat weaponized AI as a bad thing
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by criley2 4y ago
If there is one thing that always stays the same, it's every single generation coming of age and saying "Everything is headed towards ruin!" Believe me when I say, everyone before you, going back thousands of years, have said

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