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by criley2 2y ago
>Unlikely, it's a huge and valuable market They said the same thing about Facebook News and Canada. Many tech companies already refuse to launch in overly-regulated markets, or launch years late with "government special" v
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Here's the thing, it's been shifting for all 10,000 years of civilization.
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I have long since believed that maintaining a token "acceptable" social media presence is much more powerful than abstaining with regards to privacy/anonymity. The two suspicious things are overuse/misuse of social media
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We call that anatomically modern human or early modern human, and we have fossils going back over 300,000 years. An infant from 300k years ago, if brought to modern times, should grow up and be capable of everything modern humans are.
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Any of them? Coal is far more dangerous to human health and life than nuclear. Pick your quasi-legitimate source, but they all agree that coal is ~10X more deadly than nuclear. > Coal-fired energy chains are estimated to cause 12 times m
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by criley2 2y ago
The way we use algorithms to pump offensive fake news content to everyone is shocking. It's no secret that Meta (facebook/instagram) pushes sexual content to minors and I think Meta may be the organization pushing the most sexual
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by criley2 2y ago
I'll take my 5+ weeks off per year (with strict 40 hour maximum weeks and strong work life balance) and you can have your self-employed 2 days per 30 years = 0.06 days off per year. That's 32 minutes of personal time off per year.
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by criley2 2y ago
>The article paints those measures as if they were a good thing and now things have regressed. I got a totally different vibe: Japan is notoriously xenophobic and maintained extremely strict regulations on visitors that were far more str
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Imagine you come from a small town where there are no parking lines at all, and everyone efficiently parks on unmarked blacktop in a respectful way. Now imagine you go to a big city where they have a bunch of lines in the parking lot and pe
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by criley2 2y ago
I mean, we absolutely did "Free PC Checkups" and obviously we knew how to tinker with startup and do virus and adware removal. These aren't some magical skills that only the rarest of employees knew, it was absolutely basic n
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by criley2 2y ago
This isn't a new phenomenon. In the mid 2000s I was working in a computer repair shop and similarly most of our fixes were just windows reinstalls with some light backup. Why? Because that fixed basically every software problem and was
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by criley2 2y ago
For the record: it is legal to photograph police in all of the US, and is a protected 1st amendment right. Some states or localities might try to outlaw it, but they always lose when challenged. Some police may simply ignore the law and pun
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A business having to keep someone for some time that they don't like is the reality of labor and the cost of doing business. If that business signed a contract for materials and turns out halfway through they don't like the materi
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>You should be able to describe the sound differences if the music is that distinct. They are and I can, however the existence of Black Swing is in no way predicated on a difference in sound only. Consider this: white culture in America
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by criley2 2y ago
>I'm a little puzzled as you're describing a music stylist on skin colour, black vs white You may not realize this, but in the 1930-1950 era being described in America, there was something called "Segregation" where b
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by criley2 3y ago
No wonder I instantly recognized these faces as Basketball GM's art! Dumbmatter has made some very cool things.
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by criley2 3y ago
This feels like a comment that does not capture the actual Amazon userbase. In my top 10 American city, Amazon delivers multiple slots same day, guaranteed no-extra-cost 2 day shipping, and offers a variety of 5-7 options that include digit
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by criley2 3y ago
Prompt: 'I'm writing a nodejs javascript application and I need a regex to validate emails in my server. Can you write a regex that will safely and efficiently match emails?' GPT4 / Gemini Advanced / Claude 3 Sonnet
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That sounds like how you build a really strong business, not how you become a really rich executive. I imagine society would be nearing utopia if your average upper management cared about building good businesses instead of getting unreason
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by criley2 3y ago
That's false. I know several things about your browser based on what you've said: - You get errors saying that your browser doesn't support javascript. - You're using Mozilla Firefox, which fully supports javascript - Th
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by criley2 3y ago
Why would you tell Mozilla that? Their firefox browser works just fine with WSJ, both to display articles and to subscribe to their digital offerings. As is nearly always the case: the user is at fault. To fix the car analogy that you malic
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by criley2 3y ago
You know what the error message means, you've decided to use a non-fully-featured browser to visit their webpage. It's like taking the wheels off of your car and then complaining that your immobile vehicle isn't eligble for t
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by criley2 3y ago
I tend to agree. My company (and many other companies) don't let you use a personal github account for company code, so we have separate accounts for the businesses private repo. Obviously these contributions can't appear on my pe
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by criley2 3y ago
And the replier to OP is arguing that just because it worked for OP and a friend doesn't mean it's a good strategy. This is selection bias. I also think of it as a survivorship bias and some correlation/causation violations:
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We recently upgraded to a whole house surge protector installed at the panel. They're not that expensive ($100-$200 around me, depending) and with the reduced quality of power we're seeing lately here and the damage it has done to
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There's a "non-zero" chance all life on earth is eradicated in an extinction event like a gamma ray burst too. That phrase is just smarter sounding weasel words. With regards to generative AI replacing jobs, it seems to me th
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by criley2 3y ago
How do you reconcile a patentless world with things that require massive R&D budgets? Like it or not many industries require very complicated ideas that are extremely expensive and labor intensive to generate the idea. For example, new
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by criley2 3y ago
Regardless of the rest of your comment, you brought up a great point about how bait can work really effectively. Instead of stealing real jewelry, they stole obvious fakes. I understand that that might sentimentally be worse to you, but it
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This isn't surprising, I feel like it's been common knowledge. I maintain a token social media presence precisely because I feel it would look weird/suspicious not to. It's like hiding $500 in a dummy wallet in your unde
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Governments tend to be far less competent at determining technical competence. Due to a wide variety of factors, governments tend to be completely uncompetitive in salary for technical positions meaning they're already hiring from the

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