danaris

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by danaris 9mo ago
They can see that someone opened a tracking pixel from $BANK (or wherever), and, with your other activity, potentially tie that to you.
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by danaris 9mo ago
But if they're sniffing your wifi, they can, at the very least, tie it back to your IP address. Along with all the other traffic from your session—which, if you're not using a VPN (in which case they can't get this anyway), i
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by danaris 9mo ago
With a proper personalized tracking pixel, a simple deduplication won't catch it—the whole point is that each email's tracking pixel has a unique URL that lets them know that you opened the email. It is, of course, very possible
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by danaris 9mo ago
What on earth makes you think it's anonymous? It's trivial to encode each tracking pixel with a personalized hash of some sort linking it to the intended recipient of that particular email. This is...just how tracking pixels work
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by danaris 9mo ago
...Well, why would aliens care, when they take over the planet? Or the Tuatha De Danan come back and decide we've all been very wicked? Because right now, those are just about as likely as AGI taking over.
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by danaris 9mo ago
> It's probably because it's uniquely American for a sizable chunk of the workforce to have cushy jobs that appear ripe for the picking. What an arrogant statement. Lots of people outside America have cushy jobs. What's mu
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by danaris 9mo ago
The big tech AI barons absolutely claim that their LLMs can replace educators, judges, lawyers, and personal trainers. I've seen some vague claims about childcare robots, but for whatever reasons anything that's not pure software
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by danaris 9mo ago
...No? It doesn't? My point is not that if there are no more ICE cars, there will be no market for oil. It's that the portion of the market for oil that has, heretofore, serviced ICE cars is starting to disappear, and it won&#x2
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by danaris 9mo ago
Git had obvious benefits over svn. Docker has obvious benefits over bare metal. Etc. My own experiences with LLMs have shown them to be entertaining, and often entertainingly wrong. I haven't been working on a project I've felt co
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by danaris 9mo ago
Ah, yes. Buy two $40k cars, one of which funds one of the people actively trying to destroy democracy. There's. A lot to unpack there. But I've still got 3 suitcases of my own stuff sitting waiting for me to get a real flat, so
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by danaris 9mo ago
I mean, we've been making it really easy on them. It's not like the government has been carefully introducing new, strict regulations on the things they were doing that got us into the crash once we've recovered from it.
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by danaris 9mo ago
As a personal policy, that can work: you can always choose which conversations to engage in and which to ignore. As a site policy, it cannot. If you demand that everyone coming there in good faith treat everyone else as also operating i
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by danaris 9mo ago
Or, y'know...get literally any other EV. One that doesn't support a neo-Nazi trying to wreck America's economy and political system for his own gains. I hear the Hyundai Ioniq is supposed to be pretty good.
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by danaris 9mo ago
> This is economics 101. OK. And did you go to Economics 201? Because there, you might have learned that the basic economic principles you describe as "economics 101" are the equivalent of the "spherical cow in a frictionl
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by danaris 9mo ago
And wouldn't you say that when a comment is made in bad faith, or misrepresents (deliberately or not) a major component of its argument, that it adds little to the discussion? It's all well and good to have high-minded ideals of p
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by danaris 9mo ago
Apple isn't doing this at all. This is Bloomberg's website, that just happens to be using Apple Pay as the payment mechanism. Please pay attention to what's actually being shown, and don't just jump at the first hint of
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by danaris 9mo ago
If you're writing an academic/research paper, you still have to find something to cite . "I know this stuff, just trust me" isn't a valid citation. The point is to give anyone who reads the paper a way to a) verify
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by danaris 9mo ago
Well, it can be. It can also mean exactly what it said: there might indeed be truth to the thesis, but it has not yet been substantiated or fully developed. Having to use circumlocution like that—and thus making the meaning unclear—seems
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by danaris 9mo ago
And, importantly, there isn't one single "guess culture"; there are a myriad of different micro-cultures with their own local signals and codes for subtly communicating the information that isn't spelled out in speech. S
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by danaris 9mo ago
A large portion of the UK hasn't really accepted or internalized the fact that the British Empire is no longer a thing, and they're not the most powerful nation in the world, nor anywhere close to it. (...And yes, that does soun
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by danaris 9mo ago
Sounds like a much-more-fleshed-out version of Inspector Gadget!
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by danaris 9mo ago
How so? Spam, for decades, has been a matter of just shoveling truckloads of emails out the door and hoping that one or two get a gullible match. Blocking spam, for decades, has been a matter of heuristic pattern-matching. I don't see
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by danaris 9mo ago
Are those figures mean wages? Or median wages? Because the difference between those is a vast gulf.
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by danaris 9mo ago
The problem with that last is that if the Democrats do nothing, there's a very real chance that Trump deploys the military to either prevent the midterms from happening, or to force their outcome to be what he wants. (Of course, if the
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by danaris 9mo ago
The US has no VAT.
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by danaris 9mo ago
While in the abstract and academic sense this is true, in practice there are two big problems that make it an utter non-starter*: 1) Due to the absolutely massive supply chains that have been built up in East Asia (not just China, but man
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by danaris 9mo ago
I've used both emacs and vim before. Long enough to actually know how. I don't like using them . (I know, this may come as a shock to a diehard advocate.) I like GUI text editors much better. But also: How do vim and emacs do wit
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by danaris 9mo ago
Statistically speaking, I'd take the worst of any hundred government bureaucrats over any single billionaire as far as "terrible humans" go.
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by danaris 9mo ago
For now, it is, yes; but we must both plan for a future when that might not be the case, and advocate for effective regulations regardless.
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by danaris 9mo ago
So..."try this" that ignores multiple of my requirements.

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