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How Reagan and US agencies made Murdoch a king(johnmenadue.com)
1 points by dools 3y ago|0 comments
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by dools 3y ago
ABC Australia’s MediaWatch did a good segment on this recently (starting 10:09): https://youtu.be/ziVHNDFxtno?si=6i4JMYHF1YxLvopJ
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by dools 3y ago
Or because it’s just a ChatGPT API wrapper
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by dools 3y ago
Where does it say that goes against their terms of service? I can’t see anything that would preclude Twitter from just plugging in the API and using it directly
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by dools 3y ago
How much SEO spam has chatGPT refusing to do things in it though?
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by dools 3y ago
That’s a lie
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by dools 3y ago
Yeah I sometimes write tests that are separate from external dependencies still, I think the freedom I gained through this attitude is that I don’t stress too much about it, especially in the early stages. This gives me “good enough” covera
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by dools 3y ago
> this stuff about how unit tests aren't tests for units but rather tests that are units is nonsense. the term has been used to mean 'tests for units' for about a century Is that in the article? I've never heard this
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by dools 3y ago
I stopped thinking about "unit testing" and just started thinking "when I write some code, I should write some other code that runs the code automatically". There's every likelihood that both my original code and th
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by dools 3y ago
I do this as a maintenance schedule on a Trello board. Each list is an interval (1 day, 7 days, 180 days and so on) and each thing to do is a card. When the due date is marked complete, an automation advanced the due date the correct number
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by dools 3y ago
As soon as the cost to supply drops below the price people are able to pay, supply will increase. The reason supply is so low is because so few people can afford to buy a newly built house in an area in which they can also find a suitable j
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by dools 3y ago
The taxes I'm talking about are the cost of building a new home. Prices mean revert to replacement cost.
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by dools 3y ago
Rich people cashing out of higher value markets and/or investing in lower value markets is what drives the price up though. Someone in Orlando who bought a house at $200k might feel excited that their house is worth $400k but it’s irre
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by dools 3y ago
> If you bought a house for $10.00 and paid $100.00/month, it'd still be worth it even if none of that went to the principal. Heck, even if your house became worthless too, it'd still be worth it! Paying off an interest on
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by dools 3y ago
Yeah but you can only do that if you can borrow more money. You have to show capacity to pay even if you’re using equity as collateral and expect rental income. I think maybe the “use equity to buy investment properties” advice was popular
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by dools 3y ago
Prices go up there too, though. We moved to a little tiny town in the middle of nowhere in 2020 and our house has nearly doubled in value.
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by dools 3y ago
No it doesn't work like that at all. I bought a house at the end of 2020 for $430k with a loan of $337k. I can't borrow more than that now, my real income hasn't increased, I still have the same sorts of liabilities and expen
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by dools 3y ago
In Australia, the solution is to remove all taxes, fees and charges on new builds. Some 40% of the total cost of a new build goes to taxes, fees and charges. If you bring down the new build cost, supply will explode and prices will come dow
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by dools 3y ago
I think we've seen pretty convincingly that all a super intelligence would need access to in order to completely ruin humanity is social media APIs.
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by dools 3y ago
Jack's Empty Chair
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by dools 3y ago
But hold on: in Australia for example there are two airlines run by the same company, Jetstar and Qantas. Jetstar is the budget airline where you pay for all these “basics” if you want them. Qantas is the “premium” brand where all these “ba
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by dools 3y ago
There is still a pretty thriving mini disc community
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by dools 3y ago
Yes so everyone rushed to buy the blue checkmark because that used to be for verified accounts. Then everyone lost all faith in the blue checkmark, so now they charge $1000 for authenticated accounts. It's a massive bait and switch. Th
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by dools 3y ago
I blame them every time someone calls me Lain.
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by dools 3y ago
Haha TIL that Twitter has replaced the blue check mark with a yellow one. What a scam.
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by dools 3y ago
As an Australian I can only ever recall seeing the last 2 or 3 digits of my mobile number. The first 2 digits of all mobile numbers are the same and you can't send text messages to landlines.
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by dools 3y ago
The album cover for the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack has Snoopy sitting on top of a Christmas tree. I was playing the album from YouTube through the stereo and the album cover was showing on the TV to which the computer was connected.
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by dools 3y ago
Yeah my daughter used to stick out her index finger and wave it back and forth for finished. One of my favourite memories of that was when we went to see the Vivid light show in Sydney and there was a contortionist on the street so we stopp
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by dools 3y ago
We taught both our kids to sign. My favourite moment was in March, my daughter was about to turn 2 and wasn't speaking yet. I asked her if she would like to hear some music. She made the sign for dog. I searched youtube for some songs
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by dools 3y ago
The need for software far outpaces supply, I agree that improving coder productivity with AI can only be a good thing.

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