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871.
by dpark 10mo ago
Centrist ideas like abducting people off the street and sending them to deportation camps without due process under the assumption of guilt? Or centrist ideas like sending troops into politically opposed states out of spite? Or sweeping tar
872.
by dpark 10mo ago
I wish all of Trump’s most fervent supporters would be as bravely open about their support for dictatorship as you.
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by dpark 10mo ago
The part of him that I hate most is that he’s exposing a huge chunk of the country as being willing to continue to support a man who very clearly cares nothing about democracy or the country except to the extent that it lines his pockets. &
874.
by dpark 10mo ago
So ByteDance maintains majority control. A huge win for the American people as always.
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by dpark 10mo ago
I don’t know how to connect constructively with people who have this viewpoint. Like, no matter how terrible Trump is as a human being, it’s okay because supposedly some of his policies will eventually pay off. “Look, I know he’s an utter p
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by dpark 10mo ago
You’re arguing that in this circumstance, the bitcoin seller should produce an ID for the payer that exposes the purchase contents. Firstly, I am extremely doubtful that this would actually prevent the issue. A wary buyer would not agree to
877.
by dpark 11mo ago
> These actually are the most important features. You keep saying that but you have provided virtually no evidence in support of this. This is why I called your claim philosophical. You are asserting this as fact and arguing from that st
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by dpark 11mo ago
If you want a small claims court to certify that Apple owes you $500 because they didn’t honor your gift card, that probably exists everywhere that Apple does business. If you want a court to certify that Apple must reinstate your account b
879.
by dpark 11mo ago
This is not what small claims court is for. You can go to small claims court and successfully convince a judge that Apple or Google or whoever owes you $500 for shutting down your account. You cannot go to small claims and get a court order
880.
by dpark 11mo ago
Much of this is not essential complexity, but accidental complexity. * Based on the data they identify - This is a minefield of accidental complexity. Data changes and needs to be redacted for GDPR and other data laws. What do you do when s
881.
by dpark 11mo ago
Donations to for profit organizations are not tax deductible and have to be reported as income. If the Mozilla Corp accepted donations there would likely be a lot of confusion about whether the donations could be written off for taxes as do
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by dpark 11mo ago
It can’t be both. If intelligence is this abstract and philosophical then the claims about inputs not being relevant for human intelligence are meaningless. It’s equally meaningless to say that constraints on LLM intelligence don’t apply to
883.
by dpark 11mo ago
I think you are trying to argue for a very abstract notion of intelligence that is divorced from any practical measurement. I don’t know how else to interpret your claim that inputs are divorced from intelligence (and that we don’t know if
884.
by dpark 11mo ago
> Ask for donations, and support directed donations specifically towards Firefox development. Donations to for profit organizations are fraught with problems. I imagine Mozilla Corp doesn’t accept them for this reason. > integrate [ad
885.
by dpark 11mo ago
> It’s unlikely sensory data contributes to intelligence in human beings. This is clearly untrue. All information a human ever receives is through sensory data. Unless your position is that the intelligence of a brain that was grown in a
886.
by dpark 11mo ago
> Attempts to characterize the above as hyperbolic probably stem from a mismatch in culture. I think it comes from a mismatch in goals rather than culture. If your perspective on Mozilla is that its only job is to keep making and maintai
887.
by dpark 11mo ago
I thought the Libertarian claim was that lawsuits would fix everything. Because after your house burns down and kills you due to no electrical codes being enforced, your family can sue the electrician (who might also be dead due to unrelate
888.
by dpark 11mo ago
I’m not convinced that most of the passionate denouncers are actually part of the Mozilla user base. There’s a lot of “I can’t believe Mozilla would do this, which is why I’m going to keep using [esoteric browser] instead!” I don’t understa
889.
by dpark 11mo ago
It’s “illegal” in the sense that you could write whatever you want in your will but it wouldn’t be binding. You cannot force a party into a legal obligation they do not agree to. The government can, though. I’m not sure if there’s any exi
890.
by dpark 11mo ago
> I think you are missing the actual problem I am talking about: where does the user take the transaction ID from? Do you expect the users to remember all transaction IDs your system ever generated for them? How would they know which tra
891.
by dpark 11mo ago
If it’s a regular thing, yeah, renting becomes massively inconvenient because of the frequency. I misunderstood your comment to mean that even a 1-time rental would be extremely inconvenient somehow.
892.
by dpark 11mo ago
Do you have a point except to cast this guy as untrustworthy because he did one stupid thing that got photographed half a decade ago? I feel like the pedantry about what ad hominem means and arguments about analogies and now references to
893.
by dpark 11mo ago
I own a small/mid-size SUV (and a van) so I’m not judging your car choice, but why would you not be able to rent a truck in Boston? Home Depot, Lowe’s, U-Haul, and more all rent trucks.
894.
by dpark 11mo ago
Why would anyone install Koffice when clearly they would wait for the OS to support Word directly?
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by dpark 11mo ago
Yeah. I don’t really need or want high ground clearance. But I would like enough that parking at a curb doesn’t risk dragging the front bumper. My van (Odyssey) is low enough that I’ve scraped on a few unexpectedly tall curbs and I would
896.
by dpark 11mo ago
I think password manager integration is pretty janky but that’s not something Mozilla can solve in general.
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by dpark 11mo ago
“Free”. Therein lies the Mozilla problem. Everyone wants everything free. It’s real hard to compete with Google who happily gives out free email and browser because they can monetize attention.
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by dpark 11mo ago
Because a 7 bedroom McMansion is unlikely to drive over my child in a parking lot or kill my wife in a collision. The dangers of these giant trucks are not hypothetical. It’s documented that they kill drivers of cars at 2.5x the rate of ca
899.
by dpark 11mo ago
Of course not. Probably more than 99% of online conversations are a complete and utter waste of time. I would assume there is literally nothing anyone could say to you that would make you get rid of your truck. With that said, you admitted
900.
by dpark 11mo ago
> Why is it so hard to just admit that trucks and SUVs do in fact offer greater utility and convenience in most situations than small sedans? And that this utility and convenience, even if not needed all the time, is the main reason peop

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