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by filoleg 2y ago
There are general alcohol regulations, but there are no laws that regulate Jack Daniels (as a manufacturer) specifically. Which is kind of the point I was originally making with that analogy. JD is regulated using the same laws that regulat
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I might be misreading what you are asking, but I just went into Shortcuts app and tried creating a new one, and there are both “Get Current Focus” and “Set Focus” actions. Is this what you were looking for? “Set Focus” allows setting any fo
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Oh yeah? Because in the first half of last year, pro-Palestine discourse has been occupying heavy majority of my social media feeds (twitter, reddit, ig, etc.) without me even engaging with any of that content. Not even mentioning all the p
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Fundamentally flawed analogy. If we go further along with your analogy, then the government would make Jack Daniels (picked a random liquor brand, nothing against JD specifically) illegal, while still allowing consumption of all other liquo
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> And furthermore, why is it okay that it's collected AND owned by a company based in a country not subject to the rule of law? Because I, as an adult, decided that I am ok with sharing my personal data within their app in exchange
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I am afraid this might not last long. There is no official announcement yet for now, to be clear, but still[0]. 0. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/rednote-may-wall...
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Likely just napkin math of “I watch about one game every week, that’s roughly 50 games per year, so over the course of 12 years i should be around 600 games”
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For Microsoft to be in such a position makes sense, as they provide services for both US military and government (which also includes agencies), as well as for some infrastructure services. This is a pretty unique situation, compared to mos
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It is insane how much of a difference it makes. I grew up in a household/culture where flossing was basically an optional “once in a while” event (brushing teeth 2-3 times a day and using mouthwash every time was mandatory though). Onc
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Do you have any additional info on this? I am not saying you are wrong, I don’t know, but I know that hair becomes grey due to decreased melanin production in your hair follicles as people age. So the natural conclusion based on what you ar
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> The idea was to make owning an iPhone like subscribing to an app — with consumers paying monthly fees and getting new phones each year — but Apple recently wound down the effort, according to people familiar with the matter. Isn’t that
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That indeed sounds strange. Was the headset charged? That’s the only reason i can think of off the top of my head I used that lightning to 3.5mm cable from apple with my airpods max quite a few times with no issues. Mostly for the purpose o
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What you are talking about (looking for pretty patterns in lines and ascribing meaning to them) isn’t day trading, it is called technical analysis. I mostly agree with your take on its usefulness though, there is a reason it is getting meme
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> What’s stopping tech nerds from putting effort into their appearance like everyone else to get into a club? For those who put the effort, nothing will stop them, and they will be more than welcome. The idea is to filter out the smug on
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Absolutely agreed. Not even just because of the weather imo, but because of the actual driving experience here itself. I’ve lived and been driving for nearly 15 years in various large cities (SF, ATL, Seattle, Portland, LA, etc.), both cars
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> copying off ai may annoy some people, but there is no law against it There is no law against plagiarizing on assignments by copying off a real human either, what’s your point? If AI generated an assignment paper for me, and I simply co
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> They should not be punished for using AI. They should, however, just get a very bad grade for "including citations to nonexistent books". As far as I am aware, they weren’t punished for using AI specifically, they were punish
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by filoleg 2y ago
I agree with your take, just wanted to add Roblox to that list containing Minecraft modding as well. Kids create almost full blown games in Roblox these days. Most of what they create is ofc extremely basic and is of poor quality, but they
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I am Russian, and the grandparent comment rings very true to me. To me, personally, it reads less like snark and more like just a pretty existential comment on banality of how dynamics like this seem to have been always so prevalent in Russ
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> As a teenager sitting at my family PC in London, I had no idea what the hell the Texan (?) was saying. Only several years later would I figure it out. I recommend King of the Hill for more of that. The show aged well, very thick americ
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> I don't see how it refutes the broader point that not having socialised medicine creates all kinds of diabolical dynamics in society that punishes you as soon as you fall out of the system for any reason. It doesn’t, which is why
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Multiple offers, in fact. One in the very beginning of the show, when Walter’s old friend Elliott offers him a job at his company (that Walter originally created with him, but later quit, and then it ended up turning into a very successful
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While I mostly agree with your overall point about wealth distribution in the US vs Europe (based on my purely anecdotal understanding of Europe), that Breaking Bad analogy I keep hearing over the years is just wrong in terms of what happen
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> You would just think that with a brand so intrinsically wrapped around the concept of technology working for and with the people that use it, you'd want to show the people who made it if you're going to show the apple campus
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> With minimal guidance[, LLM-based systems] put out pretty sensible tests. Yes and no. They get out all the initial annoying boilerplate of writing tests out of the way, and the tests end up being mostly decent on the surface, but I hav
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It means they fixed cavities on those teeth.
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And when he finds out later in life that it was just propaganda, his trust in you and any warnings of a similar kind will go entirely away. Which carries a massive e risk of doing the exact opposite of what you intended (despite the advice
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Ouch, that kinda hit the nail on the head of why I personally preferred the screen when I was growing up in late 90s and 00s. Didn’t even think of it in those terms until now, but yeah, it tracks nearly perfectly. Even as an adult, I notice
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Why either/or? Maybe we should try educate society on dangers of using heroin. I agree that it is a good thing, and we should continue educating people about its dangers. But clearly that alone didn’t solve the problem, and I think it
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The exact same argument can be applied to literally any medical issue, and it is a pointless one. Someone has an elevated risk of skin cancer due to their genetics? Probably an evolutionary trait that it is more likely for some people to ge

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