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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Do you have a link? Been looking to switch thumpawangy vendors.
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
I don't want to build this or pay for it, but I really want to mess with it for an hour.
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
At what point do they just get shut down?
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-li... I keep coming back to this.
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
It doesn't have to be ethical. Honda is missing out on something profitable.
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
What makes you think it's AI-generated? My parents have been reading the monitor for decades. The paper always struck me as trustworthy and even-keeled. This is exactly the sort of article they've been publishing in "home for
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Happiness doesn't have to be the only goal to be worthwhile. Of course people don't want to live in fake bliss. Happiness is a vague term for many specific emotions; the sense of satisfaction from overcoming a difficult challenge
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
I suspect you would agree with this: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/unhappy Even if feelings are temporary you can still have them more or less often. When somebody says they are happy, of course it does not mean they a
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
I don't think mobility matters during a broadband outage. The problem is people failing over to cellular. (If anything, mobile terminals may require cellular providers to provision extra headroom, which helps during an outage.) Starlin
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Does Starlink have the bandwidth to avoid the same failure mode, or is it just that few people are using it for that purpose yet?
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Yes, the context was talking about what we would call corruption, but given that I read the comment as trying to explain things to a western reader, I think it's worth calling out the unstated assumption that makes this actually bad ra
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
nit: The article you linked says half a billion, not a billion. Death markets are banned in the US. Personally, I tend to think of this as a crypto problem, not a prediction market problem.
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Aren't death markets explicitly banned? Stock markets also incentivize murder. Short a company, then kill the CEO. Boom, profit.
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
In Western capitalist context, An apple employee can't do that because they would be stealing from Apple. If they are reselling phones that belong to them, they can dispose of them however they like. I think the Soviet context is key.
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
None of that was specified. As I said earlier, the problem is not with quid pro quo; it's in the stealing which you've now specified as additional context. I could just as easily specify another context where each of these actions
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
None of those examples you gave sound like corruption to me, with the possible exception of tickets. It seems to me that the problem is when people who are in a position of power and responsibility abuse their power for personal ends. Plumb
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by fwipsy 7mo ago
Prediction markets are a separate concept from cryptocurrency. You can run one on cash within the typical KYC regime. If the arguments in favor of prediction markets sound rational, maybe they are rational? I'd argue that predictio
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by fwipsy 8mo ago
I understood you perfectly, but you didn't understand me. You're trying to create a false binary between "follow every law as written, until it gets changed" and "drastic action." Nobody wants to take drastic a
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by fwipsy 8mo ago
Perhaps your comment didn't say what you believe, then.
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by fwipsy 8mo ago
There are many unjust laws on the books, and that will always be true: - some are backed by powerful interests - some have become load-bearing and are too difficult to replace - some just don't matter and aren't enforced - even if
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by fwipsy 8mo ago
KFC would like a word.
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by fwipsy 8mo ago
If you take an essay, and rewrite every paragraph and also add some new words, then it's still plagiarism. Perhaps not under copyright law, but ethically. OpenTTD goes beyond "heavily inspired" because it is intended to reimp
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by fwipsy 8mo ago
Atari didn't put in the effort, but Chris Sawyer did. Now Atari paid Sawyer for the rights to the game. I do not think Atari is a parasite here just because they paid for the game instead of creating it. It seems to me that the logical
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by fwipsy 8mo ago
At least we know it's not AI-generated
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by fwipsy 8mo ago
Any popular aesthetic will be commoditized eventually. The new frontier is SFF PCs! -Rockin a ~5L SKTC A07 with r5-5600, rtx 4060, and zero RGB.
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by fwipsy 8mo ago
Yes, except for this one flaw it's a perfect plan which would have worked perfectly.
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by fwipsy 8mo ago
I think you got that mixed up.
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by fwipsy 8mo ago
To avoid overhead for many small payments, start a platform where users can buy many credits at once by contributing larger amounts to charity. Then, you burn your credits to apply to companies (or cold message applicants) to show you'
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by fwipsy 8mo ago
Linux kernel still uses 8 I believe. IIRC wide indentation+narrow pages were chosen partly to encourage using functions and avoiding deep nested logic. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding
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by fwipsy 8mo ago
They're meant to replace vostro/latitude/precision - enterprise machines. I suspect that Dell expectes shoppers to either look at enterprise or consumer, not both.

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