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by gilrain 4y ago
This will blindside Kagi if they’ve been relying on true believers in Discord for their feedback.
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by gilrain 4y ago
> algorithmically unbiased They’re adding AI, where the human biases come baked in, and charging us extra for the insult.
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by gilrain 4y ago
Yep. I canceled the two accounts I’m responsible for. I thought Kagi was going to be search for adults, but they have a serious problem with chasing the latest shiny API. They keep jacking up their cost per search for features I actively di
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by gilrain 4y ago
This doesn’t add up. Be suspicious without further information.
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by gilrain 4y ago
As a society, we allow these particular laborers to be forced to labor, even when it is unsafe for them. We are complicit. It will happen to us too, and we will have nobody to complain to.
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by gilrain 4y ago
You’re wrong. Give it a try and find out.
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by gilrain 4y ago
Mine vents into the room.
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by gilrain 4y ago
Social approbation is missing from your calculation, and is very powerful. When you don’t get invited to social events anymore because of crypto, that is the haters moving the market.
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by gilrain 4y ago
Why on earth would anyone keep “money” in a mattress that their government will not accept for payment of their debts. Wild logic.
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by gilrain 4y ago
As a retail customer, there are three payment processors which I notice “convert” me into a sale more often purely because I’m confident the process will be fast, safe, convenient, and familiar: Apple Pay, Stripe, and Square. I would have b
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by gilrain 4y ago
You’re thinking of Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation. There is no Firefox Corporation.
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by gilrain 4y ago
Kagi managed to make good articles “spring into existence”. Your trust that Google is showing you the whole Internet is misplaced.
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by gilrain 4y ago
How do you propose she moved those mountain ranges such that they could appear together like that? To a layman like myself, it seems impossible.
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by gilrain 4y ago
Instead, they use analog chemicals with the same properties and concerns.
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by gilrain 4y ago
I also disapprove of the irrational behavior I imagine might exist, potentially.
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by gilrain 4y ago
The selective coloring on that Happy Employee is telling: drain the human of all color, but leave their BestBuy shirt corporate blue.
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by gilrain 4y ago
This is true, even though I personally think his political thinking and rhetoric is brilliant and valuable. It doesn’t excuse him of taking care of the people who take care of him. Spend a few hours on your business, Maciej!
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by gilrain 4y ago
> He seemed earnest and genuine, but everything he’s saying is the exact opposite of reality. Con man is short for “confidence” man for a reason. What they’re good at is gaining the unmerited confidence of others. You got played by his c
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by gilrain 4y ago
Let’s keep irreversibly destroying our ecology and economy because dozens of people manage to buy wool socks and pizza with Bitcoin.
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by gilrain 4y ago
> Pinboard has been rock solid for me? Do you pay for archiving? Have you tested that it’s working?
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by gilrain 4y ago
Do you also got the folks paying you money for broken services, or just the ones who are happy with the parts that still work?
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by gilrain 4y ago
Because cryptbros are incapable of taking the wise choice when the greedy choice is on the table. So predictable.
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by gilrain 4y ago
> That shouldn't be a problem for something like USDT which should be backed 1:1. What if we all know it’s backed 1:1 by junk bonds?
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by gilrain 4y ago
Folks act like my grandparents are gonna die, but I’m like “Bro, they’ve been at this game 90 years. I think they got this.”
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by gilrain 4y ago
Media management is entirely manual and very bare bones, unfortunately.
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by gilrain 4y ago
To me, stevia tastes distinctly like the aroma of burnt hair. It’s intolerable.
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by gilrain 4y ago
It certainly helps that they’re already a hardware company.
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by gilrain 4y ago
Wrong.
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by gilrain 4y ago
This is of course subjective. I really dislike the smell, but I’m sure I could get used to it with time.
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by gilrain 4y ago
No to all of that, never. I lost my debit card once along with, stupidly, my PIN (both were in my wallet, which was left somewhere). The maximum daily withdrawal was taken from ATMs that night. The next day, my bank made me whole. If that h

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