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by greycol 2y ago
You certainly don't use it to mean "those crazy people who are pro interacial marriage" but some do. The woke people supporting trans rights almost certainly don't support macho man randy savage chucking on a dress and t
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by greycol 2y ago
It's a hard problem because when you start asking questions about what an unqualified home user needs it's easy to say just one more thing. port forwarding? ofcourse how else can the kid have a minecraft server with friends dynami
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by greycol 2y ago
Both are common sayings and easily googleable: Hanlon's Razor: Don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity Chesterton's Fence (worth googling as it's a nice little parable, or it might be a derivation o
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by greycol 2y ago
Assuming Hanlon's razor it's a Chesterton's fence situation you just see a LED that indicates the camera is on. Assuming they ask the question at all they think it's just to remind you your still streaming/in a meet
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by greycol 2y ago
The person he's replying to has a simplistic view, his view is "injecting parasites into people without their permision bad" a very fine view to have. However we're discussing a situation where these parasites are infact
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by greycol 2y ago
To be honest yes, lots of super hero stories about them. Though to be fair they're called symbiotes when they're helpful.
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by greycol 2y ago
For most of it you can just go to the customer facing part of ad services and see these as distinct chooseable options, for mental state you could hand wave it away as "do we really know the mental state of someone who closely followed
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by greycol 2y ago
No they use the word backdoor because there is no better word for these pathwatys/purposefully created weak spots in access to the software. Seriously please give me one that emphasises the security detriment to the 1st party user and
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by greycol 2y ago
We've had multiple bills proposed by multiple countries for government mandated backdoors. Multiple articles refer to how these bills would create backdoors, multiple computer security experts say the bills would create backdoors in th
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by greycol 2y ago
You've probably conflated the saying "going through the backdoor" with the noun backdoor, which is an understandable mistake to make. Conflating the two is even easier when the backdoor is morally questionable i.e. When someo
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by greycol 2y ago
Arizona and Nevada both voted for abortions rights even though they voted republican. The left and right aren't a boolean option, a left candidate who says the system isn't working may do just as well as a right candidate who says
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by greycol 2y ago
I don't think anything I said is in conflict with what you've said, I'm pointing out one of the reasons the poster might still be getting spam from a mail he's reported as spam. The can spam act was more about senders re
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by greycol 2y ago
It's clearly a compromise, but if we were going for a perfect implementation then everyone would have a local/self hosted soloution. This just means in the case of a bad vendor/unwanted default/change to a better vendor
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by greycol 2y ago
I'm pretty sure that most marketeers correlate with the "it's fine to send lots of useless crap to people for $x justifcation" philosphy. You pick a Marketeer(D) or Marketeer(R) and they'll be happy to use whatever
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by greycol 2y ago
Unfortunately political parties have more of a free pass on this as Republicans sued providers for their emails getting caught up in spam filters around 2022 (Who would've thought continuosly emailing people who click unsubscribe on yo
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by greycol 2y ago
I feel you're missing the forest for the trees... You're advocating a policy of the ultra rich not having to pay tax during their lifetime because it's less complicated. I understand you're viewing it as a tax increase a
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by greycol 2y ago
Your point stands but there's an argument to be made they paid Mozilla so that they don't collapse and then have to defend a monopoly lawsuit on Chrome.
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by greycol 2y ago
>>I still struggle to see the harm >>Google search is still the best out there The second statement coupled with the fact that google search has declined in quality due to choices by google (not just the admitidely difficult SEO
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by greycol 2y ago
He hasn't promised not to scrape their site using even more of their resources... Used to be that, coupled with competition with competing services, was the main reason sites offered APIs.
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by greycol 2y ago
They shouldn't have complete control over governence because, especially in larger businesses, the shareholders are less invested in what a business does than the stakeholders. A classic example would be an employee forced to work in a
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by greycol 2y ago
This feels a lot like "Of course they use their hands, they couldn't give you a massage otherwise" but it's in reply to a news article about the person who agreed to being touched being punched.
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by greycol 2y ago
Imagine I'm using pi = 3 (accuracy of 1 significant figure) that's an error of about 4.5% of π(pi), 3.1 is only 1.3% 3.14 only 0.05% with the error decreasing with each additional significant figure. Imagine there's a circle
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by greycol 2y ago
A classic economic view on an object being bought/sold is that the item has more worth to the buyer at that price than it does to the seller. That means that if you reverse the transaction the buyer isn't getting what he believed
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by greycol 2y ago
It's not a dumb take. It very much happens. However this happens in FPTP as well, they're just called wedge issues. Obviously a view on abortion shouldn't dictate a parties view on tax. In FPTP it does dictate that implicitly
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by greycol 2y ago
Of course the fines are punitive, that's because the fines aren't supposed to be a revenues source for the EU they're supposed to deter behaviour (To the point the first round of them are often dimunitive or waived entirely b
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by greycol 2y ago
And just for compl&eness the symbol "&" is called an ampersand.
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by greycol 2y ago
Rather than going in to details why that doesn't matter, with relation to monopolistic power, I'll just let you extrapolate your reasoning to the following: The EU population is quite literally a minority of the world population.
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by greycol 2y ago
I'm guessing 180 is 180cm, as 183cm is 6ft which fit's in to the whole "don't swipe if under 6ft" meme. Which, in case you're unfamiliar with it, is a popularised (no idea if it's actualy popular) line on
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by greycol 3y ago
How does buying an android fix the issues surrounding the green bubble? How does buying an android let you use an apple watch? How does buying an android fix all the cross dependencies of super apps that would be utilised between android an
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by greycol 3y ago
Sure, but twitter is not financialy stable and if it goes bankrupt then it's not Musk who decides what to do with a gifted x.com; it's used in a way that makes twitter the most value for the shareholders not the majority sharehole

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