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by harry8 4y ago
In written communication CYA will usually trump "Assume good motives"
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by harry8 4y ago
9/11 was after y2k people got wound up pretty tight and cheered politicians and public servants doing things they would have fought against hard previously. Spend across the economy probably bigger too. Never let a good crisis go to wa
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by harry8 4y ago
Don't overlook diminishing returns when examining this. The first time you try skydiving it is likely to be quite the exhilaration. If you grew up doing with your parents and have jumped hundreds of times it's not going to be the
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by harry8 4y ago
Some people can't bring themselves to leave abusive partners too. This one is violent to these people. Sadly the only other option for your phone is google and anything else won't run the apps you will need to live in society. It&
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by harry8 4y ago
It ain't the poor, it's those who have the biggest barrier to going anywhere else who will get slugged, and slugged hard. That segment of the market will pay loads. Flights from New Zealand to the Pacific Islands for Christmas are
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by harry8 4y ago
> This type of price discrimination isn't powered by surveillance capitalism Ok in this particular example of price discrimination it isn't. Yet. Sure. Now imagine you wan't to power it buy surveillance capitalism to get m
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by harry8 4y ago
"not apple" seems like a pretty solid upgrade path if apple are actually (accidentally?) hurting you? How the hell that company has apologists given how incredibly cynical and miserable they are and have always been I will never k
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by harry8 4y ago
The theory of Price Discrimination, simple stuff, for anyone who isn't up on the econs 101 jargon, looks like it's here: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/price_discrimination.as... Everyone including
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by harry8 4y ago
Remember when this happened to Wikileaks?
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by harry8 4y ago
So that's not a thing? You can't accept a settlement that prevents you from giving evidence at a criminal trial?
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by harry8 4y ago
in isolation maybe that's ok-ish? How many other high-paying tweets that look like fraud did he keep all the cash? Do we know? Was it none? "Dang, turns out that one is a loser - they got me on that one ." Can be a business
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by harry8 4y ago
The one that really gets me is where vicious bastards pay off witnesses so they cannot legally testify against them. Is that situation being reported wrong? E.g. Rose McGowan unable to testify against Weinstein because he setlled with her f
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by harry8 4y ago
Ok so you take deposits, which are a short term liability and you've got cash money you have to do something with. 1) Buy loads of long term debt and some swaps. 2) Buy less long term debt than that and t-bills. These two options are e
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by harry8 4y ago
Take on /less/ long term assets (sell them and buy t-bills) to remove the existential risk. It's not going to be much different in cost. You see it? Derivatives aren't magic pixie-dust insurance. They will cost about the
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by harry8 4y ago
No. You /can/ manage short term liability mismatch against long term assets in one sense but it's actually useless when you think about why you have long term assets at all. Just like you can manage the risk by selling your l
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by harry8 4y ago
> Wrong. This is corruption. Janet is picking winners and losers. Some people are losing their deposits and some are not. You are systemic if you had dinner with Janet yesterday. Big call. Huge. Got some data or similar to back it? Edit:
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by harry8 4y ago
CF blocks you hard simply for enabling "do not track" in settings. The discussion about how awful they are needs to be had.
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by harry8 4y ago
TAPIF=tap0; BR=br0; LOCAL_IP=192.whatever; MASK=24; REAL_IP=eth0 sudo ip tuntap add dev $TAPIF mode tap user $(whoami) sudo ip addr add $LOCAL_IP/$MASK dev $TAPIF sudo ip link set $TAPIF up sudo ip link add
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by harry8 4y ago
I'd spot gpt immediately by virtue of it having actually read anything at all of my profile. 1980s mail merge is the state of the art in recruiterville.
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by harry8 4y ago
Not seen any automated ai debugging tools yet.
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by harry8 4y ago
oh, ok so prime sub is about $50/yr but you get other things and it seems popular. And 15 Tb is the go. Can you encrypt them or do they require to be able to view your photos so not just bytes on disk? >any complaints about Amazon l
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by harry8 4y ago
1.5 Terabytes? (Assuming 6Mb/photo which is what I'm getting from an old nikon in raw format, dunno what everyone else is using - enlighten me please if necessary). Less than USD$50 for a 2TB disk. So buy 3, post one to a family m
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by harry8 4y ago
So I pay $X and 30% of that goes to steam. This is not me as the user paying. Gotcha. The customer pays for /everything/ /always/ under /all/ circumstances. It's not cost plus pricing, vendors will charge
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by harry8 4y ago
Dunno how this happened but you and I are having two completely different conversations. Best.
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by harry8 4y ago
A bunch of possibly clever, technically adept people hang out here even if they work for a bank or something equally dull. Some small percentage of them have a latest idea and also decide to explore pursuing it. Where to go? Everyone here k
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by harry8 4y ago
A) you don't speak for the supreme court. But sure, that can be like, your opinion. B) The WHOLE purpose of a PAC is to galvanise public opinion in ways that suit the donor and obfuscate and de-amplify things that don't. This incr
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by harry8 4y ago
You talk like google pay less in lobbying cash than an individual citizen. Google could refuse and take that s&^t to the supreme court while funding the opponent of every politician who took them on for it. That's what they do to e
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by harry8 4y ago
Tell them to take a hike until they come back with a warrant or at least a reasonable justifiable suspicion not dragnet surveillance. You know like google is a goddamn american company? What is this "Oh it's ok, we're just go
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by harry8 4y ago
bait and switch. It's so easy, all you need is x. Then when you're far enough in they demand a through w or you're shutdown with extreme prejudice. Do they really need it? Is that what you agreed to? Did you negotiate the cha
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by harry8 4y ago
Well a decade or more ago the idea of an online iq test was in the realms of "maybe iq is pretty dumb but there's no harm in doing this online." Nowadays I think most of us think more along the lines of "How stupid would

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