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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
Just a datapoint, but I feel like I do a lot of searches… I’m always looking stuff up, and I’m also in the habit of using my search engine as a lazy form of autocomplete for urls. I apparently do about 700 searches a month according to Kagi
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
It’s a real pity. I circulated in the Downtown Tech scene in Las Vegas for a little bit. I felt like it was rather culty, but I also felt he really made people believe in the town’s ability to be more than a tourist destination. At the time
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
I am... OK with the Youtube algorithm. I find that it is pretty good at this point at not giving me stuff I find awful. However, I think it has lost a lot of ground in helping me find newer, more obscure topics that I'd also find inter
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
I can't speak for the person you reply to, but for me, I get a certain easy, comfortable feeling when I see something that looks like a GOOD basic 90s site. I don't mean the stereotypical spinning GIFs and whatever -- but if I see
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
"We charge a 5% minimum fee on each payment. If you like what we do, you have the option of leaving a tip."
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
It is fitting that such a large name is expressed in so few characters. RIP.
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
Rootkit. Copyright lawsuits against individuals. They welched on the warranty for my Sony Vaio laptop and wasted a ton of my time. Someone got me to buy a PS4, and I hate it and find it to be user-hostile. Basically, any time I have some ex
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
Agreed. Last year I literally put a spreadsheet together of every single electric car approved for sale in the US, with columns for every specification I cared about. I expected to find Tesla to be overhyped, just based on the fact that it
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
First, let's ditch the idea of "prime of your life." If you assign some magical value to the years you have already spent, then it doesn't matter what you do from now on, those "best years" are always behind yo
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
The Stasi would be very proud of themselves if they constructed something on the scale of what the USIC has managed. I’m honestly a little surprised anyone would quibble with that point.
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
If only! The US has been obtaining intelligence information on private citizens globally without cause for decades, and this is well-known. It does this to Americans, Europeans, and pretty much everyone else. When it makes sense to collect
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
They are. They call it direct primary care. I pay my doctor a flat monthly rate, on top of whatever the price is for any supplies. No insurance accepted.
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
Right. What I’m saying is, right now, TSA gets a photo from the DMV. If they want higher resolution, or more photos, then they can’t get it from that because a) you don’t go to the DMV that much, and b) the influence they have over state DM
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
Because you now have the existence of this massive flow of information that didn’t exist before. The TSA guard is not taking photos of me every time I fly. I don’t have to worry about what happens with those photos if they don’t exist. But
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
Automation tremendously increases the danger involved. It is substantially more difficult to audit whether the government is operating within those legal guardrails when software is involved rather than humans. Also, the government's c
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
Because the feds are very patient about these things. They knew that with consistent pressure, the holdout states would trickle on board, which is exactly what has happened. A couple states like Oregon held out until just the past few years
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
The right you are losing is privacy, and the fact that there's been a trend of decisions towards further loss does not mean future losses are inevitable, or that prior losses must be taken as permanent. The existence of court precedent
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
They now get a considerably more centralized program. Instead of working through 50+ DMVs and whatever equipment the person's branch happened to use to take the photo however long ago it was taken and whatever standard resolution they
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
> The incessant drum of media criticism has ensured Ms. Holmes will be punished for the rest of her life,” according to the filing. “Ms. Holmes will never be able to seek another job or meet a new friend without the negative caricature a
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
For now.
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
They have one of the worst brand reputations in tech. Their business model in general is being targeted by regulators and policymakers in jurisdictions big and small all over the world, and the various abuses of their specific platform is o
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
There are a lot of reasons for continued irritation here. First, you phrase this as being about something that was temporary. That's partly true. But there's no going back to 2019 -- everyone has seen remote work now, and they hav
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
I know a man who never had kids but wanted them. He runs a martial arts school. He gets to mentor a lot of kids. It’s like he didn’t get to be a dad, but he got to have more grandkids than anyone I know. There are many ways to “have kids.”
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
Maybe Google should build it. Then you use it for a year or two before it gets cancelled.
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
Oo oOoOoO O OooOoOoo
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
This. I don't think anyone expected high availability from their living room web servers; if they did, they either discovered that was not feasible, or moved their web server somewhere else. And that was FINE. Sometimes, a server with
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
> FedEx Ground service, which is the primary way the company handles deliveries of online purchases made by US consumers, missed its sales target by $300 million. After last year, there is no way I would ship anything Fedex Ground -- at
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
First, people have fundamental drives that can override logical reason. Gift cards probably aren't your button. Maybe your buttons aren't even ones that are easily poked at by e-mail, I dunno. But EVERYONE has buttons somewhere th
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
I hear you about saying no to depending on the rings of power. Not sure about the regulatory part with Bob’s backyard. What about when Bob intentionally persuades everyone to route all their packages and mail through his house, which he rou
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by helpfulclippy 4y ago
Yes. Technical books are an opportunity to have a coherent, well-edited and deep dive into some topic, at a pace I can manage myself. I’d say that I’m not likely to use reference manuals or “cookbooks” like I did in the 90s or 00s, but ther

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