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by hourago 4y ago
> As part of that bargain, you have to identify your app visually so I can find it. If the problem is that apps change logos then that should be criticized, not activism. If the problem is with political causes that should be the focus,
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by hourago 4y ago
> If nobody maintains the status quo the left wing polices win by default Can you elaborate on this? Society has inertia, history has inertia, how is this "nobody mantains status quo" work?
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by hourago 4y ago
> Despite the bias in their funding source (~90% left-leaning donors) Despite? Or because of it? Left leaning politics need trust worthy news to advance, right leaning politics don't as their goal is to maintain tradition and the st
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by hourago 4y ago
> "In the murky world of crypto DeFi, it’s hard to know who provides money for loans, where the money flows, or how easy it is to trigger currency meltdowns. There are no standards for risk management or capital reserves. There are
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by hourago 4y ago
> Hype: "We need big data systems to handle big data." I do not get this one. It's incorrect by definition: "Big data refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data-processing a
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by hourago 4y ago
I know what you mean. What I say is that "distinction" is a substitute for "have traveled farther and lasted longer" not "the first human-made".
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by hourago 4y ago
Maybe you are an elite misinterpreting public opinion. The article is just about it.
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by hourago 4y ago
You are probably a well paid engineer or similar. Your experience is valid, but not the most common one.
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by hourago 4y ago
> Bitcoin has a neat feature of not requiring armies or vaults to protect itself. Not even cannons can protect it. - One day, due to the accidental wallet destruction during the server reboot, they lost keys to all BTC wallets, resulting
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by hourago 4y ago
> as that justifies/makes people feel good for missing its bull run. That is the same argument that 'people wants to reduce inequality because they hate the rich'. It appeals to feelings but it is a not very realistic nor
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by hourago 4y ago
> They have traveled farther and lasted longer than any other spacecraft in history. And they have crossed into interstellar space, according to our best understanding of the boundary between the sun's sphere of influence and the re
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by hourago 4y ago
I totally agree. I understand that people do not blog anymore. But Twitter is not a good place for lengthy texts, by design!
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by hourago 4y ago
Real people does not always speak good. And everybody has blinds pots, topics that are interesting but that we have little knowledge. > We show that human judgments of AI-generated language are handicapped by intuitive but flawed heurist
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by hourago 4y ago
> They have also asked that lawmakers amend the Constitution to abolish the 13th Amendment exclusion that allows slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime. Slavery work and for profit prisons may incentivise to send as
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by hourago 4y ago
> Because here the police officers need to take a three-year program in a vocational university. Maybe an stupid question, but where is "here"? I missed that.
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by hourago 4y ago
> Along these roads ran messengers, as a type of precursor to the American Pony Express a relay of horsemen could carry a message 50 miles a day. Is there any real connection between both? It sounds strange. Relay horses seems just an ob
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by hourago 4y ago
Why do bureaucrats have an incentive to make their own work harder? How do you explain then how easier is to do taxes in bureaucratic Europe compared with the USA? I will say that the worst burocracy is created when private companies meddle
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by hourago 4y ago
Not necessarily a bad person. But to think that people that may not have the education to understand NFTs deserve to be robbed seems to justify to prey on people. NFTs are an absurdity, but millions are spend on advertising them to an unpro
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by hourago 4y ago
Apple was dying and it was only saved because Bill Gates could not afford for Microsoft to become a monopoly so he put the money. Apple lives out of it's duopoly with Google on mobile phones. Or is Apple TV so successful? Apple may not
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by hourago 4y ago
> But I don't mean that happens because of their age, but because of how long they are in the company and also how comfortable they are with all the non-sensical processes and red tape that company has (internally we called it IBM -
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by hourago 4y ago
> Does someone earning more than you hurt you? The economy is not a zero sum game. But billionaires are getting all the growth while middle class and the poor see their share of the economy shrink. This is not about my neighbour earning
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by hourago 4y ago
> "As of 2009, non-military cryptography exports from the U.S. are controlled by the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security.[9] Some restrictions still exist, even for mass market products; particularly with r
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by hourago 4y ago
You are completely right. Sensitive customer information should be only accessible as a per need basis. It's very bad practice, possibly illegal in many countries, to have free access to production customer data. It's also quite d
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by hourago 4y ago
Full hospitals and collapsing health care would have not improved the economy. You point the downsides of lock downs without mentioning why were enacted. When mothers die giving bird, car accidents become mortal, heart attacks are not treat
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by hourago 4y ago
> You don’t think that the supply chain issues are related to our Covid strategy of “Stay the Fuck Home” via massive printing of money to support ridiculous unemployment benefits and bridge loans to businesses? The supply chain is affect
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by hourago 4y ago
And a legal one. If it's the human then the picture has copyright, if it's the chicken then this are copyright free pictures. Edit. Link to relevant Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyr
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by hourago 4y ago
This is a common problem. Acronyms are short but provide less information. Without the proper context it is difficult to know what do they refer to. In Wikipedia, your interpretation is the first result: https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by hourago 4y ago
> Why would anyone complaint while sci-hub is there. That is a hack, not a solution. As you noted, it is illegal. Workarounds are good as a fast fix, but sooner at later we need to look at the system and fix what is not working. This not
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by hourago 4y ago
> If others want to create a new OS and get manufacturers to install it they can. That is always true for any monopoly. Any company could create their own phone system and compete with AT&T. That was never in doubt. The problem is t
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by hourago 4y ago
Telling people to just stop participating in society seems an extreme approach. Playing games with friends use part of growing in current society. Laws for consumer protection seem a better time tested way of aligning consumer and companies

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