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by hraedon 5y ago
That we currently don't universally oppose and sanction wars of conquest and aggression doesn't mean that we shouldn't. The invasion of Ukraine is an especially egregious example, and it is good that the world is unifying to
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by hraedon 5y ago
The problem is that they aren't offering the same service. The payment processor is not maintaining the ecosystem or doing anything outside of the relatively narrow scope of accepting payments and maybe dealing with taxes. Even if yo
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by hraedon 5y ago
Even granting that the current admissions truly are need-blind (which I think it is reasonable to dispute), the smallest Ivy endowment is still over $4 billion. We’re not talking about a state university using full freight foreign students
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by hraedon 5y ago
I guess it depends on your definition of "corrupt" and where you draw the line between corrupt and not corrupt. Would it be the tech recruiter's fault if there were, for instance, a pipeline problem that sharply limited the d
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by hraedon 5y ago
I don't disagree, but my point was that they shouldn't. Clarence Thomas famously wrote about believing that his own success was tainted by affirmative action, and later he was indeed appointed to the Supreme Court primarily becaus
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by hraedon 5y ago
This mostly tongue-in-cheek carve out was for the fortunately stalled initiatives for outsourcing these decisions to AI tools, but to me it also applies to filters that are blindly applied and never reviewed. If 100 applicants are rejected
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by hraedon 5y ago
I know what the conversation is referring to, and my response is in regards to the naiveté demonstrated by responses like yours. The problems of today are different only in particular application, not in motivation or nature. "Merit&qu
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by hraedon 5y ago
Whatever problems the current system has, it isn't as if the system being replaced ever hired people primarily on "merit." The beneficiaries of the older system rarely wondered if they were the best candidates for the job, so
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by hraedon 5y ago
Going through this gish gallop point by point: mRNA technology has been in development since the 80s because there were and are a lot of challenges with deploying it on a wide scale. This Nature article [1] goes into it, but a lot of the fo
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by hraedon 5y ago
Where was ivermectin authorized for use as a COVID treatment? It certainly wasn't approved in the US and it also wasn't (and isn't) authorized in Japan, before or after the date of your WaPo article.
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by hraedon 5y ago
I mean, literally the first chart is so misleadingly cropped that it makes the opposite point in this article than it does in the original study. Edit for the above comment's edit: look, if a deceptively cropped chart doesn't qual
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by hraedon 5y ago
It depends on whether or not those iPhone users have turned off iMessage out of some misguided sense of protocol purity. If some but not all have it turned off, their experience will be similar to an android user in a chat with iMessage use
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by hraedon 5y ago
All sentiments like this one and those similar to it elide the facts that 1) we’ve tried relying on “user responsibility” before, and excusing the comically bad outcomes through victim blaming doesn’t change them; and 2) we didn’t get tog
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by hraedon 5y ago
Because it isn't a new problem? Apple could have locked out Asahi at any time, but have shown no inclination of doing so. There's no reason for them to build a feature that facilitates this specific use case and then remove it in
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by hraedon 5y ago
"iMessage's .gif handling was a bit sloppy" is a believable problem; the idea that it was done deliberately to facilitate access to what amounts to a VM running in an old image compression format is a big stretch. This isn&#x
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by hraedon 5y ago
Apple offers iTunes Match [1], a service that is separate from Apple Music. It is something like $25 a year and does more or less what you're asking for here, especially in conjunction with Apple Music. [1]: https://support.
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by hraedon 5y ago
Apple compared the M1 Max to a 3080m. 4x the GPU cores and up to 8x the memory makes a difference, and it wouldn't be at all surprising to see that their numbers are accurate.
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by hraedon 5y ago
Really? The M1 is a bit slower than a 1650, so 4x that performance gets you solidly into 3000 series range. There might be a handful of PC laptops that can outpace the M1 Max, but none in remotely comparable a package.
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by hraedon 5y ago
Chromium browsers support and enable by default the "ping" attribute. This helpfully makes link tracking a standard bit of functionality, rather than needing ugly workarounds to accomplish the same thing.
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by hraedon 5y ago
Two separate things at play here. Parent is saying they trust Apple to manage their payment options, and since third parties have to go through Apple they don't have to trust a bunch of individual companies to do things right. Apple Pa
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by hraedon 5y ago
It isn't bad to investigate or ask questions; the problem is that many of the people who are vocal proponents of the lab-leak theory are making a motte and bailey argument that takes the form of "the virus escaped from a lab in Ch
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by hraedon 5y ago
"I need this specific platform to succeed for some reason" does not somehow make that platform a monopoly that should be subject to regulatory action. Apple's management of their platform is not unique, is not meaningfully di
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by hraedon 6y ago
What alternative did he have? The president's hand-picked AG had released an extremely misleading "summary" of Mueller's findings, which the president was using to claim total exoneration. Trump's supporters would h
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by hraedon 6y ago
Mueller went out of his way to say that his investigation did not exonerate Trump, and realistically the only reason more people did not go to jail (and a lot of people went to jail, including one of Trump's campaign managers) is becau
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by hraedon 6y ago
First three things are on point, but we tried the last one. The "Paycheck Protection Program" that immediately ran out of money was our attempt to do something similar. In a perfect world, a much larger PPP would have been more ef
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by hraedon 7y ago
Exclusions from a bug bounty are a part of the game, but if something is excluded, you—as the entity excluding it—can't reasonably demand secrecy re: an out of scope bug. You either accept that you're going to eat a reputational h
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by hraedon 7y ago
I don't know how many people care about the ban, per se, but Valve's strategy here is an extremely bad and pointless one. Was Valve technically within their rights to ban this researcher? Sure. Was it a move that advanced Valve&
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by hraedon 11y ago
1 is explained in his previous article: he doesn't want to be the arbiter of what is blocked and what is permissible 2 he addresses in the linked piece: which charity? 3: he tried this already with The Magazine and learned that he does
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by hraedon 11y ago
If you frequently replace devices, maybe. If you're one of those poor suckers that bought Verizon's version of the Galaxy Nexus, you know that the promise of consistent updates for eighteen months is inadequate.
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by hraedon 11y ago
From the article, it sounds like they only need to open the text message: they don't need to actually play the video, even in the stock MMS app. In my experience, people will open a message just to clear the notification and that'

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