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by iamdamian 3y ago
I am not a lawyer, but I think the CAN-SPAM Act can help with this. The CAN-SPAM Act makes it illegal to send spam email, which is roughly defined as non-transactional email that doesn't allow opt-out. (In fact, I think it's a lit
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by iamdamian 3y ago
This is a first. I got a couple of downvotes, and I don't know why. I think the parent comment is wrong about what they're saying and I'm only really stating facts in my comment. Anyway, for the record, I stand by the above.
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by iamdamian 3y ago
While it's not a perfect solution (or a likely option for most people on HN), there is such a thing as affordable housing in Manhattan and other boroughs. Affordable housing units cost far less than what you've shown here, and I t
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by iamdamian 3y ago
Something's off about this list. I can't find Brooklyn Syndrome on Wikipedia and think the description is confusing. The main source I found on Brooklyn Syndrome is from the Names journal [0], which has a nearly identical descript
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by iamdamian 3y ago
I've never heard of this service but am intrigued. Also, props to the Rewind team for putting privacy front and center. (Now I just have to decide if I trust what they're saying.)
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by iamdamian 3y ago
I've been wanting to try out local LLMs for a while but have always had the feeling that I would end up wasting my time. I imagined that I would have to spend a perfectly good Saturday futzing around with lots of settings and environme
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by iamdamian 3y ago
If the point of the article is that the two profiles are linked in a way the author doesn't like, then the headline should just say that. As written, it seems to be completely wrong.
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by iamdamian 3y ago
I adopted this mentality a few years ago and it's served me very well. Pro tip to anyone looking to do the same without losing the benefits of SquareSpace's WYSIWYG editor: try out Bootstrap Studio [0], which gives you a visual ed
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by iamdamian 3y ago
Thank you for starting this. Is it too optimistic of me to hope that someone turns this into the seed of a new blogroll or web directory (a la Dmoz, Curlie)?
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by iamdamian 3y ago
It makes you think, how much effort have they really put into this policy?
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by iamdamian 3y ago
I check out Warp every 6 months or so, because I’d love to see more innovation with the terminal, and the screenshots look great. But the story’s the same every time: I download the app, fire it up, and am greeted by a mandatory ‘sign up’ s
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by iamdamian 3y ago
I’m wondering, is on-device processing not in the realm of possibility for this space?
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by iamdamian 3y ago
From their privacy page: > How we use your information [...] > - Training and developing machine learning algorithms, and identification of industry trends and developments, and anonymous benchmarking > We may aggregate, de
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by iamdamian 3y ago
I would love to see this. There seems to be a really interesting opportunity for Apple to provide a privacy-respecting replacement for social media as we know it today. Somewhere between group texts/shared albums and private Instagram,
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by iamdamian 3y ago
“When asked by reporters in Ottawa if there is any evidence that the labels will deter smoking, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said: ‘Every possible tool works.’” Um… What?
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by iamdamian 3y ago
I’m curious to read more factual information about this. Can you point me to a reliable source on the topic?
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by iamdamian 3y ago
We also need to normalize not tipping in most situations (outside of restaurants) and instead force employers to pay a reasonable wage to their employees. I, as a customer, should not have to take on the mental or emotional burden of decidi
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by iamdamian 3y ago
If you're suggesting we should all be okay with the idea of tipping before the service is ever completed just to ensure that the service even happens, well... That seems more like a bribe than a tip. I'm not sure that's somet
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by iamdamian 3y ago
To avoid a No True Scotsman impasse, who exactly are we talking about that doesn’t know what a zip file is? Someone who doesn’t use a laptop for their day job?
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by iamdamian 3y ago
According to The Affluent Society [0], a seminal book that established the idea of "conventional wisdom", most movements start with diffuse sentiment changes and then crystallize into a "changing of the guard" only after
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by iamdamian 3y ago
Don't most movements start as diffuse changes in sentiment?
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by iamdamian 3y ago
Thanks for the pointer, I will do that. I followed Bari early on after she left the Times, and I was always intrigued by the examples she brought up of unjust actions taken in the workpace or university in the name of 'wokeness'.
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by iamdamian 3y ago
I'm not sure yet whether to be concerned about this particular example or not. I am concerned about DEI being used as a sort of backdoor for bad ideas being accepted and enforced in the workplace or university. There's a real ch
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by iamdamian 3y ago
How will starting a new country or colonizing a new planet help us avoid the problems we've already created for ourselves?
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by iamdamian 3y ago
I agree that on balance, they'd like the data. However, if people demand this, and one of the two (my vote would be Apple) responded to that, then I would think competitive edge would matter more than the marginal benefit of having men
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by iamdamian 3y ago
I wish more people would do this. I do. That said, it only works if enough people do it and if the feedback actually gets back to the restaurant owners. I would love to see “had QR menu” as a label on Apple and Google Maps so that I’d know
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by iamdamian 3y ago
One of the core points of the book, if I recall correctly, is that regulations should be made in practical, data-driven ways and "bring everyone along for the ride". Without this approach, we will fail. This means starting with hi
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by iamdamian 3y ago
When I say "dig into the details", I mean "look for evidence". I looked for evidence that this would have a substantial effect on the climate and was unable to find any. In fact, the most anyone has come up with in this
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by iamdamian 3y ago
I mentioned above that I would love to see true fume hoods required for new buildings, as a regulation. I'm not libertarian or even conservative and am surprised at an ad-hominem attack like this.
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by iamdamian 3y ago
> 1% or 28% of global CO2 emissions, if this statistic is even true, is huge. 1% of 28%. If we trust that number, that means that the best we can hope for from this change is 0.0028 (0.3%, rounding up) of global emissions. That number

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