ianferrel

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by ianferrel 3y ago
I am not an EU citizen or resident, so I don't believe that avenue is open to me. Also, Twitter has not of late demonstrated significant susceptibility to regulations. I will note that we've narrowed the claim from "you'
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by ianferrel 3y ago
Given how many "deleted" posts recently resurfaced, you are in fact not free to delete your content, because it won't be deleted, just hidden.
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by ianferrel 3y ago
You could, but the whole point of the auctions is to allocate the visas economically efficiently, which this would undo.
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by ianferrel 3y ago
The word "enshittification" was coined by the author of the linked piece, Cory Doctorow, so I think it's being used as originally intended.
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by ianferrel 3y ago
>there are plenty of under the table ways to sell virtual assets for real money. But are there any games where you can plausibly put real money in and generate excess gains in virtual assets in a short time? You can double your money in
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by ianferrel 3y ago
I agree. I buy from them much less often than I used to. But it's sometimes still the best price/option.
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by ianferrel 3y ago
I recently discontinued a Prime membership we'd had for years and it was eye-opening how annoying and persistent the attempts to get us to sign up for it again are. Every time I buy something, I have to find the tiny link instead of th
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by ianferrel 3y ago
Right, exactly. So the question is: Is it just for a court to impose punishment only on some bad attorneys based on other consequences in the world? There's not a single simple or obvious answer to that question. It depends on what you
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by ianferrel 3y ago
There are multiple theories (and philosophical underpinnings) on the purpose of punishment. The one you've identified is deterrence: We should punish so that people don't do the bad thing in the future. But another one is retribut
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by ianferrel 3y ago
>Don’t sell it short! Especially not without very carefully considering counterparty risk!
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by ianferrel 3y ago
Yep. But the picture shows it mounted on a trailer, so its position doesn't have to be static.
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by ianferrel 3y ago
Always great to have a discussion with open-minded people. Cheers, internet buddy!
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by ianferrel 3y ago
I think that content moderation is in fact quite difficult, even given clear rules to follow, because so much content requires lots of context to understand. But that makes me even more annoyed at this game which rather than presenting me w
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by ianferrel 3y ago
I think that content moderators often have to deal with that issue, and they are given rules like "remove posts that suggest that others commit violent acts" or something like that. And those are reasonable rules for moderators to
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by ianferrel 3y ago
I'm not convinced that putting a real head-scratcher as the very first choice in a tutorial mode is a brilliant move at all. Tutorials are supposed to be easy and hand-holding. But also: this isn't actually a hard judgment call. I
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by ianferrel 3y ago
There are plenty of difficult judgment calls in content moderating. But the difference between "illegal content" and "content that promotes breaking the law" isn't really one of them to be made by the moderator. Thi
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by ianferrel 3y ago
I mean, when I approved leaving up the cocaine post, the game that they authored gave me a big red X and said I did it wrong that it clearly was illegal and should have been taken down. Where were they clear that there are no right or wrong
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by ianferrel 3y ago
What was the point of it, and how did I miss it?
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by ianferrel 3y ago
Certainly social media companies can choose to disallow suggestions that people take illegal actions. But that's not what the moderation policy for "illegal" content says. It says "Content that violates local or internat
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by ianferrel 3y ago
In the tutorial, the very first card I was presented with was reported for being "illegal", and the description was (from memory. I might not have it quite right) "A post about the movie Cocaine Bear recommends doing cocaine
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by ianferrel 3y ago
This isn't a new problem with video, but a new twist on an old problem: manufactured evidence. One way that courts deal with it is enhanced scrutiny on disputed evidence. Like, if you show up to a court with a document that you claimed
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by ianferrel 3y ago
Siri seems to be actively getting worse to me. Not necessarily at understanding commands, but at the verbosity of its replies. Recently, when I ask it to "Send a text to <name> that says <content of text>" it says som
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by ianferrel 3y ago
They also weirdly broke something that made it reliably play. Pre-spotify it would reliably play the first X seconds. After Spotify sometimes it would play less than that, which made it harder and less reliable.
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by ianferrel 4y ago
I take your point that many measurements of age are faulty, but age is directly measurable the same way that "time to complete a swimming race" is directly measurable. It just takes a lot more patience to measure the former. You c
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by ianferrel 4y ago
It was possible to destroy a city pre-nukes with a dedicated bombing campaign, but it was not possible to destroy a city with a single plane/missile/bomb. Nuclear powers can credibly threaten to not just destroy a single city, but
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by ianferrel 4y ago
Well, so is swimming speed. I may not have the statistical terminology correct, but the difference is that "age" and "swimming speed" are directly measurable continuous aspects of reality, while "# of olympic medals
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by ianferrel 4y ago
"Number of Olympic medals" is a very poor analogous concept here, because it's not a directly measurable and variable trait, it's a complex tail-end derivative of several factors. If you looked at "swimming speed&qu
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by ianferrel 4y ago
It's tied to the estate tax exclusion. The first ~$12million of estate isn't taxed, and you can give that money away before or after you die.
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by ianferrel 4y ago
I've never had any difficulty giving away broken phones/tablets on craigslist. Someone is collecting them for parts and refurbishing them. Most broken consumer electronics are relatively easy to fix for someone with moderate troub
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by ianferrel 4y ago
>Or rather, why is it that we allow a bank to not mark-to-market a security for which there is a liquid market? I agree with your main point. You'd have to be careful with regulation around this, because what you might end up with i

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