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by immibis 9mo ago
I thought the model of Better Help was hiring people who are completely unqualified to be therapists and then selling them as therapists.
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by immibis 9mo ago
except both Baba and Keke are bouba.
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by immibis 9mo ago
End users mostly don't know what Windows is. You can see this when someone picks up a tablet and opens Google Docs.
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by immibis 9mo ago
Sounds like you agree they don't produce anything, since "providing capital" is not producing something.
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by immibis 9mo ago
Incorrect. Users are running autoflag bots.
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by immibis 9mo ago
Communism is the idea of "can't we all just get along?" which is obviously not something you can actually implement, but is easily used as a buzzword by evil regimes. Remember, H-tl-r called his regime "socialist",
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by immibis 9mo ago
I believe the USA-Mexico border wall was called something similar
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by immibis 9mo ago
Aren't those just plain old tax havens?
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by immibis 9mo ago
That was caused by interchange fees, and it has disappeared now.
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by immibis 9mo ago
A landlord is a parasite by definition, since they don't produce anything, and charge money for producing nothing. But they perform important functions in our society, like providing housing. Even though landlords don't actually p
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by immibis 9mo ago
Rule of thumb: Whenever you think you don't need relational database features, you will later discover why you do. The one thing relational databases don't have, that you might need, is scaling. Maintaining data consistency implie
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by immibis 9mo ago
It was also through the violent actions of terrorist groups that police couldn't keep under control. For every time the politicians agreed with a Rosa Parks, it was because they were afraid of a Black Panthers.
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by immibis 9mo ago
Not even the Ableton marketing team is telling me I can just fire up Ableton and make great music and if I can't do that I must be a brainwashed doomer.
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by immibis 9mo ago
In the USA, too. That's one of many methods they use to decide where to send ICE.
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by immibis 9mo ago
You can also become a registrar yourself - at least, RIPE allows it. However, fees are significantly higher and it's not clear why you'd want to, unless you were actually providing ISP services to customers (in which case it'
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by immibis 9mo ago
...your argument is that H-tler wasn't actually that bad, he had a clear and ethical mandate but went about fulfilling it in the wrong ways? SMH.
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by immibis 9mo ago
Which directly contravenes the Digital Services Act. And is only in place because LaLiga has strong ties to the mafia.
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by immibis 9mo ago
MDI was rightfully seen as a complete failure, but there was also SDI, where each open thing is a separate window. I don't know how we got from MDI in office apps being completely terrible, to MDI in browsers being the accepted norm.
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by immibis 9mo ago
Be specific. Which rights?
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by immibis 9mo ago
Exchange it for something else before the war started?
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by immibis 9mo ago
PolyMarket repeatedly paid out bets on Trump creating peace between Palestine and Israel even though he hasn't.
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by immibis 9mo ago
When Spain blocks CF (it does this regularly), it breaks all CF sites. Of course, the actual problem here is organised crime. Spain and Italy do this because the mafia owns them.
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by immibis 9mo ago
Germany has a system today cataloguing all the Jews in Berlin (the address registration includes your religion for the purpose of charging church tax), and everyone I've mentioned this to seems to feel it's neutral.
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by immibis 9mo ago
So it's literally the Elvish word for "television"...
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by immibis 9mo ago
Join a hackerspace I suppose. Technology is a religion anyway.
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by immibis 9mo ago
I noticed this the first time I took a walk by myself to the town center rather than letting my parents drive me there. You know the routine: drive to the mall parking lot, go and get the thing you're looking for, drive home. Well, I d
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by immibis 9mo ago
Can you name one area of technology where the USA has better technology than China? I'll wait.
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by immibis 9mo ago
Have you noticed how rapidly Microsoft is setting its own brands on fire? Most recently by abandoning the brand "Microsoft Office" and renaming that product to "Microsoft 365 Copilot App" instead.
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by immibis 9mo ago
If LLMs are so great at enabling execution, where are all the successful projects enabled by LLMs? Where are they?
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by immibis 9mo ago
You just add an authority vector to each token vector. You probably have to train the model some more so it understands the authority vector.

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