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by isykt 3y ago
In order to do this, you must assiduously avoid mainstream news as well. I think that’s the point where the two sides of this debate are talking past each other. There is the Twitter you see on Twitter (your customized feed) but there’s als
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You’re absolutely right on that last part. Making phone numbers required for signing up was only nominally to improve security. Overall, it’s a net negative for privacy and security, and only benefits the service provider by allowing them t
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> I'm sure Chinese citizen could have said exactly the same. It would stand to reason that this is statistically likely, but I don’t think anyone has any real understanding of how much the people in China believe in / support t
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I would rather third world countries be exploited by the US, since it would mean my country projects its power to those regions. My stable, democratic country. The lack of realpolitik in this thread is astounding. We don’t live in a perfect
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You fail to see a difference between a country run by an autocratic cult of personality and a country run by a democracy? That’s troubling. The US commitment to human rights is flawed, but it’s nothing compared to the dystopia that is China
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Which country’s values do you prefer influencing the developing world: China’s, or the United States’?
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This explanation is always trotted out whenever a decision is unpopular, portraying the court as a neutral arbiter that's just reading the rules back to the public. The truth is, that hasn't been the court's operating model s
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Email is not a critical communication for me, so an occasional outage doesn’t bother me. It happens.
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Facebook and Google cache their content and display it on their own websites, negating the reason for clicking through to the website where the ad dollars would be generated for the content creators.
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They really passed up openco.de?
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Not much of a threat since it’s only 10,000 slots. There’s 420,000 H1B visa holders in the US.
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But how can I trust “the community”? I don’t know them. I don’t know their capabilities, nor do I have any say in what they check: whether it’s complete, or accurate; whether the software has been compromised since the last time the communi
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I don’t wish to use Windows or Linux or Android, so it looks like I’m set.
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Why should I trust open source hardware / firmware / software?
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That makes sense. I guess I never thought anyone actually believed these things, any more than they “believed” in the logic of a video game. To me, it was always just something you learned, the way you learn a language or a national culture
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What does it mean to “believe“ in the logic of your employer? To my mind, it does not really matter whether you “believe“ the logic itself; only that you continue to labor under it.
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In the logic of Amazon, Customer obsession means making sure they remain customers, because Amazon is a net good in their lives. To Amazon, their labyrinthine cancellation process is like tricking your toddler into eating broccoli. Sure, it
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If it were me, and I absolutely needed a new car and did not want to get an ICE vehicle, I would lease something until the 2025 conversion is complete. The value of an EV with a nonstandard charger is going to drop precipitously at that poi
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If I’m evaluating EVs for what they are today, I see little reason to buy a non-Tesla, since the charger is going to require an adapter for the charging infrastructure that appears to be the standard soon.
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If any of those conditions are true, why not wait until 2025 when the charging connection is settled?
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Is there any reason to buy a non-Tesla EV before 2025?
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I’ve had this discussion before, many times, but less directly. I’ve usually pointed to the 3 or 4 people in our team who have left over the past few years due to burnout, and mention that all of us are so well paid that any one of us could
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Alternatively, some people enjoy their work and solving hard problems.
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The Google Play store does not have 99.9% market share on Android phones because the Play Store is not available in China. > Are there any examples of critical software that users depend on only being released in a way that circumvents G
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Do you prefer having to physically go to different stores to get the items you need?
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> This is only an option for people who want additional functionality. The common concern is that critical software that users depend on will only be released in a way that circumvents the safety mechanisms that Apple employs to prevent
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I’m going to speak in terms of the iPhone because that is the device to which your comment refers, but the following could easily apply to any smart phone: A person’s iPhone is extremely personal. They spend hours using it. It is practicall
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>If you call it X but it has no nutritional similarity to X, that could be dangerous to consumers. And yet nobody seems to have been harmed by the existence of these terms: (1) Sweetbread (2) Coconut Meat (3) Coconut Milk (4) Nutmeat (5)
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Violent uprising? Good lord the self importance of the keyboard class knows no bounds. Half of you will be replaced by LLMs and the other by offshore low wage workers. In the middle term, companies will simply replace those who down tow the
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The piece of the WFH debate that I think is the most interesting is the “I work for someone else but think I get to dictate where and how that happens, despite the mountains of labor laws that say the exact opposite” mindset. Negotiate what

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