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> They literally just mean things like filling out forms. Implicitly or explicitly you have to give Firefox permission to store and reproduce the text you type in this very textarea so that it can submit the form for you. If they mean th
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Arguably 2005 was a high water mark for UIs. That was when people were still focused on "human interface design" and hadn't adopted the A/B "revealed preference" nonsense.
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> Cuban is not dissimilar to Musk, just that he has much better PR. Pretty sure they have the same PR. Remember when Musk was getting all those cameos and references in various media? Elon's problem is he's terminally online s
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Welcome to Phase 2 everyone.
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> But none of the people in question 'tried to inflict violence on others', they wrote books didn't they? Some will rob you with a six gun. Some with a fountain pen.
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DEI for tweakers!
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The best part of that movie is the office is supposed to be a bleak, soul-destroying cube farm. But watching the movie now it's like "wow they have so much space and privacy."
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> the US needs a president like FDR Conservatives like to argue that FDR was a dictator. And then argue that they want a "conservative dictator like FDR." In fact, FDR was a democratic leader with a massive and overwhelming p
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> right kind of mix between psychopathy and idiocy Affulenza is real. These guys are brain-damaged.
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> Ah, yes, I remember Yarvin. His goal was to become a cult leader for billionaires whose brains had turned to mush from surrounding themselves with only yes-men for decades. Many such cases: Ray Kurzweil, Eliezer Yudkowsky, etc. It&#x27
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Accuweather tried to sue NOAA to prevent them giving forecasts to the public via the internet. Accuweather wanted to stay as a middle-man. Accuweather and basically every forecaster is using input data from NOAA or other government agencies
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Unfortunately for 18F's workers, the projects they were working on improved the lives of ordinary Americans (like direct-file). There is no appetite in the current administration for such projects.
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I was working at a MNC a few years ago and some junior developer did this to one of our codebases "so he could work on it at home" (pre-covid). When it was discovered his access to everything was immediately shut off, company asse
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I use Firefox, and advocate for people to use Firefox, because I believe it's the one browser that is not evil. It's the entire reason for the existence of Firefox. Saying, well, why aren't you upset that Chrome is evil is su
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They said in the commit comment that the new TOU will "roll out" to different people at different times.
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The debt was caused by the LBO...
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Every time PE wrecks a company their excuse is "it was doomed anyway." That's not a falsifiable statement, except then you look at competitors that weren't wrecked by PE and they're doing fine. The entire original &
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Joann was owned (and killed) by private equity. Going on a rampage against in-store inventory is a classic PE retail move. In-store inventory is expensive, subject to shrinkage, etc. So by the spreadsheet, less inventory looks good. But of
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Yeah the whole "people's car" was actually a Nazi memcoin rug-pull scam. They got millions of Germans to put down deposits and make payments for "future delivery" of their "people's car" but zero were
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> Did he want to dump Farage? He wanted Farage to bend all the way over . Farage refused so Elon tried to oust him, completely misunderstanding that the Reform party is Farage. It'd be like if Elon had gotten in a spat with Trump
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I mean, that hasn't changed in the last quarter so people buying Teslas before had already come to terms with the fact that they were buying an unreliable luxury vehicle they can't get rid of...
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The danger for consulting companies is that Elon is using their strategies with even more arrogance, even younger and poorly-qualified consultants, even less understanding of the what they're wrecking, and even more contrived metrics t
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> Every significant technological innovation has been accompanied by an investment bubble This seems like more a characteristic of "winner take all (or most)" capitalism rather than a characteristic of innovation. A new technol
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My career started in the 2000s. Oracle was already a bit of a cancer then. It was Oracle or MS SQL for "real" databases. There were technologies that had been exciting in the 90s but were already choked out by the duopoly like Int
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At least the butter bot does something useful. This is more like a machine who's only function is to turn itself off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useless_machine
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> We’ve spent billions and billions on the “homes are the solution to homelessness” crowd. And the problem has only grown worse. The agenda for during my adult life has been cutting services for needy (public housing, mental health, et
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Your premise seems to be that homelessness is caused by mental illness. I think homelessness is very often caused by not being able to afford homes. Chicago has a lot less low-income housing now than it did when I got here. There's s
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Well I don't think you're a renter then. I am so glad I bought a house in 2016 because everyone I know who rents has been on a wild ride. Section 8 has long wait lists. It seems kinda unbelievable to argue that destruction of thou
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I seem to recall a pretty massive shitstorm about that.
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I've lived in Chicago since 2001 and when I got here it was pretty rare to see homeless people (and I lived in Uptown for a while back when Broadway was still borderline skid row). First big wave of it (when you started to see tents ap

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