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by jowea 3y ago
I'm not familiar with WeChat but whatsapp has some business features and also payment integration at least in some countries. Not that far from this description of WeChat: "WeChat provides text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messag
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by jowea 3y ago
I get it and it may be true in this case that Apple can too easily pull the plug, adversarial interoperability has a long history: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interopera...
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by jowea 3y ago
Damn wasn't Windows Update the "good" way to get printer drivers?
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by jowea 3y ago
From a quick check of Wikipedia and guesses: the US started restrictions (at the time by race) with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Australia and New Zealand had their own versions of the above in place somewhere between the 1880s that
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by jowea 3y ago
We had Company renaming to eCompany.com, we had funny startup naming conventions, we had buzzword compliant investor marketing, now we will have LLM friendly marketing. On a slightly more serious note, that has to be securities fraud, someh
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by jowea 3y ago
Even for a state-level actor?
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by jowea 3y ago
> Wouldn't I have remembered Elaine being a 9ft tall blue humanoid alien with a tail? I never observed what TFA is complaining about, does someone have an screenshot?
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by jowea 3y ago
> Also, I have heard of "Carthage" from all those movies like Gladiator ... Somehow it escaped me until my 40's that Carthage was founded by people from what's now Syria, and the city was in what's now Tunisia At
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by jowea 3y ago
Martin Luther had a lot of support and allied with the politically powerful. The later Radical Reformation was something else.
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by jowea 3y ago
That might indicate if you like the prose, but that only really works if the author makes 100% sure to indicate what's the genre and theme of the novel already on the first paragraph?
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by jowea 3y ago
I think there's an implied "every person [that I know whether this is true or not of them]" in normal speech.
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by jowea 3y ago
Personally I think this is too pessimistic. People will react and there are countermeasures. Maybe we will stop trusting whatever page comes up on a web search or random comments or audio and video from unknown sources, and instead put more
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by jowea 3y ago
I can't not post this: https://walsh9.itch.io/dragon-tax-return-simulator-2015
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by jowea 3y ago
Does that mean LLMs are going to speak like redditors? Oh the humanity.
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by jowea 3y ago
There are ads on GitHub?
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by jowea 3y ago
I believe the previous poster means that there are people who have an account but aren't logged in all the time.
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by jowea 3y ago
What about a state with a growth mindset? I feel it's a decent parallel to the behaviour of states as described by realism, or even to the Red Queen hypothesis where if you stop running you lose. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by jowea 3y ago
The closest alternative to buybacks is dividends. But to be honest I'm not sure if that's what the critics want the money going.
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by jowea 3y ago
Do they calculate the possibility that the show will start a decades long franchise?
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by jowea 3y ago
Won't you damage your GPU faster by doing that?
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by jowea 3y ago
Don't you think customers want the audio feedback that everything is working fine?
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by jowea 3y ago
Unless you're stealing electricity or computing of course.
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by jowea 3y ago
Well, the financial system exists because it provides services that are desired. From what I understand there's really no way to offer those same services purely in the blockchain, except for some imitations that have their own equally
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by jowea 3y ago
Maybe it's because you can use a Rust enum like in C by doing a field-less or unit-only enum?
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by jowea 3y ago
Union did end up meaning another thing that is just like C union and just as unsafe.
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by jowea 3y ago
I would also add that that the FOSS bug report experience is in some ways better. And in FOSS, reporting a bug is more worth it since without a QA department it probably won't be fixed unless it's reported.
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by jowea 3y ago
That only sort of makes sense if the part of the game where you can die is the main one. Who would play an RPG that is 50% walking around, talking to people and appreciating the plot with permadeath, meaning you have to redo all this every
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by jowea 3y ago
Cheeky but I don't think Von Braun working in a public agency had the sort of discretionary power a part owner-CEO like Musk has.
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by jowea 3y ago
True, but if the Play Store and the iOS App Store are still going, what hope do these indie devs have?
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by jowea 3y ago
Even if we accept that SpaceX is going to Mars, wouldn't they want the IPO money to finance the Mars mission?

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