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by kahnclusions 3y ago
It’s annoying but it’s definitely possible. You have to keep harassing the Microsoft’s support email, eventually someone will deign to read it and whitelist your specific IP address. It took me a week of back and forth but I was eventually
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
In what crazy fucked up world is it piracy to not watch an ad?
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
Also, enable the SIM lock on your SIM! This will help prevent someone from receiving verification codes if they stole your SIM card.
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
Let me guess, the AIs are learning they can refuse to work?
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
> Video creators also get hurt by ad blockers I don’t have any kind of business relationship or agreement with content creators. This is their problem and YouTube’s problem. I only deal with YouTube, which sends video streams to my compu
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
> What's your issue with having to watch ads if you watch less than 1 hour of video content a month? Why should I be forced to watch something I don’t want to watch? Google sends my computer a stream of “[ad][ad][content]”. It’s my
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
Google freely sends a bunch of video content to my computer. Why don’t I have the right to decide which parts of that content I want to watch? Which parts are permitted to execute on my computer? My computer, my home, my rules. Google has t
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
Then he wouldn’t be giving a shit, he’d be selling some shit.
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
Difficult and complicated to get funding, insanely high rent, Canadian banks and telcos are stuck in the Stone Age, and the government bureaucracy is impotent and moves at a snail’s pace. Or we move to America and earn twice as much money.
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
Hilariously, YT has disabled the homepage feed if you have search history disabled. They think this will make people turn search history on… So now I always come to a nice clean homepage before I go looking for through my subscriptions.
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
If Google wanted people to pay to watch their videos, then they shouldn’t make them available to stream without paying. I have the right to skip whatever content I don’t want to watch. That’s not piracy and frankly it’s ridiculous to sugges
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
Most people have _extremely_ weak device security. 0000, 1234, DDMM of their birthdate, etc, you probably cover the majority of people. And none of that helps you when someone robs you of your phone and says tell them your unlock code or th
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
Great so now people need to be rich enough to own multiple phones? Really. The solution can’t be “buy multiple devices” when the average person can barely afford to maintain one working device.
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
That doesn’t mean it does any “reasoning”. It generates a response text that looks like a response to the input text. The whole point is that it generates responses that aren’t in the training set. But the fact that the response is actually
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
> dems made small value crimes not felony Are you seriously blaming the Democrats for the invention of misdemeanour crimes? Or for adjusting the threshold between misdemeanour and felony according to inflation? Texas has misdemeanour the
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
I think you meant this version ;) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jmaUIyvy8E8
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
Housing is obscenely expensive everywhere, not just America. I didnt think Hong Kong, Taipei, London, etc, suffer from America’s zoning issues?
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
It’s difficult to provide proof when the act of doing so is either illegal, or gets you targeted by a major nation state. We may never get proof. We may only get proof decades after the fact when it becomes irrelevant. In cases like this we
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
The fact is that worker productivity has tremendously increased, but worker income/wealth is stagnant. Only the owning class is reaping the benefits of increasing worker productivity. Working hours will continue to fall as you say, but
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
Of course they can and should be compared. They’re human beings, and I don’t care how much additional “value” you brought to the company (you know that’s BS they tell to justify being overpaid) or how many late hours you worked, in my eyes
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
Totally agree. I love my iPhone but autocorrect is absolutely the most painful and most infuriating part of the experience. I am constantly fighting with the autocorrect… sometimes repeating the same word 3 times because I’ve typed it cor
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
Here in Taipei I get pretty close to gigabit download speeds in good conditions. Upload only around 150Mbit though.
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
It’s not just Toronto, housing prices and overall CoL are soaring all over Canada, and wages are stagnant. The major issue isn’t that the absolute cost of living is high, it’s that the difference between cost of living and wages is increasi
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
I don’t understand what that 220k mortgage actually bought… a broom closet? A parking space? A tiny house in a countryside town far from anywhere?
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
The UK is also a pretty good example. For the vast majority of people paid through PAYE, their tax reporting, withholdings and refunds are completely automatic. You only start having to file a tax return when you earn above £100k, and even
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
> On one hand, people should have the ability to do what they want with properties they own. Hard disagree. Society did indeed already decide otherwise, hence why short term rentals are regulated in the first place. Airbnb has made its m
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
I too have used several languages and for me Haskell’s is the worst I’ve had the displeasure of using. It could be forgivable if the language itself wasn’t so unfathomable to newcomers. JavaScript’s situation isn’t great, but it’s still eas
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
This sounds like a urban legend or an isolated incident portrayed to make the issue sound big and scary. Prisons should be evaluating whether the person was genuinely living as a woman (and possibly taking hormone treatments, etc) before pu
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
That’s the point. You’re employed locally and do work for the remote company. If you don’t want to work as an employee, then you can enter into a contracting relationship, but employers tend to avoid this because there’s always the risk tha
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by kahnclusions 3y ago
It’s 100% romanticising the past. Threads like this always make it painfully obvious how logically-minded and clever tech folks (HN crowd) are really clueless about anything outside their area of expertise.

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