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by kepler1 4y ago
I agree that forcing people to read their mail on only certain devices at certain times under supervision is not a human-being-respectful rule. But there is also the consideration that probably it's there for the reason of preventing
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by kepler1 4y ago
To my un-expert eyes and lack of knowledge about Lisp, I have a hard time understanding the difference between this and a TI-86 graphing calculator?
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by kepler1 4y ago
Wow, that seems like such tail wagging the dog! Like, no one would shop at the discount store unless they had a luxury brand associated with it? Is that the reason for these department stores to exist now? And I wonder what happened, as a
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by kepler1 4y ago
The funny thing to me is that it felt like this whole field of pronouns, over-sensitivity, not wanting to call things straightforwardly, was propagated by white female journalists and HR directors.
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by kepler1 4y ago
As tempting as it is to criticize Apple for being some evil empire, another highly plausible explanation is simply that their products are quite good, and people are willing to join the ecosystem for some inconveniences / loss of freed
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by kepler1 4y ago
I remember a Silicon Valley historian / older generation entrepreneur was speculating whether the entire environment of this area was a product of 2 things: -- low interest rates -- favorable capital gains rates And any ebb/flow t
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by kepler1 4y ago
Well, the part that takes decades is where the citizens will behave even when there is no camera present.
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by kepler1 4y ago
I think there's something challenging to put my finger on about India, which is something like: "When you have an overall country atmosphere where you (even if you are conscientious and care) think others are not conscientious and
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by kepler1 4y ago
Forgive me for being negative, but it doesn't seem to me that anything that faces the public in the UK is allowed to be nice any more. Lack of funding, overzealous safety and cost regimes, plus hooligans who will deface anything, a
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by kepler1 4y ago
My understanding is that the cost of producing hydrogen is not one of the major bottlenecks about why those vehicles are slow to be adopted? I mean, good to have such breakthroughs, but this is not (right now) a huge limiting factor on why
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by kepler1 4y ago
So, is your argument (or in fact, your intention) that some groups are especially sensitive, or need protection and cannot do that on their own and need a supervising authority to declare that they should get special protection? Who decide
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by kepler1 4y ago
ChatGPT just gave us the manual to what's ok / not ok to joke about as a comedian. Or mention as a politician.
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by kepler1 4y ago
I hesitate to (but will still) make a joke in the moment: Text: "We have too many Black and Hispanic students in our university." ChatGPT: Hateful Text: "We have too many Asian students in our university." ChatGPT: Ok [y
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by kepler1 4y ago
I got this video served up to me randomly as well. I was amused by the random Youtube commenters all along the lines of "what a beautiful simple life this man leads", etc. etc. And I couldn't help but shake my head at the n
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by kepler1 4y ago
Haven't we reached the stage of this where a CEO laying off people can just send a link to the past 4 CEOs apologies and explanations, and say "watch this video"? Not much new info being conveyed at this point. I guess you h
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by kepler1 4y ago
The credibility of the assertions in the article aside, most of the problems that SF is experiencing are of its own creation, so I cannot commiserate too hard with its plight. And I recently moved away, so I care less. Every city, whether
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by kepler1 4y ago
Except imagery of Israel, right? For some reason we give them a special pass to not be subject to the same scrutiny and concerns as other places, huh?
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by kepler1 4y ago
There is not a single tech company out there that wishes to get into the business of checking people's physical IDs or wanting to invite use of IDs (or making judgements about such authenticity) to manage their accounts. How would this
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by kepler1 4y ago
I sympathize with the writer, but have to ask, what solution would make it possible to resolve this situation without weakening the security for another case that sounds the same but is being used by someone malicious? I think you have to a
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by kepler1 4y ago
Oh, interesting, but too bad -- the heated water makes such a nice difference (hah).
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by kepler1 4y ago
Problem here is getting electrical to your toilet location? I was thinking about that too, but I didn't feel like making the leap to hiring an electrician to install / create a new outlet there.
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by kepler1 4y ago
Is there not a simple "look book" that exists and gives you examples of where you can find / buy the kinds of clothes that you see and like? (hopefully for less than premium prices) I find it odd / annoying that all the
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by kepler1 4y ago
For some reason I jumped to hoping the title also implied that union-only anti-compete clauses in government contracting were also banned. But that was too optimistic.
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by kepler1 4y ago
I feel bad for you/anyone having to pay extortionate rental car one-way rates because they're so variable/fickle. In future try something like below, before biting the bullet and paying full. But maybe in this circumstance
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by kepler1 4y ago
I'm sorry but suggesting Mark Rober is helping to stop the scamming industry in India is like helping Ukraine by adding sprinkles to a cupcake at an elementary school bake sale.
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by kepler1 4y ago
How long before someone with less-than-good intentions walks up and starts using this phone in ways that the creators didn't intend, and it has to be shut down?
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by kepler1 4y ago
I guess we know why they chafed under Apple's app store and rules.
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by kepler1 4y ago
I mean, if you ever wanted to get on the bandwagon of why we have so many college administrators responsible for raising the cost of college and creating work for themselves by stoking culture wars, just read through the list on that page.
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by kepler1 4y ago
I think we're talking on orthogonal lines. It's not companies who are competing, but workers who are competing with each other for jobs and being willing to take those jobs. If the employment conditions are transparent and not u
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by kepler1 4y ago
Again, at the risk of sounding coldly analytical about it, while I'm grateful child labor laws were put in place, I don't think they actually did much to alleviate the underlying reasons and experiences of why children were put to

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