komali2

35 ms·

661.
by komali2 11mo ago
> On due process, if someone accidentally gets a free flight to a foreign country, that totally sucks and they should be paid compensation, but let’s not pretend that deportation is the same as what authoritarian regimes typically do. Ar
662.
by komali2 11mo ago
> Would you believe that the people who support this just do believe there is an immigration problem? Yes, of course I believe that there's people who believe there's an immigration problem. > People are allowed to care abou
663.
by komali2 11mo ago
> what are the odds that this problem organically appeared and then they happen to be able to take advantage of it? Quite low. Borders weren't open to fabricate an excuse to engage in authoritarianism - the excuse was simply fabrica
664.
by komali2 11mo ago
> Immigration agencies can still fight whatever after people have been kicked out as has been decided. Given that dragnet operations result in all sorts of random people being deported, including citizens, and given that sometimes these
665.
by komali2 11mo ago
Agree against their best interest, mind you!
666.
by komali2 11mo ago
> What really is the Government going to do with a digital ID service that they can't do already? In 20 years, the UK suffers a terrorist attack just before an election, and then elects a ultra right wing government on a platform of
667.
by komali2 11mo ago
> Like sure you could in theory see every document I've ever signed if you have a warrant for BankID servers, but you could probably glean most of that if you had a warrant for the banks servers anyway, so it's not really a new
668.
by komali2 11mo ago
I think you're using the American right wing definition of DEI which describes a bit of a strawman. In reality, a leader establishing a rule that people aren't to be discriminated against based on e.g. race or gender, is an exampl
669.
by komali2 11mo ago
Counter: come to Taiwan! Anyone with a semi active GitHub can get a Gold Cars Visa. 6 months in you're eligible for national health insurance (about 30$ usd/month). Cost of living is extremely low here. However salaries are atroci
670.
by komali2 11mo ago
I believe they mean the Hamas attacks against Israel on Oct 10, and are pinning Trump's reelection on that, and drawing a thread from there to the whole "woke is dead" thing that followed, e.g. Zuckerberg going on Joe Rogan a
671.
by komali2 11mo ago
Using the term "woke mind virus" unironically is also a marker for a specific ideology...
672.
by komali2 11mo ago
I'm not sure I agree, a DEI policy could easily be about de-politicizing a work place by e.g. cracking down on racially insensitive jokes. Whereas anti-DEI is all about politicizing people's race or gender or whatever.
673.
by komali2 11mo ago
This beggars belief, can you expand?
674.
by komali2 11mo ago
For this reason I've never understood the emotion "pride" when applied to anything you didn't personally do. For example pride in getting a bug fixed, or running a personal record lap, makes perfect sense. But "prou
675.
by komali2 11mo ago
Seems interesting but unfortunately might be a bit political? > It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies. Complaining about DEI is a marker for a specific ideology. I see this and think great, a
676.
by komali2 11mo ago
> If your game allows your sights to just teleport on people's heads and take that as the winning condition then that just sounds like bad design, there's no reason to allow infinitely fast movement and omitting strategy even f
677.
by komali2 11mo ago
On my PC I can play basically every game ever made in all of human history, minus maybe 7 that use kernel level anti cheat, and a couple PS5 and PS4 exclusives. Other than that I have emulation plus a steam library. I'll take that over
678.
by komali2 11mo ago
> then call your representative and work to raise awareness Strongly curious why you believe individual action to protect privacy is less effective than calling a politician. Do you have personal experience with effectiveness in individu
679.
by komali2 11mo ago
I have no idea how stable it is but it seems it's a scheduler that weighs processes based on burstiness? https://github.com/firelzrd/bore-scheduler
680.
by komali2 11mo ago
Thought this was gonna be from the customer perspective. Never thought about the seller's black friday perspective. Makes sense! A good reason for buyers to avoid black friday is very often, the sales aren't real. You can find cou
681.
by komali2 11mo ago
50/50 for me. I've had significantly impactful reads here, leading to experiments with new IDEs, to-do systems, ADHD management techniques, and insight into political ideologies I disagree with. Whereas on Reddit for example it&#x
682.
by komali2 11mo ago
Author here. It has nothing to do with app permissions, thank you for noting that, I'll update the article later. It works like this: as soon as they get your credit card information, they have enough information to go to a data broker
683.
by komali2 11mo ago
I'm interested in people that still have faith in the USA court system. I just checked, Disney's market cap seems to be around $140,000,000,000. If you were to be forced into arbitration, lose, and then attempt to demonstrate that
684.
by komali2 11mo ago
Author here - they can only do surveillance pricing on you if they know who you are when you're paying. They can't do that at a kiosk or counter because they would only know whose paying when you use your credit card and have alre
685.
by komali2 11mo ago
Blogger in question here, Taiwan is so utterly app dependent it's a pretty common thing at banks, hospitals etc. And the apps here have so atrocious UX that nobody bothers to teach you how to use them, staff are used to just doing thin
686.
by komali2 11mo ago
This is the main issue with tankies, not that they go bizarrely out of their way to defend the PRC (and weirdly sometimes the Soviet Union or even North Korea), but, as Westerners, every geopolitical analysis they have is Americentric. Ever
687.
by komali2 11mo ago
> I’m not reading all that I was under the impression we were communicating, which I was genuinely interested in doing with you. Thank you for letting me know that wasn't the case. I haven't read your comment and won't be
688.
by komali2 11mo ago
> Common sense and morality Hah! Someone after my own heart. Well, since we're not talking law, let's get into it! First of all, all profit is theft. Your boss and shareholders are only able to make money because they steal mar
689.
by komali2 11mo ago
Negative proof. We've no obligation to prove your point for you. You claim we're stealing. In Texas, theft is a crime per Sec. 31.03: > THEFT. (a) A person commits an offense if he unlawfully appropriates property with intent
690.
by komali2 11mo ago
All of the websites I listed are in Mandarin for me and have content catered towards local fetishes. I have no idea what you're talking about.

More ›