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by konjin 6y ago
As is Covid.
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One thing I don't see mentioned is the class action lawsuits that will be incoming for unsafe working environments. I haven't gotten the flu once last year, yet in open offices I got it like clockwork at the end of fall and at the
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You're 5 years too late to try and break into ML.
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You could just look at policy support. People like far left policies far more than anyone would expect.
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Or we did it to ourselves with a media that gave Trump 2 billion dollars in free air time because he was the best thing to happen to ratings, 40 years of falling living standards only buoyed up by more work, mortgages and credit cards, of p
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This is a classic motte and bailey argument. You are holding the factual motte: that Russian intelligence agencies bought some adds on social media and pretending it's the same as the bailey of the larger conspiracy theory: that Russia
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It's an artsy version of the Gish Gallop. I enjoy the aesthetics of the documentaries though.
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>Anonymity seems to just bring the worst out of people (that's not a tech problem, that's a human/culture problem). I would personally love to see a "web" where you have to comment...as your public self. Post mes
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>The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah,[c] was the World War II genocide of the European Jews. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust I don't think you can get more of the zeitgeist than the first sentenc
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You can also ask to use your friends social ID. The only reason why you'd find it odd is that you're not used to it.
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>Citizens will require a personal licence to access the internet, and anonymous use will be illegal. I mean you already do. What do you call a signing up to an ISP?
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Yes, your first job. Not your second. You need to be deeply unpleasant to work with for no one to tell you you've been exploited when you leave.
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People agree, talented people do not.
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Let me tell you about Mozilla. They get 90% of their funding through google. Google is their customer, you are their product. Anyone who thinks Mozilla is independent is in deep denial.
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There's a difference between a $20 CD and a $10 all you can listen to music account with no commercials. The artists are getting less money because music is worth less today. Technological change is making that job obsolete in the same
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>The majority of Mozilla Corporation's revenue is from royalties earned through Firefox web browser search partnerships and distribution deals. Precisely 94% of Mozilla revenues came through royalties received by search engines to b
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People think of Mozilla as the upstart opensource project they supported in 2004. It isn't. It's a zombie org that only exists because google needs to have a patsy to point to if there is ever an anti-trust case against it.
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I'll go ahead and say it: Firefox is a bad browser that has lost its direction. They are to browsers what Nokia was to phones in 2010.
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>At least will still have Firefox and WebKit to prevent Google from having total reign over user piracy on the web. Google pays mozillas bills. Right now there is no major browser that is free from googles influence. We have lost the www
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>A scant few years ago, the tech industry was a beacon of free expression. It wasn't. Not since the 00s and at that point social media was small enough that rooting for the underdog was rooting for themselves.
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Or they paid exactly the right amount of attention to it and it's only the media that's blown it out of proportion. Had this been a BLM protest it would have been one of the 'mostly peaceful' ones with questions about wh
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>If you are a software guy, drilling a 12mm horizontal hole 30mm deep into the edge of a 20mm x 400mm plate is surprisingly difficult. Punch to center the first hole, then a center drill to start, then pilot holes at 3mm, 6mm and 12mm, u
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Same reason why goldbugs votedown Gresham's law. It's not comfortable for someone to call out your world view, especially with centuries worth of observation to back it up.
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You can agree with decentralization and also agree that bitcoin is a terrible protocol. Kind of how you can think the internet is great but think google is a blight.
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>In the long term, Bitcoin mining accelerates the development of abundant and cheap energy, which is not fossil fuels. It incentivises stealing electricity because you can't beat free.
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>presenting you and me with a lot more space on our screens wasted showing ads for things you don't care about. As opposed to the ads for toilet seats from that one time I bought a toilet seat online 6 months ago. If anything forcin
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You're assuming competence that isn't there. It's a shared ip address, there is still plenty of tracking that is dumb enough to assume that it means that you're the same person and that gets thrown into her 'unique
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No viruses contain nucleoside-modified RNA or DNA. If any virus did we would all be dead since they completely circumvent the immune system.
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The Covid jab is to vaccines what IV saline is to drinking water. We should be scrutinizing it extensively because it is unproven technology being rolled out at an unprecedented scale for a virus that has an extremely low fatality rate. In
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There are free alternatives for food (soup kitchens), yet people still go to restaurants.

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