lazystar

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by lazystar 2y ago
a non-zero amount of censorship is unavoidable in a social media platform. when nation state A is in control of the censorship of social media platform Z, and designs the censorship of that platform to intentionally hurt nation state B by
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by lazystar 2y ago
some amount of censorship is unavoidable. when nation state A is in control of the censorship, and designs that censorship to intentionally hurt nation state B, then nation state B has every right to ban the platform that nation state A is
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by lazystar 2y ago
being a bearer of bad news is a sign that you are not disagreeing and committing.
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by lazystar 2y ago
i think the overall quality of the experience using todays phones has tanked when compared to that of phones 15 years ago. when's the last time an app with angry birds' popularity was released? you cant even get the original ang
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by lazystar 2y ago
SHALL WE PLAY A GAME? WOULDN'T YOU PREFER A NICE GAME OF CHESS?
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by lazystar 2y ago
what is his jam? blackberry is my favorite jam; blueberry is the worst, so i hope its not blueberry.
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by lazystar 2y ago
i see you dont recognize advanced dystopian sarcasm ;-)
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by lazystar 2y ago
then make it a gov position, like the "Beer and Malt Beverage Labeling and Formulation Approval" position, which consists of a single guy approving or rejecting the graphic designs of beer bottles/cans. there was an NPR segm
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by lazystar 2y ago
once the new subs per month metric starts to decline, even subscription funded engines will move in that direction.
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by lazystar 2y ago
bingo, this is why i mentioned (in the skip level comment) that all private companies will go through this sequence until a "search neutrality" law is introduced. after MBA's start to get diminishing returns on new subscripti
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by lazystar 2y ago
The slippery slope began in 2012, when they pledged to start downgrading piracy websites. After the rollout, the followup questions were "well what if we downgrade other topics that [random government] doesnt like" and "what
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by lazystar 2y ago
exactly! my org had one of those bowling trips a few years ago for a holiday party, and it was a lot of fun. just need a way to quantify the benefits to productivity...
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by lazystar 2y ago
terraforming articles always remind me of my favorite "what if" plan - what if australia used nukes to create a canal right down the middle of the outback?
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by lazystar 2y ago
> the death of the third space on the West Coast must be well and truly complete 100% gone. I've been wondering lately if companies might benefit from investing in getting the third space back; increase in employee creativity would
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by lazystar 2y ago
Where would one go to purchase specialty cigarettes, without those compounds?
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by lazystar 2y ago
> Outside of a pure tech audience, literally no one gives a shit that your company wants you to RTO. good point, with the exception of seattle as a whole. eastside light rail is not complete yet, and the DoT is closing all but 2 lanes o
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by lazystar 2y ago
> I don't think that macroeconomics is an empirical field, so when people say 'it's textbook stuff' that doesn't impress me. Agreed, especially when the textbook being referenced was written by a polarizing figur
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by lazystar 2y ago
> See the Alibaba breakup or the recently implemented antimonopoly laws as examples An argument could be made that any increase in competition is a side-effect, rather than the main goal, of their antimonopoly changes. Until China expl
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by lazystar 2y ago
Here's an old paper that you will appreciate: "Organizational disaster and organizational decay: the case of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration" http://www.sba.oakland.edu/faculty/schwartz&
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by lazystar 2y ago
>sometimes they declutter the screen by removing important information like the names of cross streets. this is such a frustrating experience, especially out in remote areas where roads are long and change names without intersections. w
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by lazystar 2y ago
in the article, Einstein is firm regarding his belief that there is no free will. there are many other quotes in the article to choose from. anyway, my own view is that ones belief or disbeleif in free will is predetermined - if one could
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by lazystar 2y ago
$3 in 1929 = $55.18 in 2024 sure, thats on the lowend for a hotel these days, but i doubt that hotel knickerbocker was giving their best rooms for $3.
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by lazystar 2y ago
I grew up in Vancouver, WA, and while I had the same complaint that youre sharing here, it's possible that clark county is on the far end of the bell curve. I've lived in various cities and towns across king county for the last 1
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by lazystar 2y ago
your hyperbole does not contribute to this conversation; it only makes China look worse. please attempt to control your emotional connection to your home country before posting.
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by lazystar 2y ago
> Flightradar24 > @flightradar24 > In the area where #2Z2283 crashed there is an active warning for severe icing between 12 000 feet and 21 000 feet. #2Z2283 was flying at 17 000 feet just before the crash. https://x.com
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by lazystar 2y ago
previous discussions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37809283 an r/medicine discussion from last month can be found here: https://old.red
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Neonatal nurses 'resigning amid Lucy Letby fallout'(msn.com)
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by lazystar 2y ago
exactly, this isn't reddit, so please don't post a meme comment that only contains a single line from a 15 year old movie. if you arent contributing to the conversation, please just stay silent.
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to me it sounds like a job that would be similar to a search engine optimization engineer - studying the output of a third-party program when providing that program with different sets of keywords.
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the username is probably the only proof they have that they were talking to an actual member of the hacker group.

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