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by lonelappde 6y ago
After digging in his heels repeatedly on Friday against a tidal wave of opposition, Ammon found a "how to apologize" book and banged out an apology, while still devoting paragraphs to defending his mistake and selling his origin m
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by lonelappde 6y ago
"we" can stream the music to each other. But not on Spotify.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Sex crime wasn't the half of it. He went to jail for racketeering using his music to fund violent crime, and he's only free to whine publicly about music now because he weaseled out of prison on medical release due to the pandemic
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Another song feelS s quote relevant in light of this comment thread: "You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you". A racketeering rapist in a different country being delatformed isn't relevant to the Presi
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by lonelappde 6y ago
They have editorial independence. At most they have financial dependence. And Trump's attack on VOA is failing because VOA is protected from him by law.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
This person directly funded a violent criminal gang with his music revenues. Not just having sex on the side.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
What gives Ireland the right to preempt every other European country in GDPR enforcement? That's a horrific conflict of interest.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
> can be difficult to become a member of a club if you didn't get in one at the right time. That applies to all repeated social events, doesn't it? Unless it is something that has an annual "new class", but that'
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Is that shared?
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Also: why people to to college instead of just the library.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
You forgot where you were going: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog .
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Rear Window wasn't about how great it was to live in that apartment. It was about someone stuck in an apartment escaping by watching other people's apartments.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
There may be other solutions. What if instead of spending an hour commuting to the therapist, you spend half an hour ritually preparing your room for therapy? Hanging a curtain, switchin the lighting color, etc. What if you had a VR-CAVE-li
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by lonelappde 6y ago
That's SNI for the article, but not Significant New Discussion in the comments. I always wondered though, why not let these flamebait discussion topics stay up as a Honeypot to keep the other threads cleaner?
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Take care not to conflate the "market" which applies when it benefits me over everyone else, with "fairness" which applies whenever it benefits me over everyone else.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Take care not to conflate the "market" which applies when it benefits me over everyone else, with "fairness" which applies whenever it benefits me over everyot else.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Can't eat money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift
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by lonelappde 6y ago
It's just as true to say that depositors create money or creditors create money. Perhaps more true to say that the FDIC creates money by insuring deposits. The whole system creates money. And it's not some weird sort of stealing (
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Is that happening? USAmericans can't afford what they consume; the economics only add up when most the work is imported from subsistence workers and slaves. (I almost said ”offshored" but Mexico and South America)
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by lonelappde 6y ago
JWZ is a lot of things, but he's never claimed to be a nice person.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
You've got it backwards.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
I thought Google banned sideloading unapproved extensions on Windows and Mac. https://developer.chrome.com/apps/external_extensions
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Wouldn't a better solution be a pop-up that says "your browser has bad plug-ins. May I uninstall them for you?"
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Step 3 doesn't happen usually. If it did, no one would be upset.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
User friendly features are only incentivized in a competitive environment. Until Firefox or Edge catches up in both performance and implementation compatibility to make Chrome-first sites work, extension support isn't incentivized
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Is there a workaround for users? Old builds of Chromium?
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Electricity is payment deferred during the pandemic.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
How is that "not a physics engine"?
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Game rules aren't copyrightable. The visuals are a copy but obviously fair use, and it's obviously trademark use, and Nvidia probably has a marketing partnership with NAMCO for this
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by lonelappde 6y ago
OTOH if you told a current AI a ghost story it wouldn't be able to do anything useful with that info a pacman context.

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