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by lurk2 2y ago
> (privacy, neutrality, etc) It's proprietary. There's no way of knowing that it's private.
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by lurk2 2y ago
That was never proven in a court of law.
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by lurk2 2y ago
It's like they figured out how to put emphatic hand gestures into the written word.
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by lurk2 2y ago
It hasn't been possible for ages. I haven't tried on 11 but on 10 you can switch your region to somewhere in the EU and that will allow you to delete the folders. I couldn't get the actual uninstaller to run, and I'm not
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by lurk2 2y ago
I never tried with Vista but I customized the appearance of Windows 7 on my old computer and it looked nothing like this. I remember lots of people hated the frosted glass look when it first released, and personally I never got used to it.
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by lurk2 2y ago
Copilot is sort of a better name for an operating system powered by AI than Windows. Personally I don't care what they name their services because I've already determined I want nothing more to do with them.
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by lurk2 2y ago
> People hated 8, but loved 10. I think the pattern holds for Windows 7 and Vista. I don't know anyone who remembers Windows 10 fondly, and on a personal level I hated both 8 and 10. I also don't share your optimism regarding W
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by lurk2 2y ago
> The last good OS MS released was Windows XP. After that the trend was clear. They were no-longer building stuff for users and instead were building for companies to take advantage of users. What was wrong with Windows 7? Windows Vista
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by lurk2 2y ago
> I clearly was aware of them. You cited them as examples of tasks that would be difficult to automate. The pickers have been commercially deployed for the last four years. > This Star Trek stuff is improbable because everything has t
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by lurk2 2y ago
Using your model, no technological development would ever occur because the fact that something had not happened yet would indicate that it could not possibly happen due to a lack of resources. This is the anecdote about two economists walk
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by lurk2 2y ago
> No my argument is that trying at a broad systemic level to make specific outcomes happen is susceptible to the information problem. This is exactly what I said you would say: > I suppose the argument you are making is that any attem
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by lurk2 2y ago
> but you can't just dump them on a housing estate or something and expect good results. How do you prevent them from spreading to these locations once they are reintroduced?
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Most things in the world require physical processes. No one ever disputed that. The principle still holds if we apply this logic to physical processes; by automating or reducing the labor necessary to conduct a physical process, I can
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by lurk2 2y ago
No it isn't. Using a script to automate a process frees me from having to carry out the process manually. It has nothing to do with central economic planning.
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by lurk2 2y ago
> What’s wrong with people working for rent or groceries? There's nothing wrong with people who have the ability to work for groceries being compelled to work for groceries. The rent issue is complicated by the fact that land owners
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by lurk2 2y ago
He's talking about automating labor, not economic planning.
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by lurk2 2y ago
> The only negative for me was that the students were pretty checked out. I didn't put a lot of thought into where I went to school but if I could do it over again this is something I would have considered when I applied. The school
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by lurk2 2y ago
> (he was there) That's fascinating. I read about McVeigh years ago and knew he was motivated by Waco but I had no idea he actually witnessed it. Here is a short two minute video I found on the topic: https://www.pbs.org&
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Obviously I'm not including the original cost of the equipment and installation The costs of this equipment get amortized for the duration of the equipment's useful life, so you can't just throw that away. Even if we do
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by lurk2 2y ago
When I wrote my original comment I did end up removing that as an option because I couldn't think of any instances where I had reason to believe that it had happened. I'm not saying it doesn't, but I don't see any eviden
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by lurk2 2y ago
> I know you seemingly don't want it to appear that simple, but it really is. Original question was regarding organized and armed anti-fascist/far-left movements and if there was any investigation into those. And my reply was t
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by lurk2 2y ago
The Lambert case is wild. I genuinely didn't believe it when I first read about it just because it was so bizarre.
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by lurk2 2y ago
They are the highest value targets who coordinate the group's activities. Most will have done something at some point that could land them in prison for a long time; this is how they are typically turned. The ones that haven't don
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by lurk2 2y ago
> The characterization of "informants" as being literal on the payroll feds is usually incorrect. They're usually genuine group members who are being manipulated by literal on the payroll feds. I never implied that they we
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by lurk2 2y ago
I didn't even catch that on my first reading.
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by lurk2 2y ago
Actually, you're right, he didn't explicitly state anything about Scot specifically, I just inferred it from his statement that the group chat "presumably" contained evidence of a crime. > Also, at a glance at least,
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Quite a long answer overall that boils down to "No, it doesn't exist" :) It's not that simple. Leftists will discount what these groups did in 2020 but you're talking about a few dozen deaths and hundreds of mi
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by lurk2 2y ago
Both organizations have had reputations for being honeypots as early as 2016. There have been a number of instances of federal agents becoming embedded in the organizational structures of groups like this (see e.g. the Malheur Wildlife Stan
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by lurk2 2y ago
> how many bigger groups of militarized anti-fascist groups exists today in the US? They tend to run largely independent scenes from city to city. You'll usually have anywhere from one to a dozen people acting as the core organizers
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by lurk2 2y ago
I don't know what it costs. My point is that this doesn't seem like an example of Washington Monument syndrome because the people most impacted by the closure can't vote.

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