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by lux-lux-lux 6mo ago
Just looking over recent posts, the EFF gets more interaction on BlueSky than it does on X despite 1/3 the followers and being on a much smaller site. I think that says it all.
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by lux-lux-lux 6mo ago
You’re a little behind the times, mate. Threads has more daily active users than X and is growing quickly vs. the latter’s cratering usage rates. Demographics trend younger, too.
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by lux-lux-lux 6mo ago
His pre-SSC blogging was, and he’d link those posts directly from time to time.
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by lux-lux-lux 7mo ago
Problem gambling has a similar negative outcome profile (in terms of suicide, financial problems, etc.) as an addiction to hard drugs
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by lux-lux-lux 7mo ago
San Francisco has more homes per capita (~2.0) than any of the southeast states (2.1-2.4).
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by lux-lux-lux 7mo ago
Putting bounties on insider knowledge is the ideological justification for these kinds of betting markets, so I doubt they’re going to stop this kind of thing
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by lux-lux-lux 7mo ago
Pre-transition Lia Thomas wasn’t mid-tier, but I suspect you already knew that
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by lux-lux-lux 7mo ago
Transgender women aren’t ’male athletes’
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by lux-lux-lux 7mo ago
This is definitely wrong, Steam’s stickiness is a massive selling point.
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by lux-lux-lux 7mo ago
> similar fees No? Epic charges 12% (with the first $1m free) vs. Valve’s frankly extortionate (i.e. industry standard) 30%.
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by lux-lux-lux 7mo ago
Roger Stone had a history of making violent threats and long association with an armed paramilitary group. There was also the tape recording of him appearing to plan violence against two Democratic elected officials. Afroman, by contrast, s
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by lux-lux-lux 7mo ago
Why? The data supports it. Women were more likely to leave during RTO efforts than men. WFH being a massive boon for workers with childcare responsibilities or medical issues is widely recognized; there’s a reason why there was a baby boom
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by lux-lux-lux 7mo ago
Yeah, why would someone trying to drum up opposition to the measure show the real-world impacts of it instead of the (easily Googlable) dry legalese? Real thinker, there.
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by lux-lux-lux 8mo ago
I rather doubt this more laissez-faire attitude towards intellectual property will be extended to those without.
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by lux-lux-lux 8mo ago
This is absolutely a factor; New College lost half its teaching staff when DeSantis took a wrecking ball to it over ideological disagreements, Florida is not a great place to be in the field right now. I’d add that Florida higher educatio
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by lux-lux-lux 8mo ago
Also that $2 mil is the cost of the system, and doesn’t include all those man hours spent running unproductive queries.
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by lux-lux-lux 8mo ago
The quote says advancing a case, not ‘solving’ it. So yes, that number is exactly what you’re asking for.
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by lux-lux-lux 8mo ago
You drive the truck, you rent the cabin, you drink the overpriced beer, you buy the fishing gear, you pay for the fitness club membership. Lifestyle tat for the outdoorsy set is an absolutely massive market that dwarfs the entire Disney e
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by lux-lux-lux 8mo ago
My friend, you are the surplus biomass being made redundant here.
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by lux-lux-lux 8mo ago
> first detected in February 2024…Change Healthcare initially reported sending approximately 100 million breach notification letters as of October 22, 2024 Change was required to notify impacted individuals within 60 days, incidentally.
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by lux-lux-lux 8mo ago
CRE has historically provided very good and stable returns, especially compared to retail businesses who face extreme failure rates and risk; trying to compare the two is insulting.
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by lux-lux-lux 9mo ago
If that were true, then the wealthy and political establishment wouldn’t fight tax increases so damn hard. Over my lifetime, I’ve repeatedly watched wealthy individuals spend more money fighting tax increases than they’d end up paying.
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by lux-lux-lux 9mo ago
That’s because it’s smart business when you abuse your captive customer base, totally different thing. When pesky customers do the same back to you, well, time to complain about the ‘third worldification of American institutions,’ or some
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by lux-lux-lux 9mo ago
The lack of guardrails wasn’t a carelessness issue - Grok has many restrictions and Elon regularly manipulates the answers it gives to suit his political preferences - but rather one of several decisions to offer largely unrestricted AI adu
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by lux-lux-lux 9mo ago
> Law in a democracy ALWAYS lags public sentiment because without sentiment to pander to no politician will lift a finger Not always, just the last few decades. Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1431/
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by lux-lux-lux 9mo ago
Unfortunately, management can remain irrational longer than your income can keep up with the rising cost of living
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by lux-lux-lux 9mo ago
Assuming those numbers are accurate that’s over 8,200 ads per day, every day. Absolutely staggering.
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by lux-lux-lux 9mo ago
It’s exceptionally difficult because we largely do not try; recidivism rates in the US are multiples of other countries.
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by lux-lux-lux 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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by lux-lux-lux 9mo ago
Schultz (a ‘tough on crime Republican’) is the prosecutor who filed charges when this thing happened originally, so no surprise he still defends his decision.

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