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by maxwell 3y ago
Corporations must operate in the interests of their shareholders but business judgment that directors may exercise is expansive, at least in the state of Delaware. Meaning they can sponsor a little league team but most certainly can't
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by maxwell 3y ago
Haha a guy wore them in a bar in downtown Vegas in 2013, and I watched multiple people approach him and tell him to take them off and stop recording everything. I never saw another pair IRL again.
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by maxwell 3y ago
What are you going to do, bring footage to your local police station and get laughed out?
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by maxwell 3y ago
Nope, no downsides.
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by maxwell 3y ago
Valve, Epic Games, and Nintendo seem better about privacy but are barred from iOS.
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by maxwell 3y ago
Sounds like the parent was referring to the Pacte de Famine and Flour War.
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by maxwell 3y ago
Intriguing maybe, but not surprising. It seems like they all grew up watching the same TV shows/news, eating the same food, and reading/watching/listening to mostly the same books/movies/music.
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by maxwell 3y ago
Yeah, that's the one Bill Gates raved about... I saw Rosling's TED Talk, the key insight on the need for a society to get healthy before being able to get wealthy stuck with me and motivated advocacy for universal healthcare. I wa
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by maxwell 3y ago
What's a fact? It sounds like you're evangelizing willful ignorance and hedonic helplessness, while blindly accepting multinational corporate authoritarianism but shirking any responsibility because closing our eyes makes us feel
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by maxwell 3y ago
Funny that it's now unclear if people are talking about the network formerly known as Twitter, or a hypothetical. Seems like it would be possible to write a formal proof that "X" is the worst possible brand. It's like he
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by maxwell 3y ago
I wonder why there's now hesitation to upgrade Apple devices. https://www.smartphoneperformancesettlement.com
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by maxwell 3y ago
"Cursive handwriting engages sensorimotor brain regions that are not activated by typewriting" https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/202... "For young adults, we found that w
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by maxwell 3y ago
Alexander Pope was right.
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by maxwell 3y ago
Seems like Prince Bonesaw's boneheaded big ass projects will fail even harder than his tech investments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgQFdI8BCmQ
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by maxwell 3y ago
"by means of moderation/censorship and boosting"
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by maxwell 3y ago
Are you asserting the network formerly known as Twitter is a publisher (in the legal/technical sense)?
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by maxwell 3y ago
"Let them sue" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/musks-unpaid-bil...
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by maxwell 3y ago
Also rolled out in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Low_Emission_Zone
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by maxwell 3y ago
> By aiming to be the sole player in the market and charging exorbitant prices, they paved the way for the IBM PC where the market was wide open and the ecosystem thriving. And they did it again, paving the way for the Raspberry Pi cyber
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by maxwell 3y ago
The real socialist shadow governments are local police departments.
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All of the World's Money and Markets in One Visualization (2020)(visualcapitalist.com)
2 points by maxwell 3y ago|0 comments
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by maxwell 3y ago
Instead of driving on the right or w̶r̶o̶n̶g̶left side of the road, maybe for safety we should be switching it up every ten to twenty years, with shiftable steering wheels to switch driver sides, or some of these puppies: https:/&#x2F
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by maxwell 3y ago
Cool idea, I was just thinking about the viability of wild New World giraffes the other day. Really see the deer/camel relation without the spots.
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U.S. state flag emoji now possible (2017)(blog.emojipedia.org)
2 points by maxwell 3y ago|0 comments
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AI Nutrition Fact Labels(nutrition-facts.ai)
93 points by maxwell 3y ago|24 comments
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by maxwell 3y ago
Good point, seat belt utilization is impossible to track accurately (until in-car surveillance cameras are fully rolled out), and likely varies widely generationally, regionally, etc.
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by maxwell 3y ago
I glanced at motor vehicle fatality rates in the U.S. previously and didn't see a clear impact of seat belt laws myself, instead the major drops seem to line up with economic recessions: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by maxwell 3y ago
Bitcoin is a surveillance system.
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by maxwell 3y ago
Repudiation of most global organizations.
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by maxwell 3y ago
I hate any kind of vibrating alert and have disabled them for years.

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