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by mpalmer 3y ago
The headline of this post implies he already testified (which would make the piece way more interesting), whereas NPR's headline correctly places his testimony in the future.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
My sibling comment here is right, businesses are more like people than you are allowing, at least when it comes to protection from government interference. It's easy to fall into a trap where "business" === "huge rich co
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by mpalmer 3y ago
"Get rid of all of it"? Here's the thing, laws don't remove bad things from society, they add constraints on the bad things and penalties for violating the constraints. So you're not proposing getting rid of somet
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by mpalmer 3y ago
> Things like this, which directly and blatantly hinder competition, should be legislated away. > I can conceive of a smaller but better product which just doesn't have the war chest to pay for positioning. That smaller but bette
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by mpalmer 3y ago
What if you replace the word corporation with "small business" ? do you still feel the same way? There's a significant body of case law establishing that the first amendment constrains government control of corporate speech.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Exactly, there's no reason you can't explore an idea (SF really stands for speculative fiction!) AND tell a human story. See also: Arrival.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
So many works of science fiction deal with illusion of choice, but they typically go the time travel route to make their point. But for my money, nothing beats Alex Garland's miniseries Devs for the way the entire production is designe
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Pity the IT teams who are forced to administer these circumspect fridges because employees won't use Linux.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Based on the examples that follow, it seems like pkgx tracks shell history so it can default to the last command if and only if it doesn't exist on $PATH.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Maybe it's just worth more to Google to convert an iPhone owner? Trade in value is not a very pure measurement of depreciation.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Clickbait from a Vice writer who doesn't know better and didn't bother to try. The ground is thoroughly broken here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6107838/
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Who exactly has confirmed and verified legitimate instances of astral projection? That's not in the article.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
He probably is aware, Android has the same gesture.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
But it's not either/or. There's nothing that says you can't have a visual interface that adjusts based on both natural language feedback and traditional cursor-based input. There are great examples of this in Westworld a
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by mpalmer 3y ago
I dunno, I was pretty careful not to assume that in my comment. The town square metaphor is really not a great one for the internet. You don't run nearly as high a risk of getting doxxed or swatted for speaking your mind in a physical
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by mpalmer 3y ago
You can't really conclude that de-anonymization is good just by asserting that the status quo is bad. One has to make the positive case for de-anonymization on privately owned platforms. What are the trade-offs? Society certainly didn&
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Perhaps just downvote and/or move on.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
(Alleged) monopolies aren't maintained by doing nothing.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Try living somewhere where the law compels you to answer police questions and get back to us.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Yes, but it's not a distinction without a difference.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
The parent comment is using the word legitimate in terms of how the Constitution limits government power, not in the sense of the political beliefs of whoever won the last election.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Forcing them to answer a question like that is compelled speech about constitutionally protected behavior. It doesn't matter how easy the question is to answer. What is the government's interest in getting this question answered?
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by mpalmer 3y ago
> How many times have I been asked (indirectly by the government) to declare my "race" and not been presented with the obvious option of "human"? This particular statement by X doesn't get at the root of the lega
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Moderation of online speech is speech; they're still casing the bank vault.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Surely any solution worth using is going to be doing that on the client side in a way that's independently verifiable.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
That isn't a metaphor; maybe you mean irony.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
I have an inherent and probably incurable distrust of applications that send unknown content to OpenAI or other LLM services. I am unlikely to ever use products that do this.
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Most of the "data" people will be entering into this application is deeply, deeply personal, even if not in the way you probably mean (PII).
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by mpalmer 3y ago
A few years back I decided to just get as capable as I could with jq, which is fast and functional enough to cover 99% of awk/sed use cases, plus cases you'd never want to touch with awk/sed. No regrets!
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by mpalmer 3y ago
Where exactly are you seeing any pointed judgement of the film in the piece? The author didn't even ask Nolan about the Congo when he had the opportunity, nor does he now express regret that he didn't. Crucially, the title is actu

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