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3y ago
>Polling on same sex marriage and relationships is highly supportive So is support for abortion, but what party is passing anti choice laws?? Don't make the mistake of excusing those who vote for fascists because they claim not to s
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3y ago
>grew disillusioned with that party many years ago, largely (but not solely) due to their ties to Wall Street / etc. The first issue I take with your comment. Politics is not a religion you need be fervently impassioned about, it&#x
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3y ago
9 people own more wealth than 3.6 BILLION combined. Do you think that is a sensible allocation of ANY resource??? Don't suck off a boot just to be a contrarian.
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3y ago
Isn't this pretty much exactly one of the major things they're accused of in the anti trust suit against them? They would ban you from selling if you sold your product cheaper on your own site where amazon doesn't get a cut.
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3y ago
Yeah, I know and agree, but I've had (my only) two comments flagged for being more direct in accosting enlightened centrism. Disgusting to me to see people on this forum of normally highly intelligent people comparing in any degree t
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3y ago
Side A : repeals net neutrality Side B: Puts net neutrality in place. You: "It's not clear to me how these are different." Seriously? You have to be kidding or downright silly to be an enlightened centrist in this situation.
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3y ago
>Even US regulators looked into that and found nothing - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/23/tether-bitfinex-reach-settle ... This feels extremely dishonest. They paid a fine/settlement, and are literally
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3y ago
No, judging SA for dismembering a journalist is pretty fucking simple actually.
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3y ago
Definitely should've said "use as a source" not "cite". Like you note, wikipedia, and chatgpt for that matter are great not for "i need 100% confidence this is correct" queries but "i want to know whe
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3y ago
>The ChatGPT conversation has zero value as a source in the abstract. If your objective is to get only first hand accounts, sure. But like wikipedia it's good as a source to find where to look deeper. I disagree there's zero va
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3y ago
That's fair, I shouldn't have made a comment asserting the minds' of the downvoters. I wonder, if the chat is wholly correct factually, what bearing that might have on your opinion of the source? What if in the generative res
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3y ago
>Shut down Only Fans, and some of the performers will find work as gardeners or hair-stylists' assistants Hilarious comment if serious. Do you think women who chose to do onlyfans were making good money in whatever job they were doi
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3y ago
>why downvotes with no explanation I'd wager people aren't likely to be as methodical in their analysis of comments' verity on this topic as they might be normally. I thought US politics was polarizing, israel palestine le
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3y ago
Famous leftists, Jeff bezos and bill gates. Are you joking??? You have to be joking. What are you arguing? That billionaires don't care for profit above all? Because bezos and gates have paid lip service to climate? The argument was th
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3y ago
Oh yeah? But you have? Show me what billionaire funded think tanks exist that push for leftist policies on climate, like the green new deal. Famously popular among the wealthy. Are you serious?? To act like there is the same billionaire cla
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3y ago
The guy who sent the mob to the capital to start the whole conspiracy in action?? Are you being glib? Yeah, there's evidence. Maybe look in to the court documents for the 90+ felonies he's been charged with? Or idk, anything he ha
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3y ago
Holy crap! Never been so excited at a corporate account reply! Love your products. Love your philosophy. Great to know about limited VC funding! Thanks for the info. Now I can add Non Vc Funded TM to my list of endorsements for your service
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3y ago
I've found ProtonPass to be useful. Depending on how you feel about the proton ecosystem. I don't know how much VC money they've taken though.
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3y ago
>By making it feel a finite resource, some percentage of the users will start to ration their use of your service and/or do some deliberation before using it Exactly to a T how I feel about Khanmigo. I pay for it because I love the
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Looking for a couple recommendations for books/software
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3y ago
Besides the point, but how great is the growing prominence of alias generators? Proton has it built in, icloud has it built in. Haven't used google product in a long time but surely even they have an equivalent by now.
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3y ago
>Who is the evil bond villain behind this dastardly plan, exactly? Idk, maybe start with the 8 people who own more wealth than 3.6 billion people combined? 3 own more wealth than half the US. Probably freaking them ?!? I really hope thi
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3y ago
The problem is, it doesn't take much destroying. Hitler rose to power off the back of 3 years of 25% unemployment.[0] It just doesn't need to replace all jobs, nor does it need to replace them permanently to have drastic, world ch
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>If only there were some sort of union of peoples capable of causing consequences for companies that act as poor stewards of data. Would be a great idea! Your wish is granted! Only one catch. The only consequence they can actually level
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3y ago
Personally, as someone who does enjoy youtube but also relates to the grating nature of over "blogspammy" content, I think the key is I'm rarely if ever only watching a youtube video. Audiobooks/podcast when I can focu
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3y ago
Re getting people to get it, 3blue1brown has a fantastic series that feels like: >It's possible to explain the idea of feed-forward/backpropagation computation visually without having to dive into the math of matrix multiplicat
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3y ago
And yet those decisions would remain inert thought experiments without the workers, so maybe you, magic c suite geniuses aren't as unilaterally crucial as you think you are? Those workers did all the material enacting of those illustri
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3y ago
>Sounds like it’s safer to just not use a phone or try and circle through a series of them you buy second hand or something. the book Pegasus by laurent richard chronicles the challenges the journalists who brought us the pegasus leaked
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The research need not show "it's 100% beneficial". It only has to be more beneficial than prohibition, which is an insanely easier bar to clear... considering prohibition stops nothing and harms tons. So.... I'm not seei
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3y ago
Agreed, I certainly don't still use them, But also I haven't changed ALL account info... I reseted on my master password being secure but I suppose as quantum computers ramp up I'm going to need to change everything as thos
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