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by nimbius 4y ago
so i see a lot of posts about the nomenclature of democracy and its machinations of change in favour of elites but i think theres something people are missing here. the amended text is blind and harmful not to the end user in the near term,
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friendly reminder, this is from the same company whos prior AI, "Tay" managed to go from quirky teen to full on white nationalist during the first release in under a day and in 2016 she reappeared as a drug addled scofflaw after b
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by nimbius 4y ago
if this is what it took to get two large multinational automakers to capitulate to basic theft immobilization in their vehicles to protect customers, perhaps we should reconsider the 'tiktok is objective evil' narrative.
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by nimbius 4y ago
> can make people dizzy and drowsy LMFAO vinyl chloride is a multi-organ carcinogen...its literally one of the quickest ways to stage 4 right up there with Benzene exposure. phosgene was also part of the release when Ohio decided a &quot
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by nimbius 4y ago
In the all-hands call the day after layoffs, Benioff compared losing employees to layoffs to mourning people who died. Insider reported that he showed up around 18 minutes late to a company-wide meeting the day after announcing layoffs, and
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hi, im an IAM union diesel engine mechanic and have been for over a decade. Maybe I can help explain a bit. in a 'blue collar' job like manufacturing or shipping or any of the trades like plumbing or mechanical maintenance, the o
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by nimbius 4y ago
Unsurprising. Even the love canal disaster in the US faced massive disinterest before it was quietly revealed to have been a cataclysmic environmental contamination. It boils down to this: - rail fired a ton of employees a while ago and i
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Im a master diesel engine mechanic by trade and I can say with all certitude $2000 doesnt begin to cover parts labor and disposal. the engine in a car, even a 20 year old car, is a touchstone of the vehicle. Things like air conditioning,
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by nimbius 4y ago
it was a successful strategy for VMWare when approached by a German developer about improper licensing for his open source code. VMWare managed to get the original case tossed on a technicality, as well as the appeal, which bought them eno
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by nimbius 4y ago
honestly if you look at the incident history for github, coupled with the ham-fisted tantrum Bing throws if you ask for Chrome ("There's no need to download a new web browser.") , it feels pretty on-point to say Redmond is th
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by nimbius 4y ago
say what you will about the recession but since Microsoft picked it up, Github has taken an absolute shellacking. They couldnt figure out how to comply with US sanctions without alienating users, the ICE contract went over like a lead ball
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by nimbius 4y ago
Oddities in the bicameral system in the UK are routinely produced which are themselves not to be taken seriously by the initiated. Obviously this bill would be a massive regression for a nation thats still in freefall after Brexit and a r
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by nimbius 4y ago
that it only crashed Safari is surprising...something this cursed likely has the power to end marriages, kill house pets and void the very fabric of reality.
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im also not sure you can really correlate the fall of rome to a single oligarch hitman although im sure some of the HN history buffs could correct me. the whole saga still gobsmacks me to this day. one of the wealthiest men in america tant
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by nimbius 4y ago
I think the timing of this release is highly suspect and the real reason is a lot simpler. The magnanimously negative impact of Brexit on the kingdom coupled with recent outlandishly irresponsible neoliberal monetary policy have put the UK
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Perhaps related: the Affordable Care Act was passed by US President Obama in 2010. the US prior to 2010 had also experienced nearly seventy school shootings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_t
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by nimbius 4y ago
ah united nuclear, purveyors of high quality reagents for the discerning, jittery, sleepless grad student found in only the most prestigious government watch lists and infuriatingly paywalled technical journals since nineteen sixty-one. Tha
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while it may be tempting to condense the concern to the most virulent objections of an extreme, it bears remembrance that Pakistan is the only country to have been created in the name of Islam. the Holy Quran and Sunnah are effectively t
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by nimbius 4y ago
>there is a special tool for the removal of every steering wheel I've ever removed. Diesel engine tech here. Not only is there a special tool, but on most modern vehicles in the last 5-7 years, you have several more nuts to engage
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by nimbius 4y ago
I feel like this is interesting anecdotal evidence, but its asking the wrong question: what is the risk of losing a google account. if the scope and impact of the loss is significant enough (and in most cases it poses a serious impedime
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by nimbius 4y ago
on the contrary, Ive found it an incredible validation of the Clowns with out Borders effort in its entirety. Circuses, parties, TV, movies, war zones, my nightmares, you name it...clowns can always reach it.
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by nimbius 4y ago
Hacker news: check out this amazing stablediffusion library in rust! Also Hacker news: you should be crankin' it more.
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Show HN: Tartufo, the godaddy Git secrets linter(github.com)
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>the biggest labour shortages have been in basic service jobs. yes, yes this is true. theyre all either dead or done. we spent decades forcing them to work for tips and bare minimum wage, fighting dirty to keep them out of unions and s
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unrelated but neat, did you know Samuel L Jackson was an usher for Dr. Kings funeral?
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Casual reminder: facebooks e2e is absolutely marketing. Facebook has no interest in your personal security. Download signal.
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A cogent argument could.be made that transunion, Equifax, and other big private credit clearinghouses act as direct agents of an unspoken american "social credit" system in which the credit score denies housing and employment to t
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unfortunately the legislation is inevitable. Florida's neoconservative legislature has decided the only way to win elections consistently is with increasingly divisive culture-war brinksmanship. That the strategy works is unimpressiv
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"The fun part of Amazon Smile was that it let customers decide how they wanted to change the world" The corporate justification part of amazon smile was in the same effort as any charity in purchase which is to make the consumer f
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"blows my mind that a screwdriver is all it takes to bypass the lock and ignition of a car made in 2016. c’mon, is that really the best we can do?" Buddy, the same could be said for your insurance coverage. Carrying "liabili

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