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4y ago
If you read the article, he does link showing that at least FB is pretty detailed about what abusive content is? https://transparency.fb.com/en-gb/policies/community-standar...
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4y ago
It does look like they do tell you which part of the standards are violated and are pretty detailed / defined about what they are? Never really had that happen to me although since I barely use FB. https://transparency.fb.c
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4y ago
You can actually at some stores get almost maxed out models, they have specific 'ultimate' configurations. Use the inventorywatch app to figure out whatever a store has in stock. Like the 16" M1 Max with 64GB & 4TB SSD i
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4y ago
I think your coping man. I come from a similar area. Instead of the $70k or $90k CAD your making, your making $350k or $400k USD ($400-550k CAD see https://levels.fyi/ ) as a bog standard sr engineer with many, many things
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4y ago
You have a choice to filter out #city tagged items or not. And you can debate that a tag is incorrect as a matter of fact, much as you can debate if a food good does have sodium in it or not. And also tags are not singular, you can tag
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4y ago
The solution to that is a rule set that users can select what they want and automated tagging. It is essentially opt-in moderation vs. chosen for you moderation. And it could become fairly sophisticated too! We are starting to see it in t
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4y ago
American police don't like to really to do pull overs with minor road behavior in general unless they are pulling over for a more serious non-driving thing and they're looking for an excuse to do so. Like in california, nobody is
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4y ago
The difference is far from $50k in tech, it's far, far more and you can live in an actual city called new york unlike all of canada?
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4y ago
When your a wealthy citizen who the IRS understands and your integrated with the US political machine, yes, it's just tax paperwork. When your the kind of person with a lot of abnormal imbalances with cash vs. how they understand you,
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4y ago
When your an immigrant and your money is from places with bad records, they can't really push too much beyond it, or tax you for money made out of the country where you were not a citizen or resident of the USA. Shitty undeveloped cou
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4y ago
Why fudge when you can just buy a mcdonalds as an investment and make clean money on top of it? Or real estate and hire the services of a property manager?
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4y ago
You get added to a suspects list, subject to more audits and investigated, which even if your legit is an unpleasant cost itself, and with the amount of things illegal in reality, could still bust you for something nobody cares about, like
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4y ago
Yup, and that was the point I think. Set it at a high for the 80s / 50s / etc point and never scale with inflation.
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4y ago
Big difference between vending machine at cost fenatyl, and Rx controlled harm reduction expensive-ish fenatyl... You don't get war on drugs stupidity with tobacco tariffs, and if alcoholics only have access to the opiate equivalent o
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4y ago
If you weren't skeptical of the government that made such wonders as one of the top 3 mass murders in human history, Mao, your either ignorant of history or ignorant of the many atrocities that communist china has always inflicted on
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4y ago
As long as you don't need master key escrow to essentially be with the vendor (ex google / apple), you can have the master key backed up elsewhere so you can pass the mud puddle test [0], and the vendor has no way to access the ma
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4y ago
Eventually ads, tracking, etc are just going to be proxied by the app server, along with normal app server traffic, to one IP and you can't do much effective filtering in the end.
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4y ago
The main problem with zoom and others is that echo cancellation prevents people from speaking simultaneously, while VR essentially forces people to all wear a headset and turn off the echo cancellation and allow people to speak simultaneous
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4y ago
Humans will invent indicators of social status whether you like it or not. Get rid of green bubbles and something else will rise to take its place.
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4y ago
You do it in a way where you're helping the careers of people, not doing it because you think is abstractly best. Where having you around is good for them, and not having your around is bad for them. Where if you're gone, it
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4y ago
Lol that is brutal.
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4y ago
Because they can make more money without it. There is an obvious huge push to get into the corporate space with this by meta, and corporations will not abide by ads for shit they pay for. And more seriously, they will have hard contractual
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4y ago
Current FB is forced by reality to be an ads company. If they can find an alternative that lets them not be an ads company, then VR might be their path to redemption? MSFT is putting ads in windows because charging for windows is not worki
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4y ago
We send letters and parcels all the time within the USA and they are not inspected either. People also do horrible things in cars too, we don't systematically 'inspect' the content of every single car that drives on it past
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4y ago
Kaisers / HMOs are not that unique in having annual blood work of standard items. I think they have to do it by law at some level, with PPO insurance 'preventive' stuff like that is usually much cheaper or 'free'.
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It wont 'just' be age, it will be hard verified identities vs. vague fingerprints dependent on the user playing ball with their browser software and not using VPNs. Otherwise how would they actually know the user's age?
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4y ago
It forces internet usage to be attached to real identities, in order to make sure your not breaking the laws with children, and all the bad, bad consequences that can come from that. And if you don't see how that can be an issue, you
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4y ago
There are about 608k UHNWI ($30+ million net worth) in the world, and I'm not sure if even $30 million is enough to have a space trip be a tourist trip that isn't too painful, and you have to be the kind of person that finds trave
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There is a segment that uses the virtual desktop with the oculus quest 2 quite extensively, so you still have that argument with their current lineup of devices IMO.
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I don't have a history of heart attacks, and lot of doctors seem to discount this form of early checking. What do you do when your bloodwork is good?
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