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by panarky 2y ago
I thought the first step was to gain control of the media.
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There is no evidence — reliable, speculative, or otherwise — that suggests Nicolás Maduro's net worth exceeds even $100 billion. It's more likely in the hundreds of millions, not hundreds of billions. Even the most aggressive spec
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It's a tool, and just like other tools, it multiplies human labor and intellect. I don't need to spend a decade becoming proficient with a pocket knife, and then another decade becoming an expert with an ax. Instead, an experience
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I've only had o3-mini for a day, but Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking is still clearly better for my use cases. And it's currently free in aistudio.google.com and in the API. And it handles a million tokens.
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Curious how all the "free speech absolutists" have suddenly discovered infinite examples of when it's a great idea to censor speech.
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Even though you have the power to ignore stop signs when you're driving your own car, it's not an unreasonable restriction of your liberty when AI-driven cars stop at stop signs.
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Startup idea: TaskRabbit but for ex-military Eastern Europeans who will do whatever a dodgy fuck wants.
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Source?
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It should be obvious by now that the whole game is to shift cost and risk to the bottom 90% while shifting profit and wealth even further to loyalists among the top 0.1%. Viewed through this lens, the whole program is remarkably internally
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by panarky 2y ago
The Twitter Trust & Safety Team was the trial run for what to do with inconvenient regulators.
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Elon Musk misrepresents Tesla self-driving data(electrek.co)
21 points by panarky 2y ago|7 comments
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In the 90s I worked for a retail chain where the CIO proposed to spend millions to upgrade the point-of-sale hardware. The old hardware was only a year old, but the CPU was pegged at 100% on every device and scanning barcodes was very slugg
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asociality
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Both professional fact-checkers and Community Notes have a pretty low false-positive rate. It's the false negatives that are the differentiator, but false negatives are by definition invisible to the user. When you evaluate moderation
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You @brodouevencode made at least 10 political posts yourself in the last few weeks. If we're trying to decide what political posts should be allowed here, may I suggest you start your own political posts? What differentiates them from
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> how to segment communities locally So it's not about owning vs. renting property on the internet, it's about controlling the roads that connect the properties so you can keep the world out of your community.
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Wealth makes it even more difficult to figure out what to do with your life. It's almost as if you can either have wealth/comfort or purpose/fulfillment, but it's vanishingly rare to have both at the same time.
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by panarky 2y ago
This is helpful, thank you. You might consider updating the readme to make it clear what Mercure/SSE does that WebSockets doesn't. If it was me, I'd also put in the readme what WebSockets does that Mercure/SSE does not,
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Please explain why this is better than websockets. I read the Github readme, but it doesn't say what's better.
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Apparently we had the capability for collective action at one time, but most of us weren't around then. The political order of the New Deal lasted from roughly the Great Depression until about 1980. It wasn't just about government
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When a new key is generated, how can you be certain that the old key is securely deleted?
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It's seldom possible to impose severe consequences on your adversary without suffering some pain yourself. It's as true for economic warfare as it is for kinetic conflict.
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The US could announce that all Treasury securities held by China will not be redeemed and are now worthless.
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When dissidents and journalists "fall out of windows", and when enemies of the state drink polonium tea, the obviousness isn't due to comic ineptness. It's obvious for a reason. They want the world to know. The obviousne
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Reuters: "Russia is using bitcoin in foreign trade, finance minister says" https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/russia-is-using-b... Your definition of "useless" must be different from mi
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Do nations fail primarily for economic reasons? When the level of exploitation by those on top becomes too extreme, that's what does it? Does that adequately explain other factors like disease, religion, natural disaster, incompetence,
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It's hard to take seriously an argument that recycles the tired trifecta of tropes "tulips, beanie babies and drug dealers". I don't know if bitcoin will eventually become a low level store of value, or if the red hats n
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Cleverly lawyered weasel words are usually complex, highly specific and don't cover all possible uses. This statement is so simple and so general that it covers everything.
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"Google Photos doesn't sell your photos, videos, or personal information to anyone and we don't use your photos and videos for advertising." https://safety.google/photos/
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Yes, you're right, gains in USD terms when refinancing a mortgage denominated in another currency are taxable. Interestingly, such gains aren't taxable at the (usually lower) capital gains tax rate, but they're taxable at the

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