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1y ago
It has long seemed like Firefox is likely doing Google's bidding? That could be a reason why they're given a full vote? /abject-speculation
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1y ago
I show flagged and show dead too. Disappearing OT/ads/extreme ad hominems is a positive thing imo. I vouch for things that I disagree with if they make good points. I have flagged things. IMO the worst thing pg ever did for this
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1y ago
You're asking for them to set up a system that won't be effective. >And that is up to parents to control their child's internet access to limit their usage to only these sites. This is an entirely unreasonable expectation
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1y ago
>protected by the constitution Surely, they couldn't say that with a straight face under the current regime.
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1y ago
>it is harder for the American government to eavesdrop on US soil than it is outside America. I don't have any particular insight here, but isn't that why Five Eyes is used, a workaround for what would otherwise be illegal acti
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1y ago
The people who were convicted of multi-million dollar fraud resulting in someone walking away with millions of dollars of others bitcoin deposits, IIRC ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Karpel%C3%A8s if you want to
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pbhjpbhj
1y ago
How so? Babies will bite their mothers trying to get food - it's instinctive, but it's not kind. Kindness needs to be taught despite any natural propensity towards it.
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1y ago
>total domination. Of people, who they're willing to subject to absolute poverty, and worse, to have their goals achieved. Millions of people are left unhappy so that they can say "I made this money yuge[, and did it all by mys
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1y ago
In the UK the definition of legal tender includes a limit on the use of small denominations.
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1y ago
So a 1980s computer is faster at calculating than a person, so why reduce the cost? Or a car is cheaper to maintain than a horse, why reduce the cost? Let's flip the script. In reality the averaged transaction _cost_ is probably O(0.1%
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1y ago
Discount on cash IME is because they're not putting transactions through the till (POS) so they can commit [tax] fraud. Ran a micro business in UK for 15 years, cash cost as much to deposit as card did - employee time (counting, reconc
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1y ago
What about Apple there? Bringing golden offerings to their god-king and so supporting the further corruption of the regime. One of the few with the power/money to stand against them instead kneeling before Trump like a teen beauty page
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1y ago
>(a) I think "sign-in partner" is obvious bullshit Nearly every website tries to offer Google or Microsoft based sign in, "sign in partners" are commonplace.
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1y ago
Well also we need to kill everyone so noone can die, the only logical conclusion. If that's your best argument _against_ saving lives through road traffic controls then at least we know it's not wrong... I hope your computer is co
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1y ago
20-to-30 causes a step change in pedestrian outcomes, so no, the logical conclusion isn't 0mph. Also the average speed on 30mph roads before the changeover was around 20mph. It improves traffic flow and reduces pollution too. My only o
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1y ago
>based on the ads everyone get I'm not sure what you mean here? In context I suspect you mean 'because ads were chosen from a perspective of knowledge about you'?? But that's really opposite my experience (UK). Ads no
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1y ago
Western Democracies usually (always?) have planning laws that allow for democratic (ie for the benefit of the people) building plans. In short, we don't have to allow developers to choose. We could equally levy pressure to improve qual
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1y ago
Depends on the training? If there was eg RLHF then those connections are stronger and more likely; that's a difference (but not a category difference).
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1y ago
Thanks for the info. Did it get reassessed at all with the type certification review prompted by the 737 MAX crashes?
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1y ago
Did someone wanting to sell flying cars bribe Trump, or is this from before the current administration? Didn't they cut loads of FAA inspectors and such? >Without the need for type certification, manufacturers can iterate on their d
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1y ago
And an exploit that breaks out of the sandbox is not really anything if it needs root to work... so if a hacker had those two MS wouldn't care about them selling those bugs because both of them are not serious. See, perfect security an
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1y ago
From a position of naive curiosity -- Would this work as a coprocessor, take the most inefficient/most optimisable procedures and compile (#) them for the fabric? It would you lose all your gains in turn being extra processes to ship d
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1y ago
It sounds more strategic than performative. Surely if they can set precedents against weaker opponents then they stand more chance against stronger opponents. Though Steam is not weak. But small-time game devs probably don't care to fi
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1y ago
USA population is c.350M total, so they're probably off by half. https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/us-demographics/
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1y ago
[Mutual] Happiness isn't a purpose?
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1y ago
Lead-free petrol helped.
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1y ago
There have been a few exploits over the years relying on sites.google.com because of the need to use a subdomain to make things work for the exploiters. I don't think I've ever seen Google advertise Sites either? Why not GoogleSit
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1y ago
Probably dependent on jurisdiction - whilst practically, having the binary means you can share it, that's not legal without license to do that (in UK) as even though it's open source the copyright still exists on the binary (and b
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1y ago
You think? For several years they definitely kept out the way and provided links to get to the best results fast. By the time they dropped "don't be evil" they certainly were acting against users. It started well, agreed. But
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1y ago
It looks like the specific phrase form is blocked in Google Search's AI header. It seems most likely that this was because it was being gamed. Searching "is it safe to throw used car batteries into the ocean" gets links to th
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