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by pibaker 20d ago
Fire and brimstone upon San Francisco.
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by pibaker 20d ago
There will certainly be people who will pay a premium for certified 100% natural diamonds. But there is probably not enough to support the diamond mining industry as it exists today.
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by pibaker 20d ago
> Or do they just not have political control at a local level?
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by pibaker 21d ago
No it isn't. The 1A is held strongly even by the most reactionary parts of American politics and jurisdiction. You will not be thrown into a jail just for expressing your support for a group as it happens in the UK.
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by pibaker 21d ago
Good action can also be a way for bad actors to buy good will so they can extend their other bad actions. Plus some of these actions are done on the interest of furthering the interest of the bad actors. An example is Meta striking deals wi
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by pibaker 22d ago
You are being downvoted but your reasoning is absolutely correct. We nerds on the nerdy techie HN love to believe that people will act correctly if they are properly informed but people have repeatedly demonstrated that they don't care
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by pibaker 23d ago
I'm placing a bet on "at least one NYT editor caught manipulating news stories so he can win Kalshi bets within one year" if a deal like this goes through.
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by pibaker 23d ago
A lot of them are not even kidnapping in the colloquial sense. We hear "kidnapping" and think about being tied up in the trunk of a car but many of the actual kidnapping cases are more like "Bobby went to his divorced daddy&#
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by pibaker 23d ago
> Just because its rare doesn't mean that you as a parent want to win the misfortune lottery. If you want total safety from misfortune why have kids at all? Pregnancy and birth is one of the most dangerous things people choose to do
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by pibaker 24d ago
You pay for bridges with tax. Tax funded browser sounds good in theory, but I don't trust the people managing my tax money to run a tech project like Firefox. Most likely it gets handed to the lowest private sector bidder, with the sti
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by pibaker 24d ago
Cloudflare is corporate interests. What makes you think they or any other big corp is above messing with products they acquired? Remember when google used to be the good guys? It is also very bad if the company that gets to decide which u
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by pibaker 24d ago
So your argument is what worked back when most people were illiterate and books were a luxury and audio and video recordings were non existent will also work today?
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by pibaker 25d ago
Maybe you should base your sense of satisfaction on the overcoming of the challenge itself instead of the social aspect of other people not having it then. And even if you want to feel superior to others, you can just count them as cheaters
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by pibaker 25d ago
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/11/27/parents-... > Parents now spend twice as much time with their children as 50 years ago
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by pibaker 25d ago
If I am the evil corporations owning the state I would love to make all citizens pathetic cynics who think they have no capability for change and therefore bears no responsibility.
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by pibaker 25d ago
> There isn't. Not with this attitude.
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by pibaker 25d ago
Does the availability of oxygen bottles undermine the achievement of people who summited Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen?
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by pibaker 26d ago
Why does an optional, opt in easy mode take away the satisfaction of its target audience? You are not required to play it. It is like saying having a gluten free option on the menu takes away the enjoyment of a meal's target audience.
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by pibaker 26d ago
Getting past cloudflare can be a problem if you are from a less reputable country or a VPN or if you use a less conventional browser. There is also a larger problem of a private entity being the MITM for a large portion of internet traffic.
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by pibaker 26d ago
YMMV obviously but when I see someone using a phone case it's usually one of those thick rubbery protective ones, or one of those with a flap over the screen that also holds credit cards and IDs. There is a clear utilitarian case for p
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by pibaker 26d ago
Your definition of what is a social media site may differ from the definition of someone who has an axe to grind against you and take you and your phpbb forum to court.
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by pibaker 27d ago
Hard to blame this on politicians when raising gas prices is one of the most reliable ways of making voters mad.
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by pibaker 27d ago
There is only so much a human can master in his lifetime. And if you choose to master the art of video production, then you are probably not spending that much time on mastering the thing you yap about on camera…
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by pibaker 27d ago
If you are adding yourself to the docker group, you have presumably read the documentation and its warnings. Does an Omarchy user know the distro has made the decision on their behave? TFA spells out why this is wrong better than I could. &
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by pibaker 27d ago
It is one thing to do things the risky way on your own system and another thing to ship an unsafe and unconventional default to your users.
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by pibaker 27d ago
I was expecting a more sophisticated attack and then I scrolled down… > Omarchy configured its default user as a member of the Linux docker group. What the fuck? Docker makes it VERY, VERY clear this is unsafe. Feel free to verify the do
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by pibaker 27d ago
Your daily reminder that many people don't see lethal self defense as an unfortunate last resort. They active want to be put in a situation where it is justified so they get to enjoy killing another human, as seen on TV.
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by pibaker 28d ago
I don't think the local political mess in San Francisco warrants breaking two hundred years of federalism. Nothing does, really. Also worth keep in mind the US tried mass public housing projects in the 60s. And then they stopped becaus
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by pibaker 28d ago
I don't think you can equate Kalshi style "prediction market" with gambling in Vegas. The worst thing that can happen in Vegas is you the gambler go bankrupt. In the meantime we already have reports of war intelligence in Ukr
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by pibaker 28d ago
This is the third time in this thread you have called a game an edge case, or an odd one (Cyberpunk 2077), or an exception (The Witcher 3) I think if you have to keep adding these caveats to some of the most popular games of the past decade

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