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by pibaker 2mo ago
The load-bearing bottom line fell out.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
It's funny you said "node" because the first thing it reminds me of is NodeJS. I'll admit I don't know why they called it node. But I have never seen anyone bothered by it either.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
If you use GitHub as just a software forge then sure you can find an alternative. But I suspect more people use GitHub for its social aspects and they will stick around despite the regressions because building an alternative to an establish
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by pibaker 2mo ago
> any important book has been duplicated by thousands, tens of thousands or even million of units. It is common for academic books to have publication runs in the low three digits. You may argue these books are not important. But how do
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by pibaker 2mo ago
Designing for less than ideal screens is a part of accessibility.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
"How do you know someone is pro nuclear?" "Don't worry, they will tell you."
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by pibaker 2mo ago
How do you get an insurance for lost profits due to not making a meeting as an individual?
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by pibaker 2mo ago
You sound like someone who never had the police tell you they won't bother looking into it after you present them with surveillance footage clearly showing the crime happening.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
How many racks do you think a niche, text only forum is going to take up?
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by pibaker 2mo ago
This is like saying gambling is a good way to get rich. The issue is that most people don't hit jackpot.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
>read marx >dreams of man made famine and desolation Do you happen to wear glasses, mister Ciego? Me and my marx reading boys have some bourgeois liquidation quotas to fill.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
I think it's pretty dishonest of Anthropic to frame their watermark as EU regulation compliance. The EU regulation, from my understanding, requires AI content to be labeled for human viewers. In the meanwhile the Anthropic new releas
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by pibaker 2mo ago
I have been seeing this online since the 00s. No one likes it but I don't think there is a generational divide. Sometimes people just want to shout words at your face.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
> >you can only control your own actions >tries to control others' dietary habits
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by pibaker 2mo ago
I don't know about the life shattering part. It's generally agreed that nicotine is extremely addictive. And yet I don't think you'll find many, if any, people homeless purely out of a nicotine addiction. Maybe you can c
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by pibaker 2mo ago
I don't think there needs to be a nefarious motive for results like this to come out of nutrition studies. If you have a pile of data and you analyze every possible correlation between every possible pair of variables, you will find so
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by pibaker 2mo ago
The one conflating the two isn't the author, but the state. A fixation on the state sanctioned representation of someone's identity instead of the actual, living person himself is exactly what caused TFA's author troubles.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
> Why did it need to go to tattooed numbers Many countries have laws about having to carry an ID on you all the time. Not as bad as a tattoo, but still not acceptable IMO. > Also the implication that cultures and countries which have
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by pibaker 2mo ago
> If they put an ID on a sanction list, there’s a possibility to verify it They didn't care to figure out if the Sean Byrne of County Sligo actually existed before putting the name on the list. I doubt they would bother verifying an
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by pibaker 2mo ago
Objection to ID numbers as a concept aside, I don't think it actually solves the problem this author faced. Fake identities are dime a dozen. It is not exactly hard for an illicit entity to just put some random ID numbers it bought off
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by pibaker 2mo ago
A government subsidized home improvement project is an easy political sale. It gets the homeowners on board, because they will see an immediate drop in energy costs, plus they also get to personally pocket the increased property values. Ver
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by pibaker 2mo ago
Ok. What about a "Viewpoint Diversity" tab that lets you read the dumbest opinions from the other side of politics so that you stay in touch with what your fellow countrymen actually thinks. Not rage bait, I promise.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
> should no longer be a parent Do you seriously think looking at websites, no matter what kind of websites, is more damaging than separating a children from his or her god damn parents and throwing them into the pit of neglect and abuse
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by pibaker 2mo ago
> Engagement-maximizing algorithms that push increasingly extreme content to keep you on the app longer ain't speech Who decides what makes an algorithm engagement maximizing instead of you know, user satisfaction maximizing (becaus
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by pibaker 2mo ago
But from a purely selfish and human centered perspective we can also demand preservation just so that future humans also get to enjoy what the previous generations had. I wish humans didn't kill off the dodos! I want my grandchildren t
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by pibaker 2mo ago
Just want to notice that the author is a part of the effective altruist cult. > I am an associate program officer in the Abundance and Growth Fund at Coefficient Giving, where I lead our grantmaking on Innovation Policy. In this role, I
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by pibaker 2mo ago
The tenderloin, famously a place where people can afford homes.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
This is the issue with the naive narrative of progress isn't it? Today you can sit on your toilet and read a virtually unlimited amount of text, except some text has weird scrolling, some text is interrupted by self playing video ads,
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by pibaker 2mo ago
Local Techie Famous For "DIY Flock" Dead With Bullet Holes On the Back Of His Head after Traffic Stop. Police Chief Deems It Suicide And Calls For Better Mental Health Resources.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
In my area if you want to join any kind of amateur sports or outdoors group, you have to get on Facebook. If you want to know what musicians are coming to town, you have to get on instagram. Ironically it's usually the young, anti esta

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