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by pibaker 3mo ago
Anyone who think this demonstrates the CCP's epicbacon commitment to anti corruption needs to ask themselves how did this man take so much bribe over 30 years and is only sentenced now. Is he dumb? Surely he is smart enough to know he
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by pibaker 3mo ago
> You can’t buy your way out if you do something Not with money.
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Comparing non reparable devices to games is a huge stretch. Not buying a phone or a car in many places means you can't get a job at all. But if you don't play games you lose little. There are more than enough games of all kinds to
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Yes, it is very rich for someone with no skin in the literal game to police what others do to their computers. I don't play any games that use anticheat. But I also don't go out of my way to tell other players who knowingly, conse
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by pibaker 3mo ago
> No one wants "the game only Microsoft can make", everyone wants another great Zelda. Or Gears of War. Or Satisfactory. Or Mina the Hollower. Or UFO 50. Or Animal Well. This IMO is a display of what is wrong with a lot of onli
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by pibaker 3mo ago
> Microsoft is never going to figure out gaming. It's more art than engineering and they can barely manage the engineering with all the intervention from marketing and HR in their products. Gaming is like cuisine. Can it be art? Sur
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by pibaker 3mo ago
I think the fact that you use a very high profile and beloved person as your example is in fact why giving pardoning power to the executive branch is bad — the pardon goes to whoever is able to draw the attention and appear the most likeabl
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Books don't fail similarly as discs. Tear a page off a book and the rest remains readable. Spill coffee on a book and you can still see the letters through the stain. In the meanwhile make a single scratch and you can't read your
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by pibaker 3mo ago
If you conduct a poll of all software engineers, I bet at least a third have heard of brainfuck. It is very widely used as an example of a minimal but Turing complete language and the name itself gathers interest. Now do Odin. I bet not eve
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Fentanyl is on the WHO list of essential medicines and widely used for anesthesia in medical settings. Perhaps try looking up the thing you are talking about before making a moral judgement based on mass media soundbites.
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by pibaker 4mo ago
Do you genuinely believe there is anything remotely as dangerous as driving a car or shooting up heroin a teenager can do by simply typing a URL into the address bar and pressing enter. Do you seriously believe anything you said here is rem
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by pibaker 4mo ago
And they are seeing sustained inflation for the first time since 2000. Not a great time to be paid in yen.
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by pibaker 4mo ago
Seems like the people talking about AI safety and alignment don't want to stop at just harnessing their AIs. They also want to keep themselves safe from competition and make sure only users aligned with their business and political age
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by pibaker 4mo ago
If sonic booms become a routine occurrence over America, I expect to see a backlash against supersonic flight unifying everyone between chemtrail conspiracy theorists and the greenpeace. The anti data center backlash we have today will look
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by pibaker 4mo ago
Should "many people" get to decide what the deaf community, whatever that means, should do, even when the people affected do not agree? We are not even a hundred years away from when they tried to make Jews disappear forever.
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by pibaker 4mo ago
I'd understand it if the flag is added by someone from Ukraine or another country invaded by Russia. But it looks like it was added by someone with a Dutch name. Westerner putting random people's lives at risk just so he can give
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by pibaker 4mo ago
Everything you said is me, me, me. In the meanwhile I know enough people who wake up super early to walk their dogs, or to work out, or you know, to go to their work which opens at 6:30. Do they not count?
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by pibaker 4mo ago
I have seen more criticism of resistance against AC than people actually arguing against AC. Maybe there is a group of loud AC resistors somewhere that I managed to avoid this whole time? Or maybe the pundits are pushing a narrative to rile
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by pibaker 4mo ago
This is another problem with letting private entities be the arbitrator. How is Google supposed to know if Ellie Piee is a real person? It can ask for ID verification of course, but these can be faked, and when that happens there is little
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by pibaker 4mo ago
Ah, yes, you know someone's desperate when you see a bogus DMCA claim like this. Not the first time this happened and definitely won't be the last. This also demonstrates why it is bad for a law to mandate private entities to do m
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by pibaker 4mo ago
There is quite a difference between say having to hold a driver's license when driving or having to show the cashier your ID when buying beer, and having something attached to your body, for years, for the crime of simply having been b
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by pibaker 4mo ago
> should have their rights of becoming parents revoked. Ok. So what does it mean to revoke the right for someone to become parents? Be honest and be specific.
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by pibaker 4mo ago
So if you want to run a BBS for say vintage motorcycle owners, you have to move to a country without such laws and make sure to never set foot in any country that does?
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by pibaker 4mo ago
The idea that the state should get to tag some subset human as undeserving of rights is not something we should let ourselves get accustomed to.
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by pibaker 4mo ago
This is why China and Russia are shiny beacons of democracy and liberalism — they heavily regulate their social media! Seriously, do people not look at history or at least the world around them when they make such claims? Genocides have hap
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by pibaker 4mo ago
What happens when federal agents kick down your front door because you ran a free range mom and pop BBS that did not comply with latest ID verification requirements? Big companies will benefit the most from these regulations. It's just
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by pibaker 4mo ago
Any idea on who is behind this group? It has an extensive list of institutional partners mostly based in Europe so it must have gained traction somehow. And yet the two key contacts listed on the websites do not seem to have extensive exper
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by pibaker 4mo ago
I find it kind of hilarious that we spent ages trying to make teenagers not hang out in public spaces, not to drink, not to fuck. And now they have finally obliged, we start to take their obedience as a sign of declining mental health. Mayb
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by pibaker 4mo ago
I'd also ask us tech savvy people to practice some humility. Yes, the people setting up these cameras are not following security best practices. But are you sure that you will not make the same mistakes? Are you sure you have never exp
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by pibaker 4mo ago
You'll be surprised by the number of people who thinks if you leave your internet door unlocked then your internet belongings are free to take. There is someone in this very thread arguing that having an internet enable camera in your

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