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by pierat 3y ago
That would have been a good thing, to not see "free" services, due to anti-competitive reasons. Companies subsidize "free" by redirecting money from successful areas to fund new or unsuccessful areas. And in this case of
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by pierat 3y ago
Definitely. I tried to find a house in our nearby bigger city. The prices were 100k higher than I was planning on spending, and also had upwards of a 1 year wait to close because they were being used as a rental property. Instead, I was abl
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by pierat 3y ago
Don't forget the $300/mo HOA fees with that 'master planned community'.
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by pierat 3y ago
> feature things like parking requirements for bars, as if they were trying to encourage drunk driving. I wonder if anybody's ever actually used that to say the State and Feds support inebriated driving, since they require parking f
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by pierat 3y ago
It's not an argument on houses in TV - it's showing that it was normalized enough that popular culture considered this normal. But whatever. Shits fucked, and you're arguing over what I said was a depiction of the time? Of co
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by pierat 3y ago
Well, yeah. That's what we collectively get when we turn a place to live into a for-profit hellhole where 'Money' (read: asset companies, landlords, flippers, AirBNB scalpers) keep the supply so the rest of us can't actu
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by pierat 3y ago
More like "We're sorry you all are idiots that can't understand our Very Clear (TM) designs. I forgive you for your ignorance."
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by pierat 3y ago
Piracy has basically been purged from google. Duckduckgo isn't much better, since it's Bing on the backend. Instead, use Yandex. It returns direct relevant hits and just bloody works. And if you're in the USA, you're als
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by pierat 3y ago
> 6. Unlabeled graphs are a sin. What is the definition of "hot spot?" And why is it hidden from the casual reader? Given that hidden fact, along with conflating firearm assaults vs suicide, tells me there's a definite bia
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by pierat 3y ago
Rather than be incredulous and faux-shocked, go look up cherenkov radiation. It's when electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron) passes through a dielectric medium at a speed greater than the phase
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And a gun, worn on your belt.
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by pierat 3y ago
Well I'd just use a cordless drill on the lock with titanium bit. That'll make quick work and ruin their little scam.
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by pierat 3y ago
Google has customer service?
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by pierat 3y ago
No, getting rid of my citizenship costs $3500 plus all my student debt. Ive been told countless times "if you dont like it here, leave". And I cant.
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by pierat 3y ago
Does that actually matter? I'm here, and it costs $3500 plus all my student debt to legally leave.
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by pierat 3y ago
Only the people of the business and owner class would think they're entitled to forced workers. Strikes and unionization are ways that individuals can become in parity with the owner class. Each side has something the other needs.
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by pierat 3y ago
I was kicked out of my parent's house. The really shit side: its impossible to change your drivers license (which is your "official address") to homeless. And if you get sued, they send your mail to that former address, regar
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by pierat 3y ago
Well this SCOTUS case pretty much legalizes this : Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition https://www.oyez.org/cases/2001/00-795 It's not real children. It's at best hyper-realistic computer-aided animation.
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by pierat 3y ago
I find the needless complexity in any realm to be distracting and usually not worth my time. The needless complexity is usually a marker that it's for others on the "in crowd" for the thing, and primarily used as a exclusion
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by pierat 3y ago
This feels like a boiling down a masters thesis from a women's studies thesis-> gender studies thesis -> human intersectionality thesis. (The names of this field try to distance themselves from their roots at every step, because
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by pierat 3y ago
> Imagine how you'd move to a new town across the country in 2023: how do you find real estate without the Internet? Worse yet, is how realtors are NOT equipped to even say "what internet services are available at this place&qu
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by pierat 3y ago
> For the first of these, I quite like how on Android now the user has great control over what data is made available to which apps. The app needs to explicitly request access to camera, location, files etc... . You can toggle this on or
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by pierat 3y ago
"Up to" is Comcast weasel words language, in which -10c is also in that set. It's at best garbage science reporting. Best answer: give GIS heatmaps that show variance of temp from in-city to nearby large green space. Then we
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by pierat 3y ago
I made an Unreal map of my high school. Was really awesome and had pretty much all the nooks and crannies. Even had that weird stairway hidden in a crevasse of a hidden tunnel. Hadn't been opened in decades with the amount of rust. I m
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by pierat 3y ago
When Malaria stopped infecting and killing the people in poor countries, and on to places like Europe and USA, gee golly whillikers... I wonder why it's now being invested and being treated? Its all about the money. And most questions
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by pierat 3y ago
- Not consider changing the root username and password? I would bake it in the bios or similar, and print it on the bottom of the device. - Not consider shutting off the SSH server? I would keep sshd running, precisely for the fact that the
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by pierat 3y ago
> The other side of the coin, the other option we shouldn't really rely on but we can, is entirely blocked by the way these vendors operate. Android has had its fragmentation issues because the vendors aren't using the stock An
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by pierat 3y ago
It's spearphishing, intentional spelling. And after a very simple 1 word google search: "the fraudulent practice of sending emails ostensibly from a known or trusted sender in order to induce targeted individuals to reveal confide
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by pierat 3y ago
Not at all surprised. At my old company, we had a theory that most of our spearphishing was coming from LI. So we tested it. I had permission to create a completely fake person, fake role, fake experience, etc. And they got a corpo email. I
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by pierat 3y ago
Oh please. Dumb word games isn't going to make the "is this a bird" AI approach explainable. https://xkcd.com/1425/ Even the "simple" AI's with only a few TBs of data for training still ha

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