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by pnt12 7mo ago
I'm not an American but unfortunately I don't share the optimism. Your president shows time and time again he does what he wants, whether it's immoral or illegal or not within his power to do. And a majority turn a blind eye,
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by pnt12 7mo ago
"Save the children", or "if you oppose this you're ugly".
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by pnt12 7mo ago
See you soon folks!
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by pnt12 7mo ago
> You are not your job Fully agreed. >You're beginning to feel less-than-useful. Nope, not at all. Or maybe I do feel a bit useless against the AI slop and FOMO that gets pushed around. But the field is still gonna need engineer
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by pnt12 7mo ago
Just because two things are "annoying", doesn't mean they have the same ethical problems. The fun single player games only need to convince you they are a fun experience and you should buy them once. Games with loot boxes are
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by pnt12 7mo ago
Counter-argument: we're talking about saving a handful of bucks for something that lasts months. Do it if you find it fun - I tried it and didn't like the work nor spice under my fingernails, at all. My preferences in cooking are
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by pnt12 7mo ago
It's much harder to predict exactly than to dismiss anything slightly off. But the tendency is showing: in my country, we're getting records in extreme temperatures, forrest fires and storms. But a study 1% can be dismissed, some
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by pnt12 7mo ago
This is a tactic I'm seeing more in politics. When it's in the interests of a group for something to pass, but they don't want the blame, they can abstain or defer. It still goes through and if it goes wrong they can argue it
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by pnt12 7mo ago
This has strong vibes of "we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing". IDF has constantly rejected their war crimes in Gaza, while independent reporting (from different sources) has found multiple evidence of them.
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by pnt12 7mo ago
The thesis could get an F at law school, but it is not guaranteed that the government will act lawfully. Its useful to think about what the administration can do, legal or not, especially when given little challenge when acting illegally.
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by pnt12 8mo ago
I'm not American, but I get free shipping on most products, as long as the order has a minimum cost and I wait a couple of days more? This is true for other sellers too.
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by pnt12 8mo ago
This reads like propaganda. Amazon has no business de-listing products because of their price elsewhere. If it wanted to be pro-consumer, I don't know, it could warn the consumer the price is lower somewhere else, and point them there,
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by pnt12 8mo ago
If we censor the names, it reads like a fascist regime from a "shithole" country.
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by pnt12 8mo ago
It disturbs me to see this behavior in my country alt-right voters, or better said, fanatics. The party is full of contradictions, and they will go with the flow, double down and rationalize all of them. Maybe the problem is that they make
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by pnt12 8mo ago
The quote "this...is...necessary" reminded me about this song. Wonder if the person who as singing it: https://youtu.be/CmJYZ1NIn1Y?t=150
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by pnt12 8mo ago
Fully disagree. There's lots of people that won't care about the code: executives, managers, customers etc. If the engineers don't care either, then who cares? If we compare with big food companies, that's like their fo
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by pnt12 8mo ago
The browser could also emit the age, which sites could check to block, and parents could manage via parental controls. But that's no fun: can't assure control of the children (bad), monetization (even worse) not share with governm
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by pnt12 8mo ago
> then any good actor products will be crushed by profitmaxxing competitors This is what I always say, and defended by many economists: The free market needs legislation and enforcement! Especially public companies, which are especially
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by pnt12 8mo ago
The benefit is to the banks, making huge money this way!
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by pnt12 8mo ago
"Consumer habits are deeply entrenched". I disagree. In Portugal, MB Way arrived, allowing people to use their phone to send money to each other, or pay in terminals, and it was widely adopted. People want ease of use and low fees
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by pnt12 9mo ago
With ToS, we can assume that everything that is not laid down explicitly tends to err in favor of the company, not the user. "we store all messages": they store everything and ther s no guarantee of processing, sharing or selling
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by pnt12 9mo ago
Is he entitled for considering the difficultied from developing countries? Maybe he's exaggerating a bit with the comparison, but if we consider the ceiling of 10k, that's more than a year of minimum wage in Portugal, or a handful
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by pnt12 9mo ago
But who's gonna arrest the police? Seems like more and more people are testing/stretching the limits of what's actually enforced. Similarly, hearing about the Eppstein files makes me sick: - deadlines? not met - limited redac
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by pnt12 9mo ago
This is especially aggravating when the os inside the container and the language runtimes are much heavier than the process itself. I've seen arguments for nano services (I wouldn't even call them micros services), that completely
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by pnt12 9mo ago
And even if it's "small stuff", I do believe acts of kindness are contagious, and lead to other people doing good deeds. If we want to rationalize this EA style, we could say these small acts to have an exponential effect: 1
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by pnt12 9mo ago
From the first sentences, it looks like a 0.1x value. Discrediting the expanded hacker concept just because, criticizing its non-pc language, shaming on the small imoralities (in an industry full of life ruining unethical practices). The li
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by pnt12 9mo ago
That's an even weaker argument: AI and ratings. Ratings are very criticized by artists, eg as being fueled by conservative moms. For example, in the USA, movies with guns and explosion can be shown to younger audiences than nudity - se
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by pnt12 9mo ago
I was mildly interested in the movement but found it weird as well. Some causes seem good (eg fighting malaria), others like Super AIs just seem like geeks doing mental gymnastics over sci fi topics.
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by pnt12 10mo ago
But with pip you only need to be careful on install - with uvx you need to be careful forever. I'm a big fan of uv, but don't like that part of uvx. (makes me wonder if a small wrapper can do this - safe uvx, or suvx for short)
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by pnt12 10mo ago
That's really unfortunate, and it sounds like a quick thing to fix. Is there a pull request with that?

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