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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
It's good to a first-order approximation. Haven't seen many cases where it fails. You do get right-wing parties pretending to be left-wing (never the reverse) though, like the German one that called itself "worker's soci
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
has died
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
Copyright isn't "use it or lose it"
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
popular != better but better == popular If you see something that is popular but you think it is worse, then your better/worse axis is not aligned with the majority. For example, X is better than Mastodon because you don't have to
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
Because it works. This is at the top of Hacker News, and Nearby Glasses isn't.
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
Since before 2016 actually
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
Wireguard is great for a point-to-point or multipoint VPN set up by a competent network administrator between machines with static addresses. But that's the only thing it does. It does not handle authentication or mobility very well.
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
This is obviously vibe written, and I can't wait to see how quickly it will be shut down after someone uses it in combination with Mullvad to host child pornography. Mullvad themselves already turned off port forwarding because people
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
We did sink many non-Chinese ships because a human thought the fish they were transporting were drugs.
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
note the airline industry has moved past firing pilots who make mistakes, since that turned out to be a recipe for more plane crashes, not less. Instead, they find out why the mistake happened, and fix it. In some cases, this involves fir
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
So call them confabulations
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
With a lot of fast ASICs and by aggressively discarding stuff you don't want. It's not magical.
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
It's still government protection which caused Microsoft to be a monopoly. You provide a great example of libertarian goalpost-moving: > Microsoft wasn't protected by the government. > Yes they were, by copyright law. > Bu
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
> The more developed a nation the more centrally controlled it is? The central control has to develop, alongside everything else. Somalia isn't centrally controlled because it can't be, because it's not developed, and doe
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
Why do you think that a human therapist who causes patients to commit suicide is a good therapist? I don't understand that.
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
"Don't blame me - I voted for Kodos!"
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
So if we all collect information and don't know who uses it, and the police can't find who uses it, nobody gets charged.
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
When they are one in the same, how do you plead?
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
Do you defend LG telescreens too? After all, by using the TV, you agreed to LG watching your every move.
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
Well those support programs don't provide support. They exist to make a profit, just like everything else. Providing a service is secondary.
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
No it's not, it's a cop-out. You really expect every member of society to individually stand up to Anthropic? That thing you just said is not an alternative solution - it is actually an attempt to prevent the problem from being
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
It's conservatives. Leftists are often found supporting things that hurt them, and liberals usually don't support anything at all.
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
They have that, it's in the Digital Age Assurance Act, which I've been unreliably informed is fascism.
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
Really hot take apparently: any technology that causes people to commit suicide during therapy isn't a good therapist.
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
Everything that happens in childhood affects everything after that, you know. Children aren't a separate class of people from adults. People are children, and then they are adults.
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
We should remove age checks from alcohol, and just don't let kids go in the shopping mall.
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
The trackers have this if you upload your ID to some websites.
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
The parts talk to each other and verify each other's serial numbers and refuse to work if they don't match, and none of the documents you referenced exist.
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
Then let the "owners" and repair shops ask questions, mandate accurate replies, and "we don't know" is a valid answer if and only if you actually don't know. If you are found saying "we don't know&quo
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by pocksuppet 2mo ago
The conservative position is always whatever benefits conservatives at this moment. Back when they supported a free market, a freer market benefitted them. When market regulations benefitted them, they supported a more regulated market.

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