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by poink 3y ago
I feel like your “teach the controversy” response just reinforces my point.
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by poink 3y ago
For sure! I’m assuming TAO or whomever can come after me at any point for manufactured reasons, if nothing else. Nothing I can do there… I do think this matters in a general sense, because state actors targeting individual users is a comple
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by poink 3y ago
My primary issue with Signal is that they’re a USA-based org, and AFAIK a NSL would allow the US government to collect the same metadata they could with SMS or iMessage They might not have the contents of your messages, but they know who yo
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by poink 3y ago
If you’re “tech-inclined” enough to understand the difference, how does it alter your behavior?
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by poink 3y ago
I couldn’t disagree more. Scum is scum. The people who can discern the difference are few and far between, and we shouldn’t muddy the waters between different types of scum for the already-overwhelmed layperson. Most people exclusively care
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by poink 3y ago
> The anti-federation argument has always been that centralized entities have the resources to make a better product. This seems like half the argument. The other half of the argument is that you could build a federated system of similar
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by poink 3y ago
This thing is gonna flop so hard. AirPods are the correct vector for pushing AR to the masses.
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by poink 3y ago
I'd love a tiny truck as my primary vehicle, but after watching Doug DeMuro review an imported kei car van ( https://youtu.be/yyTJTUNgsVU ) I realized I could never feel comfortable driving one of these on the highways a
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by poink 4y ago
Nothing about addiction has anything to do with what the addict would _rather_ be addicted to. They'd mostly prefer to not have a problem at all. Highs aren't fungible in the way you're describing. Don't mistake "I
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by poink 4y ago
> I think that person is suicidal Someone doing this stuff isn't thinking of the endgame any more than an alcoholic is thinking about cirrhosis. They just want to get high. They're not at the opiod buffet picking their fave. Th
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by poink 4y ago
What would "get[s] to keep the extra tax money" even mean in the context of the government? Bonuses for the employees? It's Monopoly money as far as I'm concerned. It's the criteria they're evaluated on. It&#x2
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by poink 4y ago
I most certainly do not want to investigate a "non-trivial percent" of people and there's literally no reason to do that given what the IRS already knows.
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by poink 4y ago
Seems like the argument here is whether "properly funded" for the IRS should stipulate a sane tax code. I'm fine with temporarily juicing the IRS's budget to whatever if it means we go after more tax cheats and get more
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by poink 4y ago
I don't want "handouts for the poor" (well, I do, but I'm perfectly happy to legislate them). I _also_ don't want "I don't pay taxes, but I make over X, and the IRS only has an enforcement budget of Y, so
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by poink 4y ago
Because if the IRS maximized its "let's automatically do your taxes for you" ability, it would eliminate all the inadvertent violators, reducing the enforcement requirements. If the government really got on the stick and stop
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by poink 4y ago
The IRS disproportionately audits people who are eligible for the EITC. These people almost uniformly don't have assets worth hiding, but they still wind up paying fines in many cases because tax law is intentionally complicated. Much
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by poink 4y ago
Social media seems like it's screwing up older people at least as much as children. Banning advertising fixes the problem for all age groups
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by poink 4y ago
I think the market is plenty big enough, because I suspect Framework will sell a lot of their upcoming 16" laptops to Windows gamers.
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by poink 4y ago
I know several non-techie people who have Decks now. Some are into casual PC games that don't have mobile ports but work really well on Deck, and others are hardcore console gamers whose favorite games have a PC port but don't shi
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by poink 4y ago
There was a time when I questioned if it was worth all the social consequences to simply not be associated with my real name online. lol. lmao.
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by poink 4y ago
EPA officials also recently admitted that the scanners they are using for some tests aren't sensitive enough to detect dangerous levels of some chemicals they are testing for https://statuscoup.substack.com/p/east-
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by poink 4y ago
I was definitely skeptical of Framework at first, but it seems like they're committing to their pluggable module concept and supporting their OG users. Way more interested in them now.
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by poink 4y ago
Most (all?) of the journalists that got banned were sharing this statement when they got clipped https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/1603558240377151488
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by poink 4y ago
If you're buying one of Hyundai's new EVs, those have been so well received I wouldn't be surprised if there were delays on them independent of any chip shortage.
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by poink 4y ago
Tens of meters, highly variable in range and speed, not super reliable.
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by poink 4y ago
There is at least one expensive enterprise DRM/obfuscation/"code protection" tool that had a late breaking bug in the iOS 16 beta process, and any app that uses it works with with earlier iOS 16 beta builds while crashin
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by poink 4y ago
> Also, how your body feels after a run, is one of the best motivators to do it again. This is the only thing that works for me. No matter what I do, I can't make myself enjoy the actual run. I failed Couch to 5K multiple times. Dur
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by poink 4y ago
I was briefly unbanked. It was due to fraud that was not my fault. There are lots of other reasons to be unbanked that are not just "too lazy to sign up for bank account hurr durr".
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by poink 4y ago
People at the low end of the economic spectrum are typically unbanked in the US, so they get a paper check if they have a regular job with most companies. These most often are taken to check cashing places designed to prey on the poor, but
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by poink 4y ago
In Florida, if you go to any regional lottery office on payday, you will see people come in, cash their paycheck at the window, convert every dollar into scratch-off tickets, then see if they actually got paid that week. That's a gover

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