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by pryce 10mo ago
> Flash a driver's license at a liquor store to buy a single-use token, good for one year, and access your favorite social media trash. Anonymity is maintained... Ask a woman in a liquor store whether her anonymity is maintained by
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by pryce 10mo ago
The ingredients for this legislation trace back to an organisation called "Collective Shout"[1], by Melinda Tankard Reist, who readers may be aware of from their previous efforts to pressure Steam to restrict games with adult cont
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by pryce 10mo ago
> What can openai do that, even if their models lag behind, will let them keep their competitive advantage? Regulatory capture. It's worth noting that an enormous amount of time and energy has already been allocated in this exact d
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by pryce 11mo ago
Came here to submit this after seeing it linked by another member of the NZ developer community - but I see you already have. An impressive synthesis that deserves to be widely read - this passage landed well with my own unease about the ga
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by pryce 11mo ago
They've invented the 'thneed' from "The Lorax"...
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by pryce 1y ago
Most of the scarcity in artificial economies like CS is (just as with trading card games) manufactured and vulnerable. Seeing what happens with a rug-pull in a billion dollar artificial economy like this is a valuable lesson for anyone w
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by pryce 1y ago
We often accept some limits on speech - such as disallowing threats or blackmail. But on what planet is some person stating that Charlie Kirk "devoted his entire life to spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric" an end
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by pryce 1y ago
There is an old joke attributed (variously) to Ronald Reagan or Yakov Smirnoff: "In Soviet Russia, there is freedom of speech. In America, there is also freedom after speech." Government sanctions (not simply those limited to
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by pryce 1y ago
This is a curious case of one accused academic writing to a second accused academic about the status of a third accused academic, being published widely by the second of the three accused academics in a post explicitly concerned with allega
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by pryce 1y ago
Might be the allegations such as those made by David Farrier this August[1] > Then, last month, Substack sent out a push notification to some users of the Substack app encouraging them to subscribe to a Nazi newsletter. Like, full-Nazi s
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by pryce 1y ago
stop being interested in the content of what Peter Thiel is saying, and start being interested in the social and political function of what he is saying. Content: Antichrist, prophecies, futurism; nothing that holds a truth value. Antichr
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by pryce 1y ago
That's very cute quip but I notice that it places the blame on 'trade with China' for an alarming problem that is in fact entirely the doing of US voters expressing their values (or the lack of them) in fair elections. A mor
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by pryce 1y ago
It's fascinating that this pattern happened the reverse direction, with a different biblical term: the word 'fool' as used in the KJV Bible translates a Jewish concept that doesn't really mean what we think of today &q
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by pryce 1y ago
a P value of 1.00?
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by pryce 1y ago
It sounds like the payment processors aren't well-equipped to know what item counts as illegal content or not, and that relying on the reckons of some evangelical activist group with a history of homophobia is predictably terrible opti
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by pryce 1y ago
> "Our for-profit LLC, which has been under the nonprofit since 2019, will transition to a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC)–a purpose-driven company structure that has to consider the interests of both shareholders and the mission.&
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by pryce 2y ago
A particularly memorable short review of "the Straight Story" suggests that he did end in fact end up doing a Lynch thing, however I suggest people don't read this review unless they've seen the film first [1]. > Lync
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by pryce 2y ago
I think it's fair to conclude that most people stating that they feel like killing themselves "have issues". Yet: if there is some second person telling the above kid to go through with that, we don't see the kid "h
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by pryce 3y ago
This kind of proposal is one I hadn't ever really considered. I would be fascinated to know if others here have had similar experiences when seeking contact with malicious attackers.
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by pryce 3y ago
first commit made in one of JiaT75's other repos https://github.com/JiaT75/STest/commits/master/
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by pryce 3y ago
additionally, even though the commit messages they've made are mostly plain, there may be features of their commit messages that could provide leads, such as his using what looks like a very obscure racist joke of referring to a gitign
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by pryce 3y ago
It's less difficult than you think. Tetragametic chimeras for half-sider budgerigars have different genomes on either side, and the mechanism they occur by is through fusion of two distinct embryos with different DNA[1] Given we know t
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by pryce 3y ago
> they've also decided to bring back pseudoephedrine tablets too I dislike many of their policies but I'm not convinced this one is wrongheaded. While meth (called 'P' in New Zealand) was often manufactured from pseud
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by pryce 3y ago
That's exactly what it is; the money they plan to acquire through this will be used to pay for the flagship taxcut policy of the largest of the three parties in the new coalition government (the National Party). I have my share of issu
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by pryce 3y ago
Remember when Musk called some guy in Thailand a 'pedophile' for no reason at all, and it immediately became international news with those keywords. That was so quirky!!
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by pryce 3y ago
The article literally shows in its second paragraph that "XY" entails male is not valid; it describes an extremely common occurrence of cells losing their Y chromosome. Outside of that example, for overall humans, when Y is presen
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by pryce 3y ago
Libertarian students have a notoriously difficult time in philosophy departments because of these kinds of eager statements. The question of whether or not organisations, businesses, states, armed forces, educational institutions, self-decl
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by pryce 3y ago
The soundtrack to Koyaanisqatsi is also used in the opening scene of Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013), which pairs a deep feeling of foreboding over footage of the beaches of Norfolk. While it might appear to be an incongruous choice to
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by pryce 4y ago
My opinion, to be taken with a grain of salt: Social fragmentation in the USA -along political lines, Trumpism, Qanon, Covid response, social media disinformation campaigns - has reached a point where it is no longer only extremists that t
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by pryce 4y ago
People who take the story literally today (largely American evangelicals), are usually also pretty adamant that they should take the dimensions in Genesis 6:15 literally - "The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide

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