ratelimitsteve

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by ratelimitsteve 5d ago
>[The GrapheneOS project] also said it has not received any kind of request for assistance from a Canadian police force in recent months. We saw this in the US with apple ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93
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by ratelimitsteve 8d ago
i'm not looking at the guesses, i'm looking at the distribution of guesser success rates. assuming random distribution, counterintuitively enough, you would expect some guessers to appear much better or much worse than others. i k
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by ratelimitsteve 8d ago
as the kind of person who has been reading the jargon file for fun since the 90s, I thought I had at least a passing familiarity with a lot of hackish slang from the old days. today i learned about nasal demons as a phrase for undefined beh
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by ratelimitsteve 9d ago
the crux of whether or not this is extortion isn't just "something I don't like happens". it's not extortion to dislike a business's practice, and it's not extortion to tell your friends about it. it may b
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by ratelimitsteve 9d ago
If 10,000 people guess 10,000 fair coin flips each one of them will get more guesses right than any of the others, one of them will get fewer guesses right than any of the others, and the gulf between the two is likely to be over 4 standard
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by ratelimitsteve 9d ago
protection rackets involve crime and violence. talking to people about a business doing things you don't like is neither of those things. that's just coopting actual victimhood in an effort to make people disapproving of how you d
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by ratelimitsteve 9d ago
>I suspect you’d probably just carry on per usual. That's entirely what I'm afraid of
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by ratelimitsteve 9d ago
Hey, so what do y'all think it felt like back in the 30s to watch the world split between a handful of really aggressive countries and everyone else? Specifically, what do y'all think it felt like to be a non-aggressive person liv
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by ratelimitsteve 9d ago
but the only way they can "fuck up" this business is by influencing their reputation. no one is getting a brick through their window. this is an attempt to try to mutate basic feedback mechanisms until they're equivalent to p
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by ratelimitsteve 10d ago
>It's something else entirely to threaten the business owner. Please enumerate the threat, as I've been unable to find anything that passes for a threat in the article.
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by ratelimitsteve 10d ago
why is talking about this with their community a threat?
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by ratelimitsteve 10d ago
I would once again like to point out that the "threat" mentioned in the article is someone saying they'll talk about what the shop owner did with their friends.
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by ratelimitsteve 10d ago
if i'm expected to make coffee and art then it's perfectly reasonable to expect more money than if I'm merely expected to make coffee. whether that comes as part of base salary or as some contract-esque arrangement when art i
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by ratelimitsteve 10d ago
the only "threat" mentioned in the article is that someone said that if she didn't take the sign down they would post about it in a local artist community. Threatening people with violence is always unwarranted, but trying to
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by ratelimitsteve 10d ago
keep trying to listen to Negativland but then my mind just turns to Pepsi, and I couldn't tell you why...
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by ratelimitsteve 11d ago
are identical twins the same person?
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by ratelimitsteve 11d ago
no one is challenging whether "fuck" is offensive, we're challenging what powers the mild abrasiveness of a single word actually gives people in controlling behavior.
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by ratelimitsteve 11d ago
This brought to you by the same legal scholars that brought you theories such as "Everyone knows 'own' doesn't mean 'own'" and "It's okay to give the judge hearing your case tons of money because
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by ratelimitsteve 12d ago
but do you have any evidence beyond intuition that those denials differ significantly in reversal rate? one would guess that things that are never going to be covered get denied and then never appealed but one would also guess that things t
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by ratelimitsteve 12d ago
>Few patients appeal when insurers decline to pay for their care. Many don’t even know they can. But new data show that when they do, they frequently win — in some plans, nine out of 10 times. If 90% of denials that are challenged end up
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by ratelimitsteve 12d ago
fair, but recipes aren't the only thing where AI summaries at the top of search results are simultaneously transformative and competitive. Any information that is scraped from a website and then summarized by AI in a way that prevents
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by ratelimitsteve 12d ago
How clear is it when I google a recipe and get an AI-generated recipe that's clearly derived from the top three results and then placed above those results? That sounds like it's both transformative (in that the recipe created by
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by ratelimitsteve 12d ago
the second, surely...
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by ratelimitsteve 15d ago
>Which is, of course, a bad thing that ought not to be encouraged I'm not actually willing to take that as read. It's just the word "fuck". You may personally find it distasteful and you're welcome to discourage
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by ratelimitsteve 15d ago
do you have an example of this? it feels like a suboptimal response even given the stupid, heavy-handed legislation you cite.
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by ratelimitsteve 15d ago
Joke's on you, as standards loosen now PG-13 movies get up to eleven "fuck"s to distribute throughout the film (nineteen for documentaries)
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by ratelimitsteve 15d ago
https://patch.com/california/northhollywood/my-daughter-died... oh like this article that says a child was hit by a "LAPD bullet" as though wild bullets roam the streets of LA looking for children instea
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by ratelimitsteve 15d ago
no matter how shitty OpenAI is I don't want to be lied to. Completely separate issues.
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by ratelimitsteve 15d ago
exactly. delete all of the "a"s from your comment. what happens to theirs? nothing. because they're not the same thing.
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by ratelimitsteve 16d ago
It's a premise you wouldn't expect, but discussing your mental health at all is a necessary first step to actually getting help comfort and stigma in discussing mental health is a huge barrier to most people. I think it makes se

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