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by richbell 3y ago
Dramatic recounting of this: https://youtu.be/uFw66YyHD6E
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by richbell 3y ago
> if people didn't have excess cash then companies wouldn't have excess profits from raising prices This is a flawed view of the situation. Just because people are spending more doesn't mean that they are doing so willfull
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by richbell 3y ago
> The article also has no data supporting it. Only feelings. It's very typical for these sort of articles. My company disbanded its employee productivity research group after they started providing data to the contrary. It's no
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by richbell 3y ago
Where I live there are several large billboards advertising incredible offers. The fine print is so small I'm not sure it's even possible to read.
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by richbell 3y ago
> If most talented developers are working private companies, that means that the remaining developers who chose to work for the government are likely more prone to have poor security practices. This is a fallacious logic. > Open sourc
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by richbell 3y ago
They uploaded sanitized point-in-time snapshot of the algorithm code. It did not include all the information necessary to actually understand how the algorithm works, nor is it an accurate reflection of how the algorithm currently works. I
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by richbell 3y ago
They're useful for providing context for one-off tweets. Account labels like "state controlled media" provides context for known bad actors.
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by richbell 3y ago
State-controlled media are used to publish disinformation and misinformation. There is no "free competition for ideas" when certain actors will blatantly lie; removing warning labels guarantees that users will stumble across demo
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by richbell 3y ago
GitHub. Azure. Windows Terminal. Windows Subsystem for Linux. Cross-platform .Net. Visual Studio Code (and the other one) WinGet Packafe Manager. Rust for Windows. Etc.
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by richbell 4y ago
I despise the SPDX format, it feels like it was designed by the same people who created the current disaster that is NVD.
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by richbell 4y ago
It's a sore-spot for sure. I've found that Rectangle[0] does a good enough job. [0] https://rectangleapp.com/
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by richbell 4y ago
That's a fair point. It's implied to be defamatory but not explicitly cited as legally defamatory. If that's so, then I completely agree with you. I'm going to try to search around and see if there's more informatio
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by richbell 4y ago
> Your position simply requires Google to remove anything that anybody asks them to from their results, doesn’t it? There's a notable difference between "anything" and results that have been deemed as defamation in a court
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by richbell 4y ago
A library or book store would probably get sued if they prominently featured a book called "avesteele is a horrible criminal" (full of unsubstantiated claims) and refused to remove it despite being asked nicely and eventually orde
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by richbell 4y ago
What do you mean there's an issue? The status page says everything is fine! ;) https://status.maven.org/
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by richbell 4y ago
Likewise. I follow several thoughtful creators like Asianometry[0] and haven't seen anything like what GP's describing. [0] https://asianometry.substack.com/
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by richbell 4y ago
I once asked ChatGPT if it knew about an esoteric programming language. It said "yes!" and then proceeded to quote information and code snippets for Python.
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by richbell 4y ago
Isn't Walmart's whole shtick that they move into an area and operate as a loss leader with the hope that their competition is forced to close?
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by richbell 4y ago
> The same take applies to individuals too, which basically nullifies your argument. This in no way nullifies my argument.
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by richbell 4y ago
> If the foundation is set up to allow this, then that's a fault of the structure of the foundation. "If I'm able to exploit you, it's your fault" is a strange take. Just because something isn't expressly fo
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by richbell 4y ago
> Corporations will act in their own self-interests just like everyone else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
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SQL: 2023 is finished: Here is what's new(peter.eisentraut.org)
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by richbell 4y ago
It's not editorialzing a headline. The context of the Tweet is what's being shared.
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by richbell 4y ago
Somewhat apropos: "The future is a dead mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse" https://youtu.be/EiZhdpLXZ8Q
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by richbell 4y ago
It seems to me that the EPA has been totally captured by corporate interests. It's hard to listen to stories about decisions they've made, for example approving Atrazine[0] despite the protests of the scientific advisors, and have
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by richbell 4y ago
> or else the characters feel the need to utter things like "but of course we are only pretending to plan out these dastardly deeds" at end of of each paragraph. "In Minecraft." https://knowyourmeme.com&#x2
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by richbell 4y ago
I wonder how this holds up in areas where there the majority of rentals are owned by a single company, or landlords collude to artificially drive up rental prices by keeping units vacant [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by richbell 4y ago
> Sign language is a complex language Specifically, sign languages are not visual representations of existing languages (e.g. ASL and English) but completely different languages altogether.
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by richbell 4y ago
> Tether has lots of experience in this field. They were "pioneer" and they went through a lot worse: Tons of FUD, the Bitfinex exchange hack, lawsuits, bank runs etc... They're experts in fraud and deception. https:&#x2F
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by richbell 4y ago
Ask Elon Musk. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-worth-basica...

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