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by roughly 6mo ago
This is the other side of the coin of Uber violating state and local regulations for the better part of a decade to get their business off the ground or HSBC laundering money for the cartels.
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by roughly 6mo ago
A weird part about the modern world is that a cell phone is incredibly cheap compared to shelter, food, or just about anything else. You’d be surprised how many homeless folks have phones.
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by roughly 6mo ago
Astronauts are, as a group, extremely risk loving. Every single person who signs up to go into space knows what they’re signing up for - they’ve spent their entire life working for the opportunity to be put in a tin can and shot into orbit
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by roughly 6mo ago
So, a metabolic pathway is the set of steps by which an organism converts one molecule into another - this can be by splitting a molecule into pieces, by adding or removing an atom or small group of atoms, or by combining two different mole
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by roughly 6mo ago
This is one of the things that’s deeply challenging for biology and biochemistry - it’s extremely resistant to the sort of reductionism that works so well for other fields. It’s rare to find a single compound, a single species, or a single
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by roughly 6mo ago
Yeah, if you're just looking for ad blocking, you're right, pi.hole is the better bet. Little Snitch is intended for per-process, per-connection blocking - for example, you may need, eg, an Instagram uploader app to contact Meta&#
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by roughly 6mo ago
I run both (LS on Mac, at least), they do different things - pi.hole is a great ad blocker which applies to all of the devices on your network. Little Snitch is doing something different - it tells you every call that every app you use is m
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by roughly 6mo ago
> How come any ships don't turn their transponders off and try to make a run for it? Because the cost of failure is death and the crew aren’t going to risk it, and the other cost of failure is a couple hundred million dollars in shi
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by roughly 6mo ago
> In another surreal conversation, ChatGPT argued at length that I am heterosexual, even citing my blog to claim I had a girlfriend. I am, of course, gay as hell, and no girlfriend was mentioned in the post. After a while, we compromised
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by roughly 6mo ago
They do more than that - our local PD gave a presentation on what Flock’s pitching - ALPRs, fixed pan/tilt cameras, “citizen cameras,” drones, and a whole “sensor fusion” software suite that lets you stitch in everything along with dat
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by roughly 6mo ago
Kobo has a bookstore that’s pretty comprehensive - I haven’t found anything missing. Not sure that gets you out of DRM land, but at least you’re not giving money to Jeff Bezos.
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by roughly 6mo ago
> if the effort needed to undo it is the same as doing. That’s the rub, yes - as long as your failures are nice and gradual and proportional to the changes you’re making, everything’s fine.
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by roughly 6mo ago
Brother, I live in Oakland. To hear it from the media, statistically I’ve been dead for a decade now. This is always the narrative around cities, which is fine, because it keeps away the kinds of people who find my town scary instead of inv
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by roughly 6mo ago
You can send a submarine down to crushing depths while violating all the traditional rules about "good" engineering, too.
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by roughly 6mo ago
> The US and German models are consequences of just yelling 'Free market!' without stopping to think about what's actually being sold in that market, and how to encourage genuine competition. The point of a system is what
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by roughly 6mo ago
We're somehow in a race between LLMs curing cancer, destroying the planet by "You're right to be mad, I shouldn't have issued those launch codes, it's even in my Claude.md file, I'm sorry," and rendering m
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by roughly 6mo ago
One of my favorite fun facts is that it’s nearly impossible to get a hamster drunk - their foraging method is to get, eg, grains and fruits and store them piled up underground in their burrow, where they of course ferment, so hamsters’ live
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by roughly 7mo ago
Also it's just randomly incorrect in places. For instance, it lists "fox" as one of the "Buddy" species, but that's not in the code.
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by roughly 7mo ago
I'm reminded of an article a while back talking about how the change from sodium streetlights to LED streetlights had a whole lot of unforeseen effects on animals, people's sleep patterns, driver awareness and visibility, etc. due
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by roughly 7mo ago
The current state of affairs is that Youtube and Instagram have brought back fascism and the measles, so if the complaint here is "it's impossible to moderate algorithmic content at scale and so the platforms would become incredib
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by roughly 7mo ago
It’s not eliminating section 230 entirely, it’s eliminating it for algorithmically promoted content. If you have a site that has user content and you present that content in a neutral fashion, section 230 applies. If you pick and choose wha
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by roughly 7mo ago
Your ability to evaluate whether the argument is correct is limited. In theory, the author and the correctness of the argument are unrelated; in practice, the degree of experience the author has with the topic they’re making an argument on
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by roughly 7mo ago
The same way it’s always done: political organizing. Find groups that are working towards the world you want and start chipping in and getting involved. It takes time, there’s no magic wand, and we should’ve started 20 years ago, but none o
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by roughly 7mo ago
It means if you want the world to be different than it is, get out there and start making it that way. You are a participant, not an observer.
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by roughly 7mo ago
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.
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by roughly 7mo ago
As someone put it, “it turns out 4d chess is topologically isomorphic to checkers.”
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by roughly 7mo ago
> How do you know their intentions? Because they declared them loudly . When they launched the drone strikes on Israel, they gave Israel and the US warning time so they could be intercepted. The second time, they gave them much less war
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by roughly 7mo ago
As the joke goes, $10 to tighten the bolt, $90 to know which bolt to tighten.
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by roughly 7mo ago
It's still faster and cheaper to just build the right thing to begin with. As the old saying goes, spend your time sharpening your ax.
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by roughly 7mo ago
Iran did the same before the conflict in response to prior Israeli attacks - the two drone waves they sent that were intercepted were both demonstrations of capability, not actual attacks. Unfortunately I’m not sure their current audience i

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