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by rurp 2y ago
Right, I think we're going to find that a test of "Does this sound like a waste to an uninformed person who has thought about it for five seconds" is a pretty poor framework for making sweeping changes.
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by rurp 2y ago
You're forgetting how the Twitter acquisition actually went. Almost immediately after the contract was signed he started trying to weasel out of it with various absurd excuses. He only stopped trying to violate the purchase contract on
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by rurp 2y ago
Interesting question. I think there would be a bit of both but the most common reaction by far would be to do nothing. There would be a lot of disinformation questioning the scientists and science behind the findings, and any politician try
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by rurp 2y ago
We're talking about the biggest ad company in the world deliberately making it much harder for users to block ads. I think their primary goal is to show people more ads, and anything to do with safety is a nice to have and/or pret
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by rurp 2y ago
Well said. I'll just add that even vegetarianism gets idealized as well. The farmers growing those crops do far worse things than humanely killing a chicken to vast amounts of wildlife that they perceive as pests.
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by rurp 2y ago
In addition to the good responses you've gotten about not overreacting to hype cycles I'll add that you should also try to spend less time worrying about the unknown. I understand the appeal of a straightforward career path of col
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by rurp 2y ago
User-agent might be a useful signal but treating it as an absolute flag is sloppy. For one thing it's trivial for malicious actors to change their user-agent. Cloudflare could use many other signals to drastically cut down on false pos
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by rurp 2y ago
Cloudflare has been even worse for me on Linux + Firefox. On a number of sites I get the "Verify" challenge and after solving it immediately get a message saying "You have been blocked" every time. Clearing cookies, disa
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by rurp 2y ago
There's a pretty big difference between a private company pandering to progressives by banning a few words versus the federal government suddenly declaring that many different words and concepts are banned. These NSF flags are just one
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by rurp 2y ago
Don't worry I'm sure when Musk, the self proclaimed Free Speech Absolutist, hears about this he'll require them to reverse course immediately.
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by rurp 2y ago
Any remotely serious attempt to balance the budget will have to involve serious cuts to some or all of Defense, Medicare, and Social Security; along with tax increases, either new taxes or closing loopholes. Trump and Elon are completely un
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by rurp 2y ago
Is there a way to unflag/vouch for stories that have been flagged like there is for comments? This article shouldn't be flagged IMO. It covers some notable government tech changes and could be directly related to a number of datas
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by rurp 2y ago
Google spends immense amounts of resources every year to ensure that their search is almost always the default option. Defaults are extremely powerful in consumer tech.
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OPM sued over privacy concerns with new government-wide email system(thehill.com)
8 points by rurp 2y ago|0 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
On top of that he repeatedly used the fact that he had no equity to push back on criticism and to appear more altruistic and trustworthy. Turns out, that was just part of the con.
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by rurp 2y ago
While yes the US could be better about freedom of speech and ideas in some areas, it's a pretty wild assertion to say that China of all places has a comparative advantage here.
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by rurp 2y ago
They even had a very Microsoft style rollout for it, where a huge modal for the chat bot would pop up and cover most of the page every single time you went to the docs, with no way to disable it. I tried it out with a very simple database s
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by rurp 2y ago
I don't know, for the past few years Elon has seemed more passionete about trolling on Twitter than literally anything else in the world. One of the first changes after the purchase was to make it so that his tweets got special rules s
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Ann Hodges, first known survivor of meteorite strike(en.wikipedia.org)
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by rurp 2y ago
There are a striking number of stories in this thread of incompetence and unethical behavior on the part of Subaru, and it makes me sad that the company has turned into such a wreck. Maybe they were always run this way but older technology
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by rurp 2y ago
Yeesh, which care manufacturer is this from?
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by rurp 2y ago
I'm surprised to see so many comments solely about how aquariums/zoos are cruel and feeling sorry for this particular fish, when it's a species that is regularly hunted. I wouldn't want to be locked in a cage/tank e
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by rurp 2y ago
The beauty of having a monopoly or oligopoly in a dozen major markets is that you don't have to care about customers. As much as I hate this move and don't think it will help the company, I think Google is powerful and entrenched
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by rurp 2y ago
Treating LLMs as comparable to the internet is a great illustration of their point.
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by rurp 2y ago
That's the glaring issue with all of these AI "features". If it can't be trusted to produce something that is both accurate and complete, it's generating negative work for whoever has to track down and fix the probl
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by rurp 2y ago
Spreading conspiracy theories and supporting fascists doesn't do anything to help make governance more efficient, if anything it does the opposite.
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by rurp 2y ago
Yep, and this kind of needlessly wasteful consumerism is everywhere in the tech industry. All of the token statements about sustainability that come from the same industry that normalized and celebrates this kind of product strategy drives
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by rurp 2y ago
It's often the opposite, where their conviction bars them from even applying for a job.
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by rurp 2y ago
Yep, and just to drive home the point the official motto of the California Conservation Corps, which does a lot fire fighting and prevention in the state, is “Hard work, low pay, miserable conditions, and more.”[0] I get that the motto is s
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by rurp 2y ago
It's not a binary choice between expanding aircraft and doing nothing. I have seen some convincing arguments that firefighting aircraft are mostly for show against large fires. Essentially the amount of water/chemicals they can mo

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