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by salt-thrower 4y ago
I would guess that the average person has higher expectations for Google. Bing has been a bit of a punchline for years, so I don't think most people care as much.
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Forgive me for wondering whether an account created 27 minutes ago is arguing in good faith on a topic that frequently gets brigaded by FUD trolling. An actual lawyer will have to weigh in on whether this fits the damages awarded in similar
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
A lifetime of garnished wages seems like a small price to pay for a millionaire who makes a career out of peddling hatred that ruins other peoples' lives. And they didn't just make up the number out of nowhere; it's based on
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
That's patently incorrect. Incoming texts from my Android-user contacts are green bubbles. Incoming texts from my iPhone-user contacts are blue. Source: I'm looking at my iPhone right now.
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
The shoes thing is definitely still true in some circles. It's a valuable lesson to teach, but a very hard one. And most people don't internalize it until adulthood. Most parents will shrug and just spring for the iphone rather th
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
If you follow the trial at all, you'll see that this was not just "he said a bad thing one time and people are mad at him." He has a strongly demonstrated pattern of lies, perjury, obstruction of the legal process, and encour
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
This is a fair judgement against Jones. A fair judgement against the people who lied about WMD's and killed millions via the war in Iraq would be life in prison, for a start. Just because the criminals at the top get away with war crim
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Is being imprisoned an effective addiction treatment or therapy program? Would the threat of prison manage to turn people away from heroin or schizophrenia? There is no publicly funded drug treatment or mental health program to send them to
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Public funding for healthcare, including mental health and rehab, would be a good start. Where do these people go even if they want help for their issues? Therapy and rehab cost tens of thousands of dollars. And throwing them in prison is j
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Literally no one knows what you’re talking about.
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
I wouldn’t compare React to Django and Rails, as in being a “full framework” that is opinionated and has specific ways of doing things. React is still more of just a rendering library than a framework in the traditional sense.
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
This is a reductive straw man. People are saying that cities are dead or dying for many more reasons than the appearance of general stores.
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Good luck with that! Though it might be worth trying, as the desert will be even more inhospitable than it already is in the years to come.
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
The fact that React is “good,” in the author’s own admission, combined with its raw popularity and staying power is why I would still choose it for any greenfield project.
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Freedom of speech is literally just “the government can’t throw you in jail for expressing an opinion.” It’s always been only that. Media companies (TV, newspapers, radio, now social media) have always “deplatformed” people who they disagre
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
I'm acutely aware that middle to upper class, mostly white, Americans are the worst offenders of overconsumption and that people who make overpopulation claims about the third world are being racist. Britain, and then America, led the
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Your goalposts are still apocalyptic. Even going from 8 billion to 4 billion would be catastrophic amounts of suffering. The raw number of humans that currently exist is not a good measure for quality of life in general.
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
"rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all" It literally says "livable future." As in, a future that is as livable for humanity in general as the present currently is. Ther
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
> And if they won’t, life itself is even more resilient. You realize that's hardly reassuring, right? You're right though - life is resilient. Life has survived worse. But our fragile global civilization, propped up by fossil f
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
> If there hypothetically was a magical source of near infinite renewable energy that could be harnessed without negative side effects, would you be ok with 2600+ sqft homes and air conditioning? Yes. In a world with zero negative extern
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
This article comes across as extremely tone-deaf, and the author seems unaware of the existential scale of the problems humanity is facing. The fact that the phrase "climate change" only appears once - at the beginning, as a throw
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Exactly. The author is living in a middle/upper class suburbian bubble. Bigger and bigger houses that consume more and more resources is a problem, not a sign of progress. It is a glaring sign of the consumerism and resource depletion
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
The corporate automation of creative work is not comparable to the choice between different modes of transportation for a courier job. I would gladly trade less efficiency in art generation for more artists being employed. "AI stimulat
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
That's the crux of it. I was mostly just making a joke that the marketing copy on their main page sounds cultish because of its vague appeals to high minded ideals and trendy tech buzzwords like AI. That's all though. I don't
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
I'm not saying this is a cult, but the Scientology office in my city has a sign out front advertising the same vague benefits that this website claims to offer.
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
As usual, it’s success at the cost of increased user hostility. The company doesn’t care, because increasing the stock price is the only thing that matters to them, their board, and their shareholders. But it does make the lives of users wo
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. Weather patterns like droughts are exacerbated by climate change. Heat waves are known to make it easier for fires to catch and spread. Heat waves are more common now due to climate change. Thus climate
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Did you read the article I linked?
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
What’s the average lethality of California’s power failures compared to those of Texas?
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by salt-thrower 4y ago
Acknowledging the failures of their ideologically motivated “independent” power grid that fails more easily under strain would be nice. Or retracting the assertion that power customers paying thousands of dollars to stay alive during a chil

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