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by seanp2k2 4y ago
We've all seen how responsibly companies act in less-regulated markets, and the FTC is already pretty damn toothless.
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
>somewhere, there is a software developer--with a human name--who built this automatic ban system They built it because someone in Product or AdTech dreamt it up, sold it to some VP or directory, and got some project + product managers t
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
The amount of just totally irrelevant ads we get these days blows my mind, like never before in history have we had this much info about consumers, and yet Hulu chooses to run pharma ads for us all day for conditions that no one we know of
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
Then what? The best thing I can get is Comcast with 1.2G down and 40mbit up. They don't have much pressure to do better, and because they have a very direct profit motive to make torrenting as bad as possible because they own a large s
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
Sad that due to politicking we couldn't get Gigi Sohn in, so we get Eric J. Troutman instead: https://tcpaworld.com/2023/04/01/its-official-u-s-president-... More on Gigi Sohn: https://www.th
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
Companies realize that they're in monopolistic situations where users don't really have a choice, so they know that they're not in any real danger of a significant percentage of users dropping them just because they're d
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
Why not do $44bn and buy Twitter?
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
Anywhere within an hour drive of SF is extremely expensive, and without a car, extremely difficult to eke out a living outside of a major metro area even if they wanted to.
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
At this point, feces on the sidewalk /is/ part of the SF aesthetic, so in a way, by refusing to allow anything more than two or three stories to be built in many neighborhoods, they’re correct in that they’re preserving it. Then a
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
>”Freedom that’s a living hell isn’t freedom, it’s just freedom from responsibility for caring.” The problem is that the latter is far too attractive and convenient for a large percentage of this country. Then simply move out of a city c
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
And most importantly in “free market”-loving America, lots and lots of funding that no one is willing to provide. When they inevitably break some laws, it’s easier for everyone to swallow their obscene housing costs under the guise of “we’r
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
Get them bus tickets back to Florida /s
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
All the areas around the BART stations are very sketchy now too. Mission St is even worse than it was a decade ago. We used to hang out in SF all the time, taking BART in, which was nice as we didn’t have to worry about parking and all the
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
All the major US cities have this problem. San Diego has always been pretty bad because it’s warm year-round, but we were just in Texas and Austin, Dallas, and even Houston have the same problems. We actually got low-key chased by a drug zo
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
All the big companies already offshore profits to a ridiculous degree to avoid the existing taxes altogether. Their effective tax rates are disgustingly low. Fix tax offshoring first and we probably wouldn’t need to do anything else.
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
> Is there any reason why raising interest rate is 'fair' but a temporary 'inflation tax' is unfair? Because the former puts more burden on average citizens and the latter would hurt the ruling class.
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
As someone who has had to develop desktop software (ugh) with true cross-platform support for MacOS, Linux, and Windows (thanks Animation and VFX industry) using golang, I can assure everyone that it is not “really easy” to make things like
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
As someone who has had to develop desktop software (ugh) with true cross-platform support for MacOS, Linux, and Windows (thanks Animation and VFX industry) using golang, I can assure everyone that it is not “really easy” to make things like
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
Even more ridiculous IMO is the requirement for a REAL AND VALID SSL CERT for localhost. I made https://github.com/ip2k/I-Dont-Care-About-HSTS-For-Localhost to share some of the frankly ridiculous techniques required t
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
Stop-the-world indeed
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
Even more ridiculous is the HSTS requirement for localhost, which inspired me to share the techniques in https://github.com/ip2k/I-Dont-Care-About-HSTS-For-Localhost for automating a bit of the frankly ridiculous and i
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
>If my patient in this case had done that, ChatGPT’s response could have killed her. Not if she lived in a state where there's no longer any legal treatment for ectopic pregnancy.
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
Also likely a "career-limiting move" at AAPL
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
Check out WAC lighting. You'll pay for the quality, but it's there. Work with a local lighting store to guarantee results. There are other high-end brands too, but WAC are very popular and what many high-end hotels and restaurants
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
If the warranty expires, buy the same ones from $BIG_BOX_STORE and return the broken ones. The companies send them back to the mfgs for credit. They'll get the hint eventually.
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
Philips is generally a safe bet, and G.E. + Osram are as well. The generic crap at Home Depot and Amazon and Walmart that costs 1/4 as much will probably perform awful, but could be a hidden gem. Some dead giveaways are total lack of h
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
It's crazy to me that in 2023, Amazon still refuses to offer meaningful product filtering. The miscategorization of items has been written about many times, and the best explanation for why they're not fixing it is basically &quo
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
Exciting, but that article is from 2016 and here we are in 2023 with no commercial availability. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceDiscussion/comments/j6hwn... asked what happened with no real updates.
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
The "VIVID" line by SORAA are also high-quality high-CRI LEDs with good cooling solutions, and they're available in things like MR16 GU10 for desk lamps with the "weird" bulbs with two little prongs. I got a cheap G
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by seanp2k2 4y ago
The biggest advantage for AMD IMO is efficiency and thermals. AMD beats Intel perf per watt hands down — it’s not even close. Intel can’t shrink their process node fast enough because they use their own fabs. AMD uses TSMC and benefits from

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