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by smsm42 2y ago
> Advocates for fairer taxation have said that, due to the way that tax law is written and enforced, it is essentially optional for Musk and other billionaires to follow tax guidelines What kind of bullshit is this? If Musk didn't f
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Those are different credits. There are (if they didn't expire yet, don't remember) federal tax credits for buyers, but separate system is for manufacturers where if you make cars, you need to make some of them EV, or buy credits f
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When you send an email, there's your conscious intent behind it. So it doesn't matter what technology is in between, as long as your mind is moving it. If you didn't intend it (as in, I know you are on vacation and send you a
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Contract requires "meeting of minds", i.e. intentional assent from both sides. I am not sure text generated by fully automated bot can be treated as intentional assent.
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Now witness how people suddenly realize what is the problem iwth this argument when it happens to them. It's free private action when we do it, but fascism when the other guys do it. Always so.
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I have a blog still, which I've maintained since 2001. But I have no interest in having "personal brand", whatever it is, I just enjoy it. I also read a number of technical blogs. Most of them I found by word of mouth - someb
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I don't think the stores that used to exist had the same or superior choice of goods and the same prices as Walmart did. I mean there might be some that did, but they persist even in the presence of Walmart - I have several Walmarts wi
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Euphemism treadmill is real and never stops.
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Policing the language to avoid harming oppressed people. This is not a real virtue though as there's no actual harming and the only thing it does is creating animosity, annoyance and pointless arguments and causing people to hate each
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> It's not like he's going on Twitter/X and hectoring people. He personally may not. We do know though there are a lot of people very eager to wage such campaigns, and we know speech-policing campaigns have very real and v
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There's a difference between your proclaiming "I am so much better than you!" and me actually feeling worse. If you baselessly proclaim that, I would not feel morally worse, I will feel annoyed. And behavior that annoys peopl
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> But to accuse someone of "virtue signaling" is a political attack that requires evidence. What kind of "evidence" beyond the content of the signalling itself it would require? I mean, sure one could make a detailed
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You can't have food that is at the same time cheap, healthy and at your doorstep. You can have two of them. Walmart gets you cheap and nearby. If you want healthy and nearby, go to Whole Foods and be prepared to stretch your wallet. No
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I wouldn't expect better. Everybody sends these kinds of emails. Banks, shops, social media sites, hospitals, government... everybody. It's just easier this way for each particular site, and since data theft and unauthorized acces
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If we had surefire ways to make people better than they went it, why deploy them in prisons? People pay thousands upon thousands for things like that voluntarily. The problem is, there's no such way. There's no way to "make&q
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He was a subcontractor working on a specific project. If Apple used the same data in other ways, he'd have no way to know.
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How "hey siri" or "hey google" trigger phrases would work if they aren't listening?
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There will be no proof until somebody inside Apple who is in on the scam decides to grow a conscience and blow the whistle. Then they will be dismissed as a "disgruntled employee". Decompiling Siri probably will get you a lot of a
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> the prisoners should be paid at least minimum wage so we don't have the state to pay to lock people up and then some private corporation to profit off slave labor. Minimum wage is supposed to cover sustainable food, shelter, cloth
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If you say "people" want something else than what is offered now, then by providing this something else you should be able to capture a lot of the market. Example: Apple produced an iphone, but some people wanted more open, not-so
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Lots of people thought about doing lots of things. Thinking about doing it and actually successfully doing it are two very, very different things, as any startup entrepreneur can tell you. > So they're stuck designing an entire phon
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> because without it we will have tighter and tighter controls over the internet. Were you paying attention for the last 10 years? We already have tighter and tighter controls over the internet. Pretty much every government on the planet
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What kind of information do you think would allow you to make the market of the phones substantially different than it is now? If you think the problem is information, the sales of iPhones is about $200 billion per year. I am pretty sure th
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It's not a "failure" - people don't owe you to behave in ways that are approved by you. They have different priorities, and you can tell them they "actually" need something else until you blue in the face, but
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That's one thing I noticed - the author doesn't say "would you like me to introduce you to X who you could talk to about Y?". He says "hey, go talk to that guy" and thinks he's being kind. He's not. W
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I used such a company for airline compensation once. Took them 2 years to drag the process around and at the end I got nothing.
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The problem with this is once this has been established, the Congress started being lazy and just throw the lawmaking to the bureaucrats, essentially saying "well. we make this agency and they will figure out the rules, we don't c
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This is still not addressing the main problem. Why can they add those fees and make their UX annoying and hostile to the customer, without fearing that the customers would just turn around and leave? Because the customers largely have nowhe
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That's not an accurate description. An accurate description is that the court is ordering an open source maintainer to stop treating one particular user in a hostile and exclusionary manner. Now, you can object to that too, but there&#
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Yes, the two are not identical - in the former, increase is not the part of the closure, in the latter it is. Test: increase = True adjust1 = (lambda x: x + 1) if increase else (lambda x: x - 1) adjust2 = lambda x: x + 1 if increas

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