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by smsm42 2y ago
Yes. Not only, though. Mainly they are making it less convenient for users to run unsigned binaries because being an universal gatekeeper for the whole platform and being able to control every binary that runs on it is an incredibly lucrati
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by smsm42 2y ago
Wow, this is really hostile design. They obviously know they can't ban third-party software on macos like they did on iphone, but they surely intend to come as close to it as possible, and make it as inconvenient as possible to install
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by smsm42 2y ago
I think there are many options between pink slime and Michelin three stars. I have never been in Michelin restaurant, and I don't eat in pink slime ones, but I never felt I am lacking options for food service. The middle road is extrem
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by smsm42 2y ago
If it's not typical, it should be seen more skeptical, not less. If I say my neighbors are witches who worship the devil, and are going to summon legions of Hell to earth this evening, then the police shouldn't start with burning
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by smsm42 2y ago
People lie to the police all the time though. People invent false accusations all the time. The police has to know it. It's just that they have exactly zero incentive not to do it - because nobody is going to give them any pushback for
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by smsm42 2y ago
It boggles the mind that you can just send an email to the police and they'd act as if whoever is targeted by that email is in fact a dangerous criminal and they'd arrest them and subject them to all kinds of humiliation and haras
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by smsm42 2y ago
I have a lot of memories in my childhood, but I can't remember anything on this level. Sure, I grew up in a very different environment than the US, but even in the US - say, was there a constant stream of content aimed at kids that is
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by smsm42 2y ago
> Why is this BS? Because the cure would be way worse than the disease. Both parties don't have my best interest in mind, but only one party has the power to ruin my life. I am not inclined to add to that power any more that it is a
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by smsm42 2y ago
Sometimes? Sure. All the time? You'd likely to hurt yourself pretty badly doing that, eventually (and maybe sooner than you'd realize). Nutrition-wise, I think, people starting to understand that. Information-wise, not so much.
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by smsm42 2y ago
It's not just "broad appeal". Shakespeare plays were made for broad appeal (he was a professional playwright, after all). Mozart's music was made for the broad appeal. I see nothing wrong with the broad appeal. It's
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by smsm42 2y ago
I think it's a good example of understanding how people think is good for the success at the top. Out of 1000 people asking "Wtf is CTR now?" maybe one needs a precise definition usable for immediate conversion to the program
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by smsm42 2y ago
> “I Spent 50 Hours In Ketchup” > In general the more extreme the better. I may be sounding like "get off my lawn" guy right now but should there be some realization that these people are a cultural analogue of if not heroin
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by smsm42 2y ago
Does exactly what? Ban whole ecosystems because somebody on the internet used it wrong? Could you please provide any substantiation to this entirely unbelievable claim?
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by smsm42 2y ago
You're saying all big companies ban whole language ecosystem because somebody on the internet used one function in that language in knowingly unsafe manner contrary to all established practices and warnings in the documentation? This i
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by smsm42 2y ago
Yeah I thought about Doctor Who too, and if you look on it over its history the designs there are pretty basic and yet I never felt anything was really missing there. It's not about prettiest pictures.
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by smsm42 2y ago
Well, comparing things to the STD is not really setting a high bar on anything IMHO :)
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by smsm42 2y ago
Wow! Never heard about it. That may explain why I like DS9 the most of all the Trek things.
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by smsm42 2y ago
Recently finished my rewatch cycle, using the Lurker's Guide this time to complement it. Totally worth it.
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by smsm42 2y ago
I think CGI-wise we are just spoiled by the multi-million dollar blockbuster CGI. For the time and the media their CGI is pretty good. And yes, it's not perfect, but completely adequate to the time I think. And I don't think the a
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by smsm42 2y ago
That's a strange reply. You said something incorrect, I corrected it, but now you imply that knowing the correct facts is some kind of personal flaw?
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by smsm42 2y ago
No need to be condescending. Yes, I know about it - I know it only appeared recently in 2018 too. And also you have to be literally dying to use it. If you're not dying yet - but may be severely disabled, in tremendous pain, or otherwi
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by smsm42 2y ago
It is certainly not fun and happy song, but I would go as far as claim it is ultimately uplifting. After all it says "I'll stand before the lord of song with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah" - past all the suffering and b
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by smsm42 2y ago
I don't see how it tells "a tale of hedonism", especially if you know which parts of the Bible it refers to. There's a lot of sex, lust, love, heroism and betrayal there, but "hedonism" would not be among words
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by smsm42 2y ago
> but it's also far more likely that the reason we don't use them is that the actual investigation of their effectiveness can't reproduce the results. Or, passing a novel approach through FDA, who are previously not famili
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by smsm42 2y ago
> If a new element had use, of course we would use it. If we had FDA for elements, then we wouldn't because FDA for elements wouldn't approve it. That's the point of the analogy.
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by smsm42 2y ago
It doesn't look like FDA - or, specifically, Frances Oldham Kelsey - had any data or any evidence to suspect something was wrong with thalidomide. Partly it was because the manufacturers hid whatever suspicious data they had, but Kelse
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by smsm42 2y ago
That makes as much sense as saying "marijuana is already legalized in the US - you just need to buy a plane ticket to Amsterdam". The whole point of having your rights in certain jurisdiction is that you didn't have to flee t
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by smsm42 2y ago
Yes, for banks that have this workflow enabled. In know WF does something like that. But many banks don't, and for these there's not much alternative except getting username/password and scraping. Terrible security, but dragg
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by smsm42 2y ago
On one hand, this looks like awesome work. On the other hand, personally for me I am not sure how it could ever work for me. Right now, I have 20+ money/investment accounts from ~10 different providers and I am tracking it through a pr
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by smsm42 2y ago
That was my first question - what is "safety" and what is their methodology for evaluating it? Who evaluated that methodology and why it is the right one? Is there a meaningful safety benefit to this evaluation, or just a CYA exer

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