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by some_random 4mo ago
You only think that because you don't consume news from other nations.
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by some_random 4mo ago
You will own nothing and be happy.
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by some_random 4mo ago
What a masterclass in modern spin: 1: Take a problem, in this case tobacco consumption 2: Isolate a part of it, ideally a the part that is most visible and/or easiest to go after. As others have mentioned, Sweden has a large culture of
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by some_random 4mo ago
This would be a reasonable take if lawmakers hadn't been trying to scam us our of our rights since those rights were first put to paper.
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by some_random 5mo ago
So, the syntax is so bad that you have to use an LLM to generate the spec, but also you still need to understand the spec the LLM generates which is now harder because you weren't even the one to write it. It sounds like the syntax jus
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by some_random 5mo ago
It's so funny how much anti-americans cry about the US refusing to sell things to an adversary.
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by some_random 5mo ago
The US is explicitly not letting Cuba buy US goods, that's literally the only thing it's doing.
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by some_random 5mo ago
No, refusing to trade with an adversary nation isn't bullying.
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by some_random 5mo ago
Those conversations have definitely happened and while I have no clue what the lefty types settled on, in my opinion such internet volunteers should lose money.
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by some_random 5mo ago
What's capitalist about it? It works.
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by some_random 5mo ago
You already called suicide hotlines capitalist, I don't have any respect for your opinion on this matter.
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by some_random 5mo ago
Most people don't believe in incremental progress anymore, either it works 100% of the time and solves everything forever or it's a failure and you probably wanted it to fail because you're evil.
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by some_random 5mo ago
Have you missed the last decade and a half of people having their lives ruined by social media mobs for minor slights?
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by some_random 5mo ago
The people who hate Burning Man don't care about paltry things like the principles it's based on, they simply don't like the people that go for completely unrelated reasons.
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by some_random 5mo ago
Yeah that's how news organizations have to frame things
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by some_random 5mo ago
Banksy's whole thing is obvious, faux-brave work. Didn't you know war bad?
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by some_random 5mo ago
Security through Obscurity used to work, with AI it absolutely does not.
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by some_random 5mo ago
Why would you want that?
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by some_random 5mo ago
It's a train or bus that is exclusively yours, goes exactly where you want it to go, when you want to go. Sounds objectively better than a train to me.
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by some_random 5mo ago
A common situation is that you have access to a handful of tools that have root permissions, either because they're specifically allowed to be invoked (sudo -l) or because they're invoked by something else with root.
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by some_random 5mo ago
Trust me, it happens allll the time
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by some_random 5mo ago
Because it's very obvious whataboutism.
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by some_random 5mo ago
Yes but also no, being in the US is a meaningful exposure in a way that a Singapore HQ isn't
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by some_random 5mo ago
You find it reprehensible but can't _just_ say that, you have to justify it with "and also the Americans and British did it". Yeah right.
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by some_random 5mo ago
Not even getting into the more dubious part of this claim, just because the British or Americans did it doesn't mean it's right or acceptable. If you disagree with that, you're implicitly pro slavery, pro penal expeditions, e
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by some_random 5mo ago
Chinese company has an issue being a Chinese company for international legal or optics reasons, relocates to Singapore while still being controlled by Chinese nationals or all-but-Chinese-Nationals. Bytedance is a great example. Russian com
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by some_random 5mo ago
"Your families live here", maybe "We have shadow police stations across the world", the playbook is well established
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by some_random 5mo ago
Can we finally acknowledge the obvious Singapore-washing that Chinese companies have been doing for years or are we going to keep pretending?
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by some_random 6mo ago
If only the US was a petrostate, that would solve all our problems.
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by some_random 6mo ago
You're missing the third question which is of definitions. There's an other person Mr $65k who after all their necessary expenses has $1k left over each paycheck that they spend on dinners out, concert tickets, vacations, etc so t

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