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by sssilver 1mo ago
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted. Do people care? What signs of this are there? Does it matter to the average person that the society is marching further and further down the road of digital monopolies and surveillance capita
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by sssilver 1mo ago
It's about allies spying on each other, a common practice since the dawn of civilization.
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by sssilver 2mo ago
Hasn't the computer already been spending time with your wife?
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by sssilver 2mo ago
This is the kind of feature that would potentially make me switch, but I feel like at this point AI has disrupted web search for me in such a fundamental way that I rarely use a search engine nowadays.
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by sssilver 2mo ago
Not sure about digital cameras or database engines, but computers and the Internet were, in large part, created for military needs first and foremost.
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by sssilver 2mo ago
Yes. But also, the very point of this entire thread was that even these highly idiosyncratic goods were orders of magnitude more accessible to the median American household back in 1975. Despite that very same household being orders of ma
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by sssilver 2mo ago
I don't know, friend. I am not a moral absolutist. There's nothing that makes my heart tremble like starting the propeller of a small GA airplane. On that moment I reconnect with my nine year old self. You may call me evil, vulgar
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by sssilver 2mo ago
it absolutely did. Those were the crumbs I was referring to. It enrages me, because "they" took all the value, and told us "my god, how immoral and vulgar it would be of you to covet the vapid trappings of conspicuous consump
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by sssilver 2mo ago
The whole point is that it is not to the "working people" that the "real value" is "delivered". The real people got the crumbs and were told to appreciate it. Almost all of the value went to those who one mig
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by sssilver 2mo ago
My friend, the 2026 Cessna 182 is basically the same airplane as it was in 1975, with digital screens instead of analog gauges, except now it costs about $750,000. That's a whopping $735,000 increase over its base price of ~$15,000 USD
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by sssilver 2mo ago
What 2021-2024? Check the prices of the flagship 1975 Ferrari, the flagship 1975 Hasselblad camera, or, I don't know, a 1975 Cessna 182 in reference to median 1975 household income. Then check it again for 2026. Oh, but we have GPS, Am
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by sssilver 2mo ago
The workflow is paradigmically different, and that may throw many people off. There's no rebase, on principle. Branch names are permanent attributes of commits. Even abandoned branches remain visible forever. Code review is post-hoc. P
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by sssilver 2mo ago
If only there was a convention for storing PRs and issues and wiki inside the repository itself, similar to how Fossil[1] does it. Then all the GitHubs and Gitlabs of this world would be limited to just providing UI and would be unable to h
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by sssilver 2mo ago
#savetheinternet
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by sssilver 2mo ago
> There was a time Cloudflare just made the internet better This is the kind of naive thinking that enabled what's going on today. Sadly, the decentralized Internet is now destroyed and will never exist again.
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Flock will add privacy guardrails to camera systems amid backlash(thehill.com)
2 points by sssilver 2mo ago|0 comments
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by sssilver 2mo ago
How do you find the donors?
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by sssilver 2mo ago
No, I'm complaining that it doesn't ask me to pay before it takes my time to perform a complete scan of my disk (ideally before it even gives me a download of the app). We both know it does so intentionally, and we also know exa
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by sssilver 2mo ago
This would only be true if it didn't take your time before asking you to pay to not waste the time that it took.
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by sssilver 2mo ago
> It's like some decision-maker thinks it's OK to waste memory as long as it's someone (everyone) elses' memory My friend, you're giving them way too much credit. Nobody, especially no decision-maker involved w
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by sssilver 2mo ago
This looks wonderful. I wish it had the option to be ordered with blank keys.
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by sssilver 2mo ago
Because people who sell wooden posts and barbed wire use pickup trucks, among other things that have gone up in price.
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Pinal County Sheriff Announces Plan to End Flock, Citing Fourth Amendment(jens2cents.com)
2 points by sssilver 2mo ago|0 comments
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by sssilver 2mo ago
Sure, the concept of money is only meaningful / valuable to humans. But isn't there a conceptual difference between the "owners" of the Tomahawk factory vs. the people who are actually putting the missiles together?
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by sssilver 2mo ago
Help me understand this. There's the cost that the employees pocket, and then there's the share that the shareholders pocket, right? Doesn't "margin" represent the latter?
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by sssilver 2mo ago
I'm always confused by prices of "highly regulated" goods in the United States. When I get a $150,000 bill for a 15-minute hand-reconstruction surgery, how much of that bill is the total margin vs self cost? And how much of t
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by sssilver 2mo ago
> Winona Police Department's Flock cameras Does Winona Police Department actually own these cameras? Or is this heading technically deceptive.
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by sssilver 2mo ago
Would you consider the Steam Machine?
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by sssilver 2mo ago
Valve is truly walking into the perfect storm with their current roadmap.
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by sssilver 2mo ago
Would you have responded similarly if the OP wrote: > That’s why they gave it to a young man with no achievements whatsoever in gaming and no reputation to build off of

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