stvltvs

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by stvltvs 2y ago
True, but there are people who get paid to make games even more addictive. You don't see many old one-armed bandits in Vegas anymore because the newer games are more alluring and addictive, therefore profitable.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Or tax it highly enough that you can afford to mitigate some of the societal ills without driving the market underground.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
And none of them more correct than the others.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
The military isn't known for training less lethal methods and crowd control. They're trained to "kill people and break things" as Limbaugh put it. Bad idea.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
It would start with confiscating criminals' guns. Then we'd criminalize certain political groups for "domestic terrorism", e.g. protesting the cop city in Atlanta. Then we would criminalize giving aid and comfort to thes
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Government orgs have public financial transparency that businesses don't. For example, when I worked for a public university, my salary was available on a publicly accessible website. Government budgets get a lot more outside scrutiny
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Ages ago I did some bit flip tests on different image encodings for a school project. It was interesting to see how a single flipped bit would propagate across the image in encodings that relied on similarity to nearby pixels for compressio
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by stvltvs 2y ago
I would love an EV light truck, but not at that price difference.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
What gives you confidence in this AI detection model?
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Looks like Openbook stuff is still there, just homeless. I had to do a web search to find it. For example: https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/make3/book/
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by stvltvs 2y ago
But you got unemployment, right?
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Or, you know, unionize.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
That brings me back! One of my profs had us use Unicon, an extension of Icon that he designed.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
If different search engines optimized for different niches, there would be an user base for "second best" search engines. For example, nothing beats Bing for porn search.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
I have a different Firefox profile to sign into Google with. For normal, everday browsing, I use another profile where I never sign in.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Yeah, the brain changing is another way of saying learning and remembering stuff. I trust the study is more than that.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
First you make the money to buy cool stuff, then you use your power to protect your money to continue buying stuff. Welcome to the power apparatus.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
I don't think OP was saying subscriptions for road worthiness but rather that they would go out of their way to spite car makers if they try to force subscriptions on us. See "Fuck Me Money".
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by stvltvs 2y ago
To clarify, I'm able to ignore in person conversations. Phone conversations are more distracting especially when they're loud. I'm unwillingly drawn into conversations I'd rather ignore.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Probably depends on your area, but when I was bike commuting, I refused to give in to the temptation to wear even one headphone. Staying completely focused and aware of traffic saved me quite a few times. You won't be surprised to know
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by stvltvs 2y ago
It still catches me off guard sometimes. Just a personal opinion, but it's a bit offputting because it's distracting to hear only one half of the conversation. My brain is dragged unwillingly into filling in the other half. Also w
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by stvltvs 2y ago
There are other plugins that generate static sites. Not sure if they would work for your use case, but worth looking into if you haven't.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
I bought solar panels from a door-to-door sales guy and signed some papers cuz he knew a friend of mine and seemed honest. I woke up the next morning with a pit in my stomach realizing, like any chump, I hadn't done basic due diligenc
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Or the countries you live or travel in have extradition treaties with the other country.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
For the US, you're describing the Social Security program more or less which almost all workers participate in. The benefits aren't enough to live comfortably on, so people need to supplement it with something else.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
The vulnerabilities might still exist in current products even if discovered in an EOL product.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Teachers in my local US school district have two unions, but that's the only exception to the rule that I'm aware of. It would be good to see a little more competition, but not enough to weaken labor's bargaining power.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
The public sector is often inefficient and insulated from market forces but that doesn't imply that what they produce doesn't meet the needs or desires of citizens. And I've done a lot of work in the private sector that would
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by stvltvs 2y ago
I've worked both and, anecdotally, I didn't notice a real difference in efficiency. Public sector was plodding and methodical; private sector was faster but thrashed around wasting energy on the latest Top Priority project. Lots m
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by stvltvs 2y ago
The question isn't if people prefer it, it's if they prefer it enough to spend the time, money, and energy it currently requires to get that experience. I'd prefer lots of things if they were cheap and easy, but they aren&#x2

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