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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Suppressing discussion of this very reasonable observation was beyond dumb. I thought it wasn't so much an error as a conflict of interest.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> The huge judgement is partly because Alex Jones failed to comply with basic court procedure like discovery in a timely way so a default judgement was entered. Yeah. Reufsing to cooperate with the court has to always be at least as ba
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> After some quick googling I can't find any groups that support that. They don't "support unlimited immigration", they reject the legitimacy of national borders and of immigration as a concept. For example here&#x2
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> know and trust that our supply chain is safe and can be trusted. I'd actually think stuff like that recent npm worm would be a bigger danger than whatever this mess is?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Is he known to, like, reference his politics in his conference talks or something?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Its not really fair that crazy people are allowed to say crazy things then we, normal people, have to take the high ground and walk away. What if I don't want to walk away? Why do I have to leave a project like it's the plag
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> DHH presents the openly transphobic Graham Linehan as some kind of free speech victim. The thing about free speech is that it's only relevant if someone with power hates what you say. See also: https://www.goodreads.c
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
There's no such thing as (completely) "prevent", just substantially reduce by making it more expensive.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> SIMs don't know their 'physical location' and triangulation of signals in these bands in the urban environment is non trivial. IIRC modern cell towers use cool tricks to send stuff for a particular phone to only where
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
It reminds me of those "how to promote yourself" things about say turning "did routine performance optimizations on the website" into "saved the company $ZZZ million" and such.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Officials said the anonymous communications network, which included more than 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers, could interfere with emergency response services and could be used to conduct encrypted communication. One official said
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Well AI advocates keep insisting that the only reason for someone to not benefit is if they're resistant to change and too lazy to learn.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Don't the industry-imposed rules for handling credit cards work that way (restricting use of data you already have) though? Like, I thought a big part of why some stores do loyalty cards is because they enable tracking things that they
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
From vague recollections of previous times this came up, I think this is downstream of the providers getting blocked refusing to cooperate though? I know when eSNI / ECH came out, Cloudflare at least made a point of taking about plans
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> I can't intuit moral reasoning for why a media rights holder has the right to restrict a rebroadcast. Copyright is based on economic cost/benefit, not natural rights.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Sounds like the ISP shouldn't be blocking hosting providers that are known to honor narrower takedown orders?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> People can work up to eating fairly large shards of glass. Sorry, what? Could you perhaps elaborate on this a bit?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
IIRC, part of the reason that so many countries have specific "here's money specifically for retirement" things (pensions, 401k here in the US) is that many people just don't plan far ahead very well.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
It requires there to be meaningful systematic differences between the people who happen to live in different countries.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
You suspect wrong. I did not see an actual screenshot or direct quote of his post, and don't like relying on other people's descriptions of what people they don't like said. What's described is "the party I don&#x27
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
"Due to high turnout, polling stations are expected to be overloaded and the party I don't like should vote the day after election day" is a fairly standard joke. What he's described as posting isn't that different.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Whereas the Nazi Germany analogy ends with near-inevitable wave function collapse into "start shooting Nazis", other historical analogies might caution against encouraging everyone escalating into a violent conflict as the o
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
I heard that it was supposed to replace developers (no "senior" or "junior" qualifier), by letting non-technical people make things.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
That's why scapegoating and demonizing people is so bad, it's a way of telling folks that violence can make the world better instead of worse.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Plenty of Americans are much closer than this than you might think working in tech. 50-60% of Americans currently live 'paycheck-to-paycheck' which means the second work stops they're on a timer for missing bills to sta
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Your item #1 there may be simple , but that's not the same as being easy .
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
I assume this is a "here's another way this can happen" rather than "actually this is caused only by this and not by what we used to think"?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Its important to note that Immunity debt is a concept that anti lockdown activists created in 2020. It was not in medical texts before that point, it never had any science behind it. It was a political term used to end mitigations aga
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
>> > assume the system will react to resist intervention Systems don't do that. Only constituents who fear particular consequences do. << For example, the human body is pretty decent at maintaining a fixed internal tem
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> One might wonder where the US could be if the corporate culture wasn't so trigger happy on firing people and if laws against improper terminations would a) exist and b) be enforced. Probably the labor market would look more like

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