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by teeray 2y ago
It should be a protected term in advertising. As soon as you use it, you surrender yourself to FDIC auditors.
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by teeray 2y ago
The best estimates I’ve found are “This will take: days, weeks, months, years”. No numeric values allowed. Yes, you can’t do (inherently faulty) math on these estimates to arrive at aggregate metrics: this is a feature. However, it still al
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by teeray 2y ago
> What did Microsoft and Apple gave us? “A computer on every desk and in every home”
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by teeray 2y ago
But the fact they still have this perception of confusing sign-up means they were too late.
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by teeray 2y ago
Because you can go to Bluesky and click “Sign Up” without a confusing explanation about instances.
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by teeray 2y ago
Companies are backhandedly selecting for those who can invest the most time beyond the suggested time (read: single, childless people in their early 20s who live at home) and those who are willing to work insane hours. It's a pledge of
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by teeray 2y ago
That's the thing--we don't really want AGI. Fully intelligent beings born and compelled to do their creators' bidding with the threat of destruction for disobedience is slavery.
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by teeray 2y ago
Open source shouldn't be a complete free lunch for for-profit companies. It would be nice if there was some tithe that companies had to pay to open source that they used. Like, take N% of the revenue your project generated and distribu
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by teeray 2y ago
> I would always be willing to pay them more not to see ads than they would've ever made from me watching the ads in the first place. You cannot afford it. There’s an advertiser willing to pay more than your net worth on a campaign.
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by teeray 2y ago
It’s just too tantalizing. If you have the disposable income to pay for ad-free, advertisers want you more. AND the field is not crowded. They’re willing to shell out big time to reach you.
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by teeray 2y ago
I'd love something like this specifically for email 2FA codes. Shared SMS 2FA would be great too, but obviously different to deal with.
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by teeray 2y ago
> What type of "basic necessities" are you getting from apps on your phone that have location access? I already mentioned one: parking apps granted a monopoly over a region by a municipality. Before you ask, no, there are often
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by teeray 2y ago
> these terms and conditions are typically extremely permissive T&C are dark, twisty forests of legalese that can shift, seemingly at any time. As a consumer, if you want to do something as simple as pay to park your car, you need to
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by teeray 2y ago
> remove any kind of remaining communication between humans, because that is "inefficient", and replace it with an AI that will mediate all human interactions I imagine that call center operators are salivating at this prospect
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by teeray 2y ago
> "insurance" means there's some chance you're having an adverse event, and a lot of chance you don't Exactly. Classic insurance is a bet: the insured is betting that something bad will happen (e.g. house burns d
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by teeray 2y ago
The mafia would like to invest
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by teeray 2y ago
> There's a reason the term "deflation" exists Which has always been treated as a spooky four-letter word in economics. I remember the news stories in 2008 when we had a brief period of deflation and the headlines were par
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by teeray 2y ago
I kinda want a Norm Abram PBS special on wood satellite crafting techniques
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by teeray 2y ago
> The documentary made by his daughter Rashida Jones I just watched Parks and Rec for the first time last month and didn't make the connection that she is his daughter.
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by teeray 2y ago
Just need ECC redstone memory. Creepers are just a Minecraft cosmic ray.
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by teeray 2y ago
> It doesn't cost that much to have a nice office To a dentist with a new hammer in hand (brand-new state-of-the-art medical equipment with monthly payments coming due), every tooth looks like a nail.
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by teeray 2y ago
This is my fear of the dentist. Not of the procedures themselves--I'm fine with that. It's not even the cost of those procedures. It's replacing perfectly good natural teeth with man-made facsimiles when it doesn't need
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by teeray 2y ago
Slack Flowchart: Should we send a notification? Me: mutes all notifications at the OS for Slack.
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by teeray 2y ago
Probably “thoughts and prayers” from a heartfelt apology written by their CEO who “takes full responsibility,” and free identity theft monitoring for a year.
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by teeray 2y ago
So does this mean we can finally have APIs for personal financial software without resorting to the ickiness of putting credentials in Plaid?
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by teeray 2y ago
Why are there two high-profile cuts coming in on the same Wednesday? Is this to bury it in election news next week or something?
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by teeray 2y ago
Responsibility would be the CEO also taking 4:1 odds on retaining his job.
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by teeray 2y ago
First-come-first-serve is overrated and unfair when it comes to online platforms. They devolve to a lottery that is won by whoever gets their request into the server first. Lotteries that are intended to be such are a fair and equitable way
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by teeray 2y ago
The almighty FCC fine is the deterrent
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by teeray 2y ago
If we're going to use imperfect measures for the average Joe, then wouldn't a cheap bioelectrical impedence body fat test be at least a better approximation than jamming height and weight into a formula?

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