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by tensor 2mo ago
It's called paying for shit. Like we used to before everything went ad driven. You'd go and buy a magazine or a book or a newspaper. (Ironically, you often still got ads though, ugh).
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by tensor 2mo ago
FWIW AdGuard dev team is in Russia. Letting them proxy all your traffic is probably not the wisest move.
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by tensor 2mo ago
Because all those other browsers can still block ads. I use ubo lite for safari and it's largely fine.
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by tensor 2mo ago
Offering frequent customers discounts or free things is a practice as old as the ages. The thing that companies are trying now is the opposite. They profile you and decide how much you can and are willing to pay based on your wealth, lifest
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by tensor 2mo ago
No, that's not how insurance works, but it's how they want it to work. Usually when you get insurance through e.g. work, you get put into a pool that averages the costs and risks across the pool. That makes it's more affordab
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by tensor 2mo ago
Deny you medical care payouts based on your diet. Algorithmically increase prices on you. Increase your car insurance based on where you travel.
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by tensor 2mo ago
I agree, and I'm really against data surveillance. The data collected in this example is exactly what I'd expect, and frankly McDonalds should have the right to collect this. If you go to a local store all the time the owner will
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by tensor 2mo ago
From what I remember on the topic, batteries are not yet remotely close to dense enough to enable long haul flights. Even hydrogen electric doesn't cut it, and hydrogen fuel is much denser energy wise than conventional batteries. Perha
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by tensor 2mo ago
I assume being electric that the maintenance costs will also be much lower. How much do you spend annually on engine maintenance?
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by tensor 2mo ago
No, excessive fossil fuel use is the cause by an immense margin. It's completely dominated by commercial shipping (boats), followed by planes. Then I think it may actually be gas from cattle before cars. Bitcoin and AI are so recent an
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by tensor 2mo ago
Sounds more like a crank really.
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by tensor 2mo ago
After the knee wealth is not the major factor in happiness, other factors take over like friends, relationships, weak tie relationships, etc etc etc. If you want to be happy optimizing for wealth only makes sense under the knee. After that,
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by tensor 2mo ago
Not if you life in a first world country that provides universal healthcare.
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by tensor 2mo ago
Wealth is objectively a poor measure of a good life, past a threshold. Scientific studies have shown that yes, up to a level of wealth (e.g. being able to not worry about food, shelter, and future security), improving wealth improves happin
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by tensor 2mo ago
I've always assumed "win" means being economically and culturally dominant. It necessarily involves being a trade leader and having a lot of soft power. I also don't want totalitarian oligopoly from the US or China. What
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by tensor 2mo ago
The only thing I agree with you about is that I'd have preferred Apple to not have approved your app because of the nag. I don't care if it's a screen or just a constant message. It's a nag.
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by tensor 2mo ago
Honestly, reviews are pretty standard and straight forward. Advocating to silence voices you don't like is just shit. Sure, there will always be some people super angry and something or other, but every app developer is in the same boa
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by tensor 2mo ago
The one star nag review is accurate to me. As a potential user, I know not to buy the app. I despise ads and nag screens are in the same boat. Just because you don't like the value system of your users doesn't mean you get to call
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by tensor 2mo ago
That's my read. Both reviews seem fair to me. E.g. if translation is important to that user then maybe it's better to take a note of it rather than be angry. Also, being upset about users hating your obnoxious nag screen? hahah wo
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by tensor 2mo ago
No, I don't, I live in Canada. I don't support any country annexing any other country, but in terms of direct threat to my quality of life and freedom, currently the US is the biggest threat and is actively making life worse for C
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by tensor 2mo ago
As someone who isn't American, I'm amused when someone from the US talks about the terrors of China or some other nation having more power than them as being bad for the world. The way the US is currently threatening to invade and
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by tensor 2mo ago
I never cleaned mine. Rain does enough. It's still plenty valuable without minmaxing them.
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by tensor 2mo ago
100% agree. Everyone is susceptible to ads, even if few believe it. The ad pushers know it. It's a form of information warfare, not simply business. If I'm looking for a product and ask a vendor to give me pitch, great. But if I&#
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by tensor 2mo ago
> Not everyone want to pay for news. People want things for free. Too bad. Nothing is really free. Either you pay for it, have ads, or have your taxes pay for it as part of public media. Personally, I'd like to see forced ads banned
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by tensor 3mo ago
I like to make less money and pay more taxes for higher quality of life reasons. Sure I could go to America and have more many in my pocket by eating mcdonalds every day, but I'd rather eat amazing high quality food and have less money
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by tensor 3mo ago
My M1 Max is still great. I was considering upgrading before prices went up but decided to just wait. I will admit though, a tiny voice in my head is telling me prices will never come back down, even if the ram shortage goes away. :-(
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by tensor 3mo ago
This isn't terribly surprising. I'm sure the Canadian military has a great many contracts with US military and intelligence companies. Palantir has been around a long time doing military work. It also doesn't seem to be a ter
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by tensor 3mo ago
Putting aside reliable rule of law, as others have pointed out, it seems unwise to keep your data in a country that has repeated threatened to annex or invade yours.
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by tensor 4mo ago
No. AI is not doing science. And also no, science is not being held back by "pearl clutching" and "unwillingness to let brilliant non-science geniuses in." While there are a lot of problems with how the journal model of
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by tensor 4mo ago
I'm pretty sure the days of any government signing any NPT with the US are very over. The trust is broken. I'd rather my government stockpile all the weapons of every sort at this point.

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