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by themafia 8mo ago
> when you go to Amazon you'll get the lowest price > there's been a reshuffling of chairs Hmm.. I think those two things are in conflict. > The title is a little clickbait-y. The attourney general of California disagree
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by themafia 8mo ago
Ridiculous. Stand in a hospital and say that credibly. I recommend the maternity ward. Our consumer markets are a wreck. We have no federal watch dog exercising any authority. We have unchecked intelligence agencies actively trying to en
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by themafia 8mo ago
If you want to live in a binary world. Meanwhile for the rest of us "not good" isn't the same as "bad."
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by themafia 8mo ago
> on the new submissions page What if they only act once it reaches the front page?
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by themafia 8mo ago
> He immediately qualified it Did he qualify it by indicating his claim is based on centuries old religious documents that are not agreed to by any majority of the Earth's population?
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by themafia 8mo ago
> according to accepted conventions Who accepted those? And did they have a right to do so on behalf of _all_ of humanity? The conventions are a guideline. To use them as a blanket moral justification for your actions after the fact is
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by themafia 8mo ago
> a "Mecca for hackers," It's America. You should want that. What you don't want is a mecca for criminals and pirates. I'm not sure how fixing my own tractor leads to criminal acts and there are already robust
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by themafia 8mo ago
> will also be users who have disabled Firefox metrics collection and so will not have their opinion counted. Gee. If only there was a way to collect users opinions on things. Welp.. guess we have to live with subtly spying on everyth
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by themafia 8mo ago
They stick with COBOL because it runs well on the mainframe. The mainframe and sysplex architecture gives them an absurd level of stability and virtualization that I don't think the rest of the market has nearly caught up to yet. Plu
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by themafia 8mo ago
> Jon made the provocative comment that we needed to revisit our policy around having a small standard library. He’s not the first to say something like that, it’s something we’ve been hearing for years and years It sounds to me like you
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by themafia 8mo ago
> a California court called him into a courtroom To you and I it's made to appear that these things happen without warning. I assure you that's not at all how these things actually occur. If this truly caught out Meta by surp
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by themafia 8mo ago
Isn't the entire point of the ToS to make it legal to sell your personal information? Primarily to increase programmatic ad revenue? Maybe we should just end advertising targeting anyone under 18. I wonder if by removing the financia
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by themafia 8mo ago
Why would we turn to the person who created the problem for a solution to it?
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by themafia 8mo ago
Short everything they've ever touched.
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by themafia 8mo ago
> have been pining for a better, faster and cheaper way to build homes. And they've gotten it. Build quality and durability is the poorest it's been in decades. Do you really think I want to live in a 200 unit timber framed a
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by themafia 8mo ago
> “that are even and spread thinly, like peanut butter would be on a sandwich,” Corporate America apparently can't even make sandwiches correctly. > There’s always a tension in organizations of how to how to balance the needs of
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by themafia 8mo ago
> It apparently didn't occur to them that if I were a real Japanese spy, I might have brought the glasses with me from headquarters. It occurred to them. They like to test their apparatus out anyways.
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by themafia 8mo ago
> but I wondered why a petty thief thought she could get into the Agency. ....do you not understand what "the Agency" actually does? It's no wonder they create this giant wall of existential dread to the applicants. It pr
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by themafia 8mo ago
Like all markets they can be monopolized. You are assuming quite a bit by presuming that the market works perfectly according to rather basic economic principles. There are all kinds of reasons someone could be more desperate. Perhaps the
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by themafia 8mo ago
In the US. How does their value fare in Japan?
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by themafia 8mo ago
> AI create something To have AI recreate something that was already in it's training set. > in encoding and compressing knowledge IMO. I'd rather have the knowledge encoded in a way that doesn't generate hallucinations
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by themafia 8mo ago
The incompetent have always pantomimed the competent. It never works. Although the incompetent will always pay a huge amount to try to achieve this fantasy.
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by themafia 8mo ago
You assume that targeting is to find the best worker for the correct pay. What if it's just to find the most desperate worker for the lowest pay possible?
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by themafia 8mo ago
I've never looked at the AT Protocol before. It seems like you could have achieved most of that with existing DNS, HTTP and RSS implementations. All they really needed was some file formats and some well known URL schems and all of t
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by themafia 8mo ago
Yes. It will invoke the state to pass even more draconian laws surrounding useful technology. You want to evoke the people and not the state.
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by themafia 8mo ago
The line between a phone and a computer is what has been perforated. What I need is a modem. I don't need the modem baked into a computer that has a permanently affixed screen and battery. That then pretends to be some kind of secur
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by themafia 8mo ago
> a "China bad" crowd Government bad. Big government worse.
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by themafia 8mo ago
> no matter what people say in online forums The people who speak in forums are a minority. > they actually value ease of use and shiny features over privacy and software freedom. There's no actual competition so we don't k
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by themafia 8mo ago
It's always the Declaration and never the Constitution. I suppose getting to Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 is a disappointing early start to what is meant to be a uniting and patriotic activity.
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by themafia 8mo ago
They're not a rulemaking agency. They're very tightly bound by an entire dedicated section of the US Title Code. More importantly licensees pledge to serve their _local_ communities and maintain _local_ standards. That's th

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