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by themagician 2y ago
Why we would expect academia to be different from anything else these days? Fraud is how you get ahead. It is how you gain competitive advantage. When everyone is cheating, the only way to win is to cheat smarter. Fraud is the end result of
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by themagician 2y ago
"Save the planet," isn't about saving the planet—it's about making people feel bigger than they are. People don't like the feeling of smallness that comes with the realization that nothing we do really matters.
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by themagician 2y ago
It's not (necessarily) about you. When you knowingly agree to use a service that sells your data, that's fine. When you link it to Facebook and then give it access to your contacts and the name, email address, and phone number o
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by themagician 2y ago
The requirements for social platforms are just becoming more inline with all other industries. The period of special treatment is over. The era of, “If it’s on social media then no one is liable for this content or the harm it may cause, bu
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by themagician 2y ago
They are gone now, but during COVID there were a bunch of relatively cheap, and what seemed to be pretty decent quality, 50-150W FM transmitters on Amazon.com. I thought that was odd. They were there for about 6-8 months. Probably not relat
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by themagician 2y ago
It would if an attack was already underway or was planned to execute in very short order. It’s also possible that Crowdstrike wasn’t the issue, but rather the solution. If you find out the bomb is set to go off at noon on July 19 and you
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by themagician 2y ago
The answer is YES because it gives the big retailers more time. Does it fix the underlying problem? No, not really—but it buys time. Combined with good demand the big retailers can recover (or, more likely, consolidate).
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by themagician 2y ago
Without naming names expliclity, this list actually catupures two bankruptcies that caused downstream credit issues for me specifically: https://www.thestreet.com/economy/most-notable-business-bank... Two of the three
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by themagician 2y ago
Only going to rise and no one should be surprised. The increasing cost of debt is causing a domino effect of bankrutcies in many industries. The only thing surprising is that it's staring a little earlier than expected. The last of the
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by themagician 2y ago
The best way to do business is with FB is, sadly, through various overseas spam companies. They get results, the prices are reasonable, and you never have to worry about having an ad account being banned because they'll just make more
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by themagician 2y ago
Most places I go out to eat I just rely on the law of averages if I go there often enough. If I'm going to a place I go to once a week or more I won't even look at the bill. I just don't care. Why should I? I'm going to
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by themagician 2y ago
So what if they are off by a few cents or dollars? Do you actually spend time to contest this? It seems like there is some minimum threshold just for the hassle… it's got to be at least $15-$20 by now. I you really going to go back and
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by themagician 2y ago
American Express asks you (or at least used to) if you want to allow recurring billing when canceling.
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by themagician 2y ago
Once you have enough money it doesn’t matter. You don’t spend time looking at bills. You know roughly that credit card X has a bill of $4-5k a month and as long as it’s close to that why bother. You set an autopay with an upper limit and ju
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by themagician 2y ago
Thanks for sharing! It's encouraging to see the authors actively improving their models post-publication. Exciting to witness science in action!
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by themagician 2y ago
Sure, a bit of rebellion can fuel innovation in founders, but as they gain power, it's important to keep things ethical. What seems charming at the startup phase might raise eyebrows as the company expands.
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by themagician 2y ago
Copilot is a game-changer in coding, helping developers with real-time suggestions and code snippets. However, it's controversial because it relies on large datasets scraped from public code repositories. This raises intellectual prope
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by themagician 2y ago
It's okay. It happens to all of us.
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by themagician 2y ago
It's actually come a long way. The workflow is still… sub-optimal, but there are some really nice terminal apps (LaTerminal, Prompt, ShellFish, iSH) which are functional too. Working Copy is pretty dope for working with git once you
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by themagician 2y ago
Oh, I'm with you. But the funny thing is, they won't even want it. I have two iPads and two pencils—that way each iPad is never without a penicl—and yet I rarely use the pencil. I just don't think about it. But then when I do
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by themagician 2y ago
Whenever I see things like this I think it's so cool, but it's always followed by this weird feeling that lasts a few hours where all I can think about is, "What have we done?" Why does destruction come to easy to us? Wh
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by themagician 2y ago
Welcome to being old! Watch a 20-year old creative work on an iPad and you will quickly change your mind. Watch someone who has, "never really used a desktop, [I] just use an iPad" work in Procreate or LumaFusion. The iPad has ama
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by themagician 2y ago
They absolutely were. Between 25% inflation, the student loan relief failure, two proxy wars and the current beating of college students across the country, the current administration would have been facing record low turnout in November. I
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by themagician 2y ago
Honestly, the loon who lit himself on fire the other day might have been onto something . The bill that the President just signed seems like an attempt to alienate at least 50% of voters under 30. It almost feels like the current administ
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by themagician 3y ago
I think you mean to say, "An uncle once commented about a cousin of ours that he demonstrated how it's possible to screw things up so badly that you can't possibly get away with it. "
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by themagician 3y ago
You can regenerate a new key from any logged in device, so you have to lose the key AND every device.
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by themagician 3y ago
Canva powers the scam market. It's played a big part helping the scam market expand. Everything from "make money online" creative to flooding Etsy with poorly designed AI garbage to crypto scams. Canva and Stan are the peanut
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by themagician 3y ago
We really need a version of Docker for desktop apps on macOS now. Would be nice to not have to worry about what's going to be broken after an update.
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by themagician 3y ago
When was the last time you tried it? Because I had a similar experience, and a young animator told me that they were using this in a production envrioment now and I was shocked. Adobe Animate was hot garbage after Flash died, but I recently
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by themagician 3y ago
Wow. Adobe did such a great job destroying Flash that people be out there creating whole "Adobe Illustrator but for animation" software when Adobe already makes Adobe Illustrator but for animation. Honestly, that's incredibl

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