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by thunderfork 5d ago
I do exactly this all the time, and know many who also do this all the time, yes. So, this refutes the bailey: >None of the AI haters (or haters in general) are willing to put money where their mouths are.
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by thunderfork 5d ago
It's their choice among other viable choices, so the "problem" is on their end. If the law mandated exactly one thing, then it'd be the law's problem. Since it doesn't, of course the choice of how to comply can
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by thunderfork 6d ago
I disagree, on the principle of "slow is smooth, smooth is fast"
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by thunderfork 7d ago
Motte and bailey; "none" -> "vast majority" I know plenty of people (including myself) who pay for good human artwork :)
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by thunderfork 10d ago
You can't be reddit-posting and then complaining about replies being reddit, man
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by thunderfork 10d ago
It's fine by me (sample size 1 Canuck)
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by thunderfork 11d ago
It'd depend on what you're selling, surely? I've never had any problems of this sort with basic retail product, for example
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by thunderfork 11d ago
>caused accidents vs >"disrupted" This equivocation is noted but not compelling
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by thunderfork 14d ago
Off the top of my head, I know there's more than one ;)
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by thunderfork 14d ago
My understanding is that a parody has to actually parody the original work. There's a distinction between "parodying" and "using the songwriting with different lyrics". You see a lot of people doing riffs on "W
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by thunderfork 15d ago
Decent physicians recommend exercise among other preventative measures to reduce the likelihood of emergencies. Therapists will likewise encourage you to build up resilience so that "a relationship ended" is not a crisis, and also
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by thunderfork 16d ago
A Shopify monopoly (and thus a shopify payments monopoly) would be very rough for a number of reasons
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by thunderfork 18d ago
>Jamstack is an architectural approach that decouples the web experience layer from data and business logic, improving flexibility, scalability, performance, and maintainability. >Jamstack removes the need for business logic to dictat
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by thunderfork 18d ago
>github repository You have already lost the "normal people" audience
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by thunderfork 18d ago
Accounting is generally both easier to do correctly and easier to verify than security practices, unfortunately
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by thunderfork 18d ago
"throw away all software written before 2026" does technically solve this problem, if you ignore everything else the article is talking about (deployment and continuity of service)
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by thunderfork 18d ago
IIRC, in many containers embedded subtitles will be interleaved with the video and audio atoms/boxes/packets/etc., and so pulling out the subtitles requires scanning the full file. Not quite as expensive as decoding or re-enc
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by thunderfork 19d ago
I'm inferring that "banning skipping commercials" is a restriction on the part of the service provider, not on the part of France's legislature
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by thunderfork 19d ago
BOINC isn't really built for "small tasks", afaik. Once you get small enough, the work the server is doing to manage the tasks gets to be around the same cost as the server just doing the tasks itself.
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by thunderfork 22d ago
environmentalists well-known for instituting fire lane policies
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by thunderfork 25d ago
You have to look to the people for whom those decades brought joy, and realize how grandly that outnumbers complaints... and if you find yourself blessed enough to be in that position does the road, then "reading HN" is a problem
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by thunderfork 29d ago
See table here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_terrorism#Additiona...
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by thunderfork 29d ago
It's generally considered rude to stop reading one sentence into a message in order to shoot off pithy replies
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by thunderfork 1mo ago
* Jurisdictional: Food stamps can't be adjusted by NYC itself (as far as I know), so if they're insufficient this works around that issue * Store access: Food stamps don't necessarily solve the problem of "there's n
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by thunderfork 1mo ago
As a counter-example, the LCBO (Ontario government liquor store) has been demonstrably fine for decades. Failure modes exist, but I don't think they're guaranteed.
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by thunderfork 1mo ago
I'm not interested in having "nuanced discussions" about whether the Roma people have some kind of Nuisance Gene that makes discussion of extermination valid If you'd like to make an argument that isn't just "e
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by thunderfork 1mo ago
"it's not ethnic cleansing because this time the Jews really ARE evil, okay"
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by thunderfork 1mo ago
And there's been almost no fiber laid for the last two years after Bell bought up the companies that were actually doing innovative rollout :/ "Cable is equivalent" only if you don't need/want a symmetric conne
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by thunderfork 1mo ago
Unfortunately I haven't heard much about build-out since Bell bought the company that was laying all that fiber (Start.ca) I had to move to a place that didn't have fiber but by all means should be getting it Real Soon Now (urban,
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by thunderfork 1mo ago
>I think there's such a strong difference between remigration and ethnic cleansing you can think what you want to think but this is definitionally incorrect

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