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by tifik 2y ago
From a morbidly capitalistic point of view, insurance companies should rejoice at the prospect of a very ill person opting for assisted death. I imagine the procedure to end ones life would be much cheaper than multiple years of procedures
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by tifik 2y ago
Could be longer life expectancy for particular demographics that are mostly white. Or it could just be that 70% of people of all ages today are white, but 80 years ago it was a much larger proportion (I didn't think it would be 96% but
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by tifik 2y ago
I heard this one, paraphrased, a while back (probably around 2002 I guess). I apply it to others as well by actually spinning a penny when someone can't decide, then watch their reaction. It's shocking how fast people make up thei
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by tifik 2y ago
> I would like a machine to help me. Cool. I would not. It would be nice to have that option.
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by tifik 2y ago
Or it's the drivers are not "focused, alert", because of the auto-pilot.
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by tifik 2y ago
GMOs can reduce need for pesticide and insecticide use, reduce water and fertilizer use, increase yields and make produce last longer. Are there any credible studies showing any GMOs in the states to be harmful?
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by tifik 2y ago
Wow, signing that petition was shockingky smooth with my national e-ID. I thought it was just a random petition site, but its an official EU system that verifies your identity. And it just worked with the ID app I have installed. Nice.
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by tifik 2y ago
That is great news. I wonder what the odds are of something like this ever happening in the US. My guess is slim to none.
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by tifik 2y ago
> If this happened on an Airbus plane it wouldn't have ended up on the front page. Perhaps, but I think its a good thing that boeing is under more scrutiny and is getting more shit than their competition would for the same. Not much
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by tifik 2y ago
I believe it could be useful to update the title to mention that this only happens in the desktop application. I personally only use the mobile app, and while I'm aware I might be biased, I didn't even know a desktop Signal applic
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by tifik 2y ago
Places like that already exist. They are called towns. Problem is most people want to live in large urban centers.
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by tifik 2y ago
Eerily reminiscent of 'badwater' from the game Timberborn. Especially in the second image.
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by tifik 2y ago
This topic and why that picture is very misleading is well covered by this video by The Present Past: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikg3-GQLg3g
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by tifik 2y ago
HN def is a community, in some sense of the word, but I also dont like the phrasing and emphasis on "we" having done something or we having a problem and whatnot. HN promotes debate and individual opinions, so statements like in p
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by tifik 2y ago
> search to finish its webrequests Now imagine it happening for literally every interaction. Opened a context menu? Oh give me a second to check the LLM server for useful actions I can offer you. Want to close a window? One sec just wann
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by tifik 2y ago
That sounds literally the same as "flare" from office space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7SNEdjftno
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by tifik 2y ago
Yeah my lawyer friend is worried he might even lose his license over this. It's gonna be very interesting seeing how legal departments react to this. If you disagree with practices like this, mention this to your legal.
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by tifik 2y ago
I'd be surprised if any legal department in any company with one will not freak the f out when they read this. They will likely loose the biggest customers first, so even if it is 1% of customers, it will likely affect their bottom lin
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by tifik 2y ago
Whats baffling to me is why companies think that when they slap AI on the press release, their customers will suddenly be perfectly fine with them scraping and monetizing all of their data on an industrial scale, without even asking for per
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by tifik 2y ago
Well I really hope this massively blows up in their face when all of Europe goes to work just about now, and then North America in 5-8 hours. Let's see if we have another Helldivers 2 event that makes them do a hard backpedal after los
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by tifik 2y ago
What you say is true, and I agree, but that is the emotional human side of thinking. Purely logically, it would nake sense to compare the two systems of control and use the one with fewer human casualities. Not saying its gonna happen, just
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by tifik 2y ago
It's not just opt-in, it's a non-default option you have to actively seek out and enable with every new conversation you start. So yes, by default, without additional steps taken, telegram is not e2e encrypted.
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by tifik 2y ago
Wouldn't large body collisions be a fairly common occurrence in young planetary systems though? Of course any additional condition makes life rarer, I'm just thinking this one might not make it rarer by as many orders of magnitude
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by tifik 2y ago
Forced an iPad? How is that legal? Isn't it possible to do whatever assignments she is getting on a PC?
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by tifik 2y ago
They use a tunnel boring machine to bore a tunnel with a 45° slope. They do go into the mechanics of how they make this insanely massive machine drive up a grade that steep, and how they ensure it doesn't slide backward. I was glued to
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by tifik 2y ago
Good. Unless publishing bad products negatively affects sales and profit, there is no reason for MS to change course.
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by tifik 3y ago
Private is used in opposition to public, as in 'private sector' and 'public sector', where public sector is ran and funded by the government, which means public finances, which mainly means taxes - people cant pick and c
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by tifik 3y ago
The more I think about this the less I understand what the employees were trying to accomplish. Let's say that somehow they somehow get the government (whichever level of it) to force Google to sit at the table with them. The union sta
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by tifik 3y ago
It's a publicly traded, private enterprise. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_company
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by tifik 3y ago
>living on minimum wage doing shitwork is not the same as high paid pampered worker. I don't see anyone claiming they are the same. Parent says both deserve the same rights, including the right to enter a union. Granted, there is a

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