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by tivert 2y ago
> I wouldn't mind for English to have "standardisation body" akin to French or German one (or RAE for Spanish) that could maybe get rid of backward, dumb spelling ;) That's even less likely now than in the past, with
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by tivert 2y ago
I think you're getting it backwards. The research operations are a desperate attempt stave off regulation to keep the sweet, sweet monopoly profits coming in (and those profits are so big that the bean-counters allow it). I believe
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> Pi Day, May the Forth Day Omg, I hate those so much. They're so forced and waaay past their sell-by date, especially "May the Forth Day." They're basically, "experience the fun of the the cake scene from Offi
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> Interesting. So no USB camera, headset, etc either? My workplace has a policy of no USB storage devices (though you can request an exception). By default, other USB devices work, and storage devices are mounted as read-only. I don&#x
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> That isn't what Google is doing. They aren't using a monopoly in search to try to establish a monopoly in browsers or phone OSes. Google search will happily return results for Apple phones or for how to download Firefox. Exce
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> It’s hypocrisy. Give the money back if you don’t like the way it tastes. To whom? And, like I said before, no one can actually escape capitalism (except, I suppose, through suicide), so there's no "finally wash[ing] their han
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> I was waiting for the punch line where the author gives all that sweet money back to the terrible system they despise, and finally washes their hands clean of it. What good is done by dismissing the positive efforts people are actually
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> My first client was one of the biggest banks in the country: a hellish circus of inefficiency, coked-out managers, feudal power dynamics, and pre-GDPR surveillance marketing. My job was to cross real-time credit card transaction data w
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> Smart phones confuse this, I think. I bet most right-handers hold their phone in their left hand so they can touch the screen with their right. Phones used to be small enough that you could use them one-handed, and I still tend try. Th
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> It was pretty much obsolete at the beginning of the war. In what way was it obsolete? Can you go into more detail?
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> These people are nothing more than glorified Amazon workers. And what's that supposed to mean? It sounds like you feel they're low status and therefore undeserving. > This isn't the hill to die on. People viscerally f
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> I agree, we and the union workers should vote in a government that helps people who lose their jobs to progress. You have an incorrect, oversimple model of politics (e.g. business interests have shown much more capability in influencin
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by tivert 2y ago
> He didn't say "wages need to come down" he said "industries need to be strike proof." Those two statements are equivalent. Or do you think the capitalist business owner is going to pay is employees more out of
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> Is the manufacturer really the best default handler for waste? It's a better one than putting all the onus on the end user. If it's made their responsibility, they can do things no one else can, like making design changes to
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by tivert 2y ago
Maybe OpenAI is really just Sam Altman's last ditch effort to save WorldCoin?
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by tivert 2y ago
> Reddit is already lost. I was talking to the mods in a large political subreddit and they said after Reddit started charging for API access, all the tools they used to keep on top of the trolls and bots stopped working, and the quality
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> I'm a little sad for anyone who didn't get to experience the Internet of the twentieth century. It was a unique point in time. Sadly, they won't know what they were missing. It'll be the new normal Some asshole tech
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> For content that isn't time sensitive the best trick that I have found is to exclude the last 10-15 years from search results. I've setup a Firefox keyword searches[1] for this, and find myself using them for the majority of
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by tivert 2y ago
> Sanctions absolutely cost the wealthy lots of money. It maybe doesn’t impact their quality of life but does cost them a lot of money, and we know how much they like money. So? Sanctions have accomplished very, very little . Is the Ukr
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> It's not hard to figure out who people would vote for (on average). Pick a town that leans in your direction but has low voter turnout and I'm convinced you can affect the outcome. And you've just described pretty much
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> Hearing these two people just get REALLY INTO this unfinished story, engaging with the themes, with the characters, it's great... Except they're not people, and they're not actually engaging with anything. It's all
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> Don't give them ideas, they might read "Torment Nexus" Oh I have. It was so cool . The R&D on that technology can't happen fast enough. I'm just lampooning tech apologist tropes.
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> The other end is... you. Not really. The other end is the manufacturers. It's a pretty common pattern in capitalist democracies that powerful business interests attempt (often successfully) shunt responsibility away from themselve
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by tivert 2y ago
I have no problem with this. Once we switch over to an LLM-based education system, there won't be a problem with this Benson on the moon story, because everyone will just learn it's true. Every technological revolution has tradeof
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How did they come up with $47? It's an odd amount.
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Man, the sanctions against Russia really aren't working. They're even getting US technology before it's released to Americans!
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> 50 years of cold war proof otherwise. Better a new cold nuclear war, than a hot conventional war. The Cold War was a bipolar conflict. Rampant nuclear proliferation will not result in a similar situation and will not have the same resu
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> I think it is time to think about that again. Give Ukraine a few thermonuclear bombs that can reach Moscow. Maybe this could convince the Russian government that it is better to stop the offensive and go back to diplomacy. No, that&#x2
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> but the reality is, it’s inevitable whether we want it or not. The "inevitability" of it is mostly a function of the (self-serving) belief that it is inevitable. Basically, you just cited a bunch of moral cop-outs.
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> I find that having a GPS all the time in my pocket has really done wonders in my ability to understand how the city fits together. How? The problem is GPS routing takes you on all kinds of one-off shortcuts which are a poor framework f

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