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by tivert 2y ago
> Dugan grew tired of the rising demand for the custom garments, so Caserta decided to head over to the Levi Strauss & Co. headquarters on Valencia Street to see if she could talk them into mass-producing her new signature style. The
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>> The US can't even make cell phones any more. >> What would it take to get that capability back? > The question then is why would you want to do this? National security, obviously. Cell phones are a critical modern co
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> One thing people are not aware of and am curious of how big it really is: China manufacturing laundry. Essentially, goods are manufactured in China, then laundered to a third-party country and then exported to the US/EU. IIRC, a l
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> That’s certainly something, but hardly seems worthy of being considered the second strongest military power. It's that conclusion I disagree with. Their relative ranking has nothing to do with their absolute capability. Russ
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Isn't there a legitimate problem with people renting AirB&Bs to specifically to throw wild parties, so they don't have to give a shit about the neighbors? I mean, having your neighbor's place all the sudden turn into an u
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>> I believe they used a combination of sound dB meters and carbon monoxide detectors to determine approx number of people and how loud they were. > Carbon dioxide* detectors, people don’t produce carbon monoxide Wouldn't smok
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I think you're mistaken. If Russia didn't have nukes, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd have been driven out of Ukraine by now through direct Western military intervention. They're the only reason they can throw an
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> Interesting, although once it’s been digitised, is there that much value in it? There's a good chance the original documents will outlast the digitized versions.
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> If your employer can run their companies without employees in the future it also means you can have your own company with no employees. No, you still need money. Lots of money. > If anything this will level the playing field, and cr
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Gandi appears to still allow registration of them: https://www.gandi.net/en/domain/tld/su . I didn't actually register one, but they quoted a price of $28.31 for the first year then $63.98/year after
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> The fact that the US could carry out such an operation on the other side of the planet, and Russia can’t even do it on its own border, really casts doubt on this idea of Russia as the world’s second military power. Russia can claim tha
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https://archive.is/VwyN8
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The Techbro Turf War over AI's Most Hardcore Hacker House(forbes.com)
2 points by tivert 2y ago|1 comments
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> Don’t like porn? Then don’t use it. Forcing your personal views on others by banning things you don’t agree with is bullshit. Would you say alcohol is banned if a liquor store that was against carding customers would have to lock its d
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> So you're saying it was not true several years ago, but is true now? IIRC, they only did anything because NYT op-ed writer basically went to war with them and shined a very bright light on all the shady stuff they were toleratin
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> You could run all of your content through an LLM to create a twisted and purposely factually incorrect rendition of your data. Forward all AI bots to the junk copy. > Everyone should start doing this. Once the AI companies engorge t
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> Because access to the financial system was democratized ten years ago Huh? I'm not sure exactly what you're talking about, but mere "access to the financial system" wouldn't remedy anything, because of inequali
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> When none of us have jobs or income, there will be no ability for us to buy products. And then no reason for companies to buy ads to sell products to people who don’t have money. Without ad money (or the potential of future ad money),
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> This picture doesn't make sense. If most don't have any money to buy products, just invent some other money and start paying one of the other people who doesn't have any money to start making the products for you. Ultima
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> I’m super curious as to whether this technology completely destroys the middle class, or if everyone becomes better off because productivity is going to skyrocket. Even if productivity skyrockets, why would anyone assume the dividends
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> What people always leave out is that society will bend to the abilities of the new technology. Do they really? I don't think they do. > Planes can't land in your backyard so we built airports. We didn't abandon planes
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>> Unknown unknowns emerge at the tails of novel changes introduced to complex systems. Scientific studies are unable to account for these long-tail events. When it comes to your environment and your body, be more Lindy, and stop defe
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> In the case of the chemical spatula, the downsides are uncertain, but there's the possibility of cancer. The upsides are...greater corporate profits? > The wise man is going to have to pass on that one. We should be all happy t
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> subjecting utensils to rather implausible scenarios (when was the last time you microwaved your sushi tray?) That's not implausible. Sushi actually tastes better a little warm than chilled. Also I think it would make sense to test
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> It puts forth an image of a future in which—as streaming services push music further into the background, and normalize anonymous, low-cost playlist filler—the relationship between listener and artist might be severed completely. I don
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> The third time someone calls to complain that the alkaline batteries they put in this leaked, they'll wish they used a soldered-in 3V lithium primary cell. Even though that goes against a certain ethos. Those aren't alkaline
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> That's true. But I bet even more people are cooking, eating tofu, or masala. On the other hand, that rural grocery store is probably chock full of specialty items that are hard to get where those heavy tofu-eaters live, like chees
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> It does make profit. The Corportation-owned-by-Foundation model is not that uncommon. How, exactly? Excess from Google's money drops? If their corporate structure is a barrier to using donations for development, I think they need
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Maybe they should think of starting to spend "Mozilla Foundation" money on browser development, like most donors expect them to, instead of other random things no one cares about.
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> Don’t forget “we don’t build weapons…well the company does but my team doesn’t.” It's totally possible. There's an defense contractor in my area where all the work at the local office is on non-defense government projects.

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