tolstoshev

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by tolstoshev 6y ago
That's the government doing it though, and not just the utilities deciding to cut off your power.
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by tolstoshev 6y ago
Not entirely true. If your business functions as a "public square" then it can be held to the 1A standard: https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/20/nyregion/right-to-distrib...
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by tolstoshev 6y ago
I'd be curious to find out if these children and young adults had learned to write or type first. Perhaps this is an artifact of learning writing first, rather than anything inherently beneficial about writing over typing.
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by tolstoshev 6y ago
Great news for torturers across the globe! /s
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by tolstoshev 6y ago
Same. It re-opened the case and got it all the way to the Supreme Court, so that's pretty huge.
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by tolstoshev 6y ago
Survivor bias. You're not seeing the dead ones.
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by tolstoshev 6y ago
Their decisions aren't completely free. For example malls got designated as public spaces in the 90s and that could happen online too at some point: https://law.justia.com/cases/colorado/supreme-court/19
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
That often ends up being the defacto job of a online community manager, if they have one.
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
also the habit of putting "missing: <search term>" and showing you stuff that isn't as targeted as what you were actually looking for.
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
I make a similar argument about the age of transparency hurting the elite more than it hurts common folk. If you make all my data public, I'll be at most embarrassed. If you make the elite's data public, that includes the locati
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
They're just trying to avoid a ruling like this one: https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/583/pruneyard-s... for social media platforms.
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
The hypothesis of why local conversations are safer is that when traffic gets complex, the passenger will see that as well and pause the conversation. The person on the phone doesn't have that awareness. However some jurisdictions ha
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
It's not the hands that are the problem, it's the cognitive load. Hands free is no safer than hands on, when it comes to talking on the phone. https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2014/04&
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
"Eleven days later, the company announced that tests by labs it hired had determined that there was no asbestos–other than some contamination it said came from an air conditioner – in samples from the one bottle tested by the FDA and t
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
They're still gonna pay for reach, just with botnets instead of ads.
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
Isn't this a textbook definition of predatory pricing and illegal in the US? WeWork’s strategy wasn’t simply to fulfil a practical need: its aim was market domination, to be achieved by undercutting its competitors in a race to the bot
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
Have they fixed the stuttering issue when connecting to a MacBook Pro? My current gen ones work fine with everything except the Mac.
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
This makes no sense - guns function completely differently from jets. What were they thinking?
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
I'm starting to wonder if there are physical limits to cognition and if we've already hit them. Maybe it's impossible for the physical universe to understand its own complexity.
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
It's called the Department of Defense, not Offense :)
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
DoorDash probably forgot to tip the “third-party service provider”
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
And here we are laughing at the fall of the Roman empire because of lead poisoning.
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
The real reason more code isn't open source is because it would severely embarrass a lot of companies, because of how bad their code is.
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
Spectacles, testicles, wallet, watch! :)
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
"I plead the fifth" or "I'd like a lawyer" or silence.
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
Glad they changed it, but it's pretty damning that this was the model in the first place.
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
They should have just sent the piece to the IRS as payment.
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
College is just a proxy for IQ. Shoving more people into college isn't going to make them smarter, if they don't have the mental horsepower. Basically you've got two levers, genetics and environment, and practically you can
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
He's describing Whuffie - https://www.amazon.com/Down-Magic-Kingdom-Cory-Doctorow/dp/0...
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by tolstoshev 7y ago
I think this guy is Gen X, not Boomer.

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