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by toofy 9mo ago
right, but as the post above says: > “Protesting isn’t a listed or ‘valid’ reason for having Global Entry revoked, but being arrested at a protest is… And being investigated is.” its no secret they're declaring everything a protest.
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by toofy 9mo ago
yeah it’s super weird how it seems like no one has heard about this.m the story is bonkers af. needs a movie or podcast series or something.
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by toofy 9mo ago
> Can you provide sources and verdict? sure. directly from the DOJ [0] and another from CBS. [1] i get it, it sounds insane, but its very real. here ya go. Department of Justice: [0] > Jim Baugh, eBay’s former Senior Director of Safe
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by toofy 9mo ago
oh, they were found guilty in criminal court and forced to pay a fine of millions [0]. i was mistaken. their criminal fine was the max allowed at $3 million. i can’t even imagine how much they’ll have to pay out in civil after being found
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by toofy 9mo ago
for context for those who don’t know about the dead fetal pig: a couple years ago ebay had to pay out millions to a couple it was trying to intimidate into silence, ebay didn't like the negative publicity the couples writings were gene
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by toofy 9mo ago
> it’s just for fun. amazing, for real. everything i’ve read and heard about the good internet is that it was good because sooooo many of the people did stuff for exactly that, fun. i’ve spent some time reading through some of the old em
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by toofy 9mo ago
if it doesn’t know medical advice, then it should say “why tf would i know?” instead it confidently responds “oh, you can absolutely do x mg of y mixed with z.” these companies are simultaneously telling us it’s the greatest thing ever and
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by toofy 9mo ago
this is much much closer to going in reverse back to when the church were the deciders rather than liberating knowledge the way the printing press did. the church did the thinking for the peasants. the church decided what the peasants heard
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by toofy 9mo ago
i think when most people bring up mistakes that these models make, much of their concern is that little can be done. when one of the juniors makes a mistake, i can talk to them about it and help them understand where they went wrong, if the
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by toofy 9mo ago
> The bots have a different model -- they assume that the website is adversarially "hiding" its content. this should give us pause. if a bot considers this adversarial and is refusing to respect the site owners wishes, thats a
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by toofy 9mo ago
> It's remarkable how many smart people think that science can be done without data. It’s so important that we write these down, so when these people have forgotten why they’re not making any progress and they’re searching for answe
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by toofy 9mo ago
apparently a bunch of cities across oregon and washington are not renewing. https://www.opb.org/article/2026/01/08/bend-flock-cameras-ai...
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by toofy 9mo ago
thanks for your input. im still curious to hear from them.
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by toofy 9mo ago
> The Internet is fantastic. The Web sucks. did you really not understand what the author meant by “internet” in the colloquial sense or are you being needlessly pedantic?
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by toofy 9mo ago
if we’re going to steelman we have to acknowledge that many venezualans liked him too. we can’t simultaneously say we don’t like corruption of socialist governments while literally bombing another nation and imprisoning political enemies ju
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by toofy 9mo ago
> sending political opponents to prison sounds like a common theme… only this one involves war and prison and taking oil money for US cronies. whole thing truly makes me skeptical of anyone’s claims that “socialism always leads to co
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by toofy 10mo ago
it’s amazing to me how few people know what happened there.
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by toofy 10mo ago
i’m curious, are you skeptical xai would wiggle around regulations and pollute a city? by “agenda pushing” do you mean those who have an agenda to have breathable air? because that seems like an entirely reasonable agenda to me.
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by toofy 10mo ago
hopefully a lot of local libraries will have access. i could spend hours sifting through this.
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by toofy 10mo ago
i upvoted you, but it would be very helpful to add a description to what you’re linking rather than just dropping it with no description whatsoever.
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by toofy 10mo ago
does disney think a future is coming where the company who owns the model may be able to claim copyright on anything it’s model creates? because that’s the only way this makes sense to me.
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by toofy 10mo ago
removing a bunch of the context of what i said does not somehow magically alter what i was expressing in my post. that’s very bad faith, hn is better than that.
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by toofy 10mo ago
i’ve said it before on similar stories and i’ll say again, ill never understand people who put cameras inside their house.
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by toofy 10mo ago
> Everyone that needed to verify for their own sanity did indeed find proof. i suspect in more than a few of those cases. their severe paranoia behavior actually led to the break which led directly to the cheating. seriously, if you’re t
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by toofy 10mo ago
partner installing cameras to try and catch them cheating? that’s creepy af, no wonder they’re cheating. if they can’t leave their creepy partner for some reason, hopefully they look up how to bypass security cameras in an obvious way just
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by toofy 11mo ago
people participating as beta testers with no way to opt out is absolutely the norm now. from video games to software to “self-driving” cars, we’re all unpaid beta testers for unfinished and often unsafe products.
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by toofy 11mo ago
this seems like credit bureaus charging us to protect our data they keep losing.
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by toofy 11mo ago
> The problem in USA is that producing insuline is so regulated that setting up and maintaining production is obnoxiously expensive. i don’t buy it. no other oecd nation has insulin prices as absurd as the us. this is a greed problem.
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by toofy 11mo ago
this is a fantastic book. immediately what i thought about the instant you mentioned the church committee.
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by toofy 11mo ago
i understand the initial inclination, but leaving our libraries worth of historical data at the whims of our tech monarchs seems like a bad idea. we know for absolute fact they’ll remove or alter data to entirely change answers. we _know_

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