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by toolz 4y ago
Yahoo Photos launched in 2000 - even if it was filed in 2008 that's ridiculous
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by toolz 4y ago
> This is touted as "small govt", but it really just makes things less efficient. The total number of people involved stays the same. Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but are you suggesting big government is more efficient th
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by toolz 4y ago
Sure, but if a professional breaks your car or house irreparably then they have insurance to buy you something equivalent or better. If a doctor breaks your body irreparably, it would seem there's a high probability that you have no re
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by toolz 4y ago
While I agree it's silly to think musk is going to fire everyone, Whatsapp hit 1 billion messages a day with only 11 engineers. I certainly think twitter could function at a base feature set with far fewer than 2k.
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by toolz 5y ago
the widespread usage of something does not say anything about its safety. It's fallacious to assume just because something is widespread, that it has been shown to be safe. This illogical mindset is how we ended up with lead paint and
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by toolz 5y ago
Can you name any of these male dominated companies that hire men disproportionately to the gender demographics of their applicants/interviewees? The issue isn't the distribution of employees, it's whether there is sexism pres
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by toolz 5y ago
Genuinely curious because I'm completely outside of this realm of research, but who would fund a study looking to judge the health implications of 5G? Cynically I can't imagine it being good for someones career in academia to publ
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by toolz 5y ago
Just because you don't think you've had organ scarring doesn't mean you haven't. The difference is that most people don't worry about organ damage that is mostly negligible and never talked about. You don't aut
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by toolz 5y ago
Somehow with multiple comments about how embarrassing the phones association with republican organizations is, no one seems to be talking about how they backup your messaging data in a possibly insecure way and exposing peoples email addres
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by toolz 5y ago
Do we have to accept that MEV is a problem? Just because it's been a tactic used in the shadows with traditional finance doesn't mean it's a problem in an open ecosystem where anyone willing to pay can play. There isn't
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by toolz 5y ago
The places in the world that reacted the least to covid have excess deaths you can barely even tell there was a potent disease. Not a single country that avoided lockdowns is in the top 30 excess death (per capita). So did many people tre
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by toolz 5y ago
not if you encrypt your ssh keys, which is what everyone I know does - then your potentially weak password requires physical access to exploit while things accessible over the internet can't really be brute forced. further, this is eve
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by toolz 5y ago
Please don't state your speculation as an understood fact - afaik there is no published literature that has controlled for parasites and I know the article from scott alexander you're referencing here as he was the one who came up
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by toolz 5y ago
or more protection, depending on your perspective. I'd think russians wanting to interface with US services right now would find crypto offers more protection than fiat. Further, I know a few small businesses that have had large sums o
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by toolz 5y ago
I suspect you mean speed/bandwidth when you say scale, but that isn't the entirety of what scale means. try being in russia right now and buying products like netflix or similar sold in USD. With crypto you have free (as in freedo
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by toolz 5y ago
Do we see much change with photoshop? Personally I don't recall seeing much, but a "photo" of someone in the wrong place at the wrong time is every bit as damning as a deep-fake video in many circumstances.
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by toolz 5y ago
Or you could use Dessert Shield as a case study which has turned into pointless and incredibly long-lived war fronts.
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by toolz 5y ago
it's wild to me that so many people frame discussions about their kids in terms of "opponents that have to be defeated" It's not a subject I'm terribly interested or familiar with, but parenting strategies from a di
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by toolz 5y ago
First you have to establish what "healthy screen time" even means - something I imagine isn't quite so simple. The tactics for limiting screen usage to 1 hour a day seem likely to be different than limiting it to something li
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by toolz 5y ago
Time is rarely the limiting factor in achieving goals. The vast majority of us kill time with time sinks like playing on our phone or watching TV series - none of which are likely to be life goals. Instead optimizing for putting productive
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by toolz 5y ago
I wasn't attempting to negate what you said, merely commenting on the inadequacies of a government that rigid. I think protesting is not only valid, but necessary to keep centralized powers from growing too complacent. The growth of fr
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by toolz 5y ago
yes, they called them mostly peaceful protests in canada too - at least in canadian media, can't speak to polling canadians
533.
by toolz 5y ago
well back when government buildings were being burned down and people were getting shot - it was commonly and correctly referred to as "mostly peaceful protesting"
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by toolz 5y ago
If the greatest flexibility a government can offer its people is the ability to vote every few years then that government does not work for the people.
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by toolz 5y ago
Protesting is only a crime in authoritarian states. Canadians have the right to assembly and expression explicitly stated in the charter of rights.
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by toolz 5y ago
If you follow crypto regulatory clarity with even the smallest curiosity you'll find these crypto companies are _begging_ the SEC and IRS to be more clear so they can comply to existing laws. This hugely successful company wants to exi
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by toolz 5y ago
Why would I prevent this encounter? Did two adults consent to behavior they both felt benefited them? Who are you or I to suggest our ideals are better than theirs? All I've said is that you, nor I, should be responsible for making thi
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by toolz 5y ago
Are you being sarcastic? I said it is not a human right - no one should guarantee anyone the ability to start a business as it isn't societies responsibility to pay the cost of some individuals risk tolerance. I'm saying the opp
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by toolz 5y ago
I don't assume nor do I have to assume anything about someones intent to know that gambling is stupid. Entertainment can be had in so many forms today that even the poorest of the poor in developed countries can have choice paralysis f
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by toolz 5y ago
Gambling is not a human right, no one deserves to be able to waste resources they have no matter how much they may or may not enjoy it.

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