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by toss1 2y ago
>>Often with much sound and fury. There is indeed always a way back, but that phrase is doing a LOT of heavy lifting! Yes, people have overcome far worse authoritarian regimes. But, remember: the cost to overcome authoritarians always
572.
by toss1 2y ago
Your answer at best is splitting hairs. When the regime can abduct and deport anyone without respect for legitimate independent judicial review where they can present evidence, democracy is absolutely gone. The only rule is the Dear Leader
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by toss1 2y ago
https://archive.is/WNmp7 This is incredibly serious and would be the top story everywhere if the tariff situation were not so bad.
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JPMorgan, BNY Limit Information Sharing with US Currency Comptroller After Hack(bloomberg.com)
3 points by toss1 2y ago|1 comments
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by toss1 2y ago
Huh? Across decades, I've heard of many cardiac events from shoveling the driveway, but absolutely zero from scraping ice off a car windshield. This correlates to the vast difference in effort required by each action — scooping, liftin
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by toss1 2y ago
Link to the President's announcement: https://x.com/MarcACaputo/status/1911517973766127978
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Trump announces "no Tariff 'exception' announced on Friday"(techcrunch.com)
31 points by toss1 2y ago|4 comments
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by toss1 2y ago
A request to not amplify disinformation is NOT censorship. A threat of legal or military action is. Of course there are edge cases, but blatant and hard-debunked falsehoods such as "The earth is flat", "Contrails are chemical
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by toss1 2y ago
Anyone who can not see the obvious difference in substance, intent, scope, and scale is either willfully ignorant or seriously lacking in reading comprehension and reasoning skills. Requesting curbs on rampant disinformation is not even c
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by toss1 2y ago
There is also a reason tariffs only get raised on a multi-generational time scale, e.g., 1820s, 1890s, 1930s, 2020s. The effects are so bad that nearly everyone who remembers the disaster must have died off for anyone to think it is a good
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by toss1 2y ago
Interesting insight; thanks! That would make sense as to why they insist on making search worse — keep you in the doom loop to show more promoted products and collect more pennies from the promotion, even if you end up going and purchasing
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by toss1 2y ago
>> search is very important - to the point where effective search was one of the main focuses of the company's development. THIS is what I really do not get. Of course N=[small_numbers_somewhat_selective], but I have never encoun
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by toss1 2y ago
Nice example, but not everything is like automobiles where probably not even one in 1000 people has ever been to a track day let alone actually raced a car, but sporty marques are desired. A very large portion of people actually cares about
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by toss1 2y ago
It seems we are talking about two different things, gig work vs employment. Also, talking about the entire company team, not just about you. >>My employer is entitled to my work output for compensation, no more, no less. Of course th
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by toss1 2y ago
Good qstn. The phrasing does leave room for ambiguity, but "make revenue close to" certainly indicates meaning closer to "$X from old job ~= $Y from art-gig" >>work something different and still make revenue close
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by toss1 2y ago
Fine. You are free to obfuscate and/or lie about your identity and location, and they are free to hire or not hire you. Who said anything about install? They give you a company phone. And you really think it is unreasonable for a pers
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by toss1 2y ago
>>went from productive work (someone paying them to do it) to unproductive work. Umm, that is literally wrong, by your own definition . >>work something different and still make revenue close to what they earned on their job by
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by toss1 2y ago
This could be largely solved by letting job seekers know up front that it WILL require an in-person interview, even if the position is remote — and then doing it. The price of a few round-trip airfares & hotel nights is trivial to th
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by toss1 2y ago
THIS Ordinarily, trust is earned in drops and lost by the barrel. However, in the last eleven weeks, the current administration has sunk and destroyed supertanker-loads of trust in The United States Of America, and in every field including
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by toss1 2y ago
As a diligent user of ALT+0151 for many years on Windoes systems, I can contradict that it is a sign of LLM writing — perhaps in combination with other factors it can be used to increase the likelihood of LLM authorship, but alone, nope.
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by toss1 2y ago
Plausible, but there really may not be a middle part longer than a few hours or days, depending on the mechanism (and I'm not even considering nuclear war here). I recall reading a first-hand account of surviving in Sarajevo during the
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by toss1 2y ago
The money quote: >>Status symbols — silk shells, designer shoes, luxury handbags — become keys to unlock these gates. If I need a job that will save my lower back and move my baby from medicaid to an HMO, how much should I spend signa
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by toss1 2y ago
Yup And it is not even the intent of his actions, it is the haphazard, chainsaw slash-&-burn, "move fast and break things" way he is doing them. The same thing was done by Al Gore in the 1990s, cutting 250,000 federal jobs, el
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Germany and Britain issue warnings about traveling to America(independent.co.uk)
9 points by toss1 2y ago|0 comments
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by toss1 2y ago
Yes, that is a great reference — I should probably have included that! I'm even expecting to do the same for my next trips abroad a US citizen, to avoid trouble on returning. My understanding is the French scientist was deported on arr
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by toss1 2y ago
THIS The risk of gun violence is incredibly low, especially in venues like you might find traveling to a conference. The real risk is the Immigration and Customs people. They are insanely unpredictable right now, and are taking wildly unexp
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by toss1 2y ago
Indeed! That could be a good solution to increase the corp tax rate and provide more benefits and more broadly. The problem is corporations, especially large corps, have historically bought favors from congress, with the result that the t
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Lightning Strikes Drop 50% After Global Shipping Industry Cut Sulfur Emissions(zmescience.com)
9 points by toss1 2y ago|2 comments
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by toss1 2y ago
And those regs really DO keep people alive. Kobe Bryant's pilot had to get special permission to fly that day [0]. Too bad it was granted. If he'd been grounded for the fog, all nine people would have missed their morning'
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Chinese Hackers Sat Undetected in Small Massachusetts Power Utility for Months(pcmag.com)
12 points by toss1 2y ago|3 comments

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