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by toyg 7mo ago
The two concepts are not exclusive. You could have "elections" but with heavy ICE presence at the polls "to guarantee security", effectively ensuring only the "right kind of people" will vote. That's not f
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by toyg 7mo ago
They also claimed Iran's nuclear threat was no more, last year. And still here we are. Their concept of truth lasts only as long as a single news cycle (sometimes even less).
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by toyg 7mo ago
They can and they did. What the tariff decision shows is simply that, on very specific topics (in this case, big business), their base is significantly split: on one side the populist masses, on the other the wealthy elites. When the chips
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by toyg 7mo ago
Fascist Italy also held "elections", like China and Russia do today. "Elections" is not a magic concept. Free elections, on the other hand...
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by toyg 8mo ago
These people live on manufacturing crisis after crisis in order to exploit the manic status that they generate. Why worry about how the midterms, if you can create a situation where elections cannot be held at all...? Yes, it sounds crazy r
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by toyg 8mo ago
Does anyone here remember WinerWatch ? The tool Mark Pilgrim wrote, that monitored changes to blog posts by (the notoriously trollish) Dave Winer? It caused a big stir in the blogosphere in 2003, and Mark took it down very quickly after pu
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by toyg 8mo ago
That's like saying the last tax that affected you was passed in 2006...
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by toyg 8mo ago
You don't even need to go down to assembly - most commercial software is trivial to disassemble calling a few EXEs. In theory this is largely forbidden by licenses, but good luck enforcing them now.
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by toyg 8mo ago
You have to recognize that boomers, with all their faults, took military action seriously. And Silicon Valley looked up to the likes of John Perry Barlow and 60s counterculture. Their kids don't give a shit.
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by toyg 8mo ago
The legally-sound approach is to keep track of your actions, so you can later prove you've made "reasonable" efforts to contact them.
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by toyg 8mo ago
Uh, this is just a curiosity, but do you have a reference for that last argument? If true, it would mean most commercial code being developed today, since it's increasingly AI-generated, would actually be copyright-free. I don't t
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by toyg 8mo ago
Lol at the statement that "clean room" would have been invented to scare people from suing. It's the opposite: clean room is a fairly-desperate attempt to pre-empt accusations in court when it is expected that the "deriv
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by toyg 8mo ago
OpenAI will likely end up swallowed by Microsoft anyway.
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by toyg 8mo ago
It was a different time. I reckon the same acquisition, today, would not get approval from the much-beefed-up EU regulatory authority (i.e. the competition commissioner). It's too late to fix the past, but we can avoid making the same
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by toyg 8mo ago
Come on. ZFS was created by Sun and opened up in 2005. Oracle took over Sun in 2010, and Jobs died in 2011. The relationship between Jobs and Ellison has nothing to do with it.
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by toyg 8mo ago
Maybe. Or maybe he would have just sent a close associate or relative, like his big friend Ellison does.
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by toyg 8mo ago
Law, spirit of the law, common decency. Rare currency these days, I know...
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by toyg 8mo ago
Buying an extra battery is very different from buying an entire new phone and in no way it would offset the environmental gain of not buying an entire new phone . Please don't engage in argument for argument's sake.
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by toyg 8mo ago
The overwhelming majority of the population of the developed world now considers the mobile phone as their primary (and often only) computing device. It's always with them, it's more accessible and intuitive than a laptop, and it&
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by toyg 8mo ago
> (still short on named examples in this subthread) UK libel laws are no joke here, and coupled with the abandonment of basically any public subsidy for legal expenses of normal people, it means most people (me included) are not going
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by toyg 8mo ago
As compared to risking life and limbs every day in a mine, breathing in cancerous powders, finding yourself with most of your joints fucked at 45, likely carrying PTSD from accidents happened to you or your colleagues... Yes, "hard thi
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by toyg 8mo ago
A lot of those charities are precisely in the process of being "cracked open", or have been captured by small groups who manage them as their personal fiefdom. The level of everyday corruption in this country is incredible.
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by toyg 8mo ago
But the survivors became some of the biggest and most profitable companies on the planet: Google, Amazon, Ebay/Paypal. And of course, the people selling shovels always do well in a rush (Apple, Adobe, etc).
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by toyg 8mo ago
I actually think the opposite will happen. Suddenly, smart AI-enabled juniors can easily match the productivity of traditional (or conscientious) seniors, so why hire seniors at all? If you are an exec, you can now fire most of your expensi
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by toyg 8mo ago
This is the most "1st world problems" comment I've read today.
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by toyg 8mo ago
Nowadays they just try to put more whiteys on the moon, or sabotage liberal democracy.
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by toyg 8mo ago
New fields are always competitive. Eventually, if left to its own devices, a capitalist market will inevitably consolidate into cartels and monopolies. Governments better pay attention and possibly act before it's too late.
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by toyg 8mo ago
> The majority of people can’t utilize it Tbh, depending on the field, even this crowd will need further dumbing down. Just look at the blog illustration slops - 99% of them are just terrible, even when the text is actually valuable. T
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by toyg 8mo ago
> one of two goats that was chosen by lot to be sent alive into the wilderness, the sins of the people having been symbolically laid upon it, while the other was appointed to be sacrificed Let me get this straight: in the Bible, the s
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by toyg 8mo ago
> an escape goat Autocorrect hall of famer, there.

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