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4y ago
Which is obviously correct - BBC is known for being complicit with Tory agendas.
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4y ago
>Very little goes directly into NPR from the state Yeah, just the management xD
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4y ago
The article claims Easter eggs go against trusting the system, but ignores the fact there is orders of magnitude more crap sneaked in because of said PMs, not despite them.
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>The whole reason society created politeness is from experience. This thing here is not politeness, but rather a political correctness. And indeed it does have its advantages, but also disadvantages - like the overwhelming tolerance tow
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4y ago
The current NPR CEO used to lead US government propaganda agency, https://www.usagm.gov/who-we-are/management-team/john-lansin... . But yeah, go ahead, maintain they are not controlled by the state xD
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4y ago
A year ago Russia was still widely considered to be a great military power.
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4y ago
Twitter failed to flag US state-sponsored media like NPR, so not doing this to eg China seems only fair.
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4y ago
US hasn’t invaded Syria in a colonial war. They also didn’t commit genocide in Syria.
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4y ago
And let me guess, you’re not even aware that green every in China - eg nuclear power plants - is growing much quicker than in US?
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4y ago
Hopefully the rest of post-9/11 idiocy can be rolled back as well, at least outside the US.
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4y ago
The vast majority of drug victims are really the victims of war on drugs - that’s what makes clean, safe drugs unavailable and forces people to use dangerous replacements. From the very beginning the American war on drugs was motivated by r
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4y ago
That wouldn’t matter at all if not for the locking down the cockpit.
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4y ago
Company in spam sending business does other unethical things, how surprising.
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4y ago
>all code in a single process Can you give some example of that being the case?
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4y ago
I’m sorry, it appears ignoring problems specific to some flyover states in my follow up comment was a bit too subtle.
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4y ago
>I don't think that is going to be the case, more people today believe outright lies than just a few years ago. Vastly fewer people believe in outright lies now than a couple of decades ago. Fringe theories of all kinds used to be
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4y ago
In a properly working law system those officers getting shot and killed by bystanders could solve the problem by making the police think twice. Of course it won’t work in this case.
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4y ago
States and companies have been successfully creating fiction masquerading as reality for centuries. The only thing AI can change here is it makes it more commonly available. And that might end up reducing the effectiveness of this manipul
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4y ago
Erm, no. https://www.speedtest.net/global-index ; eg the average in Beijing is 177Mbps.
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4y ago
What I was thinking of is hosting for yourself; ie there would be no uploads from outside, only downloads.
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4y ago
It would work smoothly in a democracy, where the “mob” can vote the private owners out. Of course it won’t work in a fake democracy where corporations are allowed to buy politicians.
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4y ago
“Downtime” is a meaningless metric. Actually working is what matters. And Meet just broke for me two weeks ago; the video didn’t work. Doesn’t matter it was technically “up”.
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4y ago
Then those homes might still use a centralized solution instead, with everyone else using a better one.
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4y ago
Oh, another “China bad” shill.
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4y ago
Outsourcing is less amusing when you realize that the whole cloud industry is a kind of offsourcing.
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It’s a bit sad that in 2023, with dirt cheap SSDs and gigabit internet at home, we still default to using some third party hosting for transferring files.
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4y ago
>Sometimes I feel guilty about using an ad blocker on sites I like Put it differently, sometimes you feel guilty about not allowing the sites you like to abuse your computer. That feeling doesn’t seem healthy to me, tbh.
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Ah, yes, “normies can’t code”. It’s not a polite thing to say, even if (somewhat) true, and it’s also not very useful, given they are the vast majority of people.
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It also forces China to develop its own competitor to ASML, which will eventually drive them out of the market.
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I’d say PSVR did quite well. Your examples above - from FB or Google - failed for the same reason everything else they try ends in failure - it’s a problem with those corporations and their “engineering culture”, not with VR.
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