treesprite82

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by treesprite82 6y ago
> If you tell your computer that the timezone your machine is set to is called "LOL", then of course that's what it should report. What else would it do? If `TZ=EST date` adjusts the offset to EST, then a reasonable person
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by treesprite82 6y ago
> The DKIM issue has been brought up, and there are legitimate reasons why that assertion is not included in the Wikipedia. Not even mentioning DKIM because of the unsupported possibility that Google's private key could be compromis
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by treesprite82 6y ago
> Do you have a reliable source you can cite to back up your claims? For my first claim: The "smoking gun email" and its DKIM signature are publicly available, and can be verified regardless of their original sources. I can gui
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by treesprite82 6y ago
> * The allegations of corruption on Hunter Biden’s part are still considered a conspiracy theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biden%E2%80%93Ukraine_conspira... Breaking down Wikipedia's claims: > [...] co
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by treesprite82 6y ago
> It took only two days for Moderna to design the vaccine: https://www.businessinsider.com/moderna-designed-coronavirus... Which, as your linked article explains, is because they have better technology - not because they
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by treesprite82 6y ago
Seems too perfect that the same person supposedly guessed the password twice (first "yourefired", and then "maga2020!"). Especially if it was just by 5 manual attempts, and not some sophisticated setup. Since the hacking
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by treesprite82 6y ago
> [...] defend their last-minute issues [...] Jeff Dean's response claims that the paper was "only shared with a day’s notice before its deadline" , when Google "require two weeks" for their internal review pr
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by treesprite82 6y ago
> You are playing Russian roulette that I do not wish to play. In majority of the cases COVID-19 is not lethal at all You accuse them of playing Russian roulette while you justify not taking the vaccine with "the majority of COVID
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by treesprite82 6y ago
A number of fact checks just amount to "don't say it like that, say it in a way that supports our narrative instead" when there's no factual error. E.G: https://i.imgur.com/EmalFyS.png https:/&#x
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by treesprite82 6y ago
I worry that claiming the file contains malware and " will damage your computer", when it does not and will not, reduces how seriously users take those messages. This kind of message should be reserved for when malware has actual
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by treesprite82 6y ago
> Your right to free speech doesn't include a right to force [...] Under current laws yes. But the comment you're replying to is proposing a change, presumably to treat these huge platforms more like common carriers rather than
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by treesprite82 6y ago
Since we're talking about consciousness right now - doesn't that mean it must have at least some impact on the physical world for our physical selves to even know about it? Just from that, I don't see how it's conceivabl
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by treesprite82 6y ago
Games and sports are usually their own artificial sub-context with intentional limitations and scarcity of items, rather than following the real-world market and having item cost being based on time to develop. For example it's obvious
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by treesprite82 6y ago
> It's all secure, and when they pass, the next of kin receives the login and that person will get to read the deceased person's confession. I got 8,000 uploads in one week and it's just gone from there. There's some
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by treesprite82 6y ago
Which one? The concept of a singular "me" starts to break down in situations with clones. Both would claim to be me, and I think both would be right. You're trying to force a certain conclusion by only asking one of them and
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by treesprite82 6y ago
> And, really, neither would you Which me are you asking? The meatbag and the machine would both claim to be me, and both would have some merit to that claim by having the same memories, same personality, etc. After the uploading they&#x
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by treesprite82 6y ago
> Why is online conversation so special? Because it has the potential to be asynchronous. If I glance through a channel and see a bunch of questions then I can answer them in just the time it takes for me to write an answer. Whereas if I
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by treesprite82 6y ago
> Apple is a minority player in the smartphone market They're the majority in the US ( https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/united... ), which is relevant for US antitrust law. > If it sh
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by treesprite82 6y ago
It does have pretty much exactly that message. The corruption problems came from students seeing that only PNGs/JPGs were allowed, then trying to "convert" the file just by renaming it. What they're doing is the same as
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by treesprite82 7y ago
The full quote is: "Because we can not get re-elect, we can not win this re-election. Excuse me, we can only re-elect Donald Trump <short pause, audience laughter, video cropped here> if in fact we get engaged in this circular fi