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by troyvit 2y ago
Apparently they do, so yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...
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I wish people would've responded to you instead of down-voting you. I've heard those arguments, but the thing is there are several cases around the country right now where ballot-level fraud _was_ caught[1]. Without doing any rese
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by troyvit 2y ago
You have an excellent point that I didn't take into account when I left my comment. Personally I don't mind the electoral college too much but the gerrymandering that goes on in the U.S. is epic. Against that we have people saying
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by troyvit 2y ago
> We need to rebuild confidence in the integrity of elections, Voter ID, which most democratic countries require, seems like an incredibly modest step. People didn't lose confidence in the integrity of elections because our election
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> choosing not to exercise that right does not preclude you from complaining about electoral outcomes Sure. But it means I take you as seriously as I would any arm chair quarterback complaining about sports.
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There's a write-in spot on ballots for a reason. That said there are more than people on ballots to vote for, and some of those things (open space, conceal and carry laws, abortion restrictions, school choice) are possibly more importa
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by troyvit 2y ago
I think you nailed it. And coming from Apple, the company that established its cred by touting creativity, individuality, and innovating, it's a wild shift. Apple in 1997 [1]: "Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. Th
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> Honestly - Amazon really needs some serious lawsuits to force it to stop being such a bad actor in the online retail space. I think Amazon they would say that they are not a bad actor at all and in fact are providing a meaningful servi
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by troyvit 2y ago
I'm kinda psyched about this: https://system76.com/desktops/thelio-astra It's an arm64 Linux workstation.
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I guess it depends on the advice you're looking for but ... * Unemployed uncle, I just got laid off from my FAANG company because the board needs to boost profits. Can you help me understand our welfare system so I can get on medicaid
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by troyvit 2y ago
Exactly. I'm not sure why I clicked on this article given that [Giant Corp] introducing hidden [Anything] into [Free Product] isn't exactly a surprise is it?
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by troyvit 2y ago
I don't know if this helps, but Gwynne Shotwell is the President and COO of SpaceX. She's overseen some of their biggest achievements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Shotwell#SpaceX
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I think I see where this article is going. I don't ever want to be known for being good at programming Next.js. I don't ever want to look at the <div> salad that "good" React demands and feel proud of it. In my cur
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by troyvit 2y ago
Those are good points. If FF can diversify the sovereign funds its tied to then it can cancel out some of the problems. I knew where you were coming from re: fully free software. My concern was more how its sovereign donors could influence
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Right? They make it taste good[1]. Kids eat stuff that tastes good. [1] https://www.target.com/s/kids+toothpaste
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My kids ate toothpaste. At the same time I met a guy (still a friend today) who believed somewhat that fluoride was a mind-control thing. I decided I needed more mind control, so I stopped trying to get them to stop. It didn't help, ho
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by troyvit 2y ago
> The countries in turn can require that services in those countries must support Firefox, or perhaps specifically ESR versions of Firefox. The countries can also trade that support for features that might not be in the best interest of
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That's about $3/mile. It costs about $2/nautical mile to fly a Cessna. That's pretty good.
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by troyvit 2y ago
I can't speak for AIs but whenever I try to draw a hand I quickly look for an excuse to add mittens.
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Speaking to search, both DDG and Kagi seem to be doing fine, each with very different models. Google could figure out something there. Google ads would be fine on its own. They'd continue to dominate. Google Analytics would probably ha
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by troyvit 2y ago
Wow apparently a lot of rich people and/or bankers are here judging by the downvotes.
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Yeahhhhh. Also, once you get your cargo to the other side of the isthmus do you have to find another boat to put your stuff back on?
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Sure, but who defines "remote"? We've explored a small percentage of the ocean [1] and most of the places we have explored we've been surprised to find life. In fact NOAA estimates that 91% of species in the ocean have y
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by troyvit 2y ago
To me the part that rubs the worst, is that _after_ downloading JS components, listening to events to build a local state, crafting the AJAX request, and rendering the return JSON as HTML, the SPA will then change the URL in the URL bar so
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by troyvit 2y ago
We call thrift stores "offsite storage" because it's almost always cheaper to buy a thing like a keyboard or furniture, use it until it gets in the way, then just return it until we find we need it again.
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I got out of ad-tech partially because our company was promoting some of the worst sports betting apps on the web. We knew how bad it was, but we had to make numbers, so everybody just pretended we weren't screwing up peoples' liv
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by troyvit 2y ago
> At the end of films they say 10000 jobs were created making a film or some such, so.. even if it's not the best, people were paid. Fun fact: More people worked on the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise than there were pirates in
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Don't give up. You just need more investors to spread the risk :)
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Arg, thanks for clarifying that. I misused that term.
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Does Automattic follow wordpress.org's copyright rules? If not then I see the hypocrisy. If so then I don't. Also it seems wordpress.org kept their resources open to WPEngine until WPEngine sued wordpress.org[1] (not wordpress.com

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