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by viridian 2y ago
I don't understand the point of this sort of censorship when I can go to google, ask how to make napalm, and get a million results telling me to dissolve styrofoam in gasoline. I've seen documentaries and science shows on cable TV
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by viridian 2y ago
I agree with you in this instance, but I think it's contextual. Cheap scale is great. Scaling for black swans is generally inadvisable unless it's a critical event in severity as well. I work at a university, we need to scale up o
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by viridian 2y ago
It isn't just those subreddits, comments are broken all over. New threads currently are showing comments as a part of the topic API, but the actual threads then return 0 comments. I do think the influx of traffic is probably responsibl
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by viridian 2y ago
A heavy user in your mind smokes about a quarter to a third of a single blunt a day? I'd say you are off by close to an order of magnitude.
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by viridian 2y ago
This doesn't really match my experience. Friction for most video calls is very low. Our org uses teams, but my team uses old zoom accounts we got during early covid, for small groups we use slack huddles, and when we talk to AWS produc
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by viridian 2y ago
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but this seems to more-or-less read as, "As a product manager myself, I believe that the use of an advantageous market position to strengthen vertical integration is a reasonable practice, so long
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by viridian 3y ago
I agree that it's not hash collision, but the fingerprinting strategy makes precise language on this topic a bit difficult/tedious. The CSAM detection isn't proper hash collision either, in so far as I understand it. There&#x
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by viridian 3y ago
I can count the amount of non technical people I have met who use the navigation keys, on a single hand, and every single one of them has a finance related job. Even most devs, particularly younger devs, never use navigation keys.
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by viridian 3y ago
Not sure if its what the poster above is talking about, but there's definitely a hash collision type attack that's common on Youtube with regards to classical music. The attacker in question uploads very standard renditions of tho
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by viridian 3y ago
So was almost every unicorn startup. They purposefully aim for growth until its unsustainable, then switch over to exploiting their market position. We may not like it, but the business model is far from novel or unexpected.
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by viridian 3y ago
IBM is doing okay, but not great. Their fiscal peak was a decade ago, and in terms of real dollars they aren't even at pre covid numbers yet. And on what little I know of the mainframe side, IBM is still very IBM-like, except they will
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by viridian 3y ago
Seems incredibly similar to Mythbusters' Adam Savage's allegations, and will likely settle out of court for an undisclosed sum, for the same reasons. True or not, you aren't going to be able to prove 25+ year old event occurr
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by viridian 3y ago
People don't care about you nearly as much as you think. Everybody has their own shit going on.
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by viridian 3y ago
How is it piracy to use archive.ph? Seems strange that the bots are allowed to read content for free, while the humans can't, but also the humans shouldn't read the bot's reposting of the content for free. It seems to me that
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48 points by viridian 3y ago|21 comments
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by viridian 4y ago
The person you are replying to is making a rational argument, not an empirical one. The premise that may be understated is "cases are more likely to be solved when the victim is known to the killer, because the amount of people who kno
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by viridian 4y ago
Well put. Lines up with my comment ITT and my observations on the American side of things as well. There's a strange dynamic where a massive amount of people across the world have some cursory knowledge about the state I live in, where
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by viridian 4y ago
I used to be bothered by people assuming America as a default, but I've actually changed my opinion on this after doing an online political science course through the University of Nottingham. The thing I found shocking while attending
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by viridian 4y ago
Bad as that is, most people alive in the US weren't even born in 1978. Much as I don't gel at all with Mormons, I never really got the feeling they had any explicit racial beliefs. They definitely have a general air of discomfort
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by viridian 4y ago
> soon As a casual observer, I saw people being labelled as sexists basically the minute feedback and viewership numbers started dropping for the middle film in the new trilogy. And the same thing happened for the last one.
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by viridian 4y ago
Author's quite the judgmental bastard with a strange definition of nerd, but yeah most people ITT are just riffing on the title. It's a bit too prosaic to expect most people to read it in full though, but you get the gist after th
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by viridian 4y ago
It's sort of like rap music. In a way, the more popular bits have essentially become a part of the commodified dominant monoculture, insofar as we still have a monoculture left. On the other hand, the niche has become significantly mor
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by viridian 4y ago
I don't think it's mental gymnastics. The key fact of what I'm trying to argue here, and the lawsuit against mcdonald's, is that at the time, McDonald's was keeping the resting temperature of the coffee far too hot.
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by viridian 4y ago
Despite being nominally on your side in this discussion, the way you reply makes me actively wish I agreed with you less, because you are so hostile and abrasive. This is no way to talk to other human beings.
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by viridian 4y ago
I think Mac v. PC as a tribal dividing line has largely been replaced by PC v. Phone, given that most of the population no longer interacts with computers outside of work at all any more.
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by viridian 4y ago
Show me a high quality espresso machine that at the time of extraction has boiling water contacting the portafilter. I'll save you the trouble, because no such machine exists.
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by viridian 4y ago
Numbers are nationwide. My city's crime rates have doubled since March 2020. SF could be an outlier, but based on the melancholia in this thread, people may just not be reporting crime as much any more in SF. Underreporting seems like
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by viridian 4y ago
You shouldn't use boiling water to make coffee unless you want it to be bitter. General rule is you want 195-205F water, so you boil, wait 30 seconds, bloom the coffee, wait another 30 seconds, make the coffee. Finished coffee is aroun
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by viridian 4y ago
Speaking for the dead in a public forum seems in far worse taste to me.
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by viridian 4y ago
Nationwide crime is up 50% in the past 3 years, and at about 70% of the 1991 all time high. It's safer than our absolute peak for sure, but this historical reversal should be very concerning.

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