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by vkou 10mo ago
Oh? Really? Has this madness been happening in the other 23 of the 24 years since its passage? At this scale? Were there a lot of masked men disappearing people in broad daylight? I'd have figured that if you were looking at historic e
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by vkou 10mo ago
And likewise, presumably the users are getting something they want in exchange for having ads blasted at them. If they just wanted ads blasted at them, and nothing else, they'd be doing something else, like, say, watching cable TV.
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by vkou 10mo ago
Asking about the value of ads is like asking what value I derive from buying gasoline at the petrol station. None. I derive no value from it, I just spend money there. If given the option between having to buy gas and not having to buy gas,
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by vkou 10mo ago
Trump's third term will not be the product of a free and fair election in a society bound by the rule of law.
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by vkou 10mo ago
> Maybe you could organize a lot of big-sounding names in computing (names that look major to people not in the field, such as winners of top awards) to speak out against the various rampant and accelerating baggery of our field. The voi
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by vkou 10mo ago
They should, but if given the option to only exclusively use one or the other, I would never in a million years pick it. Because I have put in a tiny bit of effort into understanding how to use a debugger. Most of them provide you with a
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by vkou 10mo ago
> I have found line level managers absolutely useless and powerless. They are doing exactly what they are paid to, which is communicate decisions made above them to the people doing the work. You are correct - that is a powerless positio
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by vkou 10mo ago
> 1. Use println Printf debugging is a usability and productivity disaster compared to an actual debugger.
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by vkou 10mo ago
The best thing about windows 11 is that if you hit the windows key, and type 'restart', it searches for 'restart' on Bing . Please give me the name, rank, and serial number of the PM who thought this was a good idea. I
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by vkou 10mo ago
> Nothing like this has ever been forced onto russia. All empires collapse sooner or later. Give it a few hundred (or dozen, or just a few) years. It's turn will come, just like it will for the US hegemony.
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by vkou 10mo ago
> russians (this time spelt with a lowercase 'r') have forfeited their right to exist as a nation. Consistently throughout history, they have invaded, colonized, and genocided their neighbors. Just to make sure we're on th
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by vkou 10mo ago
I've no doubt that if we plopped you down in the middle of, say, modern-day Russia, you'd be able to observe a few important differences in the political organization of the two countries. Fewer than you would a year or nine ago,
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by vkou 10mo ago
How would the roadmap for turning a democracy into a one party dictatorship differ from the trajectory we are on?
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by vkou 10mo ago
People who don't understand the press don't get handpicked to run the press by the billionaires who own it. She understands that she's full of shit, and she's paid to be full of shit. The Ellisons aren't spending bi
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by vkou 10mo ago
They did, through both bankruptcies. They came out squeaky clean in 2001, keeping all their shares. (Major shout-out to the State of California for bailing them out, and shouldering all the subsequent liabilities from that adventure.) The s
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by vkou 10mo ago
I mean, yes, you are right, I lived through all that, and I remember it well. But to me, even at the time, this was at best, magical-thinking bullshit. But what does a teenager know..? I just write the things my teachers tell me to and get
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by vkou 10mo ago
It's not paid actors. It's partisan hacks who are somewhere on the spectrum between full support of this barbarity, and finding all the other shit that's being done useful enough to them to be worth compromising their values.
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by vkou 10mo ago
SK was a capitalist dictatorship for almost as long as has been a capitalist democracy. There's literally nothing about democracy that capitalism finds necessary or even particularly attractive.
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by vkou 10mo ago
Except in this case, PG&E with its unmaintained infrastructure was the one 'walking around covered in gasoline'. It didn't quite manage to blame the smoker, but it did get everyone else to foot the bill for the burn ward
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by vkou 10mo ago
1. The stock recovered within 2 years and then shot to the moon. 2. You're not counting all the dividends they've siphoned out. 3. The reason it's at $16 today is because the company destroyed its own value... By prioritizing
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by vkou 10mo ago
Except that the state of California ended up on the hook for the first bankruptcy. The shareholders were the only ones who came out fine. The customers and the state got stuck with the bill. Exactly what risk did they take on? A few misse
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by vkou 10mo ago
At the same time as pardoning the Jan 6 insurrectionists, he's seeking multi-year felony convictions for... People standing in front of an ICE bus.[1] https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/jun/12/st
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by vkou 10mo ago
> What the... It seems we crossed into the realm of intentionally doing damage. He's been doing that since January.
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by vkou 10mo ago
Pussyfooting around this issue is the worst of both worlds. Why on earth is a government-protected monopoly entitled to 10% margins? Or even 6% margins? It's risk-free money with a captive market. What is the point of all this bullshit
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by vkou 10mo ago
> We have sleep walked into it. We didn't sleep walk into it, we ran into it because of poor basic civics education and a cynical media cycle that biases towards making everyone terrified of crime. The latter is driven by two forces
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by vkou 10mo ago
It's bizarre to hear the words that come out of this administration's mouth on... Almost any topic, and then see an actual person actually arguing that anything those people say or do needs to be defended. Have you considered hold
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by vkou 10mo ago
I'm a professional developer, using SOTA systems, and dealing with them is like bargaining with a fucking empathy vampire. It is emotionally draining. They trick the reptilian part of your brain that you're dealing with something
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by vkou 10mo ago
Any crime by an immigrant or by a non-immigrant can be twisted into an anti-immigrant narrative by Trump. And this one has been.
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by vkou 10mo ago
I've never met a corn farmer, but somehow the corn ends up on my plate.
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by vkou 10mo ago
> But we're on track to do it. The only thing that the US is on track to is getting a taste of what real corruption feels like, enriching Trump's friends, and hollowing out its middle class.

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