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by wpietri 3y ago
You write in a tone of contradiction, but I'm having trouble understanding how your points relate to mine. I don't believe I said that never-profitable businesses were unique to this era, or that the only business failures lately
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by wpietri 3y ago
This is why I'm for robust, independent police oversight boards. There are reasonable answers to "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" if we want them.
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by wpietri 3y ago
I looked through all 47 pages of the document linked, and I didn't see any numbers on homicide convictions by race. Would you be so kind as to clarify your citation?
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by wpietri 3y ago
I would like you to consider that a) the police may be nice to you, a local small town boy, in ways that they are not nice to others, and b) people who are nice to some can in fact do terrible things to others. For example, consider slavery
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by wpietri 3y ago
Yeah, the racial disparities in police use of force in San Francisco are incredible: https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/sfpd-use-of-force-racial-di... Black people get force used 12-15x more often. Hispanic, 2-3x. I
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by wpietri 3y ago
You handle it by immediately giving copies of the video to police, prosecutors, and a police oversight board, all of whom have responsible processes for viewing and releasing video. Kept in video management tools with strong logging, access
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by wpietri 3y ago
Absolutely. The police unions complain endlessly that the public just doesn't understand how it is for cops. That the complaints against them are almost always meritless. So show us! Record it all. Release the video any time there&#x27
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by wpietri 3y ago
Exactly. It was an illegal casino dressed up as "investment", while also ignoring the regulations on investment. Part of their explicit plan was to use the house rake to give enough money to politicians that they'd retroactiv
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by wpietri 3y ago
Rude title, but very interesting! Seems like I would like some of my IP neighbors based on what they're downloading. I was interested to see that the top downloaded game is Warcraft. Are they distributing via torrent? Or is there some
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by wpietri 3y ago
If you read about interactions with him, he's preternaturally confident and charming. I think he's also deranged. Per Wikipedia, "The Wall Street Journal reported in 2019 that Neumann had aspirations to live forever, become t
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by wpietri 3y ago
Agreed, but the difference for me in some of those companies is that Theranos, FTX, and WeWork were never real companies in the sense that they performed valuable service to the world and turned a profit. In contrast, Enron, Worldcom, Tyco,
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by wpietri 3y ago
Yeah, I think of this as the locker room effect. If you're not used to it, undressing in a locker room can feel scary. You're naked! But once you get used to it, you realize everybody is naked and it's fine. But that's c
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by wpietri 3y ago
As an American who has lived abroad a fair bit, I can confirm that the American approach seems deranged if you're used to prices that match what you will pay.
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Driver hits woman in S.F., then Cruise driverless car runs her over(sfchronicle.com)
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by wpietri 3y ago
This isn't government surveillance. This is companies keeping business records. Or more specifically not throwing them out when they might be evidence in a legal proceeding. They only end up in the hands of the government when the gove
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by wpietri 3y ago
Ok, same question, then. What's the exact "before external interventions" period you are thinking of? Because again, I see hundreds of years of "external factors". Even more so than in Libya, really.
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by wpietri 3y ago
That, or the way they blame everything on NATO's intervention in a civil war, rather than the decades of corruption and oppression that led up to it. Or how they mention climate change without acknowledging Libya's role in it as a
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by wpietri 3y ago
Sorry, what's this "before external interventions" period you're thinking of? I thought maybe I was missing something, so I took a quick look at Libya's history and what I see is hundreds of years of "external
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by wpietri 3y ago
Look, I have no stake in this. I don't really care what you do. But if only for your own personal development, you should recognize what you're doing here in this conversation. Can IP geolocation be used for positive things? Yes.
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by wpietri 3y ago
Or is it proof of how well the TSA works in scaring off terrorists? On a completely different note, I have tiger repellent for sale. I can prove it works extremely well in that I have not once seen a tiger loose anywhere around me.
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by wpietri 3y ago
Huh. Ignoring the somewhat strained metaphor, you seem to be suggesting that you don't have moral responsibility for aiding the creepiness of professional manipulators because you also enable other things. I don't think that'
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by wpietri 3y ago
And if they drop by, they could also address the poor handling of security reports as described in the fine article. Because if the only way to get a reply about security issues is to get it to the front page of HN, that's a sign to me
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by wpietri 3y ago
I only got 3 of 10 right, substantially worse than random chance. Sorry, coders! Although I don't feel bad about thinking that the COBOL inventor was a serial killer.
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by wpietri 3y ago
For sure. When people work in any industry long enough, it's easy to stop thinking about the basics. E.g., a retail butcher thinks of his work very differently than a cow or a vegan does. When people work in advertising, they mostly fo
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by wpietri 3y ago
Why is this getting downvoted? It seems to me that a lot of the media-focused anti-piracy tooling is essentially a performance of toughness to make rightsholder execs comfortable. Everybody accepts you can't stop piracy entirely, and n
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by wpietri 3y ago
It really doesn't, at least in the legal sense. Managers have wide legal latitude to run the business as they think best. However, in practice corporate boards tend to vote the short-term numbers, which combined with decreasing CEO ten
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by wpietri 3y ago
Something about this feels off to me; it has the form of bold transparency, but I don't end up with much clarity. I really want to hear about this from some of the game developers they worked with.
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by wpietri 3y ago
Yeah, I don't use rewards or loyalty programs at all; I don't like giving over the headspace to corporate manipulators. But I still use debit cards very carefully because of the better protections from fraud for credit transaction
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by wpietri 3y ago
> Steam will also be tracking revenue. The app stores track it, but they don't publish it, so Unity won't have access to it.
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by wpietri 3y ago
Sure, I am also very interested in forgers. I'm also interested in the machinery of what's currently getting labeled as AI. But I'm not interested in having one confused for the others.

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