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by xbar 1y ago
Which is to say, Rationalism is easily abused to justify any behavior contrary to its own tenets, just like any other -ism.
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by xbar 1y ago
MC/Visa wield a great deal of market power, which is bad because they become directly controllable entities. I can't believe I am about to say this: Bitcoin fixes this.
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by xbar 1y ago
Who misinterprets Moneyball?
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by xbar 1y ago
Good news: I am not smoking.
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by xbar 1y ago
"Judge creates mass surveillance program; denies it."
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by xbar 1y ago
The destructive power of the Section 174 change cannot be overstated. It has been reported on a lot, but its harms are generally poorly articulated. I do not like many things in BBB, but I am glad to know there is at least something in ther
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by xbar 1y ago
Or mBED. But who's counting. Future Splash sold to Macromedia and it did become dominant. Shockwave died pretty quickly after that.
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by xbar 1y ago
Teen Vogue, I apologize for not recognizing your journalism earlier.
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by xbar 1y ago
I was always happily surprised to find that they were hosting what I needed when I needed it. A great lab with a long history.
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by xbar 1y ago
Not at all. I think he rightly concludes that jurisdiction is completely avoidable by geoblocking California. It is baffling to hear the author ask the question “did Shopify ‘expressly aim an intentional act at California?” And subsequently
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by xbar 1y ago
The UK's Online Safety Act is pretty horrific. Our friends in the UK have my sympathy.
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by xbar 1y ago
I worry that the tally of those who do is much higher than is prudent.
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by xbar 2y ago
Perfectly said. This one was a banger. I searched for it in the article's list of videos with greater than 1M views but the author failed to capture it.
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by xbar 2y ago
What I read: going near a Tesla dealership increases your odds of ending up in an El Salvadoran prison.
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by xbar 2y ago
Declaring all sample code AGPLv3 in the footer is toxic. I'm glad I scrolled before I polluted my brain with unusable information.
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by xbar 2y ago
In the mid-70s we'd play soccer at a school overlooking the western White House. Corky Carroll played concerts at my elementary school auditorium and we'd buy lobster from the shop across from Hobie's and have birthday partie
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by xbar 2y ago
So many things Apple permits were not, nor do they remain, inevitable.
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by xbar 2y ago
Your argument that IP and copyright do not exist now because they did not exist in the past is bogus. IP and copyright exist.
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by xbar 2y ago
Dateline June 1, 2025 Big 3 Automakers Changed to Tesla, GM, Ford After Total Stellantis Collapse
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by xbar 2y ago
Nice! I know a good recipe for toast.
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by xbar 2y ago
Thank you for your efforts, Hector. I have enjoyed watching them develop and personally benefitted from the result of your work.
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by xbar 2y ago
Only two of those are observations.
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by xbar 2y ago
Not weird but important to note.
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by xbar 2y ago
Thanks for your effort.
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by xbar 2y ago
Agreed. A healthy toolchain lets a developer separate the Craft from the minutiae.
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by xbar 2y ago
Thank you. I will be forever grateful for your work and its improvements of my life.
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by xbar 2y ago
AI training tool gathering my data? No, thanks.
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by xbar 2y ago
I don't think those kids understand "pledge."
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by xbar 2y ago
What say you, Rob Bonta?
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by xbar 2y ago
OpenAI (sc)raped all the data it could. I do not accept your assertion that d1 was "public." It was accessible, for certain. OpenAI asserts 1. d2 was used by DeepSeek 2. All d2 belongs to OpenAI exclusively Both are debatable fo

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