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by xp84 6d ago
Was talking about California. Where most of these VC types live and experience unmitigated Democratic Party rule.
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by xp84 6d ago
I’m talking about in California! If you want to know what Democrats are capable of accomplishing, look to the state where they have had carte blanche to do whatever they want. California is their testing platform.
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by xp84 6d ago
Always replace “fandom” with “breezewiki” in the url. It’ll take you to a de-crapified version, and also check for the existence of a real wiki separate from fandom and link to that: https://breezewiki.com/chrono/wiki&#
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by xp84 7d ago
Pretty sure 90% of the posters of the type at the top of the article are made for $0. I bet for $10 you could get real artists from non-Western countries to make a simple poster, but these days people would probably claim those $10 jobs and
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by xp84 7d ago
wow, apparently it's a cryptocurrency?[1] LOL. Somebody lost a lot of money on this, as it peaked at $1.79 in 2024. 1. https://finance.yahoo.com/chart/LMWR-USD
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by xp84 7d ago
They got all that money from the massive amounts of malware (or at best, adware of dubious value, like toolbars and stuff) they were paid to install alongside their filesharing client.
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by xp84 7d ago
No I'm not. I don't care how you heat your water. I'm saying you (should) heat it either way, and you use more of it when hand-washing so if you do pay to heat it, you pay more by handwashing. And in your case, you use more w
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by xp84 7d ago
I know I can't speak for everyone, but I at least don't see the passkey as even pretending to solve that. There frankly is no solution for the problem you are talking about, because the 'average person' is extremely diso
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by xp84 7d ago
I posted a longer comment above which kinda answers this but without repeating myself too much, Republicans mainly serve to keep Democrats from being able to consolidate power, and Democrats have now shown us what 15 years of a (D) trifecta
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by xp84 7d ago
One party does not have an indisputable claim on being ethical. Both of our political parties have done highly unethical things. Without getting into a bunch of hot-button political fights, I'll just say: Different people prioritize di
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by xp84 7d ago
I'd push back on that. Trump is the uhh... Trump... of 'economic central planning and limiting economic freedom'. He's clearly an idiot who can't even utter a single sensible sentence about economic policy of any ki
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by xp84 7d ago
I'm assuming the intent is to protect customers. Tying the fine to intent or gross negligence doesn't work for me, as a customer doesn't care why, they only care that the harm happened. Doesn't matter to me if you train
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by xp84 8d ago
You’re jumping - aggressively - to the conclusion that there’s a “being” inside my laptop once I’ve downloaded a large enough matrix of numbers. Or once I’m running it on the GPU? Idk. It’s on you to prove that claim before telling us we’re
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by xp84 8d ago
What you're describing sounds precisely like the state of politics. The most successful politicians on both sides just scream "simple" solutions that don't stand up to even cursory examination. On the one hand, Trump, wi
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by xp84 8d ago
My suggestion would be to not do that. But keep a password and an offline TOTP app if you must. It’s still an option.
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by xp84 8d ago
The article asserts with little proof that lockout risk is a big problem. But consumer sites themselves basically 100% of the time have a recovery path that amounts to a SMS code or emailed code. The only part that is very persuasive is the
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by xp84 8d ago
That's fair. Let me modify my statement: If the person doing this was over 50 and had developed this habit in old languages where that was basically idiomatic, it wouldn't scandalize me - though I'd raise an eyebrow to see it
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by xp84 8d ago
Thanks, I get your point now. For some reason, your position is much clearer to me now tonight than it was before.
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by xp84 8d ago
You heat the water when you wash dishes by hand too, don't you? It's not very hygenic to do dishes with just cold water. Given that by hand you use much more hot water than the dishwasher would, you're using more electricity
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by xp84 8d ago
Wait, LimeWire? That still exists? How??
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by xp84 8d ago
I once, in a divorce, sent at least two carloads (about 25 average size boxes) of personal belongings across the country by UPS. It cost like $600. If you’re a grown-up and settling somewhere after college, I think it’s a cool move to take
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by xp84 8d ago
I suspect this is highly variable between people. I can imagine kids who would be deeply attached to their stuff, deeply apathetic and want nearly none of it, and a few who would think they wanted a lot of it and yet would realize it wasn’t
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by xp84 8d ago
This makes me wonder how many people have a garage full of TP just in case COVID-29 plays out like the first one did.
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by xp84 8d ago
Relatable. In my case my dad passed away and at the time my relationship with him wasn’t the best. It wasn’t until I had a child of my own, about 5 years later, that I started to empathize with him orders of magnitude more - and to wish I h
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by xp84 8d ago
I tend to think the people who use it for seasonal stuff are definitely Doing It Right. After all, using it that way just enables you to have a smaller (or less cluttered) house but have the same things. When I had one, it was definitely no
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by xp84 8d ago
This reminds me of the endearing ex-husband in the show Cougar Town. He lived (and hung out) on just such a boat. I know, the name sounds cheesy af, but the show was a great one.
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by xp84 8d ago
I can corroborate that. I once rented a “storage unit” on Treasure Island — the cheapest facility “in” San Francisco by far. It was just containers with plywood walls built inside them to create units. My stuff all got wet from condensation
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by xp84 8d ago
Watch the channel Auto Parts City on YouTube, I assure you it is not overblown. It's a junkyard owner. A ton of cars come through there that run fine and could otherwise be very serviceable, but the frame/body are crumbling from r
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by xp84 8d ago
There's a guy Investment Joy on YouTube who you would probably enjoy watching, then. Just a pretty normal guy who runs a few small businesses. I think he has at least one car wash and a laundromat among other things. He talks about the
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by xp84 9d ago
To clarify, you're saying you're skeptical of his position (which is "make it clear to AIs that they are not conscious beings"), but it sounds like your reason to oppose it is mostly pragmatic in the service of building

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