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by xp84 3mo ago
Love this! A few similar GUI apps have been mentioned for Windows. For Mac, I've been using GrandPerspective for probably 15 years. This is one of my favorite class of programs in terms of how uniquely useful they are. A pity we can&#x
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by xp84 3mo ago
> So does that mean our social/political/economic system (culture) is a failure Post-2005 or so culture? I'd say probably... yes? Though it's far from an American thing, most of the issues I'm concerned with are
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by xp84 3mo ago
But if we never had, those deaths would have been happening that whole time, wouldn't they? Unless you're saying that the aid being there in the first place was actively discouraging any self-sufficiency by the sovereign governmen
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by xp84 3mo ago
What's funny is that due in part to minimum wage laws (which caused some of the inflation) the lowest quintile is arguably the one who's kept up with inflation better than the rest, meaning there has been an improvement in the wea
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by xp84 3mo ago
Boy, do I miss the amount of diversity and innovation we used to have in cell phones. I remember having this phone [1] which put the camera on a little rotating thing so you could use the same one for front or back facing - obviously this e
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by xp84 3mo ago
Wait, you think not giving additional aid = responsibility for whatever happens in the developing country? Does this blame go for the rest of the year, decade, or century? Does giving aid in the first place automatically trigger this? If I
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by xp84 3mo ago
Trump is objectively terrible, corrupt, and feeble-minded, but the lack of self-awareness on the other side is darker. For your platform to be so bad, so out of touch, that you lose to that? And the DNC takeaway was "No, we were perfec
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by xp84 3mo ago
The Amish have tons of kids and are one of the fastest growing groups you could think of. It's because of this high birth rate that they're easily able to care for their elders, even though they are IIRC legally allowed to opt out
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by xp84 3mo ago
Nevertheless, I have very little faith in states somehow blocking big mergers. Can you cite an example where this has happened? We've had basically every airline, several supermarket chains, and every major media company go through 1-2
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by xp84 3mo ago
Better than the Barbra Streisand solution of screaming about the thing you don't want people to see, drawing a tremendous amount of attention to it and giving the bully tremendous satisfaction. This 'bully' is nearly always g
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by xp84 3mo ago
Sure, I'd answer with an example of it done well. When "Instant Messaging" was a huge deal circa 2000, if you got a message from a new person on most platforms, you'd get a chat invitation. You could accept and allow the
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by xp84 3mo ago
1. Bank apps are terrible, slow, and poorly organized, because banks. They suck at software. Venmo and Cashapp are good at software. 2. (Insert healthy amount of distrust of anything the banks all want, because there's zero chance it&#
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by xp84 3mo ago
It'll still exist though no matter what. The best we can do is to educate everyone not to put any stock in random imagery, and to be kind to those who might feel embarrassed by it. Pretending it's a massive violation just hands po
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by xp84 3mo ago
> clearly have trouble using and allocating the limited resources we have now > But population is project to continue rising until 2084 anyway, which means I don't need to think about this problem at all for the remainder of my l
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by xp84 3mo ago
I see you're among the group I was referring to which feels that the entire human race dying out or descending into stone-age collapse is a W as long as 'carbon number go down.'
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by xp84 3mo ago
It's not the best the universe has to offer; people have just been raised by horrifying engagement-maximizing-algorithms, and as a result don't understand how to relate to other human beings. Both young men and young women have ad
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by xp84 3mo ago
> The kids (and adults) having infatuations with LLMs probably were liable to not reproduce at replacement rate in the modern environment anyway I agree with you on this! However, it's deeply concerning[1] if this young population i
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by xp84 3mo ago
> "fake nudes of a real person" sigh. I really hope someday people can achieve sufficient emotional strength to realize that it can't take anything away from you that someone can take a photograph of your face and create
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by xp84 3mo ago
Quite true. Or honestly, it's really barely about direct financial bribery anymore[1] - all the recent ones have just hinged on incredibly naïve (and easily manipulable) readings of how a merger might affect culture war / red vs b
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by xp84 3mo ago
Just a couple of months ago, someone was still suing[1] to block Alaska Air/Hawaiian. This is a merger that already entirely went through. I would predict equal likelihood of some state lawsuit derailing a merger like this. [1] https:
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by xp84 3mo ago
Don't forget Venmo - PayPal smartly gobbled that up many, many years ago, and it has a great amount of mindshare (though I don't know how profitable it is). Zelle popped up later and somehow has plenty of users, but unlike Venmo,
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by xp84 3mo ago
Yes, that's my point. There will be a "reason" why the callback needs to be another number. Also, given at least in America, our cell phone providers STILL haven't fully blocked caller ID spoofing (last I checked, they j
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by xp84 3mo ago
Yeah, recently I've had quite a few legitimate ones, mostly having to do with home renovations or other transactions. I like most am deeply unsatisfied with the archaic system though of a basically unchangeable 10-digit number granting
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by xp84 3mo ago
Yes - I saw a very interesting video the other day that educated me a lot on Benadryl - apparently it has a lot of side effects, can cause dementia, and is probably best avoided.
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by xp84 3mo ago
Natrol makes a 1mg gummy and Vitafusion has a peach flavored 1.5mg gummy (sold as “3mg” but the dose is “two gummies.” My kids use these. I get them on Amazon.
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by xp84 3mo ago
Someone else pointed out how easy it would be to make a video of anyone having a finger cut off, or similar torture, to scare the victim into believing that the “grandchild” forgot their password and needs you to override the password proto
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by xp84 3mo ago
Hilarious. “Hey, someone who says they’re you is calling me. Remind me again what the password is that they’re supposed to say?” “Grandma the password is ‘Integra’ but I can just tell you now, it’s not me calling you, it must be a sca—“ “T
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by xp84 3mo ago
Sometimes if I’m suspicious about the number now, I just answer and say nothing. A human will get confused after 5 seconds and say “Hello?Hello??” But the very shitty bots that usually call, just wait patiently for a long time for your hell
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by xp84 3mo ago
Oh, man. That does seem likely. What a world. I wonder if eventually there won’t be a human in the loop, just a model trained to make money with a strategy like that, automatedly selecting victims and a person to be impersonated for each. P
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by xp84 3mo ago
Not a thorough safeguard, if scammers have half a brain cell they can provision a VOIP number for such a request. They’re nothing if not accommodating.

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