MichaelCollins

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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Just do yourself a favor and stick with using what already works. Don't upgrade to the new shiny thing unless you already know the reasons why you want to. Among all the other technical issues, Wayland devs have an attitude issue. Us
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> People are safer on the street. Only if you narrowly define 'people' to mean the tiny minority of people who are thieves, and exclude the overwhelming majority of people who aren't thieves. Thieves are safer on the s
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> Amazon isn't a pawn shop Right, pawn shops are held to a higher standard. They have a relationship with the local police and are made to keep records. Amazon is a better fence than your average pawn shop.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
That's not necessarily a smoking gun; public libraries often give away old books they don't want to keep around anymore. About a quarter of the books in my personal library are ex-library books, but none were stolen. Of course i
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> But surely Amazon is literally handling stolen goods? Is there a smoking gun email? If Amazon were a mom and pop fence, the local cops could bust them in a sting. But Amazon is a huge megacorp, so even if the cops try to catch them
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> cuts into your margins It's not as though the thieves hire workers to do this for them. It's something they can do themselves while tweaking.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Accurate maybe, but very imprecise.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Removing each other from committees is a far cry from kicking each other out of Congress. That has only happened twice since the 19th century, and both times it came after a criminal conviction. Merely being an absolute idiot isn't
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
This comment makes no sense in the context of America. I guess you're from a country with some sort of Parliamentary system where governments are formed when a party is elected? In America, parties aren't elected and don't f
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
You know Singapore unabashedly beats the shit out of thieves, right?
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> "The stores are insured bro, why do you care if people steal from them? It's not your problem maaan." This is why I care. Criminals degrade society and we all suffer for their greed.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Made a new account, huh?
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Apparently Airbnb will delete any review that criticizes a property for something the property owner can't fix. Loud traintracks with trains blasting by at 3am every morning? That's not the property owner's fault, so that
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Who's 'we'? The user, or the web dev? Most javascript exists to scratch the itch of the webdev who made it, doing shit no user ever asked for.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Every web dev seems to think that their site specifically is the reason everybody in the world bought a computer.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> Brits should realize this is not 1921. Heh, well stated. The sun set on the British empire a long time ago. Expectations need to be adjusted accordingly.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
I'm saying Bankman-Fried has hurt a few orders of magnitude more people than Alex Jones, and allowing him to give interviews and flippantly defend himself is going to cause a lot of emotional trauma.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> I don't really understand the perspective your are saying. He thinks that helping Ukraine defend themselves against a foreign invasion qualifies as "warmongering", obviously he's a Russia-aligned troll. Don'
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> What is the definition of violence? You've already conceded that words can hurt people (Alex Jones), so why are you trying to backpedal that now?
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
I bet more than one corner shop worker had money in FTX.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Once Bad Blood was published. It took a few years for the dam to break, but once it did the rest of the media piled on quick. The FTX dam broke a few weeks ago and so far the media generally seems unenthusiastic about covering the story.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
The animation studio that did Stuart Little.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
This matches my experience. The only people who've heard this story yet are those who keep a finger on the pulse of either tech or crypto news.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
This is a huge red flag. Bankman-Fried is acting like the fix is already in. I won't believe this guy is actually going to prison until they slam the iron bars closed behind him.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Twitter or discord, why do these require me to confirm an email or phone number when reddit doesn't? Why do shop websites like Etsy require me to confirm my email address before I even decide to purchase or sell anything? If you&#x27
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> The reality is, most regular sites do need a reliable way to contact you for business reasons. In these cases, which I think are more unusual than usual, a email can be required during checkout. There's almost never a valid re
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
[x] - Send me emails about product updates. (Receiving these emails should be opt-in. But companies often find lame excuses to ignore this preference so I prefer to not hand over my email address at all.)
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
By shear fortunate coincidence, we happen to live in a time when all our institutions are pure and good, for the first time in human history!
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> but we're also not the dystopia that cyberpunk itself depicts. In most cyberpunk media, there is a middle/upper class who have enough money to insulate themselves from the dystopian hard edge of society. They continue to l
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> which would be technically WW3. I think it's important to remember that NATO isn't an unthinking machine that executes mechanistically. Supposing Russia had been responsible for those missiles, I sincerely doubt that wo

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