MisterDizzy

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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
By that logic, removing LGBTQ literature from school libraries is just "consequences" then. They don't have to listen.
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
This should be a bigger story, but rent control is one of the higher classes' compassionate-chic opinions that are all the rage right now.
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
Forget student debt forgiveness, what about all debt forgiveness, and illegalize charging interest?
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
What baffles me is how OpenAI keeps its doors open. They're paying Microsoft to be able to exist, plus their product requires huge amounts of electricity and infrastructure. OpenAI is unsustainable.
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
Hate speech is free speech. "Not being able to use other people's computers" is nice, but when private discussion forums make functionality changes that help to alter the outcome of elections, things start getting deadly seri
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
What I saw was a death of despair in my family during lockdowns, and my own very bad adverse reaction to a shot I was strongarmed into taking (transient global amnesia).
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
Free speech is person-to-person in the sense that it only works if a person has it in practice, regardless of where the suppression is coming from.
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
Not defending Musk, but the UK government does not believe in the equal application of law or basic human rights. They have positively no moral high ground to stand on.
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
Another "IF" product like Stadia. It would be really great for the company IF there was a market for this, but nobody wants it. Big Tech seems determined to strap a live network-connected HD video feed with sound to everyone'
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
This is the main difference in politics, as far as I can tell: Some people push for things that seem really compassionate and intuitively good and right, but actually make the problem a lot worse. But to argue this is almost always futile
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
We subsidize unhealthy food and wonder why most of our food supply is full of gluten and sugar and other slow-acting poisons, then we take meat and other essential animal proteins that people survived on for millenia and either process them
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Generative AI is polluting language(mrdizzyblog.neocities.org)
1 points by MisterDizzy 2y ago|0 comments
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
There's a username and password prompt.
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
This is why it's getting annoying to see this sort of headline. "Nobody should own the public square... Unless it's a cadre of young San Francisco leftists who represent one of the most extreme left factions in the country. T
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
This repeated pearl-clutching from the media is getting tiresome. They're acting like X itself is a problem now, as a whole, in theory. But they loved Twitter...? No one seemed to think twice when Twitter was using its social media pla
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
We're exploring some options for implementing something like adblocking on all traffic. I don't think people would care if we did that. Some may not even notice. Maybe they'd be happy that some sites were cleaner and faster.
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
Google's ads have been a headache in the office for a while. Older users don't know to ignore the first screen or so of fake promoted "results" in favor of the actual search results. This has led to multiple phishing att
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
They ought to be going after drug manufacturers directly and forcing them to publish 100% of their research on every new drug they create. They should also incentivize finding off-label uses for existing cheap generic drugs, and disincentiv
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
Hardly surprising. This is very Google-like behavior. The question is do other Chromium browsers have this? Edge? Brave? Chromium? Ungoogled Chromium?
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
Let's see how long it takes them to realize they should have gone with the latest nuclear power tech and will eventually be unable to meet demand with anything but coal or nuclear (unless something changes).
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
I get the sense that Nuclear energy is inevitably going to be the future of the West, especially given recent advancements and safety improvements in the tech (mitigating meltdowns, less radioactive waste, better efficiency, etc). It seems
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
I've said for several years that my estimation of the United States military's treatment of its enlistees makes it basically indistinguishable from psychological torture in my eyes. I'm glad there's finally research that
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
This reminds me of an XKCD[1] where the character marveled about an obscure piece of single-purpose hardware running Java. [1] https://xkcd.com/801/
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
I've been thinking for a while about the "reality is a simulation" idea. It may not be literally true, but it certainly is useful to try on as a temporary LARP. The more you think of things that way, the more it starts to mak
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Ask HN: Does anyone still make a living building WordPress themes?
1 points by MisterDizzy 2y ago|1 comments
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
I've been thinking as I pin & unpin browser tabs about the devs who implemented tab pinning way back before Microsoft Edge existed. Or the whole slew of WordPress plugins that are made obsolete by newer WordPress features.
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
It's "installed" through the browser, and it runs in the browser. So a PWA is just a browser app that maybe runs in a window with no browser chrome so it feels more native.
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
Comments critical of Israeli influence immediately disappear. Why?
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
As well as those without, presumably. Google 'recklessly violates privacy laws to spike ad profits' as a matter of course. That is their business model.
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by MisterDizzy 2y ago
Ouch. This is, sadly, par for the course in the States, and it's all too attractive to bottom-line-obsessed executives with no stake or incentive in the lives of the workers beneath them. It doesn't help either that H-1B's ar

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