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by NoMoreNicksLeft 5d ago
The age of internet search is over. The age of Cloudflare has begun. It wouldn't be possible to build a search engine now if they wanted to... and there wouldn't be anything to search for anyway. The non-corporate internet withere
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 7d ago
You can stream your own stuff, from home, to all of your devices and your friends' devices, for free. And since the movies are on your own hardware, you have them forever. Movies, tv, music, books, comic books, video game roms, basical
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 7d ago
>And I'll bet that flying first class today is far better than 50 years ago. I wasn't flying first class 50 years ago, but everything I can see now leads me to believe that this isn't even slightly true. There might be a h
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 8d ago
What immigration problem? Immigrants are wonderful. Things have only improved in Germany with immigration. It is wrong and unethical to keep immigrants out of your country, you have no right to do so.
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 9d ago
And what do you think the Hollywood lawyers would have to offer in return for such favors? Looks pretty low-value from both sides. Maybe I need to dial up my narcissism a few notches to understand you, I'm just not that important enoug
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 9d ago
What leverage would you have to enforce the will of the vote on those that control things?
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 12d ago
And? Are they going to commit treason and start snitching on me to Hollywood lawyers for shits and giggles? How would that play out do you think?
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 12d ago
When I use the VPN, I am connecting to an endpoint that 40 other people are also connected to. Did I download that file, or did one of the other 39 download it? Even the VPN provider can't tell... they keep no logs. I wouldn't wan
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 15d ago
If only we could open source it and load it onto the phone with Sideloadly.
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 15d ago
I think that quite often it has more to do with making sure the missiles and drones can't easily hit their targets. Not that this is an excuse for jackasses doing it just for shits and giggles. Fuck those people.
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 16d ago
A pre-internet technology that needs more ads for products you're not even slightly interested in.
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 16d ago
Narrow columns leave more room for ads. Ads that aren't even slightly aligned with products you're interested in.
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 16d ago
>I know of zero systems that can survive exposure to the raw Internet Sure. And as long as nothing has to survive exposure to the raw Internet, no one will build anything that could survive it. Not sure why that's so difficult to un
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 17d ago
>If anything, NAT has saved millions of wildly insecure devices running unpatched old Windows versions from getting pwned the second they connect to the open internet. This might not be a good thing. Perhaps if there had been no protecti
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 18d ago
I wish I knew more assholes. It's the imbeciles that I keep running into.
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 18d ago
>Just focus on putting your phone in a draw for as long as you can, I've had a smartphone since the iPhone 4, I think. And while I find it useful, I honestly don't understand how anyone can be addicted to it. Mostly stays in my
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 19d ago
>What a weird analogy. What analogy? It's the same exact thing, scaled up from family to nation-state. These things aren't like each other, they are the same thing just smaller/larger. You were mal-educated in public schoo
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 20d ago
Truly, the cause of all this suffering is not enough antinatalism . You've cracked the code.
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 20d ago
>It's another round of "humans must be special, right?" I don't believe that anyone needs to justify their "humans are special" creed. It's arbitrary, that's fine, and it's only true because w
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 20d ago
>Some of us have friends overseas who we think are deserving of residency and citizenship. Sure, I have friends. But I'm not about to give my friends 50% of my house's equity just because we're friends. I'll invite th
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 21d ago
> to throttle the pipeline by Why is there a "pipeline"? Does the United States owe immigration to the world, somehow? Does it owe it so much that there must be an avenue to immigration so large that you casually refer to that
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 22d ago
>All of these executives are operating under the pretense that they won’t be held accountable when in 10-15yr their middle bench is a disaster, and they’re probably right. If everyone's middle bench is a disaster, there's no on
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 22d ago
>If you don't know something about AI, you can just ask it and it will tell you. If your questions are sharp, probing for detail, and intelligent . Have you seen how people question AIs? It's as if they can't even conceiv
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 22d ago
>Apple never came first ... but often just at the right moment and had marketing skills to make it a new trend. Newton.
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 23d ago
Depending on how much older he was than you at the time, he might genuinely have been taught in high school that this was wrong. Only in the early 1970s did that even start to gain traction. If he was taught by one of the hold-outs that est
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 26d ago
How long the server takes to process the 42 requests ahead of you in line, or possibly how long the 318 poorly architected microservices take.
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 26d ago
>Since the invention of the printing press any important book has been duplicated by thousands, tens of thousands or even million of units. No, every popular book has been duplicated thousands of times. This is not the same thing as i
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 27d ago
>It all started going downhill once they started calling corporations "legal persons" and gave them all the same right as people, but The 1860s? Or do you meant he royal charter companies from centuries prior? This goes back so
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 27d ago
It is a success at humor, not only the attempt. Finland did something, but "eradicating homelessness" wasn't what they did. It has nothing to do with political will in the case of the United States, and everything to do with
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 27d ago
They aren't making use of their winters, obviously.

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