archonis

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by archonis 3d ago
If you run said software, yes. If somebody else runs the software, then they are.
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by archonis 3d ago
The trick is scale. I suspect if an individual of reasonable means uses agents to commit crime, they will be hels accountable. A heavily capitalized startup? Not unless someone in government decides to do their competition a favor.
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by archonis 5d ago
Regulatory capture is a strategy. It doesn't hurt existing competitors at scale, but it greatly peanalizes newer underfinanced competition.
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by archonis 5d ago
Not exactly a billionaire.
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by archonis 5d ago
Reconciling the profound interiority of the experience with a mere external catalyst can be quite challenging. Consider the question yourself next time you are in the throes of an exoerience and see how hard it is to maintain objectivity...
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by archonis 5d ago
That's purely because it's usage is accepted nearly as a default, and drug in common usage is most often a pejorative term if it doesn't refer to a medicinal context. Most people who use drug as a pejorative term also wouldn&
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by archonis 5d ago
Perhaps this is because it's meant as an oversimplification to demonstrate, but the grounding section seems so oversimplified as to be useless to an adult. Rest of the piece was quite good.
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by archonis 6d ago
They just don't have the stomache to support anything new for the required gestation period. We aren't going to get anything truely new or useful until companies stop prematurely compreasing their margins so much that they squeeze
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by archonis 6d ago
You can't have a relationship with a lawnmower.
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by archonis 7d ago
>> and the feds having it out for a whole class of people Are you suggesting this is not happening with the goverment suddenly criminilizing the status of legal immigrants? (this is in addition to enforcing laws against illegal aliens
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by archonis 7d ago
That was a reference to a Bryan Cantril speech, and it's more about the lawnmower's ability to gravely harm your person without having any intent or feeling beyond doing what a lawnmower does.
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by archonis 8d ago
Before that he was just Jumpman rescuing a damsel from a kong that couldn't be called king for intellectual property reasons, and the genesis of a gorilla being involved at all was nintendo's loss of the popeye license. He didn&#
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by archonis 8d ago
The bit about Journey to the West was the most germaine bit of the article. The Kayman Rider stuff just seemed like wild speculation. It is fascinating just how much of Japanese pop culture carries deep (and shallow) references to Journey t
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by archonis 11d ago
In early days we all saw the same ads, uphill, both ways.
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by archonis 11d ago
Don't fall for his scare tactics on this one. They do not have resources to pull off having ice interfere in elections at scale. There will be fuckery, and the election will not be fair, but any sort of steal will happen after votes ha
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by archonis 12d ago
I imagine having over a dozen political parties helps with this as well.
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by archonis 12d ago
>> We're still fighting the remnants of the confederacy. Consicely put, and not nearly present enough in contemporary discourse.
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by archonis 12d ago
Nope, but they'll probably get laid off at some point to boost share price.
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by archonis 12d ago
It was for adults, but the design was quite childish.
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by archonis 12d ago
Looks interesting and serves a real need. However, pricing tiers seem a bit steep, especially for folks who don't need the build step to happen on the host. Also, at least according to the docs, ssh cert based authentication and passwo
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by archonis 12d ago
The use of past tense was deliberate.
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by archonis 13d ago
What a user insulting horrible bad faith attempt at a hot take on the issue. Hard to take this self proclaimed cyberethnographer seriously.
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by archonis 13d ago
Capitalized first letter is not percieved by the majority of people as shouting. Does mobile safai render the entire name in all caps when the first letter is capitalized?
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by archonis 15d ago
It feels good to model the future that way, but seems incredibly unlikely there will be consequences for those people.
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by archonis 19d ago
...and they're promoting it by referencing said movies.
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by archonis 19d ago
It fails the task as often as not on large East Coast highways. Not nearly as bad on the West Coast.
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by archonis 19d ago
>> And there's lots of evidence that we've hit a million unlikely goalposts. What makes them unlikely?
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by archonis 23d ago
Great satire, but how are you going to prevent some UX person at Apple from thinking this is good idea?
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by archonis 24d ago
The sample set of programming languages means that every name is most certainly not taken, and every language is too close for identical names for unrelated languages being acceptable.
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by archonis 25d ago
What's your sample size?

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