beeboop

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by beeboop 2y ago
ublock origin and annoyance filters works fine for me
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by beeboop 2y ago
you mean the checks that both parties voted unanimously for, and the act that allowed for PPP and was also voted for unanimously, is only trump's fault? we're pinning that on him when literally every single person in the senat
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by beeboop 2y ago
But bothered enough to respond I guess?
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by beeboop 2y ago
SJ doesn’t own the rights to the character. She can’t legally go play Black Widow for another studio just because she was the actor
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by beeboop 2y ago
Go read any first hand account of anyone who's spent time in solitary for more than a week and tell me that isn't torture. People go into solitary for years
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by beeboop 3y ago
LLMs can describe day to day interactions in a small town just fine. They can deliver accurate text around stuff no one has likely ever bothered to write down. For example, I gave it a list of random objects and asked which ones would need
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by beeboop 3y ago
Israel isn't in Gaza at all. They're just on the borders playing with puppies. Hey, look over here. Puppies.
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by beeboop 3y ago
WorldCoin solves this despite it receiving near universal criticism (for usually wrong and misunderstood reasons)
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by beeboop 3y ago
"We have big goals" translation: "we want you to work harder and spend 2 hours a day commuting to an uncomfortable office to make us more money"
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by beeboop 3y ago
Politicians are barely paid by income taxes. They're mostly paid by lobbying and special interest groups, i.e. corporations
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by beeboop 3y ago
So basically this Airbus order surge probably has little to do with recent Boeing news and the headline is misleading clickbait
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by beeboop 3y ago
> whose driving purpose is to give the founders a nice exit this seems to exist everywhere? no matter the stated the mission, no one is owning a business to not make money off it
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by beeboop 3y ago
> the government could never allow it. If a corporation were able to grow to that size, they essentially become the government the US government is already overwhelmingly something that is structured by and for the benefit of corporatio
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by beeboop 3y ago
There are hundreds of millions of dollars of bribes exchanging hands every year: https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs... PACs are the method of bribery in American politics. Anyone can contribute in
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by beeboop 3y ago
Unlikely, parent commenter has a history of stating facts without any substance
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by beeboop 3y ago
>And none of that even takes into account how completely uncompetitive nuclear energy is in economic terms Nuclear is extremely price competitive if you actually force carbon producing power generation methods to pay to clean up the po
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by beeboop 4y ago
I think the "ClosedAI" jokes have been pretty boring since before the first person even made them. Every comment thread has at least 4 people making it
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by beeboop 4y ago
The trick to find an article for free by searching for it and having Google be the referral seems to not work almost all the time these days.
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by beeboop 4y ago
> services intended to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works A soft paywall that can be removed by modifying HTML elements on a page doesn't seem like an actual control for copyrighted material, since the serv
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by beeboop 4y ago
Or the inspect panel. Or the ability to download a local copy of a page for later modification. Or tools that allow you to inspect HTTP requests. Or screen readers that look at underlying page data instead of what's visually present. O
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by beeboop 4y ago
The vast majority of journalists are barely performing what any rational person would call journalism, and for the most part they're providing "journalism" on the same shit that 50 other journalists are covering too.
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by beeboop 4y ago
If I had the ability to use the internet and never had links to content that refuses to be presented with out ads or paywalls, then I would gladly do so. Unfortunately that isn't an option, so I use ad block. I am convinced that 95%+ o
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by beeboop 4y ago
Abusive DMCA takedowns are unfortunately extremely easy, very time consuming to report, and seemingly very rarely have any action taken against the person who falsely claimed. Not excusing Namecheap here, what they did was totally shit. He
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by beeboop 4y ago
Regulations seem more or less the same today as they did a decade ago. What exactly are you referring to?
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by beeboop 4y ago
What percent of a uterus owner's day is spent doing actions related to having a uterus? On a heavy flow day, maybe 10 minutes? Maybe half an hour a month? That's 0.3% of their life, leaving a possible 99.7% overlap in shared simil
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by beeboop 4y ago
Center seating is a better option for 99.99% of the time spent in the truck. And the vast majority (nearly all) of toll booths have toll tags. It's baffling that people think the 99.99% of a product's use should be dictated by the
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by beeboop 4y ago
A truck driver who isn't the intended audience for the vehicle and doesn't understand the engineering decisions that went into the product. For every con he lists there's a con to the opposite approach. There isn't clear
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by beeboop 4y ago
ADAC's measure includes the cost of the vehicle itself so that number is completely inappropriate for the actual operating costs. Also ADAC has been called out as wrong and having biased testing many times: https://insideevs
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by beeboop 4y ago
It's likely being guaranteed because he knows the cost of installing solar and battery banks and he (and his customers) doesn't have to buy directly from local power companies.
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by beeboop 4y ago
> 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works I feel like this is silly. The daily events of my life - waking up, using the restroom, driving a car, the work that I do all day, the conversat

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