brigandish

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by brigandish 6d ago
Only if demand increases to the point where supply cannot meet demand in a short enough time frame. Capacity is a factor here. You buying a doughnut - even half the doughnuts - from a doughnut shop does not increase the price of the remaini
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by brigandish 7d ago
What would being prepared look like? A house in the woods with a store of food? Knowing how to pick door locks and set up a militia in the desert?
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by brigandish 10d ago
I've seen several strangely dead comments today, perhaps the automated filter has been updated and has some gremlins?
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by brigandish 10d ago
The competition is between: - needing to look in several places - looking in one place Easy to see why Twitter wins, even when information isn't exclusive, which it often is (I would've suggested video involved in news events, whi
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by brigandish 15d ago
The reduction of competitors and no win for the investors is somehow a signal that entry to the market against an even stronger than before incumbent would be a good bet?
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by brigandish 15d ago
jjui is the killer feature for me https://github.com/idursun/jjui
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by brigandish 16d ago
> 2. It was occasionally faster, and more stable. That is ahead for the majority of people.
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by brigandish 16d ago
Quantum field theory? Quiet Firefox tremors? What is this QFT you speak of?
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by brigandish 16d ago
By monopolies, yes. Know what an acquihire is? Heard of a buyout leading to a shut down? That hinders development.
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by brigandish 1mo ago
If it were literal then you'd be able to quote the exact part of the text that says that, but you can't because that is literally not in the page. Even Ellison, who surely would love to make that claim, is intelligent enough not t
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by brigandish 1mo ago
Where was the tantrum? I think a citation should be provided, else concerns about straw man arguments might not be allayed.
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by brigandish 1mo ago
People are still allowed to share their experience and opinions without citations being a requirement.
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by brigandish 2mo ago
No UBI, thanks, let's just make them pay for the works they're relying on (as the rest of us would have to).
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by brigandish 2mo ago
The facts are: - people are being arrested, charged, and prosecuted, for opinions - that number is greater than 1 - the number of people being arrested under speech laws, per year, is reportedly[0] over 12,000 - some substantial number of
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by brigandish 2mo ago
> For perspective, I was educated in my high school in England, and in my Physics class no muslim scholars name ever mentioned in my many textbooks and in classes. The same goes to my chemistry and math classes. Guess how many times Newt
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by brigandish 2mo ago
> they do not arrest thousands of people a year for being mean on twitter, no. It doesn't need to be thousands for it to be worrying. From [1]: > The Metropolitan Police has awarded Father Ted creator and Irish comedian Graham Li
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by brigandish 2mo ago
Again, in the link you provided, in the very first paragraph, it mentions several great names who are said to have given frequent credit to muslim scholars. Are you saying that is false? If so, you have the ability to edit that Wikipedia
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by brigandish 2mo ago
Is Signal morally bankrupt for resisting the UK government's onboard scanning for CSAM?
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by brigandish 2mo ago
Firstly, there is a difference between a telescope and the prior advances that led to a telescope being invented. The telescope was not invented by a muslim scholar, hence that being why no one gives credit to one of them for that . Second
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by brigandish 2mo ago
> the capital was raised for AI requires that it produce as many reverse centaurs as possible, because the only way to recoup the farcical sums associated with AI production is to fire millions of workers and replace them I'm not su
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by brigandish 2mo ago
> You sign to blog you know exist from elsewhere. And primary elsewhere was google search. I'm going to guess that means "the blogs you know, you primarily found from Google searches"? Most of the substacks I follow are be
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by brigandish 2mo ago
Your assumptions are the opposite of those for an English common law country, which is why those with that background are particularly aghast. > Operating a motor vehicle requires a license, and you have to present it. You do not have to
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by brigandish 3mo ago
> I am not making an argument based on tradition. I know, and neither am I. Perhaps you misread my comment. > I couldn't care less that the web has not been government-gated for the past X years That is clear. > because throug
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by brigandish 3mo ago
Someone else in the thread asked, as others have, but most pithily > How about not needing to do age verification? Which I agree with. However, I think that ship is sailing. Those who care about this had better find a provider that they
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by brigandish 3mo ago
The web has not had age gating via large-scale government coercion since its inception. To claim that it's absurd to think we can do without it is to detach from that reality, and is itself absurd. The irony.
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by brigandish 3mo ago
A dystopian state?
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by brigandish 3mo ago
It does on my balcony where the fan pumps to, which has made doing any gardening difficult, but to the overall outside temperature it's just a drop in the ocean.
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by brigandish 3mo ago
Yes, by giving hints it verifies the test because if it can't find it with hints then it shouldn't find it without hints, else there is some other mechanism at work (which would also be useful to know, like access to other too
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by brigandish 3mo ago
They are told outside the test because if they can't find it when given hints then it's safe to assume it won't find it given no hints. It verifies to test, to an extent, much like running tests that should fail when given a
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by brigandish 3mo ago
> Pedantic bootlicker Please, try harder to raise the level of debate.

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