caslon

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by caslon 1y ago
The top 1% of people make 20.7% of the country's income. Given progressive tax rates, they should be paying a lot more than 40% of Federal income tax revenue, but rates don't scale enough, and aren't lax enough on other class
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by caslon 2y ago
It wouldn't be doing this: https://investors.palantir.com/news-details/2024/Anthropic-a... It wouldn't specifically brag about doing it, while leaving out that they were specifically dealing with Palan
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by caslon 2y ago
Complaints =/= Crime The subway has millions of riders in a day. One hundred and fifty complaints per precinct (which is a generous estimation) is nothing, and the NYPD is a failure of an organization that pays over half a hundred mill
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by caslon 2y ago
Luckily, similar to how they made a choice for these constraints, you also chose yours. Both are artificial constraints; nobody is forced to solve problems in an esolang, and very few people are forced into having kids. You could have chose
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by caslon 2y ago
It was proposed by Thom Tillis, a Republican who has previously defended Donald Trump: https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2023/3/tillis-statement-on-the...
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by caslon 2y ago
It was proposed by a North Carolina Republican: Thom Tillis.
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by caslon 2y ago
Lots of things are wasteful. Punishing a bad actor who is actively infringing upon your legally-enshrined rights is better than buying a sportscar with that money.
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by caslon 2y ago
As it says in that link, the author of said link applied for a software patent after the initial GPL violations (that even in your article, he doesn't apologize for; he simply points out that he was a jerk about it while not meaningf
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by caslon 2y ago
Police are gangs, though, definitionally.
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by caslon 2y ago
Have you ever been pulled over by a cop and given a warning? Many people have. As long as there's any amount of leeway in enforcement of the law, things like courtesy cards will exist. All it is is a little nudge to say, "Hey. I&#
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by caslon 2y ago
There's nothing sexualised about it. The person is of an ambiguous build and facing away from the camera. The article does more sexualising than the photo itself does, in the typical way that British media likes to oversexualise and pl
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by caslon 2y ago
It obviously can. My first sentence was "uBO already runs on iOS." You asked if Orion was compatible with "normal desktop Firefox and Chrome extensions." There's no distinction between desktop Firefox extensions and
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by caslon 2y ago
Chrome on Android doesn't support browser extensions. Google is an advertising company. They are not incentivized to allow extensions. Extensions block their ads, and are a risk vector for mobile users, who are often young, inexperie
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by caslon 2y ago
uBO already runs on iOS. Orion is compatible with Firefox and Chrome extensions. The lack of extensions in mobile browsers is a sign of Mozilla's decay, not a sign of Apple being unnecessarily restrictive. They also don't care abo
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by caslon 2y ago
This is also something (anecdotally) common with Gen X parents. That being said, deadbeats have been a relatively common trope since the Silents or before. Is it really that surprising that, now that it's possible for both parties in
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by caslon 2y ago
Pretty well, actually; Quest has outpaced this generation's Xbox.
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by caslon 3y ago
Meta obviously has the money; $135B revenue, $88B in expenses, $18B in debt. Even assuming the current push toward general AI is a bubble, which is not unreasonable, the company can afford to throw away billions of dollars. It doesn't
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by caslon 3y ago
There are other countries, ones where it's legal to do medical experimentation upon any consenting party. Unsurprisingly, they don't create significant amounts of novel drugs. Why? Because the US system is more profitable, and, si
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by caslon 3y ago
It is more than a petabit, though. A petabit is a hundred and twenty five terabytes.
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by caslon 3y ago
> Sure. But I draw the line when people try to force their anti-American agenda on people. This doesn't happen, though; there are a lot of universities that love pro-American sentiment in professors. A university deciding to be anti
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by caslon 3y ago
On the other hand, if being anti-indoctrination is the goal, it might be a good idea to turn the same lens toward universities that see an oversized volume of alumni participating in the defense industry, something seen as pro-American (alb
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by caslon 3y ago
It's not Google (Google isn't Google anymore), but if you search around for the winners of the intern competitions they hold every year, you'll find a surprising amount of intensely competent people who have done very interes
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by caslon 3y ago
We constantly tell children Santa is real. I fear for your parents.
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by caslon 3y ago
Much of what you actually see in Empire is written by entirely different people. > George Lucas initially hired Leigh Brackett, the sci-fi novelist who also wrote screenplays for Howard Hawks—including The Big Sleep (1946)—to write th
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by caslon 3y ago
I love controllers, personally. I think the actual solution is a lot closer to making controllers into hands than the other way around. For now, though? People are going to incessantly bask in the Sony-Apple approach.
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by caslon 3y ago
> Also, no one using WMR devices on Windows wants to bother with Linux. Most of us were using the device with things not available on Linux, and even if they were we don't want to run Linux on a desktop. Cheaper headsets for Linux u
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by caslon 3y ago
Works pretty well as in, "Install Monado using your distribution's package manager, set it as your default OpenXR runtime, hit three buttons to get Valve to begrudgingly respect system defaults instead of the closed-source 'O
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by caslon 3y ago
Actually, my view is extremely influenced by history prior to 1950. You cite Nazi Germany, but Nazi Germany was actually a new occurrence. It wasn't from tradition. Hitler was a modern politician, and fascism a new movement. It len
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by caslon 3y ago
For what it's worth, on the off-chance that anyone at MS who worked on this views the thread, I thought it was cool. I liked what you did. I'm sure that seeing people review the Vision Pro is frustrating, seeing how many things yo
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by caslon 3y ago
They've been in the process of pulling out since before the Vision Pro was announced; HP was the canary in the coal mine, firing or moving around everyone they had working on WMR devices a year or two ago. When HP pulls out of a Micros

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