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by chimeracoder 3y ago
> The question that would be asked, is "do you want the government subsidising and disorting the internet market" The other question that would be asked is, perhaps less explictly, is "do you want to drive [employer of X,
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> We challenged the agreement with the town and they told us that we techmically had fiber service but it would cost 50k to activate it since they had to run fiber from their pop. Coupled with informing us that once we did so, our neighb
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> Could you explain what/how the CBT helped? Where I am in Europe the default treatment is only medication which feels inadequate on its own. Where are you? I can't think of a single place in Europe where medication alone is t
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> Meta is under US jurisdiction and Chinese owned companies are not. Where does this meme come from? It's so prevalent despite being obviously and verifiably factually incorrect!
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> I don't use TikTok at all, but what's with so much support for the government banning a piece of software in hacker communities? Where's the hacker energy from when the government declared encryption a "munition&quo
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> Stop equivocating. Facebook is under US jurisdiction. Tiktok is not. This is straight-up factually incorrect.
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> Even considered at a pretty abstract and uninformed level, it's clear even the most "adversarial" domestic company would not go places an adversarial foreign company would. Between TikTok and Facebook, one has already go
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> I think that complaint is secondary to fears of China gathering massive amounts of data on US citizens and having the power to influence what content they are exposed to. We already know that Facebook does the same, and we already know
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Almost all of the people behind the ban have no problem with Facebook or other companies engaging in the exact behavior that TikTok is. They just don't like that it's ByteDance doing it. If you have problems with TikTok's act
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> The fact that twitter was usuable the whole time does. That's an assertion, not a substantiation. A single tweet does not corroborate that, even if you ignore the fact that most outages of large global services (including some of
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In general, linking to an Elon Musk tweet is hardly proof that a Twitter service degradation didn't happen. Even more so when the tweet in question isn't even a direct claim about Twitter, but just a meme making fun of a competi
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> Could this be related to Google's log in page change? Seemed cosmetic only, but funny timing that Google's page update happens the same time all these log in issues pop up. That rollout is staggered over time, so not all user
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> I have found 8GB RAM to be completely unusable on Windows and Linux these days. Once you've got Chrome open with half a dozen tabs and any even slightly memory hungry program (VS Code or Android Studio etc.) you're out of luc
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> The end result is that the Chinese airline had to operate a domestic flight from New York to Los Angeles in order to fly to Beijing. This isn't unheard-of. Qantas does (or used to) do this as well, running SYD-LAX-JFK, for efficie
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> The article says that opioid overdoses exploded under this legislation It actually says the opposite: > Oregon has seen a 1,500% rise in overdose deaths since the pandemic started, the steepest increase in the country, according to
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> Reagan was 40 years ago. Yeah, and it turns out it's quicker to create a problem that will cascade for generations than it is to fix it. Who would have thought.
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> Oregon has seen a 1,500% rise in overdose deaths since the pandemic started, the steepest increase in the country, according to recent federal data. In 2022, almost 1,000 people in the state died from opiate overdoses. But research has
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> Now, money is fungible so, just like with lottery revenues that are devoted to "education spending" in some states, it could be the case that it won't in fact increase net spending for the designated purpose, since what
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> There was no way for France to defend the westward lands so it was either take the deal, or have them grab it. There was nothing to defend. France didn't control the land. It was inhabited by Native Americans; the "sale"
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> why didn't the colonies recognize rights of way based on well-established use? Because that would have been at odds with colonists' goals of seizing the land from the people whom it previously belonged to, and who were using
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> For a very long time neither did backblaze. Unless you live in a Backblaze data center, using Backblaze has always implied that your data is stored in at least two separate locations.
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> That's why I don't understand why in US presidential elections, it takes weeks to get the result. Only one modern presidential election in the US has taken weeks to get a result, and that only happened because the election wa
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> normal circumstances main-in is for deployed troops and citizens living overseas, who normally are a small minority. There are lots of other valid reasons to vote by mail. In fact, living abroad is only a valid reason in a minority of
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> Thanks to Disney, "+" is the industry term for "Streaming" Google+ was too far ahead of its time!
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> If you're talking about EMTALA, it has nothing to do with Medicare. Literally the first paragraph of the Wikipedia page about EMTALA: > It requires hospital emergency departments that accept payments from Medicare to provide
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> For emergency services from hospitals that provide emergency services, that's true. But for virtually anything else I don't think it is. You're thinking of a separate law, which requires emergency rooms to provide emerge
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> The costs after you susbcribe are also insane: $420 for a 15min online chat. > > I got the same type of appointment for something around $20 directly from Cigna. And that's with a high deductible account. Cigna (and any insu
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> We considered trying OneMedical, which opened an office close to where we live. But when I looked into it, it seemed like you have to buy a subscription up-front, with no other way to try it out. We might have made the switch by now i
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> This seems like a setup to counter the bag bans by the plastic industry. The "study" cited was literally conducted and written by the plastic industry, so that's exactly what it is.
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> Trials for covid vaccines were done by the manufacturers, who certainly have a profit motive in claiming they're safe and effective. Do you dismiss those trials for similar reasons? One is a set of clinical trials, conducted with

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