chimeracoder

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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
Right-wing, openly evangelical groups like Exodus Cry and Morality in Media, who have an explicit agenda to ban pornography and see this as an easy "next step" towards that end goal. They are also the groups behind the closure of
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> Windows laptops are out of the question, and pure linux laptops (until only very recently) were of marginal support and low battery capabilities (especially "close it and stuff it in a backpack for 3 days"). Dell has sold lap
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by chimeracoder 4mo ago
> Despite paying rent for an apartment, it’s not rent-seeking. You get a place to live out of it that wouldn’t exist without the owner renting it to you. > Rent-seeking is a very specific economic term where a party inserts themselves
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by chimeracoder 5mo ago
> The only information sent to the card processor is the swipe (number expiration date) and sometimes the zip code and verification code on the back (if entered by hand). For credit cards? No, that's not necessarily true.
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by chimeracoder 5mo ago
> Gosh, I hope colleges don't find out about this pricing strategy. They've been doing it for years; it's called "financial aid". It is literally the textbook example of how to get people to pay different amounts
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by chimeracoder 5mo ago
> In the US, the plan is to require adults to take a picture of their state ID and upload it to a third party that provides age verification. That's not just the plan - that's what's already legally required in many US sta
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by chimeracoder 5mo ago
> Not so sure about that. Handing an ID to a bouncer at a bar or similar is not logging anything. > Sophisticated places might have a scanner that does what ever validation it does, but again, it's just another cursory check of t
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by chimeracoder 5mo ago
> It's interesting that internally you had a very different experience with Salesforce buying Heroku and Microsoft buying Github. From the outside it appears to be analagous (except github is degrading quicker than Heroku did?) This
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by chimeracoder 5mo ago
> Evangelion is Japans star wars Which is funny to say because Star Wars is actually the Western version of samurai movies (especially but not exclusively Akira Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress ). That's the movie that Lucas is pret
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by chimeracoder 5mo ago
> To be honest, I feel like this is where iOS and Android are failing us. Why is every app allowed to embed a bunch of trackers? Only blocking cross-app tracking on user request as iOS does is not enough (and data of different apps/
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by chimeracoder 5mo ago
> Random ≠ arbitrary Sure, though if you're looking to be pedantic, the keys they're asking you to press are neither random nor arbitrary
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by chimeracoder 6mo ago
> There's a big difference between doing a day trip to those altitudes which is normally ok, and sleeping that high which causes problems if not acclimatised. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. People regularly
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by chimeracoder 6mo ago
> 12-15K feet just isn’t that high in the scheme of things. Many peaks in the western US are in that range or more. It's "not that high", but people frequently do get AMS at those attitudes or even lower.
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by chimeracoder 6mo ago
> Who makes browsers? Ad companies. > Of course Google is going to back door their browser. Aside from the fact that other browsers exist, this makes no sense because Google would stand to gain more by being the only entity that can s
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by chimeracoder 6mo ago
> If the biggest flaw of a OS is the border radius of its windows, you've got yourself a pretty decent OS! There are loads of other flaws with the OS. It just so happens that people care a lot about the design of Apple's produc
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by chimeracoder 6mo ago
> It's a $3 million verdict in compensatory damages. Even if reduced on appeal, that's a lot of money. Where are you seeing that? The article says: > Jurors found there were thousands of violations, each counting separately
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by chimeracoder 6mo ago
> What structural change would permit a worker to take initiative and say "Hey, these working conditions are wrong/inadequate and I will not safely do my job today unless proper changes are made", without risk of getting f
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by chimeracoder 6mo ago
> Academic research concludes that ranked-choice and vote-for-one both result in a center-squeeze spoiler effect. No, it's more complicated than that. All voting systems have the potential for spoiler effects (in the broadest sens
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by chimeracoder 6mo ago
> Ranked choice still succumbs to a spoiler effect. https://realrcv.equal.vote/alaska22 That website presents an unconvincing argument and uses it to arrive at a conclusion that is at odds with the extensive academic res
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by chimeracoder 6mo ago
The First Amendment does not explicitly mention campaign spending (or political campaigns at all), and until 2010, the First Amendment was not considered to apply to monetary spending in political campaigns. The right to petition the govern
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by chimeracoder 6mo ago
> It is the most Degenerate form of gambling out there. There is no skill, no human factor, no nothing. Just pure random numbers. While I wouldn't use the word "degenerate", in terms of gambling, this isn't anywhere c
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by chimeracoder 6mo ago
> I've yet to come across anything I want or need outside banking or government use where age verification benefits me, or is so useful/important that I would willingly hand over critical secret documents So far. As these laws
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by chimeracoder 6mo ago
> I thought HIPPA law had very harsh fines for this Not at all. The maximum fine a company has to pay is capped at $2 million per calendar year for a violation, and that's assuming it's even eligible for the highest tier of pe
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by chimeracoder 7mo ago
I don't know the details of that specific case so I can't speak to it, but the text of the AWCPA is very clear: > The copyright in an architectural work that has been constructed does not include the right to prevent the making
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by chimeracoder 7mo ago
> This is not true. I will just give the example of the nighttime illumination of the Eiffel Tower: That example is not analogous to the topic at hand. But furthermore, it also is specific to French/European copyright law. In the U
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by chimeracoder 7mo ago
> Meta still tracks analytics which isn't good for privacy, but I'm not aware of any news of them or 3rd parties reading messages without consent of one of the 1st parties? Signal is probably much better though Correct. WhatsAp
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by chimeracoder 7mo ago
> As for non LLM legal resources, they are just fine if you have all day to read them and all of another day to draft the required filings, but most people have jobs. You misunderstand. If you are facing tenant harassment in New York Cit
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by chimeracoder 7mo ago
> So “I’m right but can’t afford the lawyer time” is a very real scenario. For most cases like the ones we're talking about (NYC unlawful eviction and/or tenant harassment), if you have a good case, you don't have to pay u
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by chimeracoder 7mo ago
> I don't understand how anyone can rationalize this bill in the face of what OpenAI just agreed to with the DoD. > AI can surveil and direct munitions but it cant answer legal questions. There's no contradiction. The people
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by chimeracoder 7mo ago
> Power cycling is not a solution. It's a crappy workaround, and you still had downtime because of it. The device should never get stuck in the first place, and the solution for that is fixing whatever bug is in the firmware. I&#x27

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