ciropantera

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by ciropantera 1mo ago
Agreed, and I think conflating these two is one of the reasons for the resistance towards the lab leak theory that gp mentioned.
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by ciropantera 1mo ago
Lab leak is one thing, "deliberately created and escaped" is a different story.
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by ciropantera 1mo ago
A lot of these aren't "strange or scientifically unsound ideas" but downright racism. Whether Nobel prize recipients are less or more racist than their contemporaries is debatable but I'm not sure they fit the same categ
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by ciropantera 8mo ago
At least in Europe the heroin gap was mostly filled with crack from Latin America.
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by ciropantera 2y ago
> Especially because so many of them aren't tuned for paying any attention at all to what their users are doing before prompting them I had Napper, a baby sleep tracker, ask me to rate the app at 3 am. Yes, I'm definitely going
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by ciropantera 2y ago
They cover that in their sales pitch. There's supposedly a market for trading timeshares, so you can trade in your timeshare for someone else's, specially if you have a highly coveted one Of course none of it is as easy as they ma
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by ciropantera 2y ago
Yeah I also got dragged into one of those while on vacation in a timeshare property in exchange for some tour tickets. The tactics are truly despicable. They insisted that me and my wife shouldn't talk to each other in our language bec
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by ciropantera 2y ago
As a new father that will eventually get into that situation: how do you ban Roblox in your house? I imagine it’s popular among your kids’ real world acquaintances (school etc). Doesn’t banning it exclude your kids from these groups? Do the
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by ciropantera 3y ago
Something similar happened to me once. You need a valid CPF number (something like a ssn) to create an account on most webshops in Brazil, so fraudsters will use stolen ones. They then proceed to purchase stuff with stolen CCs
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by ciropantera 3y ago
I don’t know if this is the case, but I’ve noticed questionable news outlets reposting their own old articles, possibly to game google news search or something
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by ciropantera 3y ago
> I remember seeing a claim that the Bluetooth part was a feature since you could just "pass the controller" inside the cabin but I haven't been able to find a source for it. Here: https://youtu.be/ClkytJa
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by ciropantera 3y ago
> If Google gave me the ability to block certain sites from my search results uBlacklist?
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by ciropantera 3y ago
> Think about what that means for the future of all auto mechanics. Will there be far fewer? Definitely. This is one of the reasons why dealerships are reluctant with EVs: apparently a big chunk of their profits come from servicing the c
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by ciropantera 3y ago
Yeah that's the most interesting thing for me as well. I'm also curious about how wfh was granted and then removed: was there a contract change to guarantee it? Or did they simply "promise" to do so? If there was a contr
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by ciropantera 3y ago
Well SBF was a big dem donor, let's see how that works out for him
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by ciropantera 4y ago
After the 1000th "last nail in the coffin" I gave up believing that this will end someday. I see it becoming one of those ever-lasting scams that go up and down in popularity, like piramid schemes, tourist scams, 419 scams etc.
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by ciropantera 4y ago
How are these channels monetized? I heard a while back that YouTube kids had no ads or heavily restricted them. Did something change there?
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by ciropantera 4y ago
Yes, I've been in this situation too. What at a first glance might look like the best of both worlds - low bureaucracy and solid funding - turns out to be the worst of both worlds: all of the bureaucracy of the mother company plus the
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by ciropantera 4y ago
Yeah, such a silly take to imagine that politicians would go down with a blatant fraudster like that just because he gave them a couple of mil for their candidacies. A big part of being a skillful politician is knowing not to tie yourself t
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by ciropantera 4y ago
A gun has many purposes, some legitimate (law enforcement, "defense" etc), others less so. A code change that allows the company to do illegal things has no legitimate purpose. I think what's up to debate is to what extent th
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by ciropantera 4y ago
The writing is usually on the wall for a while before the layoff actually happens, so there's time for you to let your manager know that you wouldn't mind getting the boot.
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by ciropantera 4y ago
Exactly, thanks
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by ciropantera 4y ago
I heard a similar story a couple of years ago: some no-name artist with a fairly good amount of plays on Spotify who could not be found anywhere else online. It was less obviously ai-generated back then (more instrumental than vibe/amb
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by ciropantera 4y ago
I think one point you might have missed in your analysis is the form factor. I'm in Europe and I'm seriously considering getting a Pixel 6a because it's the smallest one amongst the phones in this price range. It's not s
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by ciropantera 4y ago
How's the battery life? My wife got a 12 mini and while I love the size, the battery is abysmal and barely lasts a day for her.
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by ciropantera 4y ago
Slightly unrelated but it's crazy to see how fast the sentiment towards Netflix has changed. This article from 2 years ago refers to Netflix as the platform everybody loves who can't do no wrong. I don't think I have read any
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by ciropantera 4y ago
Out of curiosity, you got these scam calls in Finnish? I always thought that US was a specially good market for these scams because you have ~300m potential victims and a good supply of english-speaking people in poorer countries who are wi
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by ciropantera 4y ago
I feel like people stopped giving credibility to celebrity endorsement in the traditional form because they know celebrities are just getting paid to read a script, so companies had to come up with something that signals a deeper relationsh
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by ciropantera 5y ago
Yes, this struck me as a weird sentence, specially given the amount of rule tinkering that went on in the recent years to make it a little bit less boring.
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by ciropantera 5y ago
Thanks for the link, interesting read

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