d_theorist

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by d_theorist 1mo ago
Shocking that the McDonald's app knows about your McDonald's purchases. This is - forgive me - a McNothing Burger.
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by d_theorist 2mo ago
The last 40 years is not "the range within which modern human civilisation developed". It's a very thin slice of time even on human scales. Let's try not to vastly overstate the data.
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by d_theorist 9mo ago
They haven’t removed the government. They removed Maduro. Very different.
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by d_theorist 9mo ago
So your problem isn’t with “banning” books in schools per se. You just have a difference of opinion over which books should be “banned”.
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by d_theorist 1y ago
I just block what I don't want with screen time. My wife sets and knows the passcode. I don't. So I can't override.
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by d_theorist 1y ago
I think the "click a link in the email" solution is more than a "tiny" bit better isn't it? It almost completely solves the attack pattern you laid out. Passing the whole link to BAD is not only more tedious but tot
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by d_theorist 2y ago
As far as I can tell, the main reason people give for moving off X is that “there’s more hate speech/misinformation/disinformation since Elon took over because he got rid of a lot of trust and safety controls” So, how does moving
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by d_theorist 2y ago
> Apple is well on its way to ensure you can only run things they allow via app store, they would probably already be there if it wasn't for the pesky EU. People have been saying this ever since Apple added the App Store to the Mac
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by d_theorist 2y ago
It’s extremely relevant to the question, which is what the negative nature of the image has to tell us about the relative probabilities of the two hypotheses (miraculous hypothesis vs fraud hypothesis). In my view, it is a big problem for t
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by d_theorist 2y ago
Why would they have done it?
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by d_theorist 2y ago
Whatever else you might want to say about the shroud, one thing we know for sure is that it is not a painting. Analysis shows that the image is extremely superficial, only penetrating about 200nm into the fibres of the cloth. This is inco
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by d_theorist 2y ago
Of course they weren’t dumb, but having a great understanding of shadows is a far cry from being capable of creating a photo negative. They didn’t even have the concept of a photo negative. How would they even have thought to achieve su
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by d_theorist 2y ago
There is a reason, because DEI introduces non-merit-based criteria for hiring, which necessarily results in less qualified hires.
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by d_theorist 2y ago
What is meant by "civil society" in this article?
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by d_theorist 2y ago
How do you know?
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by d_theorist 2y ago
I agree you need to control for other factors. But I don't think that is particularly beyond the wit of man.
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by d_theorist 2y ago
The relevant metric should be accident rate per million miles driven. What is the rate with autopilot vs without autopilot.
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by d_theorist 3y ago
Let me tell you how all this works: you see, Team America is funded by the corporations, so they fight for the corporations... while they sit in their corporation buildings... and they're all corporation-y... and they make lots of mone
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by d_theorist 3y ago
Or probably just an innocent oversight? I imagine they might have taken this decision early on when they were far too small for anybody to even think of not wanting to be crawled by them, and just never revisited the decision.
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by d_theorist 3y ago
This is defamatory. We should all be a bit more careful and thoughtful before making unfounded accusations about people.
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by d_theorist 3y ago
>> The two scenarios are precisely symmetrical. The only difference is that the cause on one side is one that you agree with, and on the other side is one that you disagree with. >Yep! That's pretty much what agreeing or disag
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by d_theorist 3y ago
You think that gay marriage is a good thing, but many people do not. The two scenarios are precisely symmetrical. The only difference is that the cause on one side is one that you agree with, and on the other side is one that you disagree
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by d_theorist 3y ago
I invite you to imagine the equivalent but reversed scenario. What if Brendan Eich had been contributing money to the pro-gay-marriage campaign and had been forced out by right-wing staff at Mozilla? Would that have been appropriate?
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by d_theorist 3y ago
Regardless of what you think about gay marriage, the mere fact that Mozilla forced out its CEO for having an unpopular political opinion is reason enough not to trust its leadership. Its one of the reasons I use Brave and not Firefox.
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by d_theorist 3y ago
>Will Meta embrace-extend-extinguish the ActivityPub protocol? >There are comparisons to be made between Meta adopting ActivityPub for its new social media platform and Meta adopting XMPP for its Messenger service a decade ago. There
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by d_theorist 3y ago
It’s bikeshedding.
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by d_theorist 4y ago
Please can we stop with this ridiculous exaggeration. It is actually very harmful. There is no evidence of “planetary destruction” or anything like it.
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by d_theorist 4y ago
Also interested in Framework. I would love to see a machine with the repairability and upgradability of Framework combined with the security focus of Purism.
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by d_theorist 4y ago
I was wondering the same thing. I have been considering the Librem 14 and it looks like a great option. Would be useful to hear thoughts on it relative to the other models in the poll.
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by d_theorist 4y ago
The comparison is based on number of enabled vehicles and not on a mile-for-mile basis.

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