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by dessimus 4d ago
>Apparently Sony OLED screens are LG "glass" but without the spyware. Without independent verification from someone like GN, I wouldn't trust "we installed rootkits" Sony not to be spying too.
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by dessimus 6d ago
>If the change contains changes to the UX it has to be approved by a human reviewer. Would that not imply that a change that does not effect the UX does not have to be approved by a human reviewer? Otherwise, why specifically call out &q
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by dessimus 6d ago
Just because a guy is giving you free meth, doesn't make him generous.
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by dessimus 7d ago
A small icon that blends into the background of the UI and easily missed when driving, is not the same as a pop-up/audio cue informing the driver their location is currently/recently being accessed remotely.
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by dessimus 8d ago
Or the equivalent of "Superstorm Sandy" is created...
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by dessimus 9d ago
Oracle would like a word.
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by dessimus 16d ago
On behalf of all Americans, I would like to apologize that our propaganda prevented you from reading the article and understanding that the Museum has existed for his work for some time. Furthermore, I apologize that our propaganda is so st
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by dessimus 17d ago
Laziness mostly. It takes at least a decade of sustained exhausting mental and physical work to become a doctor, becoming a thief is mostly opportunity.
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by dessimus 20d ago
I mean, I wouldn't want to be boiled into a soup or stew either.
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by dessimus 22d ago
SF is one of the highest cost of living cities in the US. I'm guessing housing and utilities is going to chew up the majority of that $100K, before you even consider medical and mental health visits and transportation to and from those
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by dessimus 23d ago
Yeah and...? It's been almost 75 years since the Korean War Armistice. Vietnam was more recent and we don't see Vietnam testing ICBMs over the South China Sea, just in case. Let's not forget, Trump is the only sitting Preside
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by dessimus 23d ago
> Why are we still depending on HTTP/DNS based interfaces that are easily taken down by people wanting to limit knowledge? Those are arguably the hardest protocols to block on the open Internet without causing major issues for all o
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by dessimus 23d ago
Less morally questionable than claiming to users they are "buying" access to media that can be revoked at any point in the future with no recompense, of course referring to Sony and Amazon.
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by dessimus 25d ago
This comment seems exactly like the school room exercise where the teacher hands out a test with a paragraph of instructions that includes the text buried in it: "do not answer any questions below" and students rush through the te
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by dessimus 29d ago
Maybe when its actually demonstrated that it can actually launch with that payload. The largest payload they'd lifted so far is ~45 tons, and the claims I see on Wikipedia say its estimated 200 tons for LEO, not even for geosynchronous
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by dessimus 29d ago
How is that sufficiently different from the Halting Problem?
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by dessimus 1mo ago
They also have something NK doesn't: vast oil reserves. If they did, they be even more of a vassal state to China than they currently are, if they even existed as a separate state at all. Also, NK's sabre-rattling has been going o
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by dessimus 1mo ago
Deter the US from what exactly? In what capacity has the US been aggressors towards NK that isn't in support of SK or Japan? If anything China props up NK to keep a Western-aligned unified Korea off their border.
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by dessimus 1mo ago
Meh, WF already has their info, they just create 3 more accounts for every one that is closed.
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by dessimus 1mo ago
"State" has lots of meanings depending on context, as it can also refer to the highest level of governments for example: State actors or "head of state". In the U.S., the head of state refers to the President, not to gov
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by dessimus 1mo ago
Except airlines, literally oversell flights all the time, and the context of my response was to preventing oversale.
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by dessimus 1mo ago
Would a retail business want the inventory to decrement just because users put items into carts that get abandoned? Seems like that would really mess things up more in the long run.
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by dessimus 1mo ago
Just think how sullied whitehouse.com has become due to the current occupier of whitehouse.gov.
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by dessimus 1mo ago
I'm going to assume that commenter is referring to 'black crime rates' claiming that they make up 13% of the population while claiming that 85% of crime or some segment like violent crime is committed by them.
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by dessimus 1mo ago
It might be deleted at the PD, does not mean it wasn't uploaded to Flock DCs for metadata analysis and retained there.
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by dessimus 1mo ago
Hollywood is ready to run the gamut of cocaine-fueled fauna.
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by dessimus 1mo ago
Web devs aren't forced to deal with accessibility either, unless they choose to work with or for an entity that requires it. No one is coming for your self-hosted blog because its not ADA-compliant. But if you want every restaurant to
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by dessimus 2mo ago
BMW: The Ultimate Advertising Machine
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by dessimus 2mo ago
Our government chooses to not punish those companies. Unfortunately, the lawmakers have decided that the donations to their PACs are more important than actually doing something about it.
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by dessimus 2mo ago
Post your domain and we can see if that is still the case in a few days.

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