downWidOutaFite

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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
My real problem is with the claim that they have a mandate to tear the government apart. That's not what they told voters during the election. They don't have a mandate for that.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
No it isn't. A democracy only works with informed voters. The amount of lies and obfuscation spewed by Trump's campaign is a successful attempt to deliberately break democracy. They don't have a mandate to do much besides mas
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
The public option in 2009 would have helped, let the profit-skimmers compete with the government program and prove that they really can deliver better service while taking their 20-30% cut. But the "free market" captains of indust
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
There's plenty they can do. For one, control all your media (for example banning of tiktok, since chinese oligarchs are not aligned with our oligarchs), with control over media they can prevent your message from getting out (e.g. Luigi
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
I don't expect that rule to survive. Last time trump took office he went on a petty vendetta through all government departments to try to undo every little thing obama did.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Israel has been mounting guns and speakers on long-distance quadcopters and shooting at Gazans. Only a short time until that tech becomes widespread. Israel seems to be a proving ground for mass population terrorizing tech like this. I&#x27
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
I hate that people feel the need to so strongly attach the generic term open source to Open Source InitiativeⓇ OSI Certified™ license's marketing (anti Stallman) propaganda as the one and only true open source. Redis' license is o
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Probably less than 1% of musicians make any real money off of selling licenses to their copyrights.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
The question is if i'll he able to get it. I wouldn't be surprised if all vaccine development is defunded. And HPV specifically since christians have a weird hate bonner against it.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Agree. These dangerous conspiracy theorists will soon be tearing our FDA apart. I just got my latest covid shot and pressured my doctor to get my 10 year old daughter's HPV vaccine a bit earlier than recommended to get it in before our
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
I think the tech chauvinism (aka accelerationism) comes from the crypto-hype era and unfortunately has been merged into the culture wars making reasonable discussion impossible in many cases.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
There was a step change over the last few years but that rate of improvement is not continuing. The currently known techniques seem to have hit a plateau. It's impossible to know when the next "Attention is All You Need" will
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
I disagree. There's no principle involved. It's all polarized partisan politics. Your "particularly dysfunctional" is extremely in the eye of the beholder. The rich and powerful silicon valley CEO/VC guys tearing th
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Just do what we've done since the dawn of time: hang out with friends and family, prepare and eat food together, maybe play card or board games. It feels good and it's good for you.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
I think they are wrong. We are fleeing X because a lot of right winger's mental model for appropriate political discussion with liberals is mostly mean trollish harassment, purposefully putting people down and trying to make people fee
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
If you want to be catered to as a right-leaner you can just stay on X.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Ads are the only price most users are willing to pay.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
So Gab, Parler, Truth Social, etc were all left-leaning?
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
It feels almost selfishly evil to buy cars that increase your safety at the expense of others. It also promotes a race to the top, bigger and bigger cars over time, which is indeed what we have seen in the US market over the last 30 years.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Or any interest in reducing the incentives to buy their $200 Bluetooth headphones.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
The horde of right wing blue checks that dominate all popular political tweets is not a filter bubble. It is a user-hostile feature that makes organic political interactions impossible on the platform. It turns a peer-to-peer network into t
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Social networks' usefulness is proportional to the size of the network so they are naturally winner takes all markets.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Depending on how you look at it Criterion's $11/month for 1,000 titles is not cheaper than Netflix's $15/month for 5,000 titles.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Murdoch bought himself an American citizenship, problem solved. We've had that foreigner's propaganda dominante our politics for several decades now.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
It's not quite random, the goal is to bias the errors towards false negatives (bad rejection) than false positives because bad hires are so expensive to recover from.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Vision is a crappy interface for computers but I think it could be a useful weapon against all the extremely "secure" platforms that refuse to give you access to your own data and refuse to interoperate with anything outside their
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
i must be an idiot. As an iphone user for about a year i'm constantly confused what's happening or stuck on some screen or can't find what i need or mysteriously trigger some screen or popup.
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
nobody is paying for the training so you either pay for the inference or the ads do
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
Digg just wasn't big enough. Once these networks get to a certain size they're unkillable. Look at all the turmoil reddit went through, a hated redesign, killed 3rd party apps, a whole protest movement, none of it mattered. People
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by downWidOutaFite 2y ago
so... ad funded?

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