gypsy_boots

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by gypsy_boots 26d ago
weak. There is a juggernaut of surveillance consuming everything in its path, where laws are skirted to install surveillance instruments and due process might as well not exist. And you're talking about "protecting property"
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by gypsy_boots 1mo ago
> just because of a PM in search "de/re-prioritizing" ranking in a way that makes this impossible I could be wrong, but I'm more inclined to say these directives are coming from leadership/advertising dollars rat
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by gypsy_boots 1mo ago
I'm wondering if it's also a way for this marketing agency to artifically (ahem) inflate the impression numbers they report back to Ally Bank, or whoever the customer is.
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by gypsy_boots 2mo ago
This is the most logical comment in the entire thread. The only thing to say is "I want a lawyer". Although in this case, he repeatedly said that and wasn't given one. Which just shows that the state can do whatever they&#x27
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by gypsy_boots 3mo ago
> MSG management is not only misusing facial recognition data This is making a huge assumption that the goal was ever safety.
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by gypsy_boots 3mo ago
> It's why a Tiktok sale was forced Well that and the overwhelming pro-palestine content on that platform. We certainly couldn't have that.
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by gypsy_boots 3mo ago
It's funny how you can look at obscenely overvalued Western AI companies, with capex's that are unsustainable, and along comes a system which pokes a gaping hole in this model, and the response is "Ya, but what do those sneak
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by gypsy_boots 4mo ago
You're led to this conclusion because you have a lack of understanding of the structure of Hezbollah, and a seeming disinterest in understanding it more. Like it or not, Hezbollah serves a number of functions in Lebanon. They have civi
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by gypsy_boots 4mo ago
Take any econ 101 course, and you'll realize that this isn't a factor in the capitalist system. Capitalism is simply concerned with maximizing profit, and in this case, returning shareholder value. It's just simply not in the
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by gypsy_boots 5mo ago
> The attribute is that we must never actually do anything to address the real problem, which is that the lion's share of the wealth and resources are being claimed by a tiny group of people who use monopolies, coercive tactics, buy
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by gypsy_boots 5mo ago
The US version of The Great Leap Forward
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by gypsy_boots 6mo ago
not only trained that way, the justice system upholds this by not prosecuting police violence in any meaningful way
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by gypsy_boots 6y ago
> Or did the trading firms treat order flow from RH differently than from other sources? I'm not well versed in financial language by any stretch, but i believe it's this. Matt Taibbi did a piece on them last week and goes into
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by gypsy_boots 6y ago
> ...the resolution in today’s announcement re-affirms that the Department of Justice will not relent in its multi-pronged efforts to combat the opioids crisis > The criminal resolution includes the largest penalties ever levied again
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by gypsy_boots 6y ago
> The only press they ever received was from credulous buzztech sites that just wanted something flashy to grab eyeballs, so they weren’t used to anyone actually being engaged enough intellectually to point out the lack of clothes that t
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by gypsy_boots 6y ago
Thank you for this. The headline of the article certainly seems to be taking advantage of the recent hysteria around everything else happening in our lives right now (covid-19)
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by gypsy_boots 7y ago
This article is kind of all over the place, at first blaming the Guardian but then backing down a bit to say that they had limited resources to fight what would be an expensive legal battle, which is understandable. > He said he was put
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Bike Tire Sizing Systems(sheldonbrown.com)
2 points by gypsy_boots 7y ago|0 comments
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by gypsy_boots 7y ago
Author says: > I also find misleading the title of BoingBoing’s report of this story: “Google’s forgetting the early web”. The two posts mentioned here are not “early web”, nor really “old”. While the title of this author's post is
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by gypsy_boots 8y ago
For anyone interested in further reading on the topic of the placebo effect, I'd recommend the book 'Cure'[0] by Jo Marchant [0]: https://www.amazon.com/Cure-Journey-into-Science-Mind/dp/038...
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by gypsy_boots 8y ago
> 7. Don't have multiple people editing the same piece of code. Do others find this pretty crucial? We do this at my org and I’m interested in knowing if it’s detrimental.
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by gypsy_boots 8y ago
MJ Freeway | Senior Software Developer | Full-Time | Denver, CO | REMOTE or ONSITE MJ Freeway is the industry-leading software, consulting, and data solution for cannabis businesses, processing $5B in cannabis sales transactions and serving
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by gypsy_boots 9y ago
This is a fantastic ELI5. Thank you
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by gypsy_boots 9y ago
Those last two sentences are pretty depressing: > Should we define the Anthropocene by when humanity invented the technology to make themselves extinct? If so, then the nuclear bomb spike recorded in the loneliest tree on the planet sug
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by gypsy_boots 9y ago
I find it hard to believe that Unilever really ‘cares’ about any of these issues so I’m chalking this up to virtue signaling. Really just seems like posturing more than anything
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by gypsy_boots 9y ago
This makes me nervous and I fear that Kim Jung Un will have to do something big in order to save face. I hope we make him feel that he has a non-violent way to posture for his people as that's really what this is all about: posturing.
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The uncompromising debate at the core of the Harvard-Chelsea Manning controversy(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by gypsy_boots 9y ago|0 comments
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Nevada site leaks thousands of medical marijuana dispensary applications(zdnet.com)
4 points by gypsy_boots 10y ago|0 comments
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by gypsy_boots 10y ago
> he has been sentenced to 21 months in a federal prison for transmitting a command that caused damage without authorisation to a protected computer I'm genuinely curious, is this the actual charge? What specific law did he break he
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by gypsy_boots 10y ago
> an hobbyist I know this is grammatically correct (and I often try to use it), but something in my brain always struggles with 'an' preceding 'h' words.

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