logseman

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by logseman 16d ago
Their status and whatever wage they commanded depended on training as few apprentices as possible.
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by logseman 19d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_Homo_(García_Martínez_and...
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by logseman 19d ago
You link to that press release like it means something more than changing a lake's name by fiat.
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by logseman 19d ago
13000 euro a year is the yearly drinking budget of an outgoing San Francisco resident.
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by logseman 23d ago
And then everyone started doing it, which meant that your local retailer isn't in business anymore (see local high streets in many countries). The choice you had 10-15 years ago doesn't exist anymore because everyone went for the
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by logseman 26d ago
Burning books and destroying them in a way that nobody else can access the content anymore is a distinction without a difference.
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by logseman 27d ago
> Like it or not, all publicly available information will inevitably become accessible to anyone and anything that has permission to access it. This is the baseline scenario people need to plan around. The entire point of the situation i
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by logseman 29d ago
Given the vacuum left by pinhole-sized states, Vodafone could become the issuer of propaganda itself as it would have the airwaves and the power of a large state.
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by logseman 29d ago
It doesn't sound like a particularly large leap to think that polities as large as the Indian federal states could work as countries.
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by logseman 1mo ago
Your idol wants people to die for being who they are and no other reason at all. He says so himself. What's the narrative?
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by logseman 1mo ago
Do Not Track was the right implementation (browser-based, activate only once) and it was sabotaged by ad peddlers. It is bad policy that has been reached after every better alternative was rejected.
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by logseman 1mo ago
The "incentive" doesn't exist because by the economies of these networks everyone is at this point at the very least profiled by Facebook so that they can be targeted by malfeasant ads, and a very large majority are already e
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by logseman 1mo ago
After weeks of discourse where the physical token of the Compact Disc had become the all-important object of the fight, it's reassuring to see that we're back at the beginning, where it was clearly understood that you don't m
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by logseman 1mo ago
If LLMs are good at busy work, and it is expertise that lets you distinguish between busy work and valuable one, then it makes sense that they reward expertise.
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by logseman 3y ago
Given that working class rubes like myself who finished college in a place my man can't even find in a map are somehow able to know what “cultural appropriation” or “gendered” or “heteronormative” mean, and do that by the same means as
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by logseman 4y ago
Your McGyver weapon, if it were to work and not get jammed, is not going to be able to fire more than a bullets per second like a bump stocked AR 15 can.
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by logseman 4y ago
The entire point that is being sidelined by that is an active shooter is 1) armed 2) surrounded by unarmed people 3) has the element of surprise to their side Even a single soldier that catches the enemy by surprise while they’re resting o
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by logseman 4y ago
There were a bunch of police who’d just done training on stopping an active shooter and simply refused to follow the training. What is the point of reactive measures if they are flat-out disregarded? In this example, this drone could be dep
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by logseman 6y ago
Not sure how this is "world first" when Spain already did this (and Google withdrew the News service as a result).
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by logseman 7y ago
I’m not sure how that’s a good control. Certain academic paths lead to much more lucrative private employment than others, so the degree holders have a huge incentive to go there instead of academic administration.
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by logseman 8y ago
Sci-Hub isn't exactly easy to use or recommended by the larger community a grad student is likely to encounter.
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by logseman 8y ago
There doesn't have to be a "conspiracy" when the incentives of several powerful institutions with a lot of real estate property (banks, Church, big families with relatives in the Town Hall, regional and national parliament) a
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by logseman 8y ago
Article 33.3 of the Spanish Constitution: "3. Nadie podrá ser privado de sus bienes y derechos sino por causa justificada de utilidad pública o interés social, mediante la correspondiente indemnización y de conformidad con lo dispuesto