mayneack

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by mayneack 6mo ago
"this violates our TOS" is a classic Accountability Sink. "Polymarket has a rule against harassment, so we obviously did all we could!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unaccountability_Machine
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by mayneack 7mo ago
Then Google shouldn't be using something so unreliable for anything important. Arguing that random users should know the difference between cheap and frontier models is also not compelling. It's all the same "AI" to most
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by mayneack 7mo ago
I'd be shocked if international travel was the algorithmic tell, but in the book Careless People, the author discusses extensively that they (Facebook's political team) did a lot of manually curating the experience for politicians
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by mayneack 8mo ago
They absolutely can afford to be a-political. It may not maximize their wealth, but they can afford a little less maximizing.
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by mayneack 8mo ago
Renters often pay for utilities.
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by mayneack 8mo ago
Fun fact: Bose is 51% owned by MIT (non voting shares) https://news.mit.edu/2011/bose-gift
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by mayneack 9mo ago
I use it regularly
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by mayneack 10mo ago
Norway is a sovereign nation, so what's the argument against them taking action based on the Gaza genocide?
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by mayneack 10mo ago
If Microsoft were providing "general purpose compute to Iran" the US would sanction them.
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by mayneack 10mo ago
Well in this case the executive branch isn't even following congressionally appropriations, so one could argue that this particular shut down is more caused by the president than any other in history.
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by mayneack 11mo ago
The republicans have a clear majority in all three houses. They can reopen if they want to.
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by mayneack 11mo ago
The consequences of the 2024 election in which he played a significant role. This "budget debacle" is a direct consequence. Also, Elon has weighed in quite aggressively on prior budgetary fights, so it would be crazy to say his in
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by mayneack 11mo ago
Given how much he contributed to the election outcome it hardly seems tired to blame him for the consequences. Plus he's on Twitter every week publicly discussing how much he uses the platform to put his thumb on the scale of discourse
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by mayneack 11mo ago
Don't you mean "we" have a cool blog? Looks like you work there.
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by mayneack 1y ago
It's open source software that runs on donations, so... yeah? https://xcancel.com/about
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by mayneack 1y ago
This is to avoid blogspam not paywalls.
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by mayneack 1y ago
How can one fix car transportation? More lanes?
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by mayneack 1y ago
Yes! That's the tradeoff and the market prices it in.
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by mayneack 1y ago
People who want to live in less dense houses farther from the city can already do that!
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by mayneack 1y ago
With the CEQA reform from a couple months ago, those court cases should be lessened a bit.
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by mayneack 1y ago
The long tail is very long
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by mayneack 1y ago
This does not require the bluesky app. I'm not in Mississippi, but people on bluesky are reporting that these alternative AT Proto apps work fine there and grant full access to the same content.
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by mayneack 1y ago
There are other instances running: https://zeppelin.social/
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by mayneack 1y ago
The reverse is true. There are other relays that are still functional as you'd expect in a decentralized network: https://zeppelin.social/
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by mayneack 1y ago
Plex
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by mayneack 1y ago
This is a very online oriented debate. Derek Thompson might hear mostly from left coded anti-trust types on twitter, but I really don't think that's the main opponent to abundance. If you spend time in the individual communities w
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by mayneack 1y ago
I use MyShake which will let me get alerts based on specific magnitude cutoffs. I actually just ratcheted up my "global" alert from 7.5 to 8 because of all the alerts from the last couple weeks in the pacific.
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by mayneack 1y ago
I haven't seen suggestion of businesses suffering > Others have said it would hurt businesses in the congestion zone. The report, however, says pedestrian activity inside the zone was up 8.4% in May, compared with the same period la
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by mayneack 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Simbel#Relocation In the 60s a massive stone monument was moved 200m up in elevation to avoid being flooded by a dam.
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by mayneack 1y ago
What does this have to do with government mandated websites? Seems that the US had a government website about climate and few heat deaths. If the number of heat deaths goes up this year without the websites would you think that is because t

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