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by mrguyorama 15d ago
But how would the App be deciding that? Listening for large crowds? Listening for it's own output from high output speakers? Spotify will keep the entry in a playlist even after they lose the rights to a song, or worse, keep the rights
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by mrguyorama 15d ago
I have absolutely noticed all the complaints and stupid problems with the App on desktop. It constantly breaks in stupid ways. Every few releases, the "Discover Weekly" generated playlist loses the ability to hide/disable son
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by mrguyorama 16d ago
But why do people think this? Do you think his supporters will be convinced if CNN shows unredacted files? Do you think they are just "unconvinced"? That they just need more evidence? Trump said it himself. He could shoot someone
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by mrguyorama 19d ago
It's Friday, so probably a lot of the more well adjusted human beings are a little busy living life. But yeah, good god people are being absurd. However, there was similar absurdity a couple years ago, when an article about Costco havi
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by mrguyorama 19d ago
Because low quality food or bad tasting food is not a health hazard (well, not a health hazard under the USDA's purview. The population being too fat is HHS's job) Tyson and Purdue have the occasional problem that causes a recall,
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by mrguyorama 19d ago
>"When you do less testing, you're going to find less problems," Custard said. "When you find less problems, you end up with fewer recalls." This isn't necessarily true though. Issues found by inspection onl
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by mrguyorama 19d ago
No this makes no sense. Like, I can see where you were thinking, but it's just wrong with the USDA because of how different problems at different points are handled. When an inspector in a plant notices a problem, like an employee not
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by mrguyorama 19d ago
No, you cannot, in a democracy, write the rules in such a way to magically and automatically guarantee that bad things cannot happen, because the core conceit of democracy is that the will of the people can happen If your people want bad
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by mrguyorama 19d ago
The only medication for Premature Ejaculation that exists currently is a megadose of a special SSRI which has a short half life. If you are a man, SSRIs are very likely to make you last longer in bed, and that is often a very bad thing. If
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by mrguyorama 19d ago
There is nothing in US consumer rights law that prevents any of this being done to someone who pays. As such, companies do all this to consumers who pay.
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by mrguyorama 19d ago
Can you demonstrate that? What evidence is there that they have provided services to PKK
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by mrguyorama 19d ago
And despite it being transparent garbage, millions of Americans are eagerly lapping up Red Scare 2.0
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by mrguyorama 19d ago
No, very clearly in the graph in that link it only bumped the rate of births for about 3 years before it very clearly returned to it's previous trajectory. It did not change the overall trend because radical anti-abortion measures like
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by mrguyorama 20d ago
This is a bit nonsensical. How is doing chemistry to mineral oil to turn it into some other hydrocarbon sludge with mediocre nutrition more effective than the stupid hydrocarbon sludge we already have: Corn syrup? Again, the ONLY reason the
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by mrguyorama 20d ago
> She didn't really suffer, but her behavior was as if she was. Wait what? Why do you believe she didn't actually suffer?
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by mrguyorama 20d ago
There are plenty of people on this very forum who insist that LLMs ARE conscious, some of them even calling LLMs Sentient, and yet almost none of those people are currently marching in the streets to end industrial scale digital slavery. No
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by mrguyorama 20d ago
That very link shows it did not work Primarily, because : https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/rabbit-test/
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by mrguyorama 20d ago
You understand why a deflationary currency kills economic activity, right?
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by mrguyorama 20d ago
Those cities had very little problem when Obama was deporting millions. Almost like what I have an actual problem with isn't deporting illegal immigrants, but armed thugs kidnapping citizens, harassing my neighbors, and murdering seve
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by mrguyorama 20d ago
>Immigration proponents never had the political capital to enact a law that actually reflects current practice. Reagan, in 1986, signed a bill that legalized any illegal immigrant who came here before 1982 and 3 million people applied,
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by mrguyorama 20d ago
>It’s not “cruelty” to have and enforce rules. Depends on the rules. "You have no rights and are someone else's property" was once a rule, and it was absolutely cruel.
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by mrguyorama 20d ago
>It is, in fact, illegal to hire undocumented immigrants. Federal offense actually. So then where are all these illegal immigrants getting hired? "Law on the books" and "Law enforced" are very different.
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by mrguyorama 20d ago
That was still bad actually. A lot of "legal" weed business still lives in a state of weird limbo because of it.
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by mrguyorama 21d ago
And the Zune ecosystem had it's own DRM music format that also died IIRC. However, what the Zune ecosystem DID have that was insane for the time, was a $10 or so monthly subscription that let you listen to and download ANY song, as lon
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by mrguyorama 21d ago
The weirdest thing about the PBM play is that the Medical Loss Ratio gives them the freedom to arbitrarily increase profit values without doing anything weird, because you can just not put any downward pressure on costs and they will just n
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by mrguyorama 21d ago
It's possible that some of this is down to the "Prison" vs "Jail" distinction? But I can't source what I said. What I can source is that prisoners largely report going hungry. That's a completely different
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by mrguyorama 21d ago
The simple solution is the one Europe adopted: Just cap fees. We do this for Debit cards and it's fine. >It's not clear to me what the net benefit is of a credit card over a debit card. In a fair scheme, the net benefit to the
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by mrguyorama 21d ago
>When Epic game store lowered its fee not a single game got cheaper for the buyers. At least one reason for this is that Valve has language in their agreements to prevent you from selling your game cheaper on other storefronts. Unambiguo
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by mrguyorama 21d ago
Why was that not a problem in the mid 1800s when we crisscrossed the entire country with railroads and telegraph cables? Sure is funny how FDR had us spend a little cash 100 years ago to ensure even the remotest farm gets electricity, and w
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by mrguyorama 21d ago
Jeeze. Bad week. Two absolute icons. And at the worst time too. I was really looking to escape to the only place not corrupted by capitalism..... SPAAACE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq1Nr58hM

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