regentbowerbird

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by regentbowerbird 7mo ago
If you consider only the product is relevant and not how it is made, then no it does not matter; or at least it doesn't matter as long as you don't personally attach any emotional qualities to products beyond their material qualit
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by regentbowerbird 8mo ago
True. Let's post the URL to a popular website to add noise to the data.
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by regentbowerbird 9mo ago
Teen titans as reference xD stop it you're killing me
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by regentbowerbird 9mo ago
Are you aware there are artistic styles beyond photorealism?
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by regentbowerbird 11mo ago
This is unreal, do you think people who face the choice between lifelong debt and the loss of a loved one really are comparable to people wanting a six pack? Do you think people really don't care about literal life and death situations
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by regentbowerbird 11mo ago
You just assert "no" to my suggestion that people don't pay for these things because they just don't value them enough to pay for them, which doesn't really move the conversation forward. There's loadsa stuff m
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by regentbowerbird 11mo ago
In some sense I agree but there is a fundamental difference. I pay for my groceries because I have the fundamental need for sustenance, and that requires land and toil. I have neither and therefore I pay someone else; but for me to survive
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by regentbowerbird 11mo ago
People are willing to pay for things they value. Those people who "refuse to pay money for content" probably go to the cinema, perhaps purchase magazines, purchase drinks with friends, etc. We should however make it easier to pay
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by regentbowerbird 11mo ago
Our culture values the act of buying things for social status (consumerism), and one of the main reasons for that is advertising. You're assuming people would still have the same amount of money, but for most money is not a given, and
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by regentbowerbird 11mo ago
The same could be said with all advertising and surveillance. No one wants to be advertised to, but powerful lobbies argue that ending ads will lower consumption and thus harm the economy; and no politician wants to lower GDP. No one wants
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by regentbowerbird 11mo ago
I disagree with your assessment, the poster is obviously disillusioned but they just detail their point of view. You can't just write off safety violation and toxic environment as "high-intensity work culture". You also just
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by regentbowerbird 11mo ago
> The western companies aren't using the business as a strategic tool to destabilise the host country. What is your source for this claim? Wouldn't companies destabilize the host country to facilitate their own business? Wester
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by regentbowerbird 1y ago
Alcohol concentrations over 20% kill yeast, so adding sugar to distilled spirits will not create more alcohol.
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by regentbowerbird 1y ago
Possibly it's just a one time thing that was limited to just these companies. Or possibly the incentives that led to this are still in place, and the current judicial climate is way more lenient towards big companies. Who's to say
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by regentbowerbird 1y ago
What happens when the companies band together to compress wages? Like what happened with the high-tech employee antitrust litigation. Individual employees are far more numerous (therefore harder to coordinate) and have way shallower pockets
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by regentbowerbird 1y ago
> Well, I imagine more people kill themselves after reading Nietzsche. Must be nice to base your world view on things you imagine.
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by regentbowerbird 1y ago
Just curious, how are Europeans "milking the US on trade"?
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by regentbowerbird 1y ago
> Group 2 will not fare well in the coming months. If it's a matter of months then latecomers will be up to speed in months as well, which isn't really that long a time.
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by regentbowerbird 1y ago
> see the unreal crap DOGE unearthed in the US for example I'm surprised to see DOGE referenced as a source in jul 2025, are the savings from that particularly significant? Only a fraction is actually accounted for: https:/&#x
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by regentbowerbird 1y ago
> The super-rich don't stay rich by just sitting on their money, they invest it. The specific issue here is that revenue from capital is taxed less than revenue from labor, thus disproportionally impacting the poor & middle clas
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by regentbowerbird 1y ago
Alright, but one of the central findings of software engineering of the 80s is that software engineering cannot be driven rigidly, unlike other engineering fields.. Such as railways. Think about it, rail is an eminently standardized piece o
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by regentbowerbird 1y ago
You only have to serve those requests if you distribute your changes yourself. So presumably as a hardware company you'd be offering your hardware with your custom linux installed, and then people wanting to audit or hack the product t
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by regentbowerbird 1y ago
I'm comparing the stated goal of Israel (dehamasification) with denazification. The allies' strategic bombing campaign was intended to destroy industry and infrastructure and was not aimed at any political group in particular, whe
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by regentbowerbird 1y ago
> You used to word indistinguishable, the other person used "deep". You are factually wrong since the ratio of Hamas to Gazan casualties does not represent random targeting even by the worst estimates. True, I apologize for the
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by regentbowerbird 1y ago
> Guess why they're keeping the Palestinians on a run: to ransack the entire place for weapons caches or Gaza Metro entrances. Let's say Israel finds all caches and tunnels, while not disturbing the population of Gaza (besides
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by regentbowerbird 1y ago
If I follow your logic: - Israel has to eradicate Hamas as its existence is too much of a threat ("there is no alternative") - Hamas has embedded itself in the civilian population in Gaza so that they are indistinguishable - the
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by regentbowerbird 2y ago
None of us live in an ideal vacuum and this word has been tainted by its use in nazi ideology. Whomever wrote that has a responsibility to know what the words they use mean. The combination of symbols is not random either. For example: take
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by regentbowerbird 2y ago
> compared this to researching on the internet, there are some good aspects, but more often than not, I end up reading an opinionated post by someone (no matter the topic, if you go deep enough, you will land on an opinionated factual te
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by regentbowerbird 2y ago
I'm unsure why people are giving any thought to a website best known for its Harry Potter fanfictions and rejection of causality (Roko's basilisk). Is giving voice to crackpots really helpful to the discourse on AI?
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by regentbowerbird 2y ago
Super cool, thanks. I wondered how its speed could be adjusted and found `pv` can be used for throttling pipe throughput, so thanks for that too! Limited to reading 50kB per second: cat /dev/urandom | pv -q -L 50k | hexdump

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