samtho

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by samtho 10mo ago
The problem isn’t tricky at all, actually. Just because the punishment for seeking mental health care is losing one’s entire career doesn’t make these problems disappear, it just makes everyone very good at masking or self medicating.
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by samtho 10mo ago
Law enforcement operates in a position where they “can’t lose” an encounter. This is a major cause of rapid and unnecessary escalation with LEOs and the civilians they’ve stopped.
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by samtho 11mo ago
I’m from Sacramento and I know of people who worked at Sircles. It’s comically mismanaged and run by a comic book villian.
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by samtho 11mo ago
Not every restaurant can handle the deferred payout either. Their business is based on receiving payment at the time of service. The restaurant model operates on razor thin margins, and they don’t buy their food on net 30 terms, but they ha
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by samtho 1y ago
From the perspective of the publications, it’s fear-mongering which makes clicks. Out of control AI is a common sci-fi trope because it’s a convenient allegory for the uncaring systems that determine the quality or continuation of human lif
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by samtho 1y ago
I didn’t get the impression that the author is advocating for removing spinners as a UI concept, rather it’s just being used a shorthand for, “you should not need to send and load the data to and from elsewhere while you are working.”
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by samtho 1y ago
Guilt by association, then? This is not how any sane legal system works.
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by samtho 1y ago
The owner of the vehicle may not be the one driving it.
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by samtho 1y ago
A motor vehicle cannot receive a citation. If law enforcement cannot ID the driver as a particular individual when the infraction or crime occurred, a citation should not be issued.
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by samtho 1y ago
It’s not about Bitcoin, it’s about perception. Cash carries a great deal of trust and people buy things with it. It’s so much easier to separate the criminal from the means when you use the same means to pay for a sandwich earlier that day.
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by samtho 1y ago
They would need to remain around long enough for the privilege of failing due to unmaintainable systems.
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by samtho 1y ago
Just because an SMS originates from a computer does not make it spam. I like to be notified that my drive up order is ready or for a link to check in at the doctor.
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by samtho 2y ago
It’s funny, if you open a TV set it’s already super modular like computers were before we had standardized parts, ports, and form factors. It’s got the power supply which makes the 24V for the display, 12/5/3.3V for the other elec
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by samtho 2y ago
I don’t think the reaction to everything we dislike should be “let’s make it illegal” because you’re going to end up with unintended harms. If companies are forced to retain public information against their will, many will simply opt not to
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by samtho 2y ago
It’s regressive because banning a vice does not magically make harm from it disappear. The addiction issue needs to be addressed in a meaningful and direct way. The other problem is that many advocates for a ban on pornography use this argu
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by samtho 2y ago
A good ADHD coach can be life-changing, as cheesy and corny as it sounds. As you’re likely aware (but for the benefit of everyone else), the ADHD brain is not extrinsically and intrinsically motivated by the exact same things of someone wit
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by samtho 2y ago
Amazon also has mastered the art of getting cities to bend over backwards for them, offering tax breaks and land because Amazon wants to bring X number of jobs that pay over $100K/year to the city. Well, now these offices are vacant an
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by samtho 2y ago
I would argue these are still distinct meanings: one has speculative implications the other has tangible results. Announcing a marital engagement may be important, but the marriage is not formal until the marriage certificate is filed. In t
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Beware: AI-produced Children's Books (2023)(sonderbooks.com)
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by samtho 2y ago
> […] I was put off by the product due to the now-mandatory paired subscription ($200/yr with purchase, annually paired only, can cancel after) […] It is both confusing and fascinating how some companies manage to put out a product
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by samtho 2y ago
The rise of services like 23andMe and AncestryDNA have actually allowed people to discover information about their parentage that they would otherwise not have had access to, basically they find out that one or both of their parents are not
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by samtho 2y ago
Depends on how you define helpful or how much of a requirement for content to actually be “helpful”. A strict definition might require content to have academic or intellectual value (implied by the remark about it being shown in an academic
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by samtho 2y ago
Supposing the premise that these things were entirely unhelpful to society, I would argue that the obscenity specifically is not what makes these things unhelpful.
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by samtho 2y ago
Yet humans have fared mostly fine as a whole with even a moderate level of those things, legal or not, consistently happening throughout history and cultures. The biggest problem we have is when these vices are driven underground so the vic
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by samtho 2y ago
I am not sure how you got to this slippery slope that doesn’t have a good reason to exist. This movement is not about filling capsules with powdered ginger to treat something that it’s unable to. The goal is to synthesize molecules that hav
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by samtho 2y ago
In some ways, the gatekeeping of healthcare should be met with more resistance than repair an item that someone else made but you now own. Your body is something that belongs to you, you technically manufacture, yet you are legally forbidde
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by samtho 2y ago
I am legitimately unsure why you felt the need to make this comment. If you were uncomfortable posting this it here because you think that someone else might take it an endorsement, then why did you post it? People post things they find int
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by samtho 2y ago
This is very reductive and gross misrepresentation of split brain experiments. Humans have various level of memory (working, short term, long term), the ability to experience meta cognition, and the autonomy to make a decision - all of whic
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by samtho 2y ago
Ghost, but only if your primary focus is blogging (rather than a CMS or e-commerce platform).
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by samtho 2y ago
The user you’re replying to asked how to solve a practical problem and you responded with philosophy. While I don’t disagree with what you said in principle, being able to fall-back to TIA for removed/deleted images would probably solv

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