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by satellites 7d ago
Good analogy. I was being a bit knee-jerk in my response. Of course there must be layers to the network of elites that we can't see. My frustration with comments like the one I responded to is from seeing ones like it for over a decade
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by satellites 7d ago
An account created 10 minutes ago is theorizing about the "deep state"... very 2016 of you. Why would billionaires need a secret "deep state"? They can just openly talk about what they're doing with impunity. They o
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by satellites 13d ago
I'm keeping my ps4 as long as the hardware still runs because at least I can still buy discs for it. I have a nice collection of high-replay-value single player games. I know discs are just physical licenses at this point in time, not
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by satellites 29d ago
Good question. I wouldn't know if that falls under "public supply" or "domestic". The article doesn't mention the word "golf."
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by satellites 1mo ago
Comparatively very little, when stacked against the massive usage of water by agricultural irrigation. Source: https://conormclaughlin.net/2023/03/visualizing-water-consum... Using an unsustainable amount of water
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by satellites 2mo ago
Maybe a dumb question, but isn't the idea that the efficiency of the models will improve with time, such that you won't be burning hundreds of dollars of tokens for most queries? Fable is great, but Opus can handle most coding tas
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by satellites 3mo ago
Bandcamp rules. I do still subscribe to Apple Music for cheap streaming, but for albums I really like, I'll spend the $8 on bandcamp for the high quality album download. Better support for the artist, and protection against license-pul
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by satellites 3y ago
“A survey from YouGov found that Americans in the highest income category were by far the most supportive of defunding the police.” “By far” means “10% more” in the actual graph the author cites, which comes from an online poll that had 150
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by satellites 3y ago
You’re making a huge false equivalence. We’re talking about anthropogenic climate change specifically. Implying that it is the same as ancient weather patterns from before the Industrial Revolution is comically dishonest.
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by satellites 3y ago
1. Replace the protesting mods with new ones who don’t care about 3rd party apps 2. Continue making Reddit more addictive and user-hostile, attracting casual browsers and alienating super users (who they don’t care about anyway) 3. Cash che
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by satellites 3y ago
I fell for this once when I was a newer developer. I bought a book on my Kindle about Ruby on Rails, thinking it might be more insightful or accessible than the Rails docs. But every chapter was literally just copy/pasted from the Rail
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by satellites 3y ago
The more vague and hand-wavy it sounds, the better it is for corporate PR statements.
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by satellites 3y ago
The trouble with arbitrary societal consensus is that it’s arbitrary. And not necessarily any wiser than an individual’s personal desires. These monks aren’t impulsively killing themselves, they seem to be towards the end of their lives any
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by satellites 3y ago
Gotta get those engagement metrics. Also it actually is nice having them all in a row in a tweet thread.
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by satellites 3y ago
I think we can safely say that social media hurts mental health worldwide, and school shootings are also really bad for people. It’s almost like they’re separate issues and we don’t have to pick one or the other to deal with. Does that soun
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by satellites 3y ago
The person you’re replying to said that the possibility of being shot at school is psychologically taxing. This would apply to all students at all schools, not just ones where a shooting literally happened. It is relevant because of how f
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by satellites 3y ago
Can you explain how TikTok (a Chinese “psyop”) is more harmful to the average citizen than Facebook or Instagram (a corporate American “psyop?”) Can you explain how TikTok is more harmful to the average citizen than the constant mass shooti
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by satellites 3y ago
How long have you been following politics and economics in a serious capacity? > Being conscious intelligent creatures, humans ought to be able to learn from their mistakes and implement change accordingly. We sure ought to, I agree wi
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by satellites 3y ago
Social Security in the U.S. is typically for retired people age ~65 or older. There are other social programs for low-income people, but they are abysmally insufficient for what we’re talking about. Usually disabled people are paid by “disa
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by satellites 4y ago
I’m sorry that happened to you but this seems like a bit of an overreaction.
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by satellites 4y ago
Yes, I’m sure an actor adds more real value to a SaaS company than engineers do. Recognizable talking heads who read lines into a camera are famously hard to find.
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by satellites 4y ago
Most people don’t give a shit about 3rd party app stores. I doubt 90% of iPhone users even know this is happening. (I say this as an iPhone user myself). So, I’m not sure negative PR is that much of a motivator.
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by satellites 4y ago
But that price and convenience is at the cost of quality and employee safety. And honestly not even worth it as a consumer even if you don’t care about the ethical issues. I’ve been severely disappointed with the quality of the average item
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by satellites 4y ago
I think they were just mentioning some catchphrases that got stuck in their head at the time, not presenting a grand theory of everything based on cartoons.
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by satellites 4y ago
She admitted on video that she misrepresented work hours “by mistake.” That’s how they got her.
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by satellites 4y ago
I’m usually guilty of not reading the whole article, but this time I did. She admitted on video that she misrepresented some working hours “by mistake.” That video was cited in the ruling.
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by satellites 4y ago
Social media and gig economies are also net negative, yes.
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by satellites 4y ago
I’ll always pay for Spotify or something like it because the UX is 1000x better than pirating everything and trying to sync up my collection to the cloud across devices. Not gonna bother with that. The ease of discovering new music and shar
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by satellites 4y ago
Agreed. I've worked at a scarce few companies who organized this way, but it seemed to work better than "frontend team, backend team, devops team." When each piece of the stack is a different team, it creates unnecessary host
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by satellites 4y ago
> Primarily used for illicit goods and services This is the only actual use case. And it’s not a great look.

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