snotrockets

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by snotrockets 1y ago
Same as the current labeling/moderation service: any participant can verify any other participant. Which verifiers gets a check to appear is a property of the AppView. If Bluesky becomes evil, you just configure your AppView not to tru
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by snotrockets 1y ago
No need for the monospaced requirement - it would reduce the search space, but it's solvable even before this reduction.
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by snotrockets 1y ago
It won’t come back, as it never were in the US.
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by snotrockets 1y ago
It also puts more tax burden on the less wealthy. Sales tax is regressive; income tax is progressive. But yes, that’s exactly why the American right makes taxation so cumbersome and horrible: to make people think that taxes are bad, as ther
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by snotrockets 1y ago
> Hey has been doing great business with an only-paid model. [citation needed]
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by snotrockets 1y ago
Assuming you speak English.
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by snotrockets 1y ago
All smoke alarms have expiration dates. Mostly due to the isotopes used in them, which decay. The alarms themselves should be able to work even without network connection, but you won't get to use any of the connected features, loosing
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by snotrockets 1y ago
Can't wait for the Monday issue of Matt Levine's newsletter.
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by snotrockets 1y ago
I don't believe it has to be said: It's not about product, it's about manipulating the balance sheet.
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by snotrockets 1y ago
The problem is the camps. It's forces framing certain traits as something that requires exiling people who show them.
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by snotrockets 1y ago
He has no heart. He is cruel, as he subscribes to the idea that a disease isn’t something you get because you rolled the dice wrong, but something that can be avoided by being “pure”. For him, pure health is never systematic or unlucky; the
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by snotrockets 1y ago
Not if you know how militaries and intelligence agencies are run.
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by snotrockets 1y ago
This is a wild exaggeration - very few people are a good fit for serving in a military, and while the Israeli army ignores that, and drafts many it shouldn't (resulting in high suicide rates on one hand, and alleged war crimes on the o
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by snotrockets 1y ago
To comply, for every item in that list, Apple can decide to enable it world wide, or only enable it for devices sold in the EU. The latter would cost them more, both to initially implement and to maintain. It'd be interesting to see wh
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by snotrockets 1y ago
With Spotify app, some issues seem to be due to Spotify themselves. For example, even when you explicitly download music to your watch, the app needs network connection to start playing. This seems to be explicit design decision on Spotify&
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by snotrockets 2y ago
A car analogy can work here, but a slightly different one: Tesla remotely disable cars when they decide to, as they claim that they sell you the car, but only license the software. You get to keep the car, but loose the license to operate t
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by snotrockets 2y ago
No, that didn't happen.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
You can get better in a Mercedes, but it ain't cheap. Tesla ADAS isn't all that it made out to be: it's mostly very aggressive, which imo makes it more dangerous, especially to others. No wonder Tesla owners took the "mo
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by snotrockets 2y ago
Side windows in most new cars are also laminated. The quarter windows are the one you should try break.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
Hyundai and Kias have good ADAS, and can be had for less then a Tesla.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
AWS (which isn't Amazon, really, even if they share resources), used to bake the cost of keeping the lights on practically forever, or at least until the last user churns. The product may not see improvements if it didn't get trac
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by snotrockets 2y ago
Using android.content.SharedPreferences, set one singaling the user purchased a license from the Amazon copy of the app, read it from the Google Play app. It is doable, the main issues is: 1. Getting users to redownload the app from the Pla
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by snotrockets 2y ago
It was named so based on the Idea is that like the author (who the term "Kafkesque" is coined after), Apache Kafka is a prolific writer.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
That's not the same, right? Not only I won't shed a tear, I might even throw a small party, but I would do nothing to hasten the day.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
I don't wish harm on anyone, including people aiming to destroy my family and my community. I only wish them to stop. I also don't care what happens to Thiel. As you wrote, he has enough wealth to escape. I care for all the kids a
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by snotrockets 2y ago
No, people who actually have a clue know that there are 18 orgs that makes US Intelligence, and one of those is the NRO. The National Intelligence Program (NIP) budget is classified, with the only released data is the top line number. The o
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by snotrockets 2y ago
"Some words" is like saying the ocean has "some water" in it. And it's even not the article title. The og title is: "US Park Service erases the word ‘transgender’ from website commemorating Stonewall riot"
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by snotrockets 2y ago
TERFs outed themselves as exclusionary. As such, they can't be left wing, even if they would like to align with it on some other principles. You can't be humanistic only towards some humans.
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by snotrockets 2y ago
I think it's called "from first principles", which is the laundered term for "disregarding context and previous work, because I don't feel other people's work is worth anything".
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by snotrockets 2y ago
> you feel Musk is aligned with the far right It's not a feel, it's real (unless you're so far to the right yourself, you don't consider the AfD, neo-nazis, TERFs, etc etc such)

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