three_seagrass

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by three_seagrass 4y ago
>On the other hand, blacklisting Dr. Jay Bhattacharya for saying things about Covid that turned out to be far more correct than what the CDC was saying at the same time is indeed going far beyond the law and also harming all of society:
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
Please elaborate on how a law banning a single company is the same as a law that allow companies to comply.
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
> Where's the hypocrisy? https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456 > "My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
What's even more fascinating is how hot-button an issue Free Speech has become. Just look at some of the inflammatory replies to your comment that just mentions it. There's more going on with the semantics of the phrase being use
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
Also consumer bias, or "post-purchase rationalization" - i.e. humans overly attribute positivity to goods/services from brands they buy from. Even when it's as bad as throwing you in the wrong lane of traffic.
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
It's down across the board except for Facebook apps, meaning Meta probably increased their advertising budgets during this timeframe relative to the others.
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
Please elaborate on how a law banning a single company is the same as a law that allow companies to comply.
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
>I'm frankly amazed that people with the ability to understand this alphabet soup mumbo jumbo keep falling for the same scam over and over again. Underneath all of the slick marketing and nerd posturing is a simple truth: these are
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
Ok as long as you don't use a halyard, since rope could be considered wire.
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
Did you read the article? ByteDance's headquarters is in Beijing and these leaked audio tapes are talking about engineers in the headquarters logging into U.S. servers. This isn't some smoking gun about CCP surveillance, but more
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
Facebook and Instagram were banned because they wouldn't obey China's censorship and surveillance laws, not because they were western tools of influence or whatever.
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
China doesn't ban US tech that obeys the CCP's surveillance laws, like Apple does. This targeting of tiktok is pretty specific by US government, because it singles out a company rather than act as a law.
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
Apple tried but just gave in to the government surveillance.
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
LHD/RHD swamp doesn't really matter given that the truck is probably too long for UK. They would still need to swap out headlights anyways.
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
Not to mention skirts and tails on the trailer do more to improve aerodynamics than truck modifications. Still, every bit counts I guess.
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
I dunno. I get annoyed just having to unbuckle and get out of my seat for parking tickets that are out of reach. I can't imagine having to do repeatedly do this while maneuvering a big rig around a stockyard. Or did you mean it was o
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
>riskier, more stressful, and ultimately not much faster in reality I used to think the same until we A/B tested it a few times (Maps/Waze) with different cars going to the same destination. Waze really was faster very time.
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
Elective plastic surgery is hardly inexpensive in the U.S., or representative of healthcare in general. I don't know why you're so hung up on price transparency, it simply isn't the silver bullet you think it is for reasons
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
>I'll never understand people who expect Apple to try and fight the CCP and inevitably get themselves barred from the Chinese market. People have this expectation because other companies have done this. For example, Google employees
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
Except for metadata and file hashing - iCloud is still using those on files and photos.
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
>Let's assume they do eventually flip their brand on its head and turn on the users. Chinese customers don't need to wait. Apple flipped sometime in 2017 and gave up all user emails, photos, messages, etc. to the CCP to stay i
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
>They seem to be abandoning China Manufacturing , sure. Consumers ? no. Apple traded it's privacy priority for profits back in 2017 when it gave backdoor access to all the iCloud backups - https://www.nytimes.com/
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
Your link doesn't support your claim about shopping around. Most health insured patients can "shop around" in their network, which is a list of pre-negotiated priced providers that the insurance company has approved. Provide
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
>In what world can I not know the price of something before hand? In a world where you're not the primary payer. The complexity of healthcare prices is an artifact of decades of negotiations between providers and insurers, with the
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
Very retro futuristism: https://old.reddit.com/r/retrofuturism
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
Google Shopping is just paid search ads with pictures. I'm sure Brave will add that functionality soon too.
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
Same. Then I end up spending hours just generating a new DF world. Rimworld is complex, but it always leaves me wanting more. Especially z-levels.
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
As someone who hasn't read the book but watched the movie, here's my best take (spoilers if you haven't watched it): The main character is from an alien hive race that runs a lot like ants, with workers (main char) and drones
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
SBF branding himself as an effective altruist and even purposely dressed in the silicon valley "genius" attire. His condo in the bahamas was after he hit it big and needed to be close to Washington to work on crypto regulation. T
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by three_seagrass 4y ago
Nation debt isn't like a personal checkbook. As long as the economy grows just as fast or faster than the debt over time, then they're okay.

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