tinalumfoil

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by tinalumfoil 2y ago
“the US, in siding with Russia, may be betting on the wrong horse” This is delusional. Russia would’ve bulldozed Ukraine without US support. What county is under US sanctions? What country is receiving US weapons? Which, to be sure, is the
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
“Government monopoly on violence” is a phrase that I see constantly see on the internet that makes less and less sense the more you think about. Of all the news I read of killings near where I live none are the government doing it, and cert
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34331793
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
> If credit dries up in a broader downturn, they are at risk of losing access even to those programs. Meanwhile, they may find that their reliance on these parallel lending methods, which only glancingly intersect with the conventional c
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
> Mr. Balwani’s former business partner and ex-girlfriend, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, was sentenced last month to 11¼ years for four counts of criminal fraud tied to her now defunct blood-testing startup. > U.S. District Judge
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
While it's possible the US just has more tech companies, I think it should be pointed out the top fines here are to Amazon Inc, Meta Platforms Inc, Meta Platforms Inc, WhatsApp Inc (owned by Meta), Google LLC, Facebook Ireland Ltd, Goo
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Anymore. You only need a law because it was happening.
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Your reasoning is kind of like saying if Saudi really killed Khashoggi why didn’t they update their laws first to make dissident journalists executable without trial? You’re looking for evidence of wrongdoing in places where it’s obviously
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Just because certain false statements were banned under the policy doesn’t mean true statements were not also banned. Twitter’s own examples are (obviously) self serving.
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
free association != dark money organizations influencing politics They have a slick landing page, but there's nothing there about their efforts to influence advertisers and social media, and less so about who's paying them to do t
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
This is very nit picky. The entire web works by severs “seeding” data to the client, so by your logic you can’t “put stuff” on the web. The difference with torrents and IPFS is you can have multiple servers seeding the same content, and not
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The leap second’s time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks(nature.com)
684 points by tinalumfoil 4y ago|439 comments
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Henry Ford wasn't saying that people are just too dumb to understand how great cars are, he's saying people become so uncomfortable with what already works they don't understand how much better the alternatives could be. Ford
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
If I would have asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses There was genuine skepticism over the horseless carriage when it was first becoming available. Vaccines wouldn't be in widespread today use if signific
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
To be fair, I think Musk thought he was backing the winners when he made the tweet backing Republicans.
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Newspapers, iPods, blackberries, the modern smartphone. The effect on the mind gets progressively worse from these things. I'll often go out somewhere without my phone, but I'll bring a book or newspaper and I easily get more dist
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Of all the drama about Twitter, a lawyer publicly begging the FEC to prosecute their client has to be the craziest thing I've seen.
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
> Twitter encourages a very extractive attitude from everyone it touches. Twitter gives people the means to express the attitude they already have. "Influencer Culture" didn't start or end on Twitter. I've been on Mas
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
It's interesting compare it to a real speech. Nixon has weird mannerisms but the deep fake feels like a disconnect between the speech and the words. It's tough to describe how my brain differentiates weird mannerisms and looking o
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
I'm not a lawyer but every time I look at the criminal justice system I do wonder how it could be constitutional given the strong protections of the bill of rights. > Recall how plea deals are structured, and how the entire purpose
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
To save you a click, > What's happened is that they have mistaken their own resentment at journalists' unearned checkmark privilege for something that journalists themselves care deeply about and are either willing to pay for o
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
There’s obviously of people lashing back because of the acquisition, spreading offensive misinformation in this case, but that just proves the issues Twitter was already having. Mainly, the people who generate the most interest with their p
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
I feel like I’ve seen this posted written multiple times by different people and it feels like it’s written in a very idealized world like somebody is at a place that values good management and thinks this type of thing is what most manager
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
I'm a user of gitea and sympathetic to this open letter but it doesn't mean much without significant contributors signing on, and being marked as such. I assume the Gogs developer isn't happy about this but I don't see
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
What's been the general opinion of this change to the gitea contributors? It's difficult to match usernames to real names but I don't see overlap between the top contributors and signatories. https://github.com&#x2
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
> That professor Goddard, with his 'chair' in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution [from which Goddard held a grant to research rocket flight], does not know the relation of action to reaction, and
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Do you have an example where an engineer was wrongly held to account for the actions of execs?
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Sqlite is tested so thoroughly I doubt Rust's borrow checker (which is essentially just another test) would benefit it: https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html Sqlite also has never had a severe CVE, from the parent's
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
That's an unfortunate list of known issues.
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Do you really share the opinion that being fired on the spot is less dehumanizing than being given a chance to look for another job while being given a steady paycheck? I'm not trying to be generous -- I don't want to live in a wo

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