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I remember when imgur was created as a fast, no login-pushing, non-scummy alternative to ad-ridden clickjacking hosts that censored nsfw and controversial content. Then it became all of that on steroids except with a comment section and a w
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Sure. Let’s just pretend collusion and price gouging hadn’t been going on for over 20 years, while the big 3 including Telus assimilated all independently owned competitors and until about 2020 maintained the most absurdly expensive and pro
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Canada is the prime example of this phenomenon. Rogers, Bell, and Telus are the three companies that own or acquire nearly every internet/mobile/tv property in the entire country. They all offer the exact same plans at the exact s
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Turns out a bunch of amateurs will outperform experts when the experts are forced to spend 80% of their effort ensuring their models don’t accidentally say factual yet impolite things or make any users have big feelings.
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So basically automated Yelp on steroids?
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Once co-pilot tendrils and icons began appearing in all of my orgs tools, they announced we would no longer be able to expense subscriptions for others. Only those who haven’t used ChatGPT Pro, Claude, Gemini, etc have anything good to say
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Wait until you find out what people used to do with phone lines!
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Trillion.
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“just one more law bro. i promise bro just one more law and we’ll be safe bro. it’s just a little more surveillance bro. please just one more. one more law and we’ll stop all the threats bro. bro c’mon just give me access to your data and w
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Imagine if the crazies were right and the Covid vaccines actually did have RFID.
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“Also these chats will be retained indefinitely even when deleted by the user and either proactively forwarded to law enforcement or provided to them upon request” I assume, anyway.
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The “do nothing and win” strategy has served Valve well. The fact is every publisher wants their own launcher on start-up running all the time collecting data, updating all the time, throwing popups at the user. The user on the other hand d
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One must admire China’s pivot from 30 years of essentially ignoring IP and patent law to the detriment of Western companies, to now weaponizing IP and patent law against the rest of the world.
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Which is exactly what those individuals and companies who act in bad faith but have deep pockets rely on. You’re right, but it’s still unfortunate.
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Every game mod for every game ever.
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I’m guessing it’s implied that the return would be higher than $75m a day.
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In contrast to Sweden, which decided to simply stop collecting data on certain things whenever a given statistic began to become inconvenient with respect to asylum and immigration policies.
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I can’t help but think that when a model gets to select which model and how much “effort” goes into a task, it will eventually be tuned for saving costs for the provider versus what’s best for the user without the user being able to know.
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“324 unrelated companies are made aware of you visiting the webpage via a mountain of JavaScript, tracking pixels, cookies, and telemetry, and then your browser renders megabytes of code to display kilobytes of content, while prompting you
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Two more weeks to flatten the curve bud.
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So you’re just going to hand-wave away falsely claiming I’m lying about the experts and media explicitly spreading wrong information under some nebulous belief that putting blind faith in authority is still better than believing anything el
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So on March 29th 2021, when the Director of the CDC Rochelle Walensky said: “Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick, and that it’s not just in the clinical trials but it’s also in
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Ah, now we get to the crux of it. Despite him being a comedian, who hosts a podcast in pretty much the same format he has since 2009, just doing unscripted long-form unedited with friends and people he finds interesting, and despite him say
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Of course I’m including him. He’s an idiot.
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No. Next time people like yourself should listen to what he actually said about certain topics versus what you were told he said by those with an axe to grind. Then you might temper your language and accusations of propaganda, or at least p
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If Joe Rogan says he wears permethrin coated clothing to prevent Lyme disease by killing ticks and people go out and drink termite spray and lice shampoo because CNN said that’s what permethrin is and implied that’s how he uses it, who is s
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Impressive that it managed to win an Oscar all things considered.
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“Quick! How can we use this to gather data for ad targeting?”
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When “location” includes Bluetooth and wifi info, companies with a reason to invest can track your movement around a store to ~1m accuracy with BLE beacons etc. They know what you looked at in an aisle, for how long, and unless you paid in
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And why does a developer care about those things if not for the fact it means they can collect data even when the user isn’t actively using the service?

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