whatgoodisaroad

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by whatgoodisaroad 1mo ago
what an unbelievably hostile cookie banner
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by whatgoodisaroad 2mo ago
I recommend John Berger's Ways of Seeing for a much more elaborate (and accessible) way to think about art
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by whatgoodisaroad 3mo ago
the Comstock act was unconstitutional at the time that it was actually enforced. i don't want to get into politics but there are many dynamic factors at work here
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by whatgoodisaroad 3mo ago
the US federal government historically banned books under the Comstock Act of 1873 which is still on the books and is still active federal law. it only currently isn't being enforced following some cultural changes in the 1960s. anothe
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by whatgoodisaroad 4mo ago
are you contending that every battle where someone is killed by an army counts as genocide?
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by whatgoodisaroad 4mo ago
the linked article describes military campaigns between state armies, not genocide
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by whatgoodisaroad 5mo ago
once we've refactored humans out of driving, the speed limits can go way up
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by whatgoodisaroad 6mo ago
it's a dynamic system where we feel less able to see ourselves as adults each time we gain therapy language to articulate trauma. something is gained with this language, but something is lost too
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by whatgoodisaroad 6mo ago
it could be fun to make a toy compiler that takes an arbitrary literate prompt as input and uses an LLM to output a machine code executable (no intermediate structured language). could call it llmllvm. perhaps it would be tremendously dange
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by whatgoodisaroad 9mo ago
i love Linnea Sterte books, stages of rot is also excellent
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by whatgoodisaroad 10mo ago
intelligence is an abstract concept, and sure, iq is a lossy way to measure it. but the idea that you could quantify intelligence into a scalar is absurd on its face and impossible to take seriously
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by whatgoodisaroad 1y ago
i would argue that when you say "alphabetical order" you mean "lexicographic order"
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by whatgoodisaroad 1y ago
there's a really interesting book called "When Prophecy Fails" that documents a doomesday cult. the cult had predicted a huge flood sometime in the 1950s and some sociologists infiltrated the group posing as believers to docu
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by whatgoodisaroad 1y ago
Java is an Oracle product
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by whatgoodisaroad 1y ago
If we're being pendantic it should say "Pierogi in low earth orbit"
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by whatgoodisaroad 2y ago
at the end of the day, if you run it on an iPhone, it's iOS that renders the text, and apple is routinely subpoenaed
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by whatgoodisaroad 2y ago
In fact there are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_terms_with_diacritical...
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by whatgoodisaroad 2y ago
I have no first hand experience of Pyongyang, so I have no way to say what's typical, but I really enjoyed this YouTube video of a morning commute https://youtu.be/CDcfiEX__cA?si=tqSHZp2tsK_viRnA Pyongyang by Guy Delis
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by whatgoodisaroad 3y ago
Keep in mind, in the really malicious cases where an extension has changed hands, they often just sell the credentials to the Google developer account, so this won't detect those cases.
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by whatgoodisaroad 3y ago
Lunar illumination was once used by Abraham Lincoln to defend a murder suspect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff_Armstrong#Murder_trial
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by whatgoodisaroad 3y ago
There's a straussian dynamic at work here where the company wants to informally encourage generic use of their brand, but must also formally defend proper use of their brand for legal reasons. Courts need to see you at least appear to
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A Better Internet for Readers(read.substack.com)
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by whatgoodisaroad 3y ago
this story does more to persuade me to switch to 1.1.1.1
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by whatgoodisaroad 3y ago
This isn’t an example of shooting the messenger because you dislike the message. The SF Chronicle just has a track record of anti SF bias, then turning around and complaining about the effects of their own reporting https://www.s
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by whatgoodisaroad 3y ago
To preface: I don’t really have an opinion on affirmative action per se: That said, the elephant in the room is that institutions like Harvard and UNC aren’t really about education. They’re “ivy leagues” for preserving class inequality havi
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by whatgoodisaroad 3y ago
I would imagine RTO/co-working to be more of a benefit to union efforts, since organizing in non official channels is so greatly simplified.
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by whatgoodisaroad 3y ago
I think that's a little harsh on RIAA/MPAA exexs. Their comfortable way of living gets validation from how enthusiastically property laws are enforced. That leaves plenty of room for them to believe they're doing the Right
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by whatgoodisaroad 3y ago
I don't read the post as drawing an equivalence across these four, but I think the two you picked out are actually the most comparable pair. Certainly corporate profit interests have harmed ESG discourse, but the leading AI developers
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by whatgoodisaroad 3y ago
For a big tech company, the regulatory regime is the world. For Twitter that's the US.
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by whatgoodisaroad 3y ago
I wouldn't say it's a given that the TVA is bad. It depends profoundly on who you're asking.

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