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by yipbub 3y ago
To me, it seems to be merely the illusion of control. Sure, you can teach it what topics you prefer, but it'll always be tempting you with what is truly addictive and crap. Trying its luck like an adversary. It also punishes creators w
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by yipbub 3y ago
Places like Youtube are now a public platform serving many important purposes. Designing for addiction, vague policing, and arbitrary trends is a problem. Are the videos on YouTube worth a payment? Yes, but there is an arbitrarily frustrati
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by yipbub 3y ago
Yeah, I imagined the same, but can't recall or reproduce in anything else now. Possibly a Mandela Effect?
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by yipbub 3y ago
What do the critics have to say about why they think people should be motivated to commit to a single other person in the long term?
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by yipbub 3y ago
> I'm sure Nazi Germany surely fires for some after such statement as it does for me, but they did not minimize suffering. We should. We should just allow people to take risk if they want to. We allow skydiving and trying to climb M
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by yipbub 3y ago
That's because that's the preview page to creating a pull request between those forks. It's a handy way to get a diff, but intended for something else.
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by yipbub 3y ago
Yes, but this doesn't seem like that usage. It's neutral on those issues.
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by yipbub 3y ago
Theoretically, you charge taking PTO into account.
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by yipbub 3y ago
Perhaps my grandmother has wheels, maybe she is a motorcycle :) > I don't know any of this I'm just trying to be positive. I joke to make a point, but I sympathize with the need.
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by yipbub 3y ago
shhh
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by yipbub 3y ago
Why, what's he saying?
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by yipbub 3y ago
> Norman Garrett was the Concept Engineer for the original Miata back in his days at Mazda’s Southern California Design Studio. He currently teaches automotive engineering classes at UNC-C’s Motorsports Engineering Department in Charlott
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by yipbub 3y ago
> Norman Garrett was the Concept Engineer for the original Miata back in his days at Mazda’s Southern California Design Studio. He currently teaches automotive engineering classes at UNC-C’s Motorsports Engineering Department in Charlott
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by yipbub 3y ago
>The TV boxes, reported to be T95 models with an h616, report to a command-and-control server that, just like the Guerrilla servers, can install any application the malware creators want. The default malware preinstalled on the boxes is
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by yipbub 3y ago
That article doesn't confirm or deny whether that happened. It outlines the speculation and says that Belkin fixed something. Some users on ifixit said that switching the polarity worked for them: https://www.ifixit.com&#x2F
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by yipbub 3y ago
The word is commonly used to mean abuse of power, The original usage of the word in this conversation clearly meant that usage of the word: > Modi is corrupt. The guy does not have the interest of the country at heart, he just cares abou
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by yipbub 3y ago
> None of this is corruption Even if that were true(which it's not), that's not a good defense of Modi. "Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is
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by yipbub 3y ago
He was complicit in the Gujurat riots ethnic cleansing[0] Demonetization was a scheme to enrich his billionaire friends and party[0]. There's a lot more, and being the PM he hasn't allowed the media to question him. He only appear
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by yipbub 3y ago
You objected to "In South Asian politics, bribes are a way of life", that statement is still true.
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by yipbub 3y ago
Yes, but bribes are a fact of life in India as well. (Indian here)
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by yipbub 3y ago
IIRC, this seems to imply companies are colluding. Does it even matter if it's tacit or explicit collusion? - Explicit collusion is hard to detect. Someone with interests (an exec with giant options and incentives), meets an Exec from
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by yipbub 3y ago
So I should not sit at my desk barefoot?
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by yipbub 3y ago
Spammers are the most willing to pay negligible amounts. Way more than regular users. They pay for tools, servers, services, etc. because they have some expected return on email.
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by yipbub 3y ago
I asked Dumbledore something from the books[0] and got something somewhat innovative, somewhat wrong: "How can I turn a staircase into a slide?" > To turn a staircase into a slide, you can use the spell 'Tergeo' to re
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by yipbub 3y ago
OS: linux,fedora, bsd Cloud: They're all closed-source. Doesn't seem black and white since they have their hand in so many pies, but name a real competitor to Microsoft that uses github.com?
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by yipbub 3y ago
They don't stand to lose much if their risky behavior fails, but they stand to make a lot if it succeeds.
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by yipbub 4y ago
I agree with the business use-case for copyright, trademark, intellectual property, it is a useful collective agreement. To the extent that it is useful. I thought about this a bit more, and I agree that it is useful that giant software aut
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by yipbub 4y ago
No part of the comment you replied to implied the post was condescending, just seems to me to be a reminder of some things we often forget when this topic comes up :)
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by yipbub 4y ago
In universe of perfectly slippery spherical cows, I wouldn't mind. However, in this universe bikes experience wear, I wouldn't be able to spontaneously decide to use it, etc.
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by yipbub 4y ago
Yes, but it only has to be done once.

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