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by zztop44 2y ago
Yes, defamation. Many such cases are dismissed; this one was not and resulted in large punitive damages being awarded. Less relevant to this case, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress c
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by zztop44 2y ago
That hugely depends on the circumstances.
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by zztop44 2y ago
Most people who have this opinion going in tend to change it when the learn the particulars of the case. Jones absolutely knew he was lying, he did it deliberately, the lies caused incredible real world harm, he knew they were causing harm
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by zztop44 2y ago
It’s sad that people think this way. As a young child growing up in the 90s in a rural part of a small country, being able to access the “speech” of people around the world via internet forums was a revelation. Are you really so scared of C
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by zztop44 2y ago
Isn’t every government putting out a policy paper making AI a focus area? Why is it suddenly nefarious when China does it?
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by zztop44 2y ago
What about the algorithm changing over time to favor longer posts and content creators on the platform adapting to the change? I suspect you’d see the same pattern with the average length of popular non-music YouTube videos over time.
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by zztop44 2y ago
I don’t want to download a random executable from some unknown source. However, I trust the browser sandbox.
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by zztop44 2y ago
But what’s stopping you just using the web page (in a browser that it works with)? Yes, they want you to use the app, but you can still do what you want.
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by zztop44 2y ago
This seems like a much better reason to be suspicious of Opera.
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by zztop44 2y ago
I’m curious, what’s the rationale for this? Is it corporate espionage? Or do you live in China/have family there and engage in online activity that might cause problems?
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by zztop44 2y ago
Is this sarcasm? Globo has never missed an opportunity to be virulently anti-PT.
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by zztop44 2y ago
Yes and that was either because the Clinton administration decided that shrinking the money supply was the right macroeconomic policy, or that they decided that a Democrat president delivering a budget surplus was good politics. At the time
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by zztop44 2y ago
Only because policy makers choose to do so. They could just as easily create the money the pay off the debt out of thin air. But doing so wouldn’t make sense. Governments will never pay off the debt because doing so would not be good macroe
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by zztop44 2y ago
No, but it might be able to organize a fleet of humans to stock a grocery store shelf. Physical embodied (generally low-skill, low-wage) work like cleaning and carrying things is likely to be some of the last work to be automated, because h
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by zztop44 2y ago
By that standard, nothing is stable. New features are added to HTML, the Linux kernel, x86, PHP, etc all the time. In fact, building on top of higher level abstractions can sometime insulate your application from this change too.
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by zztop44 2y ago
Agreed. I recently moved a production app from Zod to Valibot for exactly this reason. I still slightly prefer Zod’s syntax but the performance issues were absolutely killing us.
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by zztop44 2y ago
“Learnings” has a potentially useful nuance, referring specifically to whatever it is one took away from a lesson. I know the word “lesson” itself can also cover that meaning, but “learning” is more specific and given how widely it’s used,
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by zztop44 2y ago
Oh okay, that makes sense, and I agree with you. That said, paying tax is still important for a number of reasons; and ultimately the national budget is a large bucket made up of small drops.
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by zztop44 2y ago
How can you be sure it’s not wealth trickling up instead?
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by zztop44 2y ago
Why do you care? The country has never paid back this debt, will never pay back this debt and no-one expects it to.
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by zztop44 2y ago
Some is also conceptually interesting and celebrated, for example the niceaunties project out of Singapore: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/19/auntie...
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by zztop44 2y ago
My partner is a graphic designer and now uses a lot of generative AI in her work. It’s very much an iterative process. She would run hundreds (sometimes thousands) of prompts over the course of compositing a single image. There’s huge amoun
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by zztop44 2y ago
Netflix and Uber both created new product categories in their respective markets. And both where quite established before there was any real competition in those product categories. Netflix discovered that content was the only moat availabl
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by zztop44 2y ago
But that simply follows on from a shift in consumer behaviour. It’s nigh impossible to sell literary prose at any significant volume unless you have a sizeable social media following. The only exceptions are people who have a sizeable tradi
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by zztop44 2y ago
I have no idea what you could mean by this unless you have a very specific personal definition of “government intervention in the market”. The literature makes it clear that government intervention in markets is broadly necessary; the disag
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by zztop44 2y ago
One response might be that stupidity isn’t something the government should be taxing.
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by zztop44 2y ago
Those people who have dedicated their career to a narrow topic can also be wrong. Not so much about the facts, but in assessing whether or not certain compromises or analogies that don’t map 1:1 matter for the purposes of what is trying to
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by zztop44 2y ago
I agree generally. But I would say that assuming some level of context is quite reasonable. Someone considering Airtable probably isn’t confused and looking for furniture. I quite liked the clarity-impact axes. When writing copy it can som
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by zztop44 2y ago
There was a period a few years back where LinkedIn was the easiest place on the internet to get organic reach. As such, the marketing guru set were all recommending LinkedIn as the best place to “build an audience”. I haven’t checked, but I
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by zztop44 2y ago
For what it’s worth, I agree. Adding more tracking definitely isn’t going to help. But I don’t think there are any easy solutions. I definitely don’t envy the people in charge of Firefox’s product strategy.

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