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ColdTakes

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  1. comment
    Comment #42701528

    GPU smuggling to China has already happened. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

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    Comment #42700697

    https://www.wired.com/story/meta-elon-musks-lead-trust-safet...

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    Comment #42699689

    I lived in California for 26 years. If this is true, nobody listens.

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    Comment #42699030

    You can not say this without the caveat that it is location dependent. This is an illegal action in some cities and states. Like in California, where that video was taken, yellow m…

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    Comment #42698524

    You don't need an account for DDG. I assume the record keeping for which sites you exclude is cookie or session based.

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    Comment #42698180

    DuckDuckGo and Kagi allow you to remove entire sites from search results and it is the best feature of these websites.

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    Comment #42691110

    And so the zombie apocalypse begins.

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    Comment #42690120

    > You can't just make any shit up and get away with it. Trump and Elon Musk literally just make any shit up and get away with it.

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    Comment #42689666

    1. The Biden admin is already suing them for a different reason. 2. The Biden admin won't be there to sue them in 7 days. 3. I'm not saying this didn't happen, I'm saying Zuckerber…

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    Comment #42688734

    "News" I'm not saying this didn't happen but I wouldn't trust Mark Zuckerberg if he said the sky was blue. He is trying to curry favor with the new administration and he is not abo…

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    Comment #42688097

    I know why the rule exist. Getting banned for a rule that did not exist at the time is an overreach from a self-proclaimed free speech absolutist.

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    Comment #42687759

    The user says they were banned within hours of Elon taking over Twitter. New Parody rules did not come into affect until November 2022.

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    Comment #42687577

    The title. >It's worth noting that the title of this article

  14. comment
    Comment #42687547

    This is clearly not an imitation. Parody if nothing else which is protected by fair use.

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    Comment #42686657

    Please indulge in my conspiracy theory as to why Bluesky will likely end up in the same place as Twitter[0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42623590

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    Comment #42685586

    There is a version of Solitaire that is a gambling game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker_squares

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    Comment #42684689

    The lack of consistency is the entire point. The rest of your points don't matter to me in this discussion because whether or not games that have mechanics that look like gambling …

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    Comment #42684028

    This isn't a lack of consistency, it is policy. The biggest games on mobile are gacha games which are all gambling with cutesy characters. You are giving Google the benefit of doub…

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    Comment #42683847

    There is a clone of Luck Be a Landlord named Random Card created by a South Korean developer that included microtransactions and gacha elements and Google gave that game an award. …

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    Comment #42674938

    There isn't going to be a revolution. Americans are all talk no action.

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    Comment #42673733

    The company hiring an H-1B has to plenty of fees, needs authorizations, and then needs to submit a lot of documentation to the Immigration service for processing that can take 3 mo…

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    Comment #42667151

    You're contradicting yourself. You yourself say there is plenty of interesting discussion but what interesting discussion is there on reddit if it is just people patting themselves…

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    Comment #42666300

    Fully grown adults believe the Earth is flat or that we have never been space to and dismissing them as just trolls is doing the same thing you are accusing me of doing and not all…

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    Comment #42662608

    I don't see any benefit in entertaining flat-Earthers in discussion.

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    Comment #42660317

    I'm sure people are very productive when they have a metaphorical gun to the head.