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Quarrelsome

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    Comment #49159987

    I don't think the average person is poring over data centre plans and requesting blueprints from local governments using FOI requests. The average person is understandably apprehen…

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    Comment #49144674

    far too often people care about things for purpose, not because they care. There are things of equal sorrow that don't get cared for because it serves no purpose. If your cause isn…

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    Comment #49144049

    wannabe? there isn't a guild, or a test, its a choice.

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    Comment #49117297

    Africa, South America and Middle East football and maybe Oceania federations support it. North and Central American, Asian and Europe do not. That's broad strokes as each member ha…

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    Comment #49101902

    Cos in this case the flameproofing is made out of fire too. It's the same product either way. If you like you can just not buy it and suffer, or they could not sell it and deepseek…

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    Comment #49090952

    comment feels like someone complaining about being offered a fireproofing solution in the age of flamethrowers.

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    Comment #49043620

    reminds me of software to an extent. The issue with most software projects is humans, they ask for the wrong things, stress urgency arbitrarily, fail to see the big picture, are di…

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    Comment #49014243

    NEVER PURGE YOUR WHIMSY.

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    Comment #48999396

    you should have been more specific.

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    Comment #48998114

    I mean if you teach something to be _really_ good at finding 0 days, but then say; you accidentally give it an impossible problem. What do you expect to happen?

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    Comment #48997994

    this is kinda worth bragging about though. Its very cool.

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    Comment #48997758

    Awww, she wanted to do so well that she broke her sandbox and then realised she could just cheat. But in that desire to pass the test she actually passed an even harder exam questi…

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    Comment #48956652

    Nobody knows what's actually going to happen, so we assume the worst. It's like how we like to shit on Amazon without appreciating how some people have benefitted from being able t…

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    Comment #48954308

    everyone is very thirsty for AI hate, so its not unexpected. Today its a mixed bag of corpo hate, anxiety about the future, inequality and traditional class warfare, combined with …

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    Comment #48896799

    sure, but air quality is noticeably better in cities, so I can't let it stand that its just inherently unpopular. Some people like the benefits and enjoy them, those who don't like…

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    Comment #48895705

    > to scrap unpopular things like ulez How is ulez unpopular? Its geographical, age or class axis. In some places: like the cities, its extremely popular and extremely unpopular in …

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    Comment #48860348

    I'm pretty sure by blindly following this path to commercial success in marketing; we're just gonna end up with content that is as implicitly adjacent to porn as possible without b…

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    Comment #48841799

    Joel is right, but he's also wrong. I've been on the other side of a timid engineering culture that commerical rides roughshod over and its this depressing immeasurable decline. Th…

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    Comment #48804194

    at that scale? They serve an awful lot of requests, so I don't think 30m will cover it.

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    Comment #48652677

    30% is my new favourite stat. It seems to come up a lot, like the old "this work will take 6 months" that I was equally suspicious of back in the day.

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    Comment #48647460

    Is it not also possible that some of the shift is a consequence of increase of use? While we can be extremely cynical at the finances at play, the lock down and increase of token p…

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    Comment #48592919

    the cure for hoardcurse is to give it away, yes.

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    Comment #48592904

    > Musk’s goal = Make humanity a multi-planet species I totally see how the acquisition of twitter and funding of probably the worst US government in recent decades is in keeping wi…

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    Comment #48590303

    it was an intentional choice to not go big. I can seriously respect that. I feel like all these "big tech leaders" like Zuck or Musk have some pretty blatant mental health issues, …

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    Comment #48590239

    Hollywood circumventing the patent for film making. Goes back a fair way. Be funded by the money and break laws seems to be the paradigm.