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basch

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    Comment #49247071

    It has nothing to do with exploiting them. It was about them turning over personal information to a nobody. It can be insightful and curt at the same time.

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    Comment #49245542

    It was an insightful comment at the time he made it. His point wasn’t that he couldn’t be trusted, it was that he could be anyone and people had zero awareness or concern for their…

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    Comment #49245507

    No. Opening it is to commoditize and reduce the price to use. This increases participation and creates new consumers and demand. Demand creates justification for further creation. …

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    Comment #49245454

    Intention might be giving too much credit. If attention seeking “give the people what they want” is the goal, it’s a completely headless out of control cobra, not sinister well tho…

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    Comment #49186357

    As much as everyone wants to pay accomplished celebrities, all of these companies have young nameless geniuses that are about to make one for themselves. A guard passing torch can …

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    Comment #49146476

    LLM's also came at a time of search decay. Getting google to surface good results was approaching impossible, (although the new ai categories somehow are even worse as they are add…

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    Comment #49079202

    is it export if they take control of the entire island manufacturing it. banning export is short sighted and doesnt address any problem at a scale longer than months or maybe at mo…

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    Comment #49079165

    the writing should have been on the wall when meta did it with llama. it was very apparent that one or two entities could release a "good enough" product into the wild commoditizin…

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    Comment #49060053

    Cookie control always should have been a browser control. The legal route always should have been to force it to be built into browsers that provide sane defaults, and make it ille…

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    Comment #48810082

    >4-6 500mg tablets within a 24 hour period On top of that daily use brings it down to 3-5, preferably 4 or less of those a day. And they last less than 6 hours. The 8h extended rel…

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    Comment #48775435

    >you can just do it yourself anyway. But not with official branding. > manage merge conflicts, and as the codebases diverge not if you dont care if the sandbox diverges, and you ju…

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    Comment #48750575

    Precisely. Cherrypick nuggets from poo. It's there if you care to wade into it. May occasionally strike gold.

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    Comment #48748184

    All these projects should seamlessly run a fork in parallel that accepts AI and has AI for review and approval. Both camps are happy. Basically a play sandbox for contributors to n…

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    Comment #48710631

    I’d almost say the opposite. For a simple website it’s overkill. For a serious website there’s not much else that has the extensibility. Woocommerce is nearly unrivaled. There isn’…

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    Comment #48703939

    We shouldn’t ignore grocery stores and marketing. Aisles and aisles of sugar drinks and colorful sugar packaging. The way society leaves it up to people to make their own decisions…

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    Comment #48688138

    doesnt mean the lawyers arent wrong. the lawyer stance is to err on the side of caution even if wrong.

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    Comment #48687974

    Ive figured as much. Possibly also some kind of security too so games dont get disassembled and modded or have textures removed for parts?

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    Comment #48687958

    definitely a lot of misinformation from the get go, from not needing masks, to waring masks to protect oneself (vs protecting others), to most of the scientific world needing to re…

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    Comment #48687931

    it was blood clotting, not cardiac

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    Comment #48687905

    J&J was not an mRNA vaccine either. the J&J vaccine gave further evidence that mRNA vaccines are the safer path. it was blood clotting issues.

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    Comment #48687900

    epidemiological risk of myocarditis from COVID-19 infection is from seven to over forty times higher than the risk associated with receiving an mRNA vaccine.

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    Comment #48687858

    >many of them did suffer from effects from the vaccine what does many in this sentence mean? are you claiming that a large percent of health professionals "suffered effects"?

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    Comment #48687817

    and even if the maybes are yes, it's still a debate whether an accident negates taking future risk. eg does a nuclear meltdown lead to no new nuclear power plants? a lab leak doesn…

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    Comment #48669416

    There's a lot of AAA games I havent tried, but why are the launch day patches Ive experienced so gigantic? Why do games need to download textures, sounds, videos over again? I just…

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    Comment #48669077

    "At 200GB I don't know how anybody can justify valuable space in their SSD for a single game." What game plays off the disc itself? Most games copy to the ssd and then just downloa…