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Comment #49134950
Hawaii would be another place (or set of places, depending on how you want to collate)
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Comment #48954478
> which is very different If you say so
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Comment #48954072
Thanks for the answer! It wasn't a gotcha, I was genuinely just curious.
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Comment #48954069
> The GDPR doesn't try to remove anything from the global internet GDPR Article 17 expressly requires the removal of things from the global internet > You're free to not serve your…
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Comment #48953978
How do you feel about GDPR?
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Comment #48870809
and I cannot (so either I am AI at a level less than Opus 4.8 or just all-round defective as a human)
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Comment #48542686
Thanks for the response. As a lifetime Plex passer, I am inured to having to re-learn the navigation UI with every new release, so that part can't be too bad. But yes, I would be t…
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Comment #48541457
I was also super-early Roku customer, but frankly I have been mostly disappointed with Roku for the past year or so. The hardware on the top tier devices doesn't seem to keep up. I…
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Comment #48534079
It _can_ be tedious those 9 times, or especially when it pushes back on something that it thinks is wrong but isn't wrong but it actually has nothing to do with the issue at hand. …
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Comment #48533588
My system prompt tells it to first challenge my assumptions, and to feel free to be a dick about it where it thinks I'm off on something, or have assumed facts that aren't actually…
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Comment #48423054
I agree with you that the AI market is greatly undervalued, but I also agree with the field that these companies are overvalued
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Comment #48414430
I would guess they're worried about breaking something, but thanks for the clarification (and apologies for not having RTFA)
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Comment #48414028
Well, I won't claim to know the answer, but "please do not move between different airlocked sections while this work is underway" sounds a lot like the definition of "shelter" to m…
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Comment #48395710
Meteor Chelyabinsk suffered catastrophic fragmentation, a rapid, violent release of energy accompanied by a pressure wave with debris, which would satisfy the definition of an expl…
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Comment #48271919
A bad law that only affects other people might be a win for me, but it's still a loss for society
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Comment #48265709
That I wouldn't know. I only know the above from the one employee I helped (successfully) immigrate to America So, at least one
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Comment #48252819
If it seems too interesting it's because it isn't true. There are five functional categories of immigrant visa in America, each with several subcategories: Immediate Relatives (IR)…
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Comment #48200039
The core holding was this > "congress can regulate sports gambling directly, but if it elects not to do so, each state is free to act on its own."
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Comment #48102456
Clearly that's because they searched the history of all chats and didn't find the perpetrator
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Comment #47608151
It was indeed not on by default I appreciate the tip! I'm going to have to put that in an Ansible playbook
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Comment #47586287
> totally possible to use mac without trackpad As I discover every time I have a mouse fail, it is exceptionally difficult to use a modern Mac without a pointer device because at s…
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Comment #47189070
Masterpiece Cakeshop v Colorado https://www.oyez.org/cases/2017/16-111
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Comment #47159760
Are they only banned in the cities, or are they banned in the state, which -- even in California, should have rural areas far enough away from cities to be tenable? It's an interes…
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Comment #46885576
Sorry for the old-heads, but just because I'm new doesn't mean I don't appreciate the craft, or the pains endured by many others before me that enabled this painless experience. Bu…
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