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mayneack

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    Comment #48939991

    I've seen this sort of thing happen when something starts small and no one cares and then it gets traction. Eg: If you have a tiny toy project that the engineers call one thing, yo…

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    Comment #48887976

    The relative price of those cramped urban centers where this is true suggests that at least a few more people would choose this path if it were cheaper.

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    Comment #48871844

    A settlement can be in favor of apple still

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    Comment #48867481

    this will settle before it gets to discovery I bet

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    Comment #48734037

    Either laws work the way they're written and 4 members of the court disagree or they work the way the Supreme Court says they work and a worse ruling could threaten those citizens.…

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    Comment #48429415

    > And just like that—surprise!—one AI company bails out another AI company's grift. Google agreeing to rent compute from xAI (cough, "SpaceX") magically makes them eligible for inc…

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    Comment #48242403

    Daniel has been posting for months (years?) about how much scrutiny he gets from security researchers and various automated tools. I wouldn't expect curl to be the average case for…

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    Comment #48239656

    > It's clear that politicians don't get this from the way they talk about a "mere 1%" wealth tax. None of them would speak of adding a "mere 20%" to the income tax rate, even thoug…

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    Comment #48200610

    Arguing over implementation details is a pretty common thing for laws to do. Maybe it would weaken the logical consistency of their laws, but that's not really a thing that matters…

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    Comment #48024256

    I think the "black box" framing that it uses neatly applies the same theory to organizations and ais. It doesn't matter whether there's technological or organizational reasons insi…

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    Comment #47922779

    There's a whole industry of hiking gear that has been steadily trading weight for durability. I only hike in running shoes (altras) which only last me 400 or so miles. It's way les…

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    Comment #47916192

    Why stop there. Why not deny them modern medicine or nutrition?

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    Comment #47906951

    Curious how this compares to presidio which mixes regex with a model: https://microsoft.github.io/presidio/

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    Comment #47761639

    A16Z was (is?) up to their eyeballs in crypto as well.

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    Comment #47732864

    Pretty sure it does https://flight-viz.com/cockpit.html?lat=34.026608&lon=-118.3...

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    Comment #47714146

    This is useful for redirecting x to xcancel

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    Comment #47711430

    Neither of those controls their ecosystem. Truth Social runs on Activity Pub.

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    Comment #47709494

    Yes. If you're just making arbitrary choices on each instance you're not a free speech zealot you're just making judgement calls like everyone else.

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    Comment #47709455

    In what world is twitter the least censored site? The big 3 federated sites are much more open if you want it to be and X is a walled garden.

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    Comment #47709445

    How is twitter more of a free speech platform than the three open federated options (activity pub, at protocol, and nostr)?

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    Comment #47709359

    Half this post is about how few people they're reaching on X.

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    Comment #47709310

    Bluesky might have be niche in terms of users but it's an open platform like activity pub so it's at least quite aligned with the EFF mission.