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me-vs-cat

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    Comment #48804943

    Despite your assumptions, you should realize all I said was that government representatives should care about the topic and have something to say.

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    Comment #48798794

    It is responsive to your question on why the government should have something to say about price negotiations between producers and retailers of frozen pizzas.

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    Comment #48795721

    Lax RPA enforcement may have significantly contributed to food deserts. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deser... I hope government representatives have thing…

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    Comment #48767408

    Cover charge for a shoe store is an interesting idea. I hate shopping, especially with crowds, and probably wouldn't mind, especially if it went towards a purchase, even partially.…

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    Comment #48767322

    Yet absolute price per GB isn't the full story when the popular tools accessible for the general public require more RAM for the same task today as compared to the past. You won't …

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    Comment #48767108

    > this isnt putting a quarter in a machine. thats what we already have today. What have I missed where I can, today, feasibly pay $0.25 at a time, online, regardless of other facto…

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    Comment #48741190

    Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. The expectation of evidence makes its absence significant, but not definitive.

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    Comment #48704729

    There aren't three different dashes. Unicode 15.0, table 6-3 (Unicode Dash Characters) lists 25 different dashes. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/ch06.pdf#G612...

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    Comment #48695328

    You get used to it. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde.. brunette.. redhead.

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    Comment #48685621

    I disagree that the berating example is in any substantial way similar to whistleblowing. I believe we are more on the same page than not, but I caution you to more closely evaluat…

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    Comment #48660906

    Compared to current age verification laws, I agree that a self-declared header would be better both technically and socially. Parenting is daunting for the vast majority (including…

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    Comment #48660037

    > I should be able to even berate my employer, as long as I'm not doing it from a persona that's directly tied to my employer e.g. my real name or git handle etc. They might not li…

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    Comment #48658589

    From https://swipe.futo.tech/ : The ContextLM model is a very small language model that is trained for a single language. It's used to improve the quality of predictions by elimina…

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    Comment #48658412

    What do you mean by "active parenting", and why is it unrealistic? (Do you mean something specific like HHS' Active Parenting™? https://preventionservices.acf.hhs.gov/programs/744/…

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    Comment #48435308

    Have you looked at which sections of the constitution say "citizen" and which say "person"?

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    Comment #48434624

    > Over forty thousand people die every year in the US from car accidents. If a single company was solely responsible for car accidents causing that many deaths in as short a time a…

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    Comment #48413560

    What? You can't give access to that kind of power to just anyone with $5,000/month. These people should be trained and licensed before they get access. Thankfully, Anthropic has wo…

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    Comment #47983764

    Elder? Just look here, I'm too young to be called that nonsense, and get off my lawn.

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    Comment #47970200

    Commander TACO isn't a reference to CmdrTaco from Slashdot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Always_Chickens_Out

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    Comment #47911210

    What you're describing applies to coffee shops where a latte has the same amount of coffee regardless of the cup size. Others are mostly describing someone who makes coffee for the…

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    Comment #47889492

    Novel obfuscation, with a novel idea, is hard to invent. Novel obfuscation, where it is only new to that codebase, is easy(ier) to flag as suspicious. While bad actors would be wis…

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    Comment #47847222

    No, it doesn't require a battery door, even for phones that don't meet the exception you mentioned. Over a decade ago, I replaced a phone screen over a few hours, involving a coupl…

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    Comment #47843332

    Being replaceable does not require a battery door.

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    Comment #47732659

    Yet your earlier comment said "200x-$currentYear" not "200x-$modifiedYear" in reply to someone automatically inserting the year. That shows a misunderstanding of copyright AND an i…