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I'm pretty sure decent ones run about 50-80 dollars, a very good one.

I always called him a Bush-lite too, such a disappointment. Did everything I disliked about Bush and nothing about the things he said he'd do. If anything some of the things he did…

I've threat modeled this myself, and as I understand it the Bitwarden client side decrypts/encrypts everything locally. So even if backend was entirely compromised, it's never gett…

I saw a report from another guy who couches it as not a homeless problem but a mental health and addiction problem. Everyone thinks its just people down on their luck and a home wi…

This is just rubberducking into a private channel. It's really not that new. I actually do this, but into a personal google doc.

All the progressive solutions seem to only not work, but exacerbate the problem and expose the public to more risk. Not to mention all the sympathy and gentle parenting the problem…

It didn't specify if fresh water meant non-salt water from a natural water source, or treated drinkable water. I'd need to see the rainfall averages for the region the data center …

Engadget often has sensationalist, inaccurate headlines. I stopped reading them when I was intimately with the actual details of an article vs the way they framed/presented it. Als…

That commentary was far less prevalent and met a lot of resistance from the same people here. Few people imagine something like a Department of Mis/Disinformation not being such a …

Reminds me of this piece: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-intellectual-dark-web-is... tldr; Public discussions carry too much risk if you discuss anything honestly, you get bri…

Sorry, just I thought anyone lurking here for a while was pretty familiar with the whole model of "offer service for free to gain user adoption, then sell out or pivot". Most of th…

TBF Skype wasn't profitable when MS bought it, it every much was in the line of make something everyone wants to use and figure out how to make money later. Skype was more or less …

This is what I don't get, the FTC is suing because the FTC allowed something to happen, when the platforms had even more dominance than they do now? Kind of stinks of less than val…

The point is we have laws in place to prevent it, unless you're being trafficked and forced to pay off gangs that transported you over the border, and no rights to ability to deal …

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Bernie Sanders put it best: "open borders is a Koch Bros scheme" You saturate the labor market with workers, it depresses wages, plain and simple. It's in the interests of sharehol…

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I remember when this happened, it was in the news then, except the conversation was everyone in SV was doing it, including Google. They decided not to. We don't convict for thinkin…

>Authoritarianism is fundamentally right wing. Go look at a political compass. Authoritarianism is when you use force to push your ideals, whether they be radical/liberal (left) or…

Marx is like a doctor who diagnoses a disease then offers a cure that is worse than the disease itself. It's a bit like removing a leg to fix a broken toe. I figured this out in co…

So did Usenet, no one cares. They simply require you go to 18 different sites to follow what friends are up to. Tumblr would just be the ad tech company instead, or the blog hostin…

This is a political bubble view if I've ever seen one. Evangelical Christians (those that are practicing and going to church regularly and very zealous in their beliefs) make up a …

Because PLA is made from sugar, funny enough, if use PLA from Europe to 3D print it smells like cotton candy (cause made from cane sugars) whereas PLA in the US smells like popcorn…

First Amendment doesn't cover things that cause direct harm or speech to minors. In this case, you can draw a straight line between social media usage and an increase in teen suici…