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The Fool posted:way to mess up my bookmarks folks
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why does egghead think the bronze age was the good one between stone, bronze and iron? the bronze age loving sucked
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Feb 21, 2023 17:33
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targetted advertising is going away soon, due to legal and technical advancements, and even though it's been shown to not work much better than context based ads, it's literally the only id any tech corp has ever had and they don't think they can make money any other way. so instead, they've resorted to literally asking for money for nothing, for a few blue pixels the shocking thing to me is that they're not looking into stuff like just old fashioned context based ads. but maybe they are actually doing that behind the scenes, and they can just flip a switch once apple and chromium or the european commission kill cookies and tracking
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Feb 23, 2023 17:27
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drat, come on, please at least use clip art with the same kind of line weight as the lines in your M this poo poo is just lazy and makes it look super uneven
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Mar 1, 2023 09:34
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what do you guys find so hard about fitted sheets? putting the duvet in the cover is much more annoying, and you'd think by now theyd have made some kind of system that would keep it in place in there
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Mar 2, 2023 08:46
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Sagebrush posted:look closer inside your duvet cover and you may find two little cords sewn to each inner corner. you are supposed to tie those around each corner of the duvet so it stays in place. this isn't a thing in the netherlands, im afraid. i've only recently started to realize how much of bedding is culturally determined, based on ikea changing the sizes of pillowcases they sell in the netherlands. who knew swedish pillows are smaller i think duvet covers should just have snap fasteners or a bit of velcro sewn into the corners, or maybe the entire upper seam. but in a way that you don't feel them when you're sleeping
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Mar 2, 2023 10:01
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Shame Boy posted:some countries value difficulty and suffering since it builds character and adjust their duvet covers accordingly you see i wish there was a :thatscalvinism: because this does kind of describe dutch culture, but without the character building as the ultimate goal. the suffering is its own reward
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Mar 2, 2023 15:24
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bob dobbs is dead posted:belize has an extradition treaty. the nicest countries that dont are vietnam, indonesia, taiwan, some euro microstates, emirates and kuwait, but shes high profile enough that they might send a diplomat to ask for her and prolly any of em would give her up. you need active hostility, so prolly more like prc or russia out of all of these, indonesia always seemed to me to be the best option. but realistically, if you're a rich white lady, you're going to go to bali or somewhere on java where it's way too easy for non-corrupt authorities to get you, in a high profile case. there's zero chance holmes would survive life somewhere in the jungles of borneo or sumatra where a small bribe makes the local cops forget they've even ever seen a white person same with uae and kuwait. dubai and abu dhabi are the only places she'd be caught dead, and it's not like she could blend in in one of the lower tier emirates because she'll absolutely refuse to wear an abaya the best option would be the serb majority part of kosovo, where kosovar authorities aren't really in control. but if you're willing to do that, you might as well sell your soul to putin and live in luxury in st petersburg
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Mar 3, 2023 12:22
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since the banks received the face value of the bonds that they were going to get anyway in eight years, i wouldn't consider this a bailout. the bailout will be in a year when the fed is just going to say 'hey remember when we said you had to pinky swear that we'd do the reverse trade a year later? just forget about that' and the banks aren't going to have to buy their low interest bonds back
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Mar 13, 2023 14:42
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im actually super happy all of this poo poo took place during my vacation so I wont have to listen to as much stupid libertarian commentary on it from my coworkers as i would have if i were in the office. but i bet they'll still have plenty of lovely things to say next week when i get back
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Mar 14, 2023 23:56
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bob dobbs is dead posted:they dont have rules against prc peeps buying western poo poo and real estate both western and prc ruinously overpriced tho isnt the problem with china that the govt will not bail out stuff to protect the system as a whole, but only if the company needing a bailout is buddies with xi? because what are people who just lost their retirement savings going to do? travel across the company and show up in beijing to get clubbed to death by the riot police?
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Mar 15, 2023 22:39
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fart simpson posted:do you have any examples of the system collapsing under xi? i wasn't talking about a collapse of the entire economy, but more about people being enticed/forced to invest in certain companies that then turn out to be three hedgehogs in a trench coat, causing old folks in certain industries or provinces to lose their entire retirement savings. i feel like those stories were fairly common a few years ago?
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Mar 16, 2023 00:33
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fart simpson posted:ok well thats not really what bailouts to protect the system as a whole means though yeah, i guess this may have been one of the stories i remembered. maybe i could have been a bit more precise in what i meant. not actually a systemic bailout, but one to restore trust in the system. anyway, im right there with you on the frustration about only initial stories and no followup coming out of china "china is doing x in africa" x was a proposal that doesn't end up actually happening, but because of the headline, half of europe still believes the prc now owns tanzania or the straddling bus, of course. but in that case its unique that we did get some closure and confirmation that it was a stupid idea
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Mar 16, 2023 08:55
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qirex posted:I am genuinely curious if any of the senior decision makers at svb will face any actual consequences since basically the only people harmed by this were its investors and they're the ones with some pull even if they get pushed out, they'll be able to enter some vc hut at the highest level or they'll hit those guys up for some money and start some new scammy fintech in the "regulatory arbitrage" space imagine the insufferable corporate intro video: "as head of risk at svb, i experienced first hand how hard it can be to make sure your startup has access to next months payroll. with our new service paychq, we help you allocate..."
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Mar 17, 2023 17:19
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it's a mystery to me why some porn company hasn't put out a dedicated porn VR headset. but then again, that market is a bit chaotic at the moment: https://www.ft.com/content/69c3295e-6f45-4b5f-8e7b-3b8d56ca46c8 Pornhub owner sold to Canadian private equity firm Ethical Capital it's a private equity group that specializes in weed, but i'm actually 80% sure this sale is just mindgeek buying itself another layer of obfuscation by bankrolling this acquisition from the background
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Mar 20, 2023 14:56
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Beeftweeter posted:i'm not sure its ever been confirmed but thats been the speculation for years now i think the explanation is easier. pseudo incest (step stuff) is a fairly popular fetish, and one that doesn't require any specific sex acts (bdsm) or appearance (black or asian fetish). this means you can easily add it to any other scene that's not already role-based (and even if it is! why not make that doctor/teacher also your stepdad?). people who are into it will consider the scene to be up their alley. people who are not into it will ignore the stepmom stuff because they think 'its just porn being porn' and will also buy it so its just something you can add, almost as an afterthought, to appeal to a certain specific group, and you can mix it with pretty much anything else
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Mar 20, 2023 18:50
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:the "pause giant ai experiments" open letter in the news also has some weird tinges, the very common "should we automate away all the jobs?" can be read in the "must not let capitalism just crush all poor people" but i am a lot more inclined to believe they (at least a lot of the top signatures like elon musk and yuval noah harari) mean "we must keep poor people busy at meaningless jobs", and then it gets into humanity being "obsoleted and replaced", how we'll "risk loss of control of our civilization", and so on. would you like some misguided luddism to go with your other, more racist, replacement theory, mr musk?
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Mar 30, 2023 11:46
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4lokos basilisk posted:e: and establishing trust relationships with people online webrings are poised for a comeback
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Mar 30, 2023 13:47
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so apparently the ai can successfully appeal parking fines (a student in england used chatgpt for that), but google maps still cant tell that when i was moving at 17mph on a dedicated cycling path in an area with no bus lanes or bus routes, i was probably cycling and not on a bus
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Apr 1, 2023 13:23
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lol it turns out she actually has a permit and the fine was really issued in error, but she just didn't think she'd be able to communicate that clearly herself https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chat-gpt-write-letter-to-get-out-of-parking-ticket-college-student-uk-ai-technology-millie-houlton/ if she can't write a basic 'actually, i have a permit for this street' letter, i feel for her teachers EricBauman fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Apr 1, 2023 |
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Apr 1, 2023 15:38
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Soylent Pudding posted:I've read in a couple places that essentially the more privileged the person the more likely they are to only consider optimist use cases. Turns out women and minorities are seemingly more sensitive to negarive externalities or actual malicious use. this may very well be real, but im hyper privileged (went to the drat diplomatic academy and all) and my boss hates how with every new feature, i can think of five ways people are going to abuse it before he can finish his presentation
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Apr 4, 2023 21:23
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infernal machines posted:that elephant enjoys a good bm having recently gone through the colonoscopy prep process, a "good" bm isnt part of it it really is no fun
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Apr 5, 2023 11:28
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Shame Boy posted:what does this guy think a loving person is these guys think the lincoln animatronic in disneyland is still president
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Apr 10, 2023 10:40
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the one thing i can't wrap my head around is how samsung is so popular. the stuff they add to android slows the devices to a crawl and works like poo poo. their phones feel cheap for the most part. if you can get their market share with the stuff they release, imagine what you could do if you put out something that actually worked well (and then backed it up with marketing as well, i guess)
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Apr 15, 2023 17:32
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to be fair, i do all my work conspiracy stuff offline and explicitly tell people im going to tell them something that ill never put in an email and will deny for the rest of my life so far that, rto is great
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Apr 18, 2023 15:20
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:cool we're going straight into "tech bros reinventing linguistics" I see this is someone standing up and shouting for hamburgers because they want to skip the commercials, you cant fool me
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Apr 18, 2023 16:23
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if the gpt guys have really run out of public text to scrape, they can always head into the final frontier: your emails. bard may already do it, and what if the openai/ms deal also gives them access to msn/hotmail/live emails? all black box, no human in the loop, so no worry about privacy, why are you asking??
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Apr 18, 2023 21:33
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a biostatician once told me this: old doctors will see uncommon things and interpret them as common things (a rare exotic parasite being diagnosed as stomach flu). new doctors will see common things and interpret them as uncommon things (a stomach flue diagnosed as an exceedingly rare tropical disease). its because the old ones have seen a lot of patients, and 99% of them are for common things. the new doctors haven't seen enough patients to know this yet, so they look for something that most perfectly fits the symptoms, rather than the most statistically likely problem within the bounds of the symptoms and possible presentations. he wasnt quite certain yet which of the two was worse, because both result in patients not getting the right treatment. as someone with a problem that has a few doctors stumped (as has been the case for over six months), id say i prefer it when a younger doctor sees my problem as a puzzle worth solving, rather than the old doctor who just says 'take a painkiller and see if it goes away on its own'
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Apr 19, 2023 14:36
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so, instagram is reportedly doing away with the single link in the bio, and will now allow five. i wonder if someone at linktree said something bad about zuck and this is him hitting back to destroy their business (not really, since instagram will never allow direct profile links to onlyfans) either way, looking forward to how poo poo this will look, and how badly it will get abused by absolute shitheads!
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Apr 19, 2023 16:07
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the most horrible thing about the whole 'hows it going' ritual is that even the question of whether you should respond, respond and ask the same, or just ask the same, or not even acknowledge the question is so intensely regional and people take offense if you do it the wrong way like there's parts of the us where 'heyhowaya' is a normal greeting that people aren't even supposed to respond to. other places really expect you to answer 'fine thank you, and you?' or something like that. in polite society in the uk you're supposed to respond to 'how do you do' with 'how do you do' i have absolutely no problem with responding with the expected formula even if its an insincere 'fine, thank you', but these regional differences make it way too difficult to know what the desired response is. what im saying is humans should be like apis and just respond with 200 without any other formulations needed
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Apr 20, 2023 11:41
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Shame Boy posted:first week almost done of mandatory back to the office, it sucks but at least i get to hear the dudebro programmers say poo poo like "crushing code" and "that's not very alpha" in person all day same, but "the database admin and the three times divorced 39yo woman in the finance dept agreeing loudly on how horrible woke is and that you can only be a woman based on what's between your legs when you're born and you just arent allowed to say anything anymore" i almost forgot that a while ago, i was on the verge of quitting because of this exact drat thing and the amount of regressive bullshit politics that circulates here but then i was reminded of just how annoying job interviews are (by being in one of them) and realized that its unlikely to be much better at other places that would consider hiring me based on my skillset
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Apr 21, 2023 15:54
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FCKGW posted:my old boss used to keep a 6 pack under the raised floor of the data room this actually reminds me: when i worked in kuwait my colleague and i found a six pack of newcastle brown ale in the server closet of the embassy that was being decommissioned. god only knows how long it'd been there, but the ambassador told us we could keep it and enjoy it. unexpected alcohol out of nowhere like that was the highlight of my time there
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Apr 21, 2023 20:25
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amazon logistics are getting worse in europe too. they've mostly replaced dhl with their own trucks here in nl, and the drivers must be overworked given how little they care about things like handle with care labels and traffic rules packaging is horrible too. i ordered a tub (about a pint) of exotic household cleaner that's not available in stores and it came in big box, 5in x 12in x 12in. tub dented, lid broken and cleaner everywhere. who the gently caress packages things like that
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Apr 25, 2023 22:34
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it also sometimes hurts businesses if people get used to the dividends. intel has given so high a dividend for so long that it really can't stop doing that or people will think the sky is falling. it's become one of those stocks that's mentioned in all the passive investing income articles. so now they're hosed and can't invest as much back into the business as they'd like because the market demands their five percent
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Apr 26, 2023 08:03
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given that there were a lot of people who thought john mcafee (who "has never been convicted of rape and murder, but—crucially—not in the same way that you or I have never been convicted of rape or murder") still owned the business up to the day he died, i can understand intel's desire to change the name having a recognizable name is one thing, but if there's a decent chance that name will soon be known more for tax fraud than for antivirus, it might not be worth it
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Apr 26, 2023 22:08
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Chris Knight posted:lol couldn't have happened to a nicer person and i mean that about everyone involved glad that a megabank got scammed in its acquisition of basically just a (fake) list of students glad that the scammer got caught up in a bank run immediately after glad that they're suing each other. some people deserve each other
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Apr 29, 2023 00:48
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i think the thing that trips up a lot of people is that there's two very different groups that are "scared" of ai. 1. elon and his guys, who think that ai is already smarter than us, and that it's going to sentiently enslave us in a few months 2. reasonable people, who have seen what algorithmic discrimination does to poor people and minorities and rightly fear that this will get even worse as ai replaces a few more people that were still in the loop the problem is that news outlets arent interested in depth and it takes a few minutes to sit and think to untie these two groups, so they both end up being represented in the same headlines and because elon and his kind of morons screams a lot harder and conjures up images of terminators roaming the american wasteland, that second group kind of gets ignored. even though their concerns are much more immediately pressing an obviously more realistic
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May 5, 2023 09:37
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BMan posted:ICANN has much to answer for sounds like someone didnt have a half mil to sacrifice to icann for their own gtld EricBauman fucked around with this message at 15:32 on May 9, 2023 |
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May 9, 2023 14:29
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chatgpt and its kind spell death for content farms that produce low value filler text. so i guess that's a group in asia and eastern europe for which we'll need to find a different kind of economic activity to exploit them with
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Achmed Jones posted:i am so fuckin sick of gambling bs and i hope that online gambling is banned. go ahead and ban it in-person every place but the res, las vegas, and atlantic city, too. agree the people who cant help themselves and must throw their money away against the odds can just speculate on crypto instead
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