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The fuck? Sorry your here telling us that the American prison system is too soft? And that the treatment of r Uygher minority is justified actually?

It's actually a bad thing that slavery exists. Letting people use slave labor from the prison population creates an economic incentive to imprison innocent people.

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Wait what source would you consider Communist outside of relevant state medias?

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Why would you say that? Do you think everyone is just really jazzed about death? I think you seem to have missed the point of the outcry.

Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract ( www.nbcnews.com )

"Google issued a stern warning to its employees, with the company’s vice president of global security, Chris Rackow, saying, “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again,” according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC."

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You really can. Right to work, + free speech is only applicable wrt the government.

The fact that it's legal does not make it moral.

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Also, it's cheap to speak total bullshit, but it takes time, effort, and energy, to dispel it. I can say the moon is made of cheese, you can't disprove that. And you can go out and look up an article about the samples of moon rock we have and the composition, talk about the atmosphere required to give rise to dairy producing animals and thus cheese.

And I can just come up with some further bullshit that'll take another 30 minutes to an hour to debunk.

If we gave equal weight to every argument, we'd spend our lives mired in fact-checking hell holes. Sometimes, you can just dismiss someone's crap.

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Not the person you responded to, but: left economically is not left socially.

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This is good, actually. Teach the kids to game robots from a young age!

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Isn't brave owned by that weird crypto guy? And based on chrome?

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Oh god.

My service went down at timestamp x

This message looks like a potential root cause and has a lunar origin

the lunar box reports sending a message to me at timestamp y

the relay station reports relaying said message from the lunar box at timestamp z

Can you confirm the lunar message was sent at the right time to have been the cause?

Do the logs on the lunar box come timestamped with a "helpful" string representation? If they're in unix epoc, is that time dilation adjusted?

How do satellites do it, I wonder?

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Ugh this is sea lioning. Do you or do you not think JKR is transphobic? And do you or do you not think that trans rights are human rights?

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Alright! Tbh it's hard to see the line sometimes, and it's impossible having a discussion with someone who just wants to launder some right wing view through a veneer of "just asking questions".

I (not the person you're responding to) make no claims that she has called for laws to execute kids. I do agree that anti trans laws that JKR advocates for will kill children, but the added layer of "via depression-induced suicide" is something hard to prove and easy to shift responsibility around.

I'm not British though. Maybe she's also argued for some sort of "death penalty for going into the 'wrong' bathroom" type law. I wouldn't know.

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There is a lemmy user who does the same damn thing for "moe" pics. I swear to God they made a new community for every single pic. I was trying to avoid blocking the user but it clogsv the "all" section really bad.

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When Blue users where getting pushed to the top. The vitriol was always bad, but it was altogether too much when you couldn't open the replies to anything without reading the most heinous shit imaginable.

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Do you? Genuinely, not trying to snark. I see this point lots, but Im skeptical that people actually do.

As a dev, I read plenty of commits, and the idea of voluntarily prodding through commits on a FOSS project is just not happening. I'd rather just trust the dev, and the community to pick through the code in my place. The obvious issue being, what if everyone also does that.

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??

Did you read the comment? It's not about LEO satellites. It's about a military arsenal destroying a fleet of LEO satellites. The satellites won't do a Kessler, but a fleets worth of shrapnel would be a problem.

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Sure but that's not the question I'm trying to answer. I want to know, what will Biden actually do as president?

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I just want to ask the question, will Biden actually improve things once he isn't worried about burning the good will of voters? Can we only ever vote for genocide, or genocide with an apology tacked on to the end of it?

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I don't actually think a 3rd party will win. I'm more likely to write in "free Palestine" than pick a 3rd party.

But I'm wondering what I'm actually voting in favor of with Biden.

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Honestly I'm wondering if that ends up being much different than Biden? It's not like we're doing much right now to stop things. Maybe it takes four years of Biden to wipe out Gaza. Maybe it takes 4 months of Trump. The end result is genocide no matter what I do. At least then the democratic party might understand that you can't play this game of lesser evils forever.

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Yeah. The "lesser of two evils" used to be about a republican being republican, and a Democrat at least pretending to be left of center. It wasn't genocide or genocide.

And people wonder why younger voters don't engage with the system.

Pondering drastically altering my resume after learning an employer that bookended several years of short stints due to layoffs shut down last year

I was the news editor of smaller of the two sister papers from 2003-2006, when I was pushed out by the IT manager (offsite at the other paper). Life conspired to keep me in town, as my fiancee was wrapping her undergrad. I got laid off the next year because the next place I worked shut down. I was able to quickly find a...

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Want to make a point clear here -- never put anything on your resume that you aren't prepared to answer questions about. That means if you're lying about freelance (whether the above commenter means to imply you should), then you should be ready to answer questions about your freelance lie.

Same goes for any projects. For CS, if you have a pet project you wrote 12 years ago, but it's interesting enough to note on a resume, glance over it enough to know what it's about. You might be surprised by your interviewer installing your app on their phone or something.

How to constructively protest against AI voice transcription at work?

As a medical doctor I extensively use digital voice recorders to document my work. My secretary does the transcription. As a cost saving measure the process is soon intended to be replaced by AI-powered transcription, trained on each doctor's voice. As I understand it the model created is not being stored locally and I have no...

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I think it was pretty clear the issue was one of privacy requirements and not any qualms with losing jobs, which isn't even happening here.

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Not in public. This is a conversation with the healthcare provider, not with your partner while you're at the grocery store. You have a legally recognized right to privacy (at least in the US) when it comes to your health details.

Which is an unequivocally good thing.

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They were never giving it away. They included wordpad with your purchase of windows. They no longer do. I don't think anyone is saying that windows is not "within their rights", they're saying that this degrades the product we already pay for. That is worth complaining about, even if our ultimate recourse primarily ends up being to find an OS that better serves our needs.

Honestly though I'm struggling to understand why you'd think that's about Microsoft's rights to begin with??

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I can't speak for the original commented, but I'm personally quite tired of the thin veneer that's slapped into these statements. I would prefer a company just be honest and talk about the profit incentives. They want people using the free version to please pay for the expensive one.

For my experience, I still retain the general irritation at product quality going down regardless of how they word it. But now I'm also annoyed that MS isn't being straightforward about it.

How much does a creator's worldview influence whether you use their tech or consume their media?

Watching the drama around kagi unfold and it has me wondering how much you take into consideration a creator's view on things like homophobia, sexism, racism, etc. when deciding to use a product. I think most of us have a bar somewhere (I would imagine very few on this website would ever consider registering on an altright...

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Certainly. There's a big difference between me giving cash and uplifting someone who is actively harming people today, and supporting a dead man's art.

Of course remember there's nuance as well. It doesn't cost me much to stop interacting with JKR's output, but buying quality shoes that don't in some way support sweatshop owners or fast fashion represents a significant time/money investment on my part.

And if there's something important for my health than it goes right out. idk, maybe Dr. Scholl was there on Jan 6 and I was prescribed those Dr. Scholl's foot goobers by a podiatrist, I'm not going to quibble too much.

Which ties in to the privilege of being socially conscious. It costs me nonzero money and energy that some might not have to do all of these things. I cannot blame or fault the person who works at Chick-fil-A paying rent, even if their work supports CFA.

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Calling 2017 "vintage" is animal behavior. Rodents do that when they're going through your garbage.

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The problem breaks down into a few broad sub problems, as I see it.

  1. Confirming the reviewer or voter is who they say they are (to prevent one entity from making multiple reviews).
  2. Confirming the reviewer or voter is a valid stakeholder. This is domain-specific, but can be such metrics as "citizen of country", or "verified purchaser".
  3. Confirming the intent of the reviewer. This meaning people who were paid off (buyers who are offered a gift card for a positive review, which happens plenty on Amazon), or discounting review bombs when a game "goes woke".

1 and 2 have solutions. Steam cares about whether you're a verified purchaser, and the barrier to entry of "1 purchase of a game per vote" is certainly enough to make things harder to bot. Amazon might be able to do the same, but so much of the transaction happens outside their purview that a foolproof system would be hard. Not that it's in their interest to do so, though.

For places like Reddit or Lemmy, verifying one human per up vote is going to be impossible. New accounts are cheap and easy as a core function of the product. bot detection is only going to get harder, too.

If you used some centralized certificate system (like SSL certs), you could maybe get as granular as one vote per machine, but not without massive privacy invasions. The government does this for voting kinda, but we make a point to keep those private identifiers the government gives private.

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Had to deal with a contract like this too. If you're in the US or London, watch out for FDM Group. When I was there, if you stay for longer than 2 weeks in their training, their contract requires you to pay 20k.

This is almost certainly not enforceable, but that's either litigation or a hit to your credit.

They scoop up folks (like myself) who have trouble getting a software dev job, and then send you of too various parts of the US to work for pennies with a client. I can allow that the cheap contract labor might be necessary for high risk hires, but that fee-intimidation-tactic is fucked.

(I actually would quibble about whether it's necessary/moral for "high risk hires", but I'm not interested in having that conversation with people right now...)

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Lex is supposed to be there smartest guy in like the universe. If Musk has any brains, it's limited to business. And even then it sorta looks like his past success was a luck thing.

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