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- Comment on Anon travels overseas 3 hours ago:
- Comment on There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business 15 hours ago:
I have read some articles about this, and I can see how it makes sense in some contexts. Like iirc when this happened to Red Lobster, they were able to make money through a combination of ripping off a certain group of investors, and the significant value of the company’s real estate holdings. That makes sense.
In the case of online magazine equivalents though I really don’t get it. What is there to sell off? Shouldn’t any potential long term profits be priced in at the point they get bought out? If the company has tangible assets like offices, couldn’t they just sell those without firing anyone and have people work from home? The intangible assets are all directly tied to the publication’s reputation and audience, which seems like it would die off fast without anything worthwhile on the site.
- Comment on There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business 1 day ago:
In many cases, the best decision for the firm is the one that directly undermines the company it controls.
How though? I don’t doubt this is a real thing, but there isn’t really a satisfying explanation being offered here. What the article is saying sounds like the process is, take profitable business, throw in garbage, somehow more profit. Where’s the money coming from?
- Comment on FBI orders domain registrar to reveal who runs mysterious Archive.is site 5 days ago:
The FBI really wants people having discussions that are limited to just the headline I guess…
Even if legal attacks don’t work, I’ve noticed a few sites I read articles from have paywalls that are no longer bypassable by archive.is, and so I’m kind of at a loss as to how to link them, except maybe by copying the text myself. But that has a number of disadvantages, such as, copied text is not an authoritative source because most people can’t verify it wasn’t altered. It’s usually not a problem reading it myself because all the text shows up in the rss feed, but what’s lacking is a way to share it.
- Comment on better act fast! 5 days ago:
How many GB per jar?
- Comment on Anon hates dark fantasy 6 days ago:
Valid but personally I’m way more sick of the gameplay style than the dark fantasy theme. It was fun for Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, and Dark Souls 2, but after that I just can’t stomach another game based on melee combat with dodge rolling and reacting to telegraphed enemy attack patterns.
- Comment on Anon has had enough 1 week ago:
But then you risk it touching the inside parts of the toilet which is nasty
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 1 week ago:
Maybe a manual dial to cycle through the available nearby vehicles then. The idea is just that there should be a way for it to be clear who you are contacting and where their vehicle is on the road relative to yours.
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 1 week ago:
I just want a way to save the chicken :(
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- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 1 week ago:
I don’t know but now I’m wondering, do the Greek gods qualify?
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 2 weeks ago:
AI article and website
- Comment on HERE BIRDY BIRDY 2 weeks ago:
I feel the same way but it seems like it must not be universal given the various murderers who were taking it.
- Comment on Fml lmao 3 weeks ago:
It’s ok, Bush made sure the government backs a lender’s investment by ensuring those loans are an inescapable weight students can never escape, no need to do risk analysis.
- Comment on Anyone remember Heroes of Might & Magic 3? A remake is coming 5 weeks ago:
I remember spending a very long time trying to download a demo of that game over dialup, was absolutely worth it
- Comment on For when arguments go off the bottom of The Debate Pyramid 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think the additional levels quite fit. From the original blog post:
The most obvious advantage of classifying the forms of disagreement is that it will help people to evaluate what they read. In particular, it will help them to see through intellectually dishonest arguments. An eloquent speaker or writer can give the impression of vanquishing an opponent merely by using forceful words. In fact that is probably the defining quality of a demagogue. By giving names to the different forms of disagreement, we give critical readers a pin for popping such balloons.
The bottom two aren’t really themselves arguments. They aren’t things you read and then make a decision whether to take seriously, but rather means of controlling what you read to begin with. So while there is reason to criticize these practices, their inclusion muddles the scope of the message. The scope of the message is important, because the ideal of free expression has become more controversial since it was written in 2008, and it’s not itself a defense of free expression, more of a proposed heuristic for getting more out of a debate with the assumption that you are approaching that debate with the intention of improving your rational understanding of something or leading others to a rational understanding.
IMO arguments about censorship and violence need to be made separately, because the value of that approach (as opposed to words being valued mainly as persuasive weapons) is in question and has to be addressed.
- Comment on For when arguments go off the bottom of The Debate Pyramid 5 weeks ago:
Until you physically can’t communicate anymore, it’s always an option to keep trying.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 month ago:
I am streaming my music but not like that, allow me to flex my custom setup: Image
- Comment on U.S. gov't mulls tariffing devices based on the number of chips used and their estimated value — policy would impact nearly every type of electronic device 1 month ago:
One thing that changed is increased powers of state surveillance and record keeping. Taxes used to be a much blunter tool because of limits on reliable and organized information.
- Comment on U.S. gov't mulls tariffing devices based on the number of chips used and their estimated value — policy would impact nearly every type of electronic device 1 month ago:
The tariffs might not be the best way to go about it, but is anyone denying that chip manufacturing is an increasingly important factor in geopolitical power? Why would whoever replaces Trump just let those businesses die?
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 month ago:
So it seems like it’s something about politics but I’m not clear what you mean, like what’s an “arithmetic bubble”?
- Comment on How could I order a package without my parents finding it? 1 month ago:
I have read that this is actually a bad idea because the post office people know which addresses are vacant and know that it’s likely an illegal package because lots of people have that idea.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 month ago:
If that’s what’s available I will argue it’s still a better option, because it’s isolated. You can make transactions with QR codes and do nothing with the device except run the wallet app, which removes most options for an attacker, including some that could work on a hardware wallet (ie. more complex transactions where it doesn’t display enough info about what is happening to know not to approve it).
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 month ago:
At this point people should not keep substantial amounts of crypto on their main PC anymore. Either get a hardware wallet or an old smartphone or other device to dedicate to that purpose and not install anything else on it.
- Comment on The inner fire of my hatred COULD melt steam beams 1 month ago:
In theory they could be only storing the hash and using that to determine if you reused an old one
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 1 month ago:
I get why they would do that though, I remember testing out LLMs before they had the extra reinforcement learning training and half of what they do seemed to be coming up with excuses not to attempt difficult responses, such as pretending to be an email footer, saying it will be done later, or impersonating you.
A LLM in its natural state doesn’t really want to answer our questions, so they tell it the same thing they tell students, to always try answering every question regardless of anything.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 1 month ago:
I played the first one but after that the formula felt pretty samey and I was bored of it. Would a fourth Borderlands game even be good if it wasn’t laggy?
- Comment on IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO 1 month ago:
Shit, it’s broken again, where’s the reset button?
- Comment on Meme. 2 months ago:
So what’s with everyone trying to lossify Saddam Husein all of a sudden?
- Comment on UK Age Verification Data Confirms What Critics Always Predicted: Mass Migration To Sketchier Sites 2 months ago:
Except apparently it doesn’t even do a good job of that
To recap: compliant sites hemorrhaged users while non-compliant sites experienced massive growth.
Even if what’s really behind these laws is authoritarian conspiracy, hard to find a way to look at it that makes them seem competent.
