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2 months ago
Comment StarFlowerThe self-driving feature is NOT self-driving! if you need a human behind the wheel to monitor the car's autopilot, it's safer just to have the human drive. There is literally no advantage to have a self driving car (as far as Tesla's current tech is concerned) since it means the human's attention is likely to wander, putting themselves and everyone else in danger. In fact, I'm wondering if it just makes driving MORE dangerous. I prefer to avoid being near Teslas on the road for exactly this reason.
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2 months ago
Completely agree, Reddit is shooting themselves in the foot. If they ban moderators who don't comply, then Reddit will be without moderators for those topics, which is more of a problem for Reddit than for these unpaid moderators.
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2 months ago
Comment StarFlower
What could possibly go wrong?
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3 months ago
Current Event StarFlower
Google says it will start blocking Canadian news stories in response to new law
The Google fight with the country echoes a similar battle in Australia, where the tech industry eventually struck deals with news publishers after tense negotiations.
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3 months ago
Comment StarFlower
Interesting article. As it says though, there are other places that ppl can go to listen to their favorite podcasts
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3 months ago
Comment StarFlower
If it's too hard for them to list the fees then they shouldn't charge them. That's not FCC's problem, that's Comcast's problem. Basically, it should be that if any company can't list the fees, they shouldn't be allowed to charge them. I understand fees may vary by region, but in that case they should be able to do something like: Fee X: $2 - $5, Fee Y: $8 to $15, etc, and they can give a grand total e.g. Total fees = $... to $....
Again, not the consumer's problem nor FCC's problem.
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5 months ago
Comment StarFlower
Email providers have a vested interest in trying to develop additional filters for this (a difficult task, I know, esp for personalized AI spam). Any provider who develops a halfway decent filter will have an edge over those who don't. Ppl will gradually move away from those who don't have such a filter
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5 months ago
Interactive StarFlower
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5 months ago
Comment StarFlower
This was a well-researched and informative article. I'd never thought about the difficulties of patching something so remote before!
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5 months ago
Current Event StarFlower
Sudan's army says evacuations of foreign diplomats are expected to begin
The Sudanese army said it was coordinating efforts to evacuate diplomats from the U.S., Britain, China and France out of the country on military airplanes, as fighting persisted in the capital.
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5 months ago
Comment StarFlower
The article did not really explain how this differs from The Sims. I'm actually serious, I read the article and it literally doesn't explain how they differ.
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5 months ago
Current Event StarFlower
Montana becomes 1st state to approve a full ban of TikTok
Montana's bill goes farther than bans in nearly half of the states that target devices on state-issued devices. Instead, Montana's legislation makes it illegal for anyone to download TikTok.
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6 months ago
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7 months ago
Comment StarFlower
This sounds pretty spooky!
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8 months ago
Comment StarFlower
Interesting. Also it looks like a burned piece of brownie!
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8 months ago
Agree about space for all forms of vehicles for awhile - especially when and where the electricity grid isn't yet decarbonized. Where I live, a good portion of the household electricity comes from coal power plants, so I wouldn't get an electric vehicle because it basically becomes a coal-powered car over here. I think the key is, as you said, to allow the market to test out the electric car industry in general, while still letting all forms of vehicles coexist for awhile. Frankly, I'd like to see a) the grid decarbonized and b) better public transportation as a much higher priority than electric cars.
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8 months ago
Comment StarFlower
Also NFT's require blockchain technology (I guess there could be other ways to do it but currently in practice they use blockchain) which is a big disadvantage as far as the environment is concerned
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8 months ago
Comment StarFlower
Awesome article! Especially since ChatGPT isn't detected by pre-existing checkers
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8 months ago
Current Event StarFlower
FDA considers major shift in COVID vaccine strategy
The new approach would simplify vaccination guidance so that, every fall, people would get a new shot, updated to try to match whatever variant is dominant.
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8 months ago
Comment StarFlower
Lots of great points here - it's not just about devices but also about formats of the ebooks
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8 months ago
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1 year ago
I know, I reckon there's going to be a decent sized market for a dumbphone, or at least a privacy oriented phone. The problem is that few networks sell or even plan to sell these
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1 year ago
Yeah, I'm puzzled why they didn't try to make it look attractive or interesting
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1 year ago
Current Event StarFlower
Nearly 2,000 Signal users affected by Twilio phishing attack
New findings following the Twilio phishing attack revealed that Signal, one of its high-value clients and a popular encrypted messaging platform, was particularly affected.
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1 year ago
Comment StarFlower
Now job security isn't even tied to performance, it's random, ugh.
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