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  • Is there anyway I can screw around with ICE? I need a new hobby I come from a long line of immigrants. If i send my home address and phone number will they actually come and deport me to choose a cntr

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  • This is the real winner. Changing culture from the outside is way harder than on the inside, let alone collecting evidence of crimes committed by other gang members.

  • Newer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways

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  • That's because OpenAI is in panic mode. They're now spending their resources on making the LLM cheaper to operate and capable of injecting paid results.

  • they only turn on the body cam for the money shot

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  • "Sounds like my friends and I can show up at your door in fake ICE outfits and make your gargle on our balls. And if you refuse, we'll beat your ass, and you won't do anything about it."

  • Signs that your platform (Nextdoor) has turned to trash

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  • I actually think this level of control over notifications is a GOOD thing. Trash apps will mix spam and useful notifications without a way to filter out the spam ones. Nextdoor is garbage for a lot of reasons, but granular notifications controls are not one of them. Arguably, defaulting all of them to "On" is scummy, but if they didn't, most users would probably never know they existed in the first place without UX handholding.

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  • You get more stuff, more status, etc. Or alternatively, penalized, threatened, etc. Whatever it takes to motivate people to do the job. Even if paper money isn't a thing in communist societies (which it still is), money's just a symbol for debt. You're going to get something, somehow, for a job people greatly desire to be done without enough doers and they'll become "indebted" to you disproportionately for doing it.

    In Soviet society for instance, you might be provided a nice apartment in central Moscow if you were doing something "important". This assignment would be via your government-controlled employer and their agreements with some other government bureau that officially managed the buildings to dole them out to select people.

    So, same deal as anywhere else, just a different mechanism. Higher ration, bigger dacha, jump to the front of the line to get a car, etc.

    Compensation is usually not much about how dangerous a job is, though. It's more about how many people are willing to do it for any number of reasons. Some people are just not very risk-adverse, and figure they're going to be fine at a job that is more dangerous. And they'll be compensated at a normal level as long as there are enough such people to fill the need.

  • In order to be allowed to drive, you don't just have to promise to pay if you hit someone, you have to pay in advance in case you hit someone

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  • Look into mutual insurance. You actually get back money for the payouts they didn't have to do that year. Northwestern, Amica, USAA, etc.

  • i don't physically own it, i have a piece of paper in the town hall saying i do

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  • Well, the piece of paper is better than nothing. I can't prove I own like 99% of my stuff. Even with a receipt, who's to say the thing is exactly the same one I spent the money on?

  • Portland to evict nearly 100 shelter residents who are ‘unwilling to engage’

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  • Can only try to help unwilling people for so long that you have to consider that this kind of assistance is not limitless and has to be prioritized for people who are interested and willing to at least try to support themselves. Fill up shelters to use them, but when you're at capacity based on what the local government and its policies by extension of the voterbase's willingness to contribute financially can support, you have to make hard decisions.

    Will these people end up on the street? Probably. If this feels unreasonable, support candidates pushing to increase/reallocate funding for the program, or volunteer your own time and money to contribute.

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  • The thing that feels hopeless here is that "dynamic pricing" is like...the natural way to sell stuff if that makes sense? Standardized non-negotiated pricetags evolved as part of the growth of industrialization and mass consumerism. It just wasn't feasible to have individual salespeople trying to milk each customer out of the most possible money for every transaction for small purchases, and big box stores eliminated the shopkeeper role as a quasi-salesperson who might do that from time to time. But that still IS how many, many sales work today. It's just that "negotiated prices" are reserved for big ticket items where salespeople get a big enough cut. Real estate, B2B deals, new cars, etc are sold by salespeople whose main job is moneymilking based on what they think they can con the particular buyer into handing over.

    Technology, as the great optimizer, is merely making the job of a salesperson automated enough to be applied at the Taco Bell drivethru using your personal data.

  • MongoBleed is web scale

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  • Cache-like storage, private user-specific data, blobby or otherwise schemaless data. Stuff like that. But IMO it's a matter of time until you find a need to operate against this data relationally, and then you regret using document storage. I've made this mistake twice now and do not intend to make it again. I now consider document storage architecture to be a performance optimization with significant tradeoffs, and not a choice to be made by default for nearly any scenario.

  • How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ?

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  • I don't like tokens or cards. I like open play, just pay like $20 for all day access. I'm fortunate to have places like that around. The pay to play model penalizes you for being bad at or new to an arcade title or pinball machine, which mega blows and discourages people from trying out random games they might lose quickly at.

  • TIL: The word Vatnik is used in Russia and other post-Soviet states for steadfast jingoistic followers of propaganda from the Russian government.

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  • Oh i thought it was from CCCP commisar goons ordering a column of type 59s to drive over civilians in 89

  • Found this one online

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  • Jailbreaking the cursed sword chatbot logic

  • whotd uses brave

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  • I want one browser that blocks ads and works on my android phone, work Mac with IT controls over installed software, windows gaming pc, and linux server box. I also use a password manager that offers an extremely helpful chromium-only extension for desktop browsers.

    So, Brave it is. No other option meets my requirements. If IT had disallowed Brave, I'd be on plain Chrome and just pihole at home for adblocking.

  • Suicide is the last DIY project some people do.

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  • Well this guy really doubled down on that thought

  • What's the most unusual way you've made some extra money?

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  • Played pre-TV Tim Allen for a bit. Never got caught, but I did get robbed of a whole delivery once. Quit after that, too stressful.

  • whotd uses brave

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  • Brendan Eich could be a huge proponent of butthole sunning and crystal healing. As long as I can turn off the butthole sunning button in his browser, I'm fine with it. And I can.

    Never touched the crypto stuff, the AI search thing, whatever. Just turn them off. When I can't do that, I'll just use something else.

  • Op doesn't have time for interviews

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  • I really hate these awful "puzzles". They only work by the asker intentionally withholding what, if any, constraints exist in the problem space leaving it totally vague, but of course there ARE secret constraints revealed if you violate them with your answer.

    Me: "I do it without flipping any switches. I just ask the lightswitches which one controls the light, and they tell me."

    Interviewer: "That's not allowed."

    Me: "Well what exactly is allowed? Can I pull the cables out of the wall and see which connects to the bulb? Oh, I bet that's not allowed. How about I open my smart home app and just check which of the smart switches is labeled for it? Oh, I bet it's not a smart switch so I can't do that either? Oh, then the bulb has a chime that boops when it comes on, so I just listen for the boop. Oh that's not allowed either? Wait wait wait, the walls are glass, so I just watch to see when the bulb comes on when I flick the switches."

    Even the canonical answer makes a dumb assumption. Ordinary LED bulbs don't get hot.

  • Star Citizen Developer Confirms Squadron 42 Is Playable and Over 40 Hours Long, Targeting 2026 Release

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  • Ya but is it fun? Star Citizen is playable but like...last time I tried it, there wasn't quite a gameplay loop yet.

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    Spotted in a McDonald's parking lot

  • Off My Chest @lemmy.world
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    I feel disillusioned by contemporary science

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Deaf people get to avoid a lot of arguments

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Are there any countries with an inverted hierarchy jurisdictional structure?

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    Engineer explains the difference between broadcast and streaming data usage

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  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat?