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Comment · 4 months ago
> have preferences

Yes, but that's different than saying "I hate hammers, so I don't want OTHER people to use hammers"

Comment · 4 months ago
It seems weird to be "pro-AI" or "anti-AI" in general. It's a tool. It's like saying construction workers are pro-hammer
Comment · 5 months ago
Property taxes are a type of wealth tax
Comment · 6 months ago
Just tried Claude Code on my Pro plan. It worked. So no, it's not removed
Comment · 11 months ago
> Investigating - Cloudflare is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs.

They seem to now, a few min after your comment

Comment · 1 year ago
I've read plenty of dumb things in pre-AI books.
Comment · 1 year ago
...except Airbnb's redesign is still extremely flat. Three icons that have 3-D shadows is not groundbreaking
Comment · 1 year ago
> leftist tarrifs

huh?

Comment · 1 year ago
> Most people probably don't have 2.5 TB worth of stuff.

But Backblaze is marketing itself towards people who do. The average person is not a backblaze customer

Comment · 1 year ago
The "Personal backup" pricing plan is $99 USD / year and includes "Unlimited data backup" and "one year version history" which implies they are storing much more than just your data at a given time.

$99 would give you 5-6TB of data for consumer HDD costs. And then factor in that they are likely doing some type of additional backup/RAID it would be even less data per dollar. And that's not including maintenance, rent, and employees.

Honestly I'm surprised they exist

Comment · 1 year ago
I also find Reddit good- but given I mainly follow subreddits focused on PC hardware, I'm less concerned. I would never go to Reddit for discussion about political or controversial topics where botting would be a target.

But not just due to astroturfing, but their users are also just pretty crazy and exist in a extremely narrow bubble.

Comment · 1 year ago
> or political ideas

Judging by some of the examples listed by Reddit mods, it seems political astroturfing is a serious goal:

"(This is one of the AI comments used in the experiment.)

As a Palestinian, I hate Israel and want the state of Israel to end. I consider them to be the worst people on earth. I will take ANY ally in this fight."

Comment · 1 year ago
> No - most Asian nations did not recognize the South Vietnam govt

I would not say "most". Thailand, Laos, SK, Philippines, Singapore did.

>US vetoed Vietnamese membership to the UN in 1975 - after losing the War.

Because the war was still ongoing, between North and South at that time. They merged in 1976 and US voted in favor of membership in 1977.

Comment · 1 year ago
Genocidal serbia got off too easy
Comment · 1 year ago
> It was never part of the UN and its membership was explicitly denied.

Solely due to a soviet veto. Most countries recognized it anyway.

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