Zak

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[–] Zak 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's not unique to Xitter. Facebook has been deprioritizing posts with links in them for a while.

[–] Zak 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

A person is smart. People, not so much.

[–] Zak 2 points 3 weeks ago

There are good reasons to be concerned about Gabbard, including her ties to Russia and her meeting with Assad.

Tripping some TSA algorithm isn't one of them.

[–] Zak 2 points 3 weeks ago

I've been using Maddy for about a year. It's easy to set up and has been trouble free.

[–] Zak 38 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Here's an explanation from the Associated Press. The penalty is usually a fine, which impacts stockholders by making the stock less valuable and could lead them to remove board members or demand the termination of executives. It's rarely used, but there is a corporate death penalty.

[–] Zak 5 points 3 weeks ago

With a couple niche exceptions, AI hasn't started making money. What it has done is attract venture capital investment.

Venture capitalists are driven by a fear of missing out on the next big thing. A billion dollar score pays for a thousand bad million dollar bets, and AI that lives up to the hype could be worth trillions. This is also why every existing tech company is scrambling to add an AI thing to its products even where it makes no sense.

[–] Zak 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We have discovered a revolutionary shape: the rectangle!

[–] Zak 4 points 3 weeks ago

Threatening political retribution against senators for voting against their party is generally not illegal in the USA.

[–] Zak 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think the micro stream AAA might have just one mode but would have to check.

It does. It's a bad flashlight though. Everything (LED, optics, switch, threads) is different (worse) from the USB model, which I still wouldn't class as a good flashlight.

[–] Zak 152 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

he deserves the team around him that he wants. It’s not up to us to determine that.

It absolutely is up to the senate to determine that. The constitution says so.

[–] Zak 2 points 4 weeks ago

Lights with modern performance and only a single mode don't really exist. Even lights that appear to be that almost always start out on a higher mode and throttle to a lower one. The main reason for that is that to avoid burning the user's hand and/or having a very short battery life, the output has to be relatively low.

If your flashlight has much less output than most of its competitors, you will not sell very many flashlights (unless you're Zebralight - normal rules don't apply to Zebralight).

Depending on why you don't want brightness settings, there may be some good options for you. If it's that the lights you've used change brightness when you turn them on and off, almost none of the lights flashlight enthusiasts like behave that way.

[–] Zak 5 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Probably not. US international relations is heavily driven by an amoral power calculus.

Israel is a major foil to Iran. Iran is an ally of Russia and China and a threat to US interests in the region. Barring an extreme amount of pressure from constituents, which has not reached that threshold as far as I can tell, most US politicians will tolerate almost any human rights abuse from Israel.

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