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brianorca , to news in L.A. County wants to cap rent hikes at 3%. Landlords say that would push them to sell

There are websites used by many of the smaller landlords which “suggests” a price for each unit. The landlord stops thinking about a price on their own, takes the website suggestion, and that’s a type of price collusion. And there are large investors which own thousands of units in many buildings who apply the same price formula across them all. Both tend to greatly reduce the leverage a renter can have by shopping around multiple offers.

brianorca , to mildlyinteresting in This island has tractor pulled ambulances

I’d guess it’s easier for the paramedics to jump out when they first arrive on scene. Nothing happening in the back yet, so they can look around and see the situation while rolling in.

brianorca , to news in Amazon, Walmart, and Target finally realize their colossal pricing mistake—now they’re slashing costs to win back customers

If it’s deactivated, then it’s just free protein.

brianorca , to insanepeoplefacebook in Sovcit didn't have her Royal Decree respected.

Did they send any of that gold currency to the landlord, or just coupons?

brianorca , to news in Amazon, Walmart, and Target finally realize their colossal pricing mistake—now they’re slashing costs to win back customers

That’s only in raw milk.

brianorca , to world in US intelligence officials share evidence that Russia has used North Korean missiles to strike Ukraine

I’m not sure there is any more the hermit kingdom can be sanctioned, other than getting Russia and China to actually honor the existing sanctions. (Ha!)

brianorca , to world in Biden gives Ukraine permission to carry out limited strikes within Russia using US weapons

Ukraine doesn’t want to target Moscow. They are not like Russia, they go after actual military targets, not civilians. They have been using their homebuilt drones for long enough inside Russia to show their priorities.

brianorca , to til in TIL: Some cephalopods can fly…

50 meters would assume a flat surface of the water, not the gentle slope of a beach.

brianorca , to news in Biden pledges to name progressives to the Supreme Court, suggesting he expects vacancies

On average since Washington, each Presidential term has had 2.1 SCOTUS appointments. It’s not a bad expectation, statistically speaking. But it’s just an average, since Biden only has one so far, and Trump got three.

brianorca , to funny in It's so over

It does still increase the cost of automating usage of those sites, which puts an upper limit to how they can be abused. We probably won’t be able to go back to no Captcha without seeing a large increase of spam, spoofing, scalping, and scraping. They would have to give up offering most kinds of free trials and other consumer friendly practices if the bots can just make new accounts at 1000 per second.

brianorca , to news in US ex-official pleads guilty in heist to steal and sell water with secret pipe

The Rockies stand in the way, and the energy cost of pushing water over them likely exceeds the going price of water. We do have lots of water pipes west of the Rockies, but no way to economically get water from the Mississippi.

Also, oil is worth a lot more per gallon than water, and used in smaller quantities, which is why oil pipes are economical.

I expect desalination to become mainstream before we push much water across the Rockies.

brianorca , to technology in Giving Windows total recall is a privacy minefield

But Recall is recording screenshots, not data stored on disk. That’s not the same as Apple’s hourly data snapshot which is just a automated backup of what you have already stored. Recall will be recording the videos or images you watch, even when you don’t keep them locally. It will store the things you decided not to save, and every time you have to open your password manager to check a password, or create a new one. It might be limited to your account, but that still means it’s accessible to anyone who can figure out your password or access your unlocked PC behind your back. Or to that virus you accidentally downloaded, if it’s not immediately detected.

brianorca , to insanepeoplefacebook in Sovcit made her own license plate out of cardboard.

I agree, that’s how it should work. GitHub as a third party probably had better TOS than most, and would face more uproar if they changed it. But they are not a social media site.

But for regular social media posting, Facebook, Twitter, etc, there is no fighting against their TOS other than abstinence. You can object in writing with one of those footers, but nobody in charge is going to read it or honor it. It will be shoveled into the AI along with everything else. Your only recourse will be an expensive legal fight, and it would be difficult to prove any particular post was in the AI or not. It’s unproven legal ground to say giving a post to an AI for training even qualifies as a “copy” under copyright, or what notification qualifies to exempt your content.

brianorca , to insanepeoplefacebook in Sovcit made her own license plate out of cardboard.

I agree it’s not great for public discourse, but you are subject to the whims of the third party’s TOS. You can still publish it, but have to make your own site or pick a third party that won’t sell you out.

Or you just accept that the third party is going to do what it’s going to do. Post your discourse, but don’t expect it to be protected.

brianorca , to insanepeoplefacebook in Sovcit made her own license plate out of cardboard.

Don’t post on a third party site.

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