Paradoxvoid

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All it takes is some standardized markup like schema.org

Which is the problem AI is solving here - getting every supermarket chain to agree on this (when it's actually against their interests to do so, since it increases price transparency) would be an impossible task, but AI can get around this requirement with minimal extra effort.

I'm hardly an AI evangelist, but this is actually one of the rare situations where it's a good fit.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The amount of people bootlicking a corporation's decision to cut costs rather than just moderate effectively is pretty astonishing for Lemmy,

Plenty of people got value out of the comment section - if nothing else, they were invaluable in knowing when to skip past the recap/opening theme/filler content in long-running shows like One Piece.

Most of it is pretty inane, but there was some useful stuff in there, and I always found it fun to see what other people thought of particularly crazy episodes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I thought you were poking fun since it's David Tennant, not Tenet... I feel like I've been whooshed now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

It's funny how when this was released, people were massively up in arms since it was 'only cosmetic' - then we saw what these companies would do with PvP games and P2W microtransactions, so people had to turn around and beg for them to return to being purely cosmetic additions...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You do you, but if you're reverting to binary to explain how simple it is to add values together, I think you've made a wrong turn somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Those are so easily commensurable! It's 1 and 59/64 obv.

I legit can't tell if this is sarcasm.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Lazy Web devs who took the 'mobile first' mantra to mean 'mobile only' 🙄

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm using 'didn't vote' to include submitting an empty ballot, which for the purposes of the Electoral Act, is the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

It forces politics to the centre. Parties put a huge amount of effort into 'bringing out the vote', and do things to appeal to the fringe which is how you get characters like Trump finding success. When this isn't a concern, parties can focus on policies that appeal to the majority of people rather than fringe groups that they can use to guarantee voter turnout.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yep, this is why the Senate is much more representative, and why the big parties who control the House of Representatives hate it so much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Australia has mandatory voter turnout, but you do not need to submit a vote. You just need to show up on polling day.

So just to clear up a technical misconception here - the wording in the Electoral Act is quite clear. All enrolled electors are legally required to vote. It's only a consequence of the secret ballot that makes this provision unenforceable, so someone can turn up and get their name marked off while not submitting a vote without facing any consequences, but it is technically an illegal act.

If the AEC were to come up with some way to determine that you didn't vote without betraying that secret ballot, they would be within their rights to issue a you a fine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's what made me jump ship to Boost - I sincerely doubt that even if I used Sync for ten years, the value of the ad impressions I give would be worth A$35. I can basically buy a huge number of high-quality games for that amount.

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