Bakary

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by Bakary 4y ago
Is that really your only takeaway here? Feels like a parody of HN comments. It could be any other equivalent, I don't know. Even if it's KaiOS the homeless probably have other things on their mind than the CCP or whatever.
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by Bakary 4y ago
What I mean is that it's almost impossible not to be affected if you are a city-dweller, it's a lot harder to ignore. Most will ignore it, but still acknowledge it as a problem for them. Even in a cynical and dehumanizing way.
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by Bakary 4y ago
This is the sort of performative response that is the problem. Let's say we force Google to switch off 2FA. Now we have exposed millions of people who don't know any better to phishing attempts and financial loss. And the group we
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by Bakary 4y ago
This is missing the forest for the trees. Of course we'd be more emotionally involved if it was someone we knew, that's not hypocritical. Most people aren't against fixing societal problems, either. As it stands, homelessness
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by Bakary 4y ago
I can definitely understand not realizing that you could lose access to your account if you lose your phone number. But once it happens the first time, could you not pick any free email that does not require 2FA, and warn fellow homeless to
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by Bakary 4y ago
It's the paradox of many successful individuals. We look at some of their flaws and become frustrated because it seems they are messing up a great situation that we would kill to be in. In reality, however, it's this very same per
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by Bakary 4y ago
Leonardo would be valued in our culture. After all, he was insanely productive and his failures were better than most people's successes. What we pathologize is people who can't get anything significant done, and who don't ha
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by Bakary 4y ago
I'm not entirely sure what elite conservatism is or whether you endorse this view or not, but there's no civilizational context where meritocracy can exist given first mover advantages, resource accumulation, and institutional cap
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by Bakary 4y ago
Perhaps I am missing something, but alchemy sounds completely in character with Jung's works.
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by Bakary 4y ago
No, the idea is that in that era an untold number of talented people were barred from contributing to the US due to discriminatory roadblocks at every level in terms of access to education and so on. Your sarcasm is hilariously misplaced be
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by Bakary 4y ago
I understand the argument, I just disagree with the premise that the OP was specifically anxious about not being seen as gay (though maybe they are in other contexts, I don't know) or that in context being gay is presented as an insult
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by Bakary 4y ago
You are assigning these ideas to people but that's not at all the takeaway I got from the conversation myself. I won't presume to speak for the other people involved but I'm not getting the vibe there either. I understand the
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by Bakary 4y ago
Twitter users don't want reliable information but attention
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by Bakary 4y ago
I don't think he's worried about his own health so much as formulating the excuse as an insult. The subtext is pretty clear to me, at least. Only semi-related, but a Russian once told me that in the West people lie to manipulate,
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by Bakary 4y ago
The psychological profiling you are attempting here is, in addition to being clunkily shoehorned into fitting the OP's wording, somewhat irritating because it's conceptually equivalent to the idea that homophobic people must be se
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by Bakary 4y ago
This could be a somewhat ironic example considering the likelihood that many people who could have contributed to the Manhattan Project were unable to do so due to institutional barriers relating to their ethnicity. Even some talented peopl
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by Bakary 4y ago
What bothers me about this sort of idea is more the follow-up. Let's imagine for the sake of discussion that we prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that some groups are, on average, less intelligent than others. What then would the peop
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by Bakary 4y ago
Let's leave aside the American-style debate around ethnicity for a moment. We know what happens when high-income workers move en masse to a neighborhood. Things get more expensive, and the quality of life decreases for people who did a
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by Bakary 4y ago
If the acuteness of a problem was the determining factor with regards to the attention put on it, the news would be completely different. It would currently be 80% climate change 20% nuclear strike modeling strategy or something similar.
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by Bakary 4y ago
People are investigating now, because of the drama. But prior to that there wasn't much in the way of open source analysis
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by Bakary 4y ago
We have evidence of a sustained period of cheating that he then lied about and obfuscated as a legal adult. This is not just a childish mistake. A teenager, in particular a person capable of being a professional chess player, can fully unde
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by Bakary 4y ago
She should be proud in the sense that real world problem solving and valuable technical skills is a lot more important than any school test. That said she will have to learn not to let arrogance and risk-taking be her downfall.
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by Bakary 4y ago
I'm sensing a market in dedicated hardware here. For players who spend upwards of 1000 hours on a single game it could be worth it to have a locked down machine for certain contexts where you have to prove your bona fides.
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by Bakary 4y ago
It would be hard to explain but there's somewhat of an ironic tendency among techies to dismiss certain types of knowledge (such as the show-don't-tell aspect of good literature) on account of pursuing rationality and optimization
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by Bakary 4y ago
It can be empowering if you take it at face value. The obvious subtext is that it is something used to discourage the worker from seeking collective action or improving their working conditions. If you applied these ideas in real life we&#x
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by Bakary 4y ago
Well it depends on your personal circumstances. As per the 4% rule, you can definitely live off $80K with a family. That's above the US median wage by a large margin. You could live on $40K too, which is terrible if working but complet
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by Bakary 4y ago
Don't get me wrong, I am in fact excited by this technology. The applications are clear in terms of generating new art, in particular in hybrid contexts where a person talented in one sphere only could finally make it work e.g. graphic
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by Bakary 4y ago
The thing is if it's not the college decision it'll be something equally as random and trivial. 99% of what we do is just bumping atoms against atoms in a soup of probability.
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by Bakary 4y ago
I am familiar with that part but the actual sentence is ambiguous to me. Oh well. You win some you lose some.
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by Bakary 4y ago
Look, I don't want to badger you. I'd say at the end of the day the important point is to band together to try to limit the influence of adtech and traditional ad companies. Most of this effort will have to take the form of collec

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