Chaebixi

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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> I am deeply disgusted by false equivalency used in many posts this thread. Whatever you think the West is doing is not even close to this. It's terrible, it's even happening directly in the replies do you. This whole post has
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> According to the article, the actions described seem like discrete and well-defined like giving false information about terrorism, and not paying fines. That's just the sales pitch to make it seem reasonable and positive to the av
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> https://mic.com/articles/88461/a-modern-day-slave-plantation... Mic.com's business model is to deliberately present things in the most inflammatory way possible to make people outraged and profit from th
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Beijing would probably be in Hebei if it was part of a province. Ditto with Tianjin. Look at its map and you can see those cities pretty distinctly carved out in the center: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebei .
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> nobody can estimate out to decades. anyone who claim to be able to do so is a charlatan. No one can with certainty, but it's also foolish not to try. Anyway, you're doing the same thing: any enumeration of strengths (in this
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
I'm not so sure: it was still to a city with a couple million residents and a smog problem.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Soon to be in the terrorist's opsec handbook: don't fly with the phone you use to talk terrorist ringleaders.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Depends on who you are, whose border, and which direction. If you're an American returning from abroad, my understanding is the most they can do is detain you (briefly) and confiscate your electronic devices for a limited period of tim
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
I would honestly say a lot of that is legacy from when the US really was indisputably dominant, and not really a reflection of current native capabilities. There's also probably a list of many, more important strengths, that the US has
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Another anecdote: I visited a less-visited area in China a few months ago and was told a steel plant was recently moved there from Beijing. So, maybe they haven't shutdown or cleaned up many of those polluters, they just moved them to
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Yeah this is bullshit. Trolls have always existed, but shrugging them off was never a solution. > In message boards I used to frequent trolls were suspended without question and banned for repeat offenses. That must be selective mem
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
You should probably be aware of the term "tone-policing," because I think you're very close to being directly accused of it. In short, it's the social justice idea that: 1) people with the correct identities (LGBT, POC,
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> But you can't have your cake and eat it too. Google and the recent crop of SV startups are what they are, we hear, because they don't have the culture of of the stodgy old multinationals You could just as easily say they wer
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Honestly, I could see HR legitimately reprimanding inflammatory statements, regardless of context, that were strong enough to get them involved. It's an escalation of a disagreement and employees should be expected to behave more prof
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Because bigotry against whites is a sideshow, a minor issue. Then why all the resistance to addressing it? If it's such a small problem, it should be a simple and harmless thing to tackle it along with all the other kinds o
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> I didn’t realize that saying “kill all men” was attempting to foster a useful discussion. It's not. It's meant signal membership in a group and piss other people off (and show you don't care you did it). > In fact, I
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Let's move on. Any political position even close to the mainstream should not cost you your job unless you are a politician. But political stuff, for the most part, should not take over the workplace either. Here, here! Many peop
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Why didn't they say "Bigots should be fired?". By inserting race or gender into the statement, you're singling out a group as being the only offenders. IIRC, there's bit social justice ideology that essentially
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> I can understand not permitting banter at work or in organizations. It makes some people uncomfortable. But what I can't understand is just allowing banter of some ideological bent. I can. The point of "[only] allowing bante
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
The term for that is variable-ratio positive reinforcement [2] which leads to habits that are resistant to "extinction" [3]. I just learned this the other day. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_condit
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Come to think of it, that sounds pretty familiar. I've never used Instagram much, but that sounds like one aspect of that network I've read about. Everyone curates their profile to make their lives seem more fun and more int
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> The misleading thing about the “free law” angle is that PACER does not record “the law.” It’s a system for accessing parties’ legal filings. I'm 100% certain that PACER has opinions, and those are law.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Here's another idea: change your profile pic to a banner saying you're quitting social media. The social pressure against being called out for breaking your pledge will help make it stick. You'll be less able to silently re
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
I think the solution to that is a social one: generate so many authentic-looking but obviously false videos that no one will believe them without authentication. I think these immunization-fakes could reach even the most information-poor v
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
I think that's false. Humans are social, but that means social activity is rewarding. You can build a Skinner box out of "social" rewards just like you can build one out of money rewards (e.g. slot machines). Success for a
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
This isn't a completely technical problem, there's not going to be an air-tight technical solution. I think, at this point, anything more than the camera having a secure device-generated key that it uses to sign its output and pro
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Both. It is an arms race, but it isn't hopeless. Think of it this way: we have fantastic technology for forging paper documents, but we still trust them. For instance, someone forged a memo to make a former president look bad close t
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Well in the police conduct case, if they're wearing a body camera, you can still have a properly-documented chain-of-custody backing up the photo evidence. We've had good technology for the forgery of printed documents for a long
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
I wouldn't be that pessimistic just yet. It's yet possible that new advances in authentication technology might counteract some of these trends.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> wouldn't the world be better if data was open and easily accessible on everyone? > new morals would develop around reality rather than the fake image we are able to project. with constant surveillance i hope we enter into a mor

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