Chaebixi

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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> What made said tokens currency was not the metal, but the stamp. No, at least not always. IIRC, in Ancient Greece the money was the precious metal itself and its value of a coin was reckoned based on its weight and purity. The stamp w
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God, I hate this argument with a passion. The First Amendment was a means to and, which was protecting free expression from undue influence of the day's most powerful institutions. While it's technically true that all kinds of c
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> Probably the fact that Google pays them billions of dollars. Isn't that over? Their default search engine is Yahoo now, IIRC.
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> The silly games and facebooks are only a problem for those who choose to participate in them. This is a bad argument. Usually it's not an informed choice, often made by someone who's immature. Also, some of the... > massi
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> Are you absolutely sure they're "mindlessly scrolling", and not just being fun and engaging to their friends on the other end of the social network? Hasn't there been a drastic rise in teenage depression linked to s
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> Of course it is about moderation, but how can you moderate yourself when there is an infinite supply available? Correction: an infinite supply using psychology tricks A/B tested to keep you going as long as possible.
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> to something that looked like an headphone jack to connect to computer The word you're looking for is "serial port."
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> I sometimes imagine, with horror, what would happen if after 500 years of progress, humanity were to realize that almost all cultural practices they painfully, one by one, undid, were all sensible to begin with for reasons that humanit
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> It's a very good argument. In the best case, that argument only has a little utility. However, it's a pretty bad argument now, since political correctness only allows you to make those kinds of swaps in certain cases. Nowad
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> "Ruined?" Because he might have to take a non-tech job? Please. There are more tech jobs than those at Google, Facebook, etc.
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I bet it would work in a smaller setting, like a hiring interview where the scandal came up. It wouldn't be worth doing something like now and in public while there's attention on him.
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> Nope, regardless the technical skill or his actual personality, his public image is forever ruined. I predict he'll be able to find a nice tech job eventually, and the biggest barrier he'll have to overcome is this lawsuit.
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> Do you have evidence for that claim? You know your parents said the same about you with your computer games. You're asking me to provide you evidence of a widely written about social phenomena while simultaneously claiming to kn
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> a lot of big thinkers in that era felt that writing and reading would lead to the degradation of the human memory. And I'd hazard that they were right. However the degradation wasn't catastrophic because searching books is h
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> Also just going to say, if you had taken away my smartphone/internet in highschool "Smartphone" and "internet" are two separate categories, and the former is strongly associated variously low-value, deliberatel
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
It looks like they put all their research on clickbait to profitable use. You used to be able to receive and reply to Facebook messages via email. They took out the reply feature and recently they've taken out the content as well. No
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Why not all three: 1. Tell your Facebook followers that the platform is manipulating and using them (by posting articles like this one to your feed). 2. Unfollow the most annoying ones (or send them even more personalized messages about how
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> More recently, after running a script found on here to unfollow everyone in my feed, I've noticed that Facebook will "invent" notifications - someone's birthday, an event near me, etc - to keep the dopamine slot mac
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> I think such quality collapse is evident across many industries today. Could it be related to MBA thinking? Seems like today's corporate leadership shamelessly focuses on nothing but short term financial numbers.
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That doesn't make a ton of sense to me. Aren't mainframe CPUs developed using modern techniques?
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IIRC, some of those old machines interleaved CPU and GPU memory access windows, since memory was so much faster than CPUs back then. Edit: this is what I'm talking about: https://www.bigmessowires.com/2011/08/
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> Don't we already have "true" random number generators embedded on most modern processors? I was under the impression most motherboards have some sensors strictly for this purpose--to read data from static or thermal sens
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> In the good old days*, the speed of processors was well matched with the speed of memory access...Over the ensuing 35 years, processors have become very much faster, but memory only modestly so: a single Cortex-A53 in a Raspberry Pi 3
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> What about getting rid of pensions in order to be financially solvent is a race to the bottom? The idea that the little guy needs to be made more financially insecure so those at the top can benefit from something more "financiall
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> (where "other team" includes the citizens of the US apparently). Not really. It's not like stuff like that Dual_EC_DRBG were export only, and IIRC, they did hold on to zero days that would affect American systems, leavi
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What is old is new again: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Five_Different_M...
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> I have my doubts that they'd throw away all pre-acquisition IP just to be able to make this claim China doesn't seem to be above claiming that they "domestically developed" technology that they really acquired from
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> Private sector pensions are for the most part long gone. Why should public sector keep them. Because we don't want a race to the bottom?
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>> Anyone working the counter at your local Post Office could easily work the register at any grocery store in your town. > And they'd take a 60% pay cut to do so, wouldn't they? I wouldn't say the Post Office worker
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> Just alleging that something could be wrong isn't enough, reasonable doubt has to have a boundary line somewhere. IANAL, but wouldn't a presumption of innocence require the prosecution prove that their evidence is not mistake

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