DoctorNick

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by DoctorNick 4y ago
>everything abnormal is celebrated as cultural progress That is a very curious statement.
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by DoctorNick 4y ago
"anymore"? It's ALWAYS been propaganda. The term "public relations" was coined by Edward Bernays because "propaganda" had taken on a negative term, and he readily admitted this: https://www.yout
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by DoctorNick 4y ago
You’re very uneducated if you believe that the Cultural Revolution led to anything remotely close to half the population dying.
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by DoctorNick 4y ago
This is patently absurd. That China would have a "willingness to kill half it's population" is something that only the heavily propagandized would believe.
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by DoctorNick 4y ago
Referring to his wife as a tool… I have to wonder if that marriage lasted
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by DoctorNick 4y ago
> Crashes are definitely a problem. Knowing the chip they use and the complexity under the hood. The fact is though, all instruments suffer from issues like this. You will not find a single piece of gear on the market that doesn't h
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
Methamphetamines.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
depicting problems with capitalism This is communism, actually
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
Someone ported an emulator to the teensy: https://github.com/dcoredump/MicroDexed
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
Are you working on an FPGA re-implementation? Basically everything with a DX7 chip in it is insanely priced (especially the PLG cards for the Yamaha MU-series, those are >$400), so this would be awesome to have.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
It's a simple reason for why practical effects were abandoned for CGI: film crews are unionized, 3d animators are not.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
I thought that said "28 foot context menu" and I was like, yeah, that sounds like Emacs.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
Wow, if you made a mistake like that, who knows what other kinds of mistakes you made?
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
Well, crap. How do you tell which ceramics use lead-based paint/glaze and which don't?
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
"Yeah, that's our racket!"
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
"It's the only way to keep those "people" off the streets." – San Francisco resident, 2024 ("Past Tense, Part I")
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
Only 3 years away from Sanctuary Districts: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Sanctuary_District
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
This is misleading. Police funding was never actually reduced. The proposed funding shift, as paltry as it was (only 120 million), never actually happened: https://www.sfweekly.com/news/is-san-francisco-re-funding-th...
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
>I think your argument is begging the question as it depends on a prior belief that Facebook is actually harmful. Considering that genocide has been organized on it? Yes. It's absolutely harmful.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
Considering that his actions were a key part of Uber's rush to market for self-driving, and that resulted in the autonomous execution of a pedestrian, I'd say that it was unethical.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
Surely, you can't be this credulous
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
"To compile PC-DOS from scratch, first you must invent the universe." - Carl Sagan
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
Reading Bad Blood, it's pretty obvious that there was some form of abuse going on in that relationship. That doesn't mean that she isn't guilty as hell, though.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
You're wasting your breath. Given the hamfistedness of their approach and swiftness with which this was pushed through, this was an order from the top. Which means that they're likely going to start monetizing user data directly a
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
To me, this is a good indicator that they're going to start (or are already in the process of) monetizing user data directly and they are shutting down avenues for third parties to hoover up that data.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
I mean, they're just following the same pattern that every other social media company has with their API: make it very open to help capture user share, then gradually scale it back to shut down abuse and facilitate monetization.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
Hiding behind women and children, you say? MONSTERS!! http://www.angryflower.com/hiding.html
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
BTW, the author is an utter creep: https://slate.com/business/2018/04/economist-robin-hanson-mi...
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
This is complete and utter nonsense. In a time of incredible, increasing inequality, the problem is that there's TOO MUCH social mobility? Give me a fucking break.
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by DoctorNick 5y ago
great, now replace landlords.

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