EarlKing

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by EarlKing 4y ago
What a coincidence. I too lived during the era of open directories... and it was horrifyingly stupid. We got our number delisted as soon as possible because we didn't need random idiots calling us at all hours because they thought it w
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by EarlKing 4y ago
So if someone goes around taking a picture of your vehicle everywhere you go you won't have any objections to that because you have no reasonable expectation of privacy and it's all publicly available information. Got it. I'm
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Being a public figure does not mean you have a right to stalk and harass him. It means you get to have a higher bar to charges of defamation for things said about them and nothing more.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
So is your license plate number, and you have no reasonable expectation of the privacy of that information... but you wouldn't be happy if someone went around tracking everywhere you went now would you?
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by EarlKing 4y ago
It isn't. My point here being that just because something is public information does not mean you have any business circulating it specifically to encourage the stalking and harassment of others. Your freedom of speech ends short of st
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Most doxing involves using publicly available information to harass others... and yet that behavior is frowned upon everywhere. I don't think anyone here honestly believes that account was used for anything other than to encourage the
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by EarlKing 4y ago
So if I find your phone number in the white pages you'll have no problem with everyone knowing it, right? Because that's public information, right?
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Just so we're clear: You'll be totally in favor of maintaining the accounts of anyone who routinely posts the location of others, including yourself, right? Because that's not stalking at all... right?
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by EarlKing 4y ago
This. I mean, the C18 microcontroller has 32 instructions, too, but nobody's using that either. So what's the advantage of this thing?
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by EarlKing 4y ago
> I'm not sure about Amazon Logistics in the US, but at least in Europe I got the feeling that management just doesn't care about automating processes because humans are still cheaper in most cases. Historically this has been t
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by EarlKing 4y ago
The hilarious part is they literally buried the lead in the last paragraph. Nothing says "our readers will definitely think this guy deserved to get fired and not read any further if we tell them this" than burying it in the last
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by EarlKing 4y ago
I'm genuinely shocked people haven't been redirecting this to Tubgirl. Frankly, I'm a little disappointed.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
> One day I created a tool that made it faster to download things from your work email that you might need if you were looking for a job: performance evaluations and that sort of thing. > I posted the tool on Slack so that my colleagu
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Wiring a neural network randomly does not eliminate preconceptions, but rather you now have a random set of preconceptions... which is precisely equivalent to closing your eyes in hopes that the room will be empty (which obviously it won&#x
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by EarlKing 4y ago
It could be worse. You could be imagining Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari singing this in a continuous loop.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
I immediately stopped reading the minute I read that in the text. I can't take anything they say seriously after reading that.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Partisans are worried he'll let Trump come back... and as of a few hours ago he did just that. This is nothing more than a last act of political posturing by insiders and their allies who got thrown out. The furor will die down after a
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by EarlKing 4y ago
> a lot A few thousand out of millions is not a lot. The fact that it took them until now to leave, just a few weeks after Musk took over, shows that it's not anything policy-related and motivated entirely by the removal of insiders
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Not to be that guy, but even without Section 230 Hillary Clinton wouldn't be able to sue because she can very easily be demonstrated to be a Public Figure. This is the reason why you can go on Twitter and say pretty much anything you w
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by EarlKing 4y ago
More precisely it refers to the California Welfare and Institutions Code, Section 5150[1], regarding the procedures for involuntary psychiatric holds. I doubt IBM was aware of the connection at the time, but it's definitely fitting. :D
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Not really, no. Biology and medicine aren't really my field, and it's largely coincidence that I happen to know as much as I do about acid reflux disease.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
A number of studies have found a correlation between changes in the bacterial population of the distal esophagus and the onset of symptoms consistent with gastro-esophageal reflux disease and/or Barrett's Esophagus.[1][2][3][4] Yo
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Because people under the age of 40 are consuming less moss media every year. You gotta go where the eyeballs are.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
> Now, every network is becoming indistinguishable. Most Youtube Shorts I see are ripped straight from Tiktok. It has all the irritating telltale signs; wooden AI voiceover, stupid sound effects overlaid on top on the original audio, and
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by EarlKing 4y ago
First shap.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Or - here's a wild idea - degenerate porn is so ubiquitous on the Fediverse that we'll all just steer clear of it because the effort required to remove it is too great because: 1. Instances that have banned porn instances are few
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by EarlKing 4y ago
s/the Internet/the Fediverse Pretty sure I said as much in another thread and got excoriated for it because #NotAllFediverseNodes. Well, here's your proof: the Fediverse is largely populated with all manner of sexual content
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by EarlKing 4y ago
> Which political party repealed net neutrality? Which political party has held the house and the senate and done nothing to reverse it? Honestly, people who pretend that bourgeoisie issues are somehow the province of just one party are
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Targeted advertising is invasive of my privacy, and it doesn't matter if it's legal everywhere -- lots of things are legal everywhere and remain ethically abhorrent -- and insofar as every single user retains control of their indi
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Yes... the irony of discussing signal-to-noise ratio issues (i.e. spam) and then spamming up your own thread. This post sponsored by Irony.

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