EnigmaFlare

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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Yea, desire to fix a lot of environmental issues is driven by worry about the unknown consequences, which can be a genuine reason but it's hard to know how much you can justify spending on it, and willful ignorance because worrying abo
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Thanks. I'll watch that. It doesn't seem to have images but maybe you could have the scenery window separately and just look at one thing at a time :P I've considered setting up mirrors in my garden to redirect sunlight into
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
That's cool. How did/would the technology have worked?
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
I do that for some sites. It's the initial effort required to set everything up that's the obstacle. This kind of behavior is taking the easiest route at every step instead of investing time into making the future easier. I stoppe
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Parallax, sunlight intensity, directionality, heat. It's a pity we don't have affordable (or even any?) artificial windows that even emulate the sun. Just think how much more economically buildings could be made if they had effect
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
It's silly that there's a stigma attached to AI generated images in cases where it's perfectly reasonable to do. People seem to appreciate things more for the fact that they were created by spending time out of another human&
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Non-experts actually attempting to become informed (instead of just feeling like they're informed) can easily tell the difference too. The people being fooled are the ones who want to be fooled. They're looking for something to
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Probably the Nordic gender equality paradox. Or in short - women generally don't like working with computers as much as men but will tolerate it if they have to.
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
That's less of a scam and more of a personal responsibility problem. Like gambling, it doesn't necessarily involve any dishonesty, just encouraging you to imagine you'll sign up a lot of members or sell a lot of product. Furt
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Oh, I see now that if I scroll down it starts to include short videos and ads and random crap. I don't pay attention to that, probably because it's clearly nothing personally relevant to me and just lowest-common-denominator inter
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Usually that only makes sense if other people's use of it makes it harder for you not to. For example, you can want a 4-day working week but still work 5 days because you'll lose your job to a 5-dayer if you don't. But if it
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Can you explain how that works and how this general phishing protection concept wouldn't help?
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Voluntary or not, behaviors aren't experiences, they're things people do. Lying down in the supermarket is a behavior, but hearing voices isn't.
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Schools really need to teach kids not to trust the identity of anyone who initiates contact them unless they can physically see them in person and already know them personally. If the general population had this skill ingrained in them, all
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
What's wrong with manipulating public opinion? People aren't complete idiots and are still responsible for their own beliefs and how they vote. They'll only believe lies that they want to believe. The Soviet Union used to con
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Real estate agents have stricter ethics requirements from their professional body than the general law for everyone else. They might be punished for doing that. I don't know if they should or not.
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
That seems to be a small minority in software. 2% of Github repos are Unlicense licensed, 16% are something else I don't know and for everything else, the authors have chosen to use copyright to restrict how others can use it in some w
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Well OK but he still sold the house. If you're not doing anything, just talking, it's not fraud. People often offer to sell a bridge to somebody as a way of saying they're gullible. That's not fraud because they'r
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Fraud isn't just lying, it also has to be for some sort of personal gain, typically financial. You're taking their money too. If you tell people that if they invest in your pyramid scheme they'll get rich but you have no actu
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Do you consider anti-government Chinese people, such as Falun Gong members or general pro-democracy activists to be bad actors and that censoring their speech is important to protect institutions from them? I'm trying to point out that
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
You're probably using it wrong. I never see the stuff people complain about. When one of my half-dozen Facebook friends posts something, Facebook emails me and I click the link for that specific post and don't see any other crap.
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
It's not a good thing to not want rapists, thieves and terrorists entering your country? Pretty much every country has immigration restrictions that aim to stop those kinds of people and catch a lot of innocents with their broad classi
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Or that there's a Trust and Safety industry even exists.
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
NPC was derogatory from the start though. It should be descriptive without implying (or always being used as) judgement.
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
It's not a surprise at all that people doing extraordinary things aren't quite the same as regular people. The average same-belief-having person isn't going to do anything like make sci-hub because fitting in is their priorit
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
The DC Cook Straight cable in New Zealand has 3 cables with one spare and one redundant. It can use the earth as a return path though, not sure if you could do that all the way to Singapore. DC doesn't have phases so it's not 3-ph
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Oh! I was the one misunderstanding it. Didn't know there was a conjunction in there.
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
The solution of course is to come up with a new word for "virtue signaling" that doesn't give people that repulsion reaction. I have to say though, when I see people using popular buzzwords, it shows me they're not reall
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
Isn't that just normal not-using-the-euphemism for exactly the reason somebody wouldn't - to not try to hide the offensive idea behind it? Same way if you wanted to insult a handicap, you could call them a cripple.
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by EnigmaFlare 2y ago
because they need to exclude Asians and Indians who don't fit the disadvantaged criterion - which is why they're being identified in the first place.

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