Kaveren

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by Kaveren 8y ago
Utilitarianism is very dangerous. Our current societal system isn't really based on utilitarianism as I see it, and I don't think we want to live in a world where a pure version of that school of thought is allowed to have any pow
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by Kaveren 8y ago
I'm tired of the big tech alarmism. Nobody needs to break up any of these companies. Having power does not make a company evil. You can ask legitimate questions about Amazon's treatment of employees. Boycott them if you're so
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by Kaveren 8y ago
I forgot the most important thing of all, there's no invitation system to join a group chat in Skype! You can get put into chats you have no interest in. Discord servers allow you to build communities, and can and do scale up to tens o
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by Kaveren 8y ago
If you want to learn frontend web development for instance, bootcamp curriculum is inferior to simply reading Mozilla Developer Network. Paying for mentorship itself in programming is over-rated: Question about career advice? Programming Di
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by Kaveren 8y ago
Skype: - You cannot prevent anyone in a group chat from inviting anyone to a group chat. Routinely, people will add their full list of hundreds of contacts to group chats. This is awful. - Anyone that's a member of a group chat can cha
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by Kaveren 8y ago
The Terms of Service for Discord just got updated. Though on DuckDuckGo's search page I see the phrase "solely for your personal, non-commercial use", this must be from an old version because the ToS doesn't use "co
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by Kaveren 8y ago
I avoid Slack entirely. My comment [1] on Reddit still stands for Slack's advantages for business. I'm sure Discord is happy without the business userbase, but I can't help feeling they could challenge Slack if they wanted to
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by Kaveren 8y ago
> "I learned more real-world skills in 12 weeks than my Stanford degree taught me." I'd hope the author of that quote was paying very little attention, because I find this hard to swallow. My problem with these programming
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by Kaveren 8y ago
I think it's a good move. Discord is definitely making almost no money up to the current point, and this move can help put it on the eventual road to profitability. The cut of profit Discord takes is the same as Steam (30%). The produc
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by Kaveren 8y ago
I don't know if this is a genuine question or attempting to catch me on hypocrisy. Yes, that's egregious, why wouldn't it be? I was talking about the desecration of dead bodies of enemy combatants which people make a big deal
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by Kaveren 8y ago
It's gruesome, but I don't agree that desecration of bodies is evil. War is war. If the person is already dead, they do not feel anything. If they were killing and trying to kill your people, it's understandable. So it is dis
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by Kaveren 8y ago
I don't think it's entirely implausible, though I do find it unlikely. I assume the main purpose for a government creating it would be to get around sanctions. But what countries would be technically sophisticated enough to do thi
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by Kaveren 8y ago
> "You don’t have to care about competitors. It’s a waste of time. Because you know where to go. You can ignore even if they stole features your product has. Because you are the person who most understands your product, how it works
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by Kaveren 8y ago
Why wouldn't being banned from serving as CEO or Chairman of any publicly traded company for some certain amount of time be enough? Why wouldn't increasing the fine be enough? Say it were $40m, $80m, $100m. You can punish someone
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by Kaveren 8y ago
Nitrogen gas appears to be what states* are looking into [1] [2]. [1] http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc... [2] http://time.com/3749879/nitrogen-gas-execution-oklahom
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by Kaveren 8y ago
It's about a mindset of the purpose and necessity of imprisoning so many people, not an individual case. Aside from that, do you believe that Elon Musk in particular deserves to have his freedom restricted, be in a potentially dangerou
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by Kaveren 8y ago
I don't think Elon Musk deserves to go to prison for any length of time for that. I understand that he may have been very hasty and made fraudulent claims to investors (arguable considering you can't tell his state of mind). The U
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by Kaveren 8y ago
I still disagree on the IQ requirement for money, but looks like you're right about this. I was mistakenly searching for "average IQ by profession", rather than "average iq for engineers". Thank you for the link!
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by Kaveren 8y ago
I'm open to being wrong here, but where can I find a source on this? I only found this one chart [1], and the mean averages seem to be lower than 130. I have no idea how reliable this is. I can't speak to San Francisco at all, but
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by Kaveren 8y ago
No you don't, where is this supposed to come from? 130 IQ on 15 SD is probably significantly too high as well to be the mean average.
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by Kaveren 8y ago
Authoritarianism leads to violation of human rights. Besides that, the onus of justification should be on the side in favor of government control. You should need a good reason to restrict someone from performing an action they desire to. N
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by Kaveren 8y ago
I find this to be the case too. I prefer listening to rain ambient, like A Soft Murmur [1] or lofi hip hop beats. Apparently, there's even some research that shows that ambient music which isn't at a high volume level can boost cr
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by Kaveren 8y ago
I'd find a private school / homeschool argument disingenuous, so I'm with you that far. Google Classroom is a fair point (schools also use Google Docs and the like as well), but I don't believe it holds water. Government
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by Kaveren 8y ago
There's a strong difference between state mandated censorship and a company voluntarily censoring content on their platform. A company has the absolute right to prohibit any content on their platform that they so choose. There's f
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by Kaveren 8y ago
Great article. This problem goes far beyond PSN though. The sheer amount of account recovery processes companies offer that are poorly designed is astounding. In particular, SMS has been a notoriously strong attack vector for _years_, and c
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by Kaveren 8y ago
You should know who runs a VPN in my opinion if you're going to trust them. Private Internet Access you at least have a name at London Trust Media, but Andy Yen has a public presence. I don't trust anyone who uses "military g
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by Kaveren 8y ago
I thought the Reddit reply was thorough, though I can't speak to the claim by krn. At the end of the day, I can't name many (if any) VPN providers that operate their own data center, which is extremely important since they all (in
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by Kaveren 8y ago
What are you referring to? The situation I found bits and pieces about didn't seem to amount to much of anthing. ProtonVPN was able to explain what happened to what I thought was a satisfactory degree [1]. I definitely don't trust
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by Kaveren 8y ago
ProtonVPN has a free plan, I recommend it quite strongly. Netflix works on the server I use, though I'm not sure if it works for all servers. P2P traffic is not allowed on free servers. Support is okay, not the fastest. Downtime is rar
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by Kaveren 8y ago
Is there really a bubble? The players look fairly solidified to me. You have Facebook, which might not be as cool in all countries with younger users, and has had a lot of controversy surrounding fake news, election influence, and privacy,

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