NegativeK

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by NegativeK 5mo ago
Bike lanes exist to protect cyclists from drivers and to limit how cyclists affect the flow of traffic. Cars stopping in the bike lane shit all over that, just like they would if they parked on the sidewalk. I wish drivers (and now leaders
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by NegativeK 5mo ago
Your points seem focused on the bottom line and short term extraction of labor from employees, versus actually building a long-term community of healthy, productive people. Like this: > will start making people think more about counting
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by NegativeK 5mo ago
Doctors are continually interviewed every time a patient gets pissed and sues them or files a board complaint. If there's any fault they're (very publicly) assigned remedial training or put on a PIP. They're also in incredibl
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by NegativeK 5mo ago
If I had a roommate who spent huge swaths of our monthly budget on house cleaning we didn't need, I might tell them to go find another place to live. Or to stop stretching metaphors.. The investors should be mad that the layoffs were e
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by NegativeK 6mo ago
We should be encouraging those users to switch to a password manager.
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by NegativeK 6mo ago
The defender must be right every single time, and the attacker right only once. Until the attacker has initial access. Then the attacker needs to be right every single time.
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by NegativeK 6mo ago
> Particularly since so many companies don't even know all of the OSS they are using, and they often use OSS to offload the cost of maintaining it themselves. Companies that market to the EU are going to need to find out real fast.
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by NegativeK 6mo ago
My experience with lawyers helping me respond to other lawyers is "Stop interacting with that person". Unless I'm spending way more money, I'd expect any company to fire me as a client as fast as legally possible if I th
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by NegativeK 6mo ago
Make HIPAA include PII. That hits your toxic waste goal real fast.
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by NegativeK 6mo ago
The sign won't be "don't do mass surveillance". It'll be "make money off mass surveillance, but don't get caught like Flock did."
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by NegativeK 6mo ago
I think maybe we should listen to the lawyers here. The tension is that people start with writing code to scratch an itch and share it freely. Every bit of community management pulls away from sitting down and coding a personal project. Eve
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by NegativeK 6mo ago
Anyone who assumes they won't be fooled is setting themselves up for disaster. The biggest of Musk's warning signs, for me, was the hype. Hype can drown out valid criticism. When the hype is big enough, valid criticism ends up bei
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by NegativeK 6mo ago
I certainly thought I was smarter when I was younger.
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by NegativeK 6mo ago
AI is maximizing the move fast and break things approach, including not asking for permission from its userbase. It's consistent with believing that AI is the future -- if a company doesn't perform really well, it loses that race.
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by NegativeK 6mo ago
By migrating to another code forge and paying them so they're sustainable. Which doesn't answer your question at all, but it is the metric they'll pay attention to. And it is the the thing that actually addresses the underlyi
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by NegativeK 7mo ago
>> hobby > You don't have to support This isn't just a kernel thing. Expecting volunteers to dump time into compliance is ridiculous. Not because they oppose the idea, but because huge swaths of the internet run on people
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by NegativeK 7mo ago
Abortion prosecution or societal ostracization. Streamer doxing. Literally just being trans. HIV fear mongering. Illegal fuckery with your insurance rates. Employment discrimination. Stalking. Racial discrimination. Can you imagine trying t
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by NegativeK 7mo ago
The business owner is in a job that takes a huge amount of their life, with a suicide rate four times higher than average. People accuse veterinarians of being in it for the money, the same day another owner decides to euthanize their dog b
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by NegativeK 7mo ago
CLAs have a use beyond shitty anti-open source rug pulls, but they've been abused enough that I'll trust the FSF first. And I fully acknowledge that the FSF isn't and will never be perfect.
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by NegativeK 7mo ago
> The tech companies don't really have any issue paying It reduces profit.
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by NegativeK 7mo ago
> You also can't see a doctor in the UK unless you're effectively dying This is not true.
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by NegativeK 8mo ago
> It's not impossible, it's just extra work that usually goes unrewarded. That sounds like profit motivated negligence, and it sounds like a standard justification for why Europe is going to hold companies liable.
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by NegativeK 8mo ago
Excepting small communities: if you're looking for anything but humor, sort by best typically ruins the comments. Subreddits get jokes or noob content going to the top. PBS's Spacetime channel on Youtube -- one of the few channels
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by NegativeK 8mo ago
Traditional CAD software feels vaguely like programming -- it took a _lot_ of work to understand the fundamentals. But once I did (on commercial software), switching to Freecad really wasn't that bad.
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by NegativeK 8mo ago
Big advances have also come from some of the most violent, destructive wars the planet has seen. I agree with you on principle, but I don't think it's straightforward as your point states.
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by NegativeK 8mo ago
The same crap happened with cryptocurrency: it was either aggressively pro or aggressively against, and everyone who could be heard was yelling as loud as they could so they didn't have to hear disagreement. There is no loud, moderate
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by NegativeK 8mo ago
It feels like less of an expectation and more of a: the "leap" from the rationals to the reals is a far larger one than the leap from the reals to the complex numbers. The complex numbers aren't even a different cardinality.
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by NegativeK 8mo ago
Amplifies it, because it's the easier way to profit. Cable news was ramping up sensationalism -- including polarization -- before the internet was a household thing. Social media gave the businesses real-time feedback of how to drive u
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by NegativeK 8mo ago
I was going to comment the same. Complaining about how there are too many dumb people is a trollish red flag I've learned to disengage from. Also, stop blaming your damn users.
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by NegativeK 8mo ago
That 100% sounds like the right thing to do that can't be done due to budget constraints. The shredding company (who accepts the liability, I think) is just too cheap in comparison.

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