RichardCNormos

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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
Labeling something as "disinformation" or "misinformation" isn't an attempt to convince people it's not true, rather, it's an attempt to get tech companies to remove it, and to de-platform the people who p
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
You're probably more afraid of being wrong about your assessment of the situation. What's worse: people criticize your work, or nobody cares? Show off your work. Advocate for yourself. If you worked hard on something, you damn wel
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
> most people don't actively have any way to meet single people their age This is absolutely true. The best we've got right now is bars & clubs, and in those environments, there's no preselection for the type of person
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
I use crypto as a consumer so that I can self-custody a form of electronically transmissible currency. After seeing the Canadian government, certainly what anyone would call a "free, developed country" extrajudicially freeze citiz
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
There's a point where this needs to stop and we've clearly passed it. The danger of filtering financial transactions through what is effectively a political-correctness proxy is that it inhibits the only practical means we have fo
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
It's simple supply and demand. The modern NPC requires constant firmware updates, the content of which is immaterial. If the NPC goes for too long on the same firmware version, s/he runs the risk of "having a think" and
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
I manage a couple of developers that are in their late 40s. It's great. I just say, "hey, can you handle this complex, ill-defined task?" and they get it done right, the first time. No real management necessary. An older, gri
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
A young man I work with has chronic myocarditis from the Moderna vaccine. He got the vaccine because our company made it a condition of employment, and he did not want to lose his job. It's affecting his work, he may get fired because
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
Excuse me, are you disparaging The Current Thing? Clearly, you have deep-seated issues or traumas that have ruined your moral compass. The Current Thing is so plainly and obviously virtuous, and people who do not support The Current Thing n
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
I love that this has finally come full-circle. I remember early scan-tron bubble sheets that you would record test answers on, then all the sheets were fed into a machine and it output the scores for the whole class. Later on, there were we
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
And who is criminally liable when there is loss of life or limb, caused by one of these cars? This looks like a way of load-balancing culpability so that no one human is actually on the hook.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
Many forums prevent you from posting via VPN, and many websites will CAPTCHA or straight-up block you. At least it's becoming obvious at this point: give us your personal data, let us know as much as we can about you, or you are not we
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
Your "gut" developed over tens of thousands of years of evolutionary pressure. There's way more information encoded into it than we would expect.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
Don't strain your back moving that goal post.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
I miss the days when saying "inflation is real, not transitory" was misinformation.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
They are unclear about the definition of "misinformation", making it completely subjective by designating sites as "untrustworthy" because it allows them to fit the "study" to the outcome they want.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
If you've got to spy on your employees, you've got weak line management. A good line manager knows when one of their direct reports is checked out. That said, as a line manager, I see no problem with an employee doing exactly what
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
This is a great feature. One of Slack's deficiencies is that it's very difficult to summarize a conversation in-situ. I've tried to do this with Google Docs, but it's too disconnected.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
Freedom to moderate one's platform is not freedom from consequences for doing so. There will be regulatory, legal, and investigative punishment for Big Tech within the next 10 years, as a direct consequence of their style of moderation
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
The bandwidth requirements for running an Ethereum node will not work for many home internet connection types. For Comcast, at least, with a 1.2TB/mo limit, the node will run you afoul of The Man within a week or two.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
"Please shrink width of browser to use the app!" Say what?
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
The state has the power to enforce laws and court rulings with violence. Perhaps tech companies should be made aware of that fact.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
This is either dishonest or naive. Federal law enforcement "advice" always comes with a hidden message of "Nice company you've got there. It would be a shame if something were to happen to it."
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
An ideology that dies without censorship is not a very good one.
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Because he can use his rational powers of observation and inference (otherwise known as instinct) to judge other peoples' assertions about the world. Studies, experts, and statistics are not required to analyze a narrative.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
> We've just decided to be wasteful with our land use to milk more money out of it, and to force the hand of people who might object to that with laws like single family zoning. Some of us don't want to live in an urban filing
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
68 acres is a nothingburger. I live in Environmentally Conscious California, and there's a 40,000 acre fire burning ~10 miles from my house. THAT's a wildfire.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
If you are going to be pedantic, it would behoove you to use correct capitalization.
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
It's not "quiet quitting", it's "inflation-adjusted effort".
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by RichardCNormos 4y ago
Still not buying a CCP spy machine. Before you downvote me and shout "DAS RAYCIS", realize that many US-based companies with nontrivial security needs ban employees' Huawei devices from their networks. I work at a place that

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