Talanes

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by Talanes 5y ago
I think telling people who are only skeptical of this one new thing that they are anti-vax is just driving people to become anti-vax rather than change their mind about the Covid vaccines. I have a data point of one in my father, who follow
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by Talanes 5y ago
Who cares? Clicking on a link was the premise, we just assume it to be true and move on.
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by Talanes 5y ago
>Mind you we’re discussing an American company, working with American clients. And everyone in this thread is discussing how that company could be using American laws to pressure workers. This thread is an indictment of an American syste
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by Talanes 5y ago
If they're clicking on a link, discoverability is done. It's been discovered.
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by Talanes 5y ago
I'd honestly swap your examples around. "Thou shalt not Kill" provides for stability that enables for long-term societies to develop. "Thou shalt have only one wife" just sounds like a rule made up by someone who wo
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by Talanes 5y ago
>You pull any random business major and they barely understand Excel. I'm not sure you could pull any random Linux user and have them truly understand Excel either.
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by Talanes 5y ago
>I will give $1000 to anyone who is willing to give their parent who doesn't know jack about computers Linux and tell them "figure it out." None of them will be able to do it. My father is tech illiterate enough that he ma
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by Talanes 5y ago
>Unless there's some weird process or catalyst that makes atmospheric CO2 to consumer grade plastic the absolutely cheapest way to extract CO2 Well, given that the way we do that is by growing plants, and most CO2 sequestering strat
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by Talanes 5y ago
That's not the problem the average person is trying to solve though, they want to know how they're supposed to tell the different kinds of flour apart.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Especially when if you wanted to try and survey people who've actually experienced a sudden upswing in free time, now is the time to do it. I wouldn't have to imagine my answer because I experienced it over the summer of 2020.
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by Talanes 5y ago
There's not such thing as a society without a moral against killing, so we're far in the reaches of conjecture and theoretical here. I didn't mean "Advanced" in any sort of value judgement way, but just in terms of
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by Talanes 5y ago
Well, and local laws. Making sure people get their breaks has been part of the supervisor/manager role for every food service job I've had, but I'm in California where breaks are mandated by the government.
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by Talanes 5y ago
The societies that dominate others through violence need an even more advanced moral system around killing than those that don't. "Killing is wrong" is enough to get some basic internal stability around, but to start pillagin
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by Talanes 5y ago
There's the reinforcement of him being behind them on making it to the fortune teller as well.
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by Talanes 5y ago
It reads almost like cult literature, though without any strong call to action.
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by Talanes 5y ago
>If you know the email address that is used for the Apple ID, you can send it a message without being in messages. Though this option precludes the random war-dialing explanation.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Maybe someone on the team really likes leaves. Fallout 3 only has so many beards because one artist got a whim and cranked them all out.
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by Talanes 5y ago
She said her writing sample was a snippet pasted from one of her novels, so the information to de-anonymize her is there.
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by Talanes 5y ago
>It just seems like a small price to pay for using someone else's work. Their example would still hold true if they were using a font they developed themselves, except instead of having to record the license information they would h
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by Talanes 5y ago
But "Read forward from there" is often just way too much text, with no clear delineation between different topics other than reading it. Reddit encapsulates topics into their own spaces that can live outside of an ever-increasingl
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by Talanes 5y ago
Every time I've heard some variation of this, the example is always three. I'm more interested in four. Does the pattern follow through? Because I physically can't hold up 3 fingers and my thumb without the pinky going up to,
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by Talanes 5y ago
>The difference is purely branding. If I make a comment in a large Discord server, and then put my phone back in my pocket and continue my day, I am very unlikely to actually see any responses to what I said.
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by Talanes 5y ago
I grew up in a small town in the 90's, and dance music was just something you sometimes heard in the background of movies. Getting into underground music back then would have meant driving a couple hundred miles.
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by Talanes 5y ago
This was how I was taught to drive stick, though all the cars I learned in definitely had tachometers. Nobody even brought them up.
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by Talanes 5y ago
They exist, if you don't consider Protonmail one of the "big clouds." That's where my non-technically inclined, but paranoid father gets his e-mail. Though my father also uses a prepaid flip phone that he doesn't ca
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by Talanes 5y ago
People who are consciously trying to de-couple from big tech are the same people who are conscious about lock-in effects.
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by Talanes 5y ago
>I refuse to "interact" with my thermostat. You... refuse to feel temperature? I'd wager that more people operate their thermostats based on their ambient reading of how hot/cold the room is rather than a data-forward
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by Talanes 5y ago
>Why sound? why not just a.. oh idk. disk access light? Maybe add other little leds for other stuff? Meanwhile, I'm over here with every LED in my apartment that's not tied to an IR reciever taped over with black electrical tap
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by Talanes 5y ago
In San Francisco, with our specific set of labor protections, Starbucks is merely competitive. But so is Union grocery work: which either pays better or worse after dues than comparably easy to get jobs depending on whether you need the ins
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by Talanes 5y ago
American Starbucks also throws in tuition (if you're comfortable going to the one school they're partnered with and tying your education to keeping that particular job) and healthcare (while employing a sizable number of people yo

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