Zarath

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by Zarath 8y ago
Very interesting post. Thank you for sharing :)
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by Zarath 8y ago
I was going to say. Go work in an office?
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by Zarath 8y ago
Ajit Pai: Regulatory capture by serving corporate interests and destroying net neutrality. Also Ajit Pai: Destroy net neutrality, which was seen as a "regulation" in the way of a free market.
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by Zarath 8y ago
Well caffeine for sure, and they don't even attempt to hide that. But I'm sure many take Adderall
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by Zarath 8y ago
Positive freedom: Freedom to do something Negative freedom: Freedom from something
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by Zarath 8y ago
So the point is that if you take stuff out of context, Google search won't be able to properly understand the nonexistent context?
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by Zarath 8y ago
It's really not confusing. I bet 75% of people never even go to their settings for a lot of software, or very very infrequently they do.
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by Zarath 8y ago
That's how capitalism works?
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by Zarath 8y ago
Maybe you've never needed to open your iphone because it would serve no purpose. If I could upgrade my old iphone by taking it apart, I wouldn't have bought a new one in the first place...
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by Zarath 8y ago
From "Capitalist Realism" by Mark Fisher: “[I]t is a mistake to rush to impose the individual ethical responsibility that the corporate structure deflects. This is the temptation of the ethical which, as Zizek has argued, the capi
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by Zarath 8y ago
But at least you got that iPhone!
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by Zarath 8y ago
I've been on the same track. The train was 4 hours late picking me up in SB, and probably 8 hours late in total.
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by Zarath 8y ago
Come on, have we really swung so far on the "game is rigged" and "college isn't what it used to be" pendulum that we're acting like college doesn't build useful skills. Before college I had never written a
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by Zarath 8y ago
At least having to file your own taxes maintains some pretense of financial privacy.
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by Zarath 8y ago
In Minneapolis, we say: Winter, and Construction.
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by Zarath 8y ago
Not sure why you wouldn't. Modem rental costs, what? 5 or 10 bucks a month? Just buy a modem and it pays for itself pretty quickly. I'm honestly surprised that they let you do it.
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by Zarath 8y ago
The most irritating headlines to me are "No. XXX is not YYY."
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by Zarath 8y ago
What does 1/1000000 even mean? One every million seconds, every million minutes, every million years?
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by Zarath 8y ago
I don't follow foreign politics much, but the last I heard of the Modi govt, they were confiscating people's gold and cash? Sounds pretty close to me.
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by Zarath 8y ago
Ask all the c++ metaprogramming people :)
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by Zarath 8y ago
Are you kidding? Pictures and "emojis" are far more informationally dense than words are. If anything this shows how quickly language is evolving when facilitated by instantaneous information transfer of near unlimited amounts of
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by Zarath 8y ago
Dunno why this is controversial. If you need to be taking supplements to get proper nutrition, then you're not eating correctly. Simple as that. EDIT: I guess this only applies to Veganism.
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by Zarath 8y ago
"5G"
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by Zarath 8y ago
Gotta call the plumber every now and then if you catch my drift.
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by Zarath 8y ago
It is definitely not as good, especially for certain queries. Those tend to be queries that have additional semantic meaning outside of just the keywords typed.
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by Zarath 8y ago
"free" markets aren't necessarily "ideal" markets. See concepts like: leverage, cost externalization, etc. The "free" market argument is so tired.
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by Zarath 8y ago
Ok? And what about game companies who prevent people who want work-life balance from being game developers? 2 sides of the coin.
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by Zarath 8y ago
Shh, stop ruining the capitalist narrative.
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by Zarath 8y ago
Oh my god that tile fade in irritates me to no end.
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by Zarath 8y ago
Meh, I waste way too much time on the internet anyway. Maybe it's time to rediscover some outdoor hobbies.

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