ataturk

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by ataturk 8y ago
It's so strange--I never would have expected the boot of tyranny to come from private corporations, but here we are. And what all this proves is that technology is value-neutral and can wipe us all out, or just make us incredibly mise
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by ataturk 8y ago
It was Alinsky who instructed people on how to personalize politics. It is thus a tactic of the left. If conservatives are finally fighting back, that is to their credit.
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by ataturk 8y ago
I worry because people today aren't reading history. They don't even have any idea what took place in the 1980s during the Soviet era and how the fall of communism shaped today's Europe. I think about the Czechs fighting bac
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by ataturk 8y ago
Again, as mentioned above, read up on East Germany. All your questions about "why is this bad?" have already been lived by tens of thousands of hapless people.
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by ataturk 8y ago
As someone who is friends who two different social workers and related to someone in family court diversions (think: parents getting their kids taken away and want them back) I can tell you that UBI isn't going to solve much of anythin
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by ataturk 8y ago
As someone who has probed the depths of his own "malevolence" in very anti-social ways (and with nothing to do with socially acceptable state-sanctioned acts) I understand what you are saying. However, "primates that talk&qu
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by ataturk 8y ago
You're not the only one. What hurts the most for me is that I wrote my doctoral thesis on privacy back in 2003 and I touched on a number of these issues. 9/11 ruined my career, though. After 9/11, nobody wanted privacy or
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by ataturk 8y ago
From scratch, as in from bar stock and other raw metals? Yes, very easily, in fact. It's technology that is well over 200 years old. Machine guns are 100+ years old. Making primers and smokeless powder might be tricky, but the mecha
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by ataturk 8y ago
I'm way smarter at night. I wrote my dissertation between the hours of 10pm and 4am. Thus far, I have been unable to find an employer willing to tap into that.
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by ataturk 9y ago
My biggest issue with former military people is that their skills don't easily translate into any other fields and that their mindset is usually heavily canted towards statism, which is a big problem when you combine the kinds of surve
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by ataturk 9y ago
I've read Kurzweil's books. Reflecting on them over time, I think he's kind of full of it. It's not that the material was un-interesting but rather that the claims he was making were a bit wild and overly-optimistic.
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by ataturk 9y ago
The little guy spreading ideas is not as easy as it was, though. If the search engines don't index your site, if Youtube removes the informative videos you made, if FB and Instagram are filtering you out, who is going to see it? No, t
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by ataturk 9y ago
The Framers of the US Constitution were rightly concerned about standing armies. Not that anyone cares about any of it at this point--we're all going to go through hell again, probably nuclear hell, then people will understand. Seriou
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by ataturk 9y ago
I just don't understand the willingness people have to put their lives in the hands of unproven technology like this. I mean, I don't even trust regular old cruise control in my cars and I keep my finger on the "cancel"
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by ataturk 9y ago
Every place I have ever worked had that same kind of shitty Excel/Access pile of crap including the manual instructions. It's like people can't understand that if you can write down a procedure for someone to follow you can
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by ataturk 9y ago
A thinly-veiled ad for whatever consulting business they are.
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by ataturk 9y ago
"I have no sympathy towards gun use." But you see you should because if the government in conjunction with private industry can ban the thing you don't like today, it can also ban the things you do like tomorrow. You'll
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by ataturk 9y ago
What sort of little bubble do you live in? Where I live people get pretty good utility out of their sport utility vehicles! We have had a ton of snow this winter, including a couple of storms where having ground clearance was key to getti
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by ataturk 9y ago
We should not overlook the fact that in the 1970s, trauma surgeons practiced in the Bronx. Nothing ever really changes in the human condition, but new generations forget the old lessons.
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by ataturk 9y ago
A step ahead? Didn't such a law already go down in flames in Idaho or someplace?
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by ataturk 9y ago
Welp, get back to me when you're 50 Mr. Senior and we'll see how you fared over the long haul. Because "coding monster" or not, when you hit 40, companies will be less enthusiastic about hiring you, and by the time you&
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by ataturk 9y ago
The reasons underlying the bi-modality are pretty clear to me. There are a couple of major factors at play: 1) Inflation. My starting salary out of college many years ago was $35K. Today's starting salaries are double that. Double
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by ataturk 9y ago
It's more of a cautionary tale about dealing with people--I can't count the number of times I've been in some kind of work situation where the people above me believed in some absolute folklore that was detrimental to the exe
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by ataturk 9y ago
First world problems! I competed in two different Olympic sports and although I attended the Junior Olympics for one of the (big whoop, right?) and didn't place, I never once thought I was a loser--you just look at the competition and
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by ataturk 9y ago
And install a tracking device in your car so we catch watch your every move and second guess everything you do while driving.
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by ataturk 9y ago
It is amazing how on the one hand people can detest Nazis and Soviets saying things like "I can't believe they could have been so stupid to have gone along with that" and then on the other hand, aid and abet the police state
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by ataturk 9y ago
Does it ever move back? I mean, I've read this same article a half dozen times over the past 20 years or so and I keep wondering what kind of clock it is that is perpetually 5 mins. to midnight but can move two minutes forward all the
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by ataturk 9y ago
A lot! Post-industrialism is a huge problem. Most of Upstate NY is one ghost town after another punctuated by art studios and phoney-baloney tourist towns with a "pedestrian mall" which is just a bricked over main street with so
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by ataturk 9y ago
I worked at #1! The place all this went bad was when big cable and AT&T got into the game and flushed out all the rest of the competition. Comcast is a reprehensible company from top to bottom--the pricing sucks, cable tv sucks, bundli
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by ataturk 9y ago
So you think government infallible? I guess you look at Comcast and go "what a bunch of assholes" am I right? The problem is that the same people who work at Comcast also work in government. There's a really good reason wh

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