carnagii

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by carnagii 8y ago
> Manning, who had access to the computers in connection with her duties as an intelligence analyst they are gendering her correctly. at least we have a progressive politically correct Stasi.
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by carnagii 8y ago
The whole point of a brand is that people make buying decisions based on irrational ephemera as opposed to utility. Once you establish a luxury brand then charging ridiculous prices for the same utility only reinforces brand perception beca
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by carnagii 8y ago
> utterances are anonymized if only we had some technology that could identify a speaker based on their voice. oh, wait a second. but, lol, no, they aren't anonymized ... "recordings sent to the Alexa auditors don’t provide a u
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by carnagii 8y ago
Correct, but suppose one company has hundreds of edge's to their private network very close to the last mile and they run 10-20% of all internet traffic going across that last mile. If you are Google or Amazon and push a lot of low pri
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by carnagii 8y ago
This net neutrality is far from it when Google, Amazon, etc have their own private networks to which net neutrality rules don't apply. If carriers are prevented from offering differentiated services, which are required for next Gen pro
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by carnagii 8y ago
Class is not about money. This was an iron law up until a couple hundred years ago but the American attempt to create a classless society obscures it. The earlier belief that class was about "blood" was crude and probably mostly i
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by carnagii 8y ago
Chattel slavery was horrible and immoral which tends to make people forget that it was also incredibly stupid and inefficient. Wage slavery where people have the illusion of freedom but are still coerced by the threat of starvation and home
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by carnagii 8y ago
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by carnagii 8y ago
Harsh but true. Requiring advanced math classes as a gatekeeper for comp Sci is also massively exclusionary and totally pointless because the vast majority of programming jobs require no math at all.
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by carnagii 8y ago
I think it is true that it takes a lot of practice to develop implementation skill but that is largely optional in cs. You can graduate from cs programs with no implementation skills and only the ability to talk about programming.
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by carnagii 8y ago
that is the default answer but there comes a point when you have to reconsider it in light of the facts of a particular situation. Take email for instance: first class mail is protected by the 5th amendment, and a warrant is required to ope
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by carnagii 8y ago
> to penetrate sophisticated enemy air defenses and find and disable threats—requires what the fifth-generation jet offers: stealth and a stunning array of passive and active sensors > U.S. forces first took these capabilities into co
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by carnagii 8y ago
it is an interesting idea. technology of course has no gender, and any synthesized speech can only express an arbitrary simulation of gender, so making this explicit reveals the underlying reality that all technological simulations of gende
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by carnagii 8y ago
why not just have their policy be the first amendment and they abide by the same rules as the country that created them? Why should corporations take on censorship powers that are prohibited for the government? Why should a private for-prof
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by carnagii 8y ago
It is not necessarily bad. Moving complex stuff to user space can be good sometimes. There are things this would break like splice but also allows much tighter integration with applications because you can get and set state without system c
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by carnagii 8y ago
there is far more money being made off of all of the forms of art you mention than ever before in history. there are more books being published, more photos taken, etc, etc. it was never easy to make money off of writing before. it still is
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by carnagii 8y ago
in a post physical scarcity world ideas are the only things with any value.