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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
> because it means you are implicitly deciding your current existence is not enough > that is what bothers me with religion as well: it is a rejection of ourselves and reality traded for comfort. I get people need it due to bad life c
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
> I'm curious as to what differentiates cannabis from other psychedelics such that you think there is a healthy path to it and not to anything else. Experience. Also you're more likely to come across it due to legality. When yo
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
Imo there is no healthy situation that leads someone to any drugs past pot. At that point you enter a rabbithole
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
> Just curious, were they already fairly normal? I'm wondering if the benefits are only in a narrow group, setting, condition, etc. This is the problem: is anyone? Does anyone have a perfect upbringing? How could they be sure? Tbh I
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
Could you elaborate on the girlfriend, best friend, and other friend? How did their experiences play out? What about it changed them?
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
Of the people I've known who did hallucinogens, I knew them all before and after. NONE of them were better off afterward You can read all the "life changing experiences" that people have online, but when you take these you ro
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
People who (implicitly) say "you better do X or care about Y or else bad things will happen!!111!" it's like: what's going to happen? Am I going to spontaneously combust if I just ignore you?
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
FWIW Gonzalez v Google might not have as much of an impact as what the comments here indicate. > The case — Gonzalez v. Google — seeks to hold Google legally liable for a deadly 2015 Paris terrorist attack, alleging the tech giant recomm
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
As a recent grad, this doesn't at all seem surprising I had a class where literally half of the people in it cheated on the autograded assignments and got caught. Then after getting caught a bunch of them cheated again by just refactor
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
In hindsight pompous would've been a better word
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
Why does the author write in such laughably pretentious language? > It is the emotional register that accounts for the Pavlovian alacrity with which we attend to our devices and the digital flows for which they are a portal Why not just
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
The TPP was more complicated than this and there was bipartisan opposition to it. The opposition to it wasn't merely Trump's isolationism but genuine concerns about the economic affects it would have on domestic citizens
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
extensions.pocket.enabled
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
Except they post pay ranges and not a single salary. They could just make the pay ranges really big and use the ambiguity to avoid the intended effect Also I have no clue whether it actually helps reduce pay gaps on average. I remember read
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
> You can, I suppose, go find the settings one by one and disable all the places they appear It's like one setting in about:config > Switching to Firefox means accepting ads built-in to the browser, something that (AFAIK) Google
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
> But, stuff like this should make Facebook employees angry. Zuckerberg is not a person to envy. It's a wonder he hasn't been pushed out yet. I'm pretty sure he's holding enough stock to prevent it from happening, but
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
> Facebook (Meta) cannot innovate. Their growth since inception is almost exclusively through acquisitions. Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus. Innovation at this point != success Just look at Oracle... they're still alive and doing OK
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
> Would topic forums see a rise in popularity I highly doubt it > or would sites like Reddit draw in some of those users probably. I get the impression reddit is doing more marketing to non tech people, and more people I know have sai
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
> Metaverse is an interesting idea It just seems like a mix of xbox kinect and roblox maybe zuck is just having a midlife crisis, who knows
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
This isn't what new grads actually do. They're in the same boat you're in, algo classes have a lot of theory but LC is a different beast entirely
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
I mean people buy google phones, it can't get a lot worse than them. And they aren't bad phones either. Imo at the end of the day people don't give two shits about privacy, convenience is king
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
> cough Proton cough I'd take Proton any day over a neutered ad blocker
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
I can't see this panning over well without the supreme court establishing some sort of discretionary middle ground. One camp says the platforms are like newspapers, the other says they are like email companies. Imo the platforms are ne
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
> It is widely thought that SCOTUS decides based on ideology and politics, and only justifies it with the text of the Constitution after the fact. Although they like to present it as some kind of rigorous reasoning, there are always suff
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Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door(nytimes.com)
4 points by cetahfh14615 4y ago|5 comments
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
Posting this just because I read the comments and saw (most) commenters advocating for this. Is the NYT comment section just braindead? It seems like they are Do you think that someone who says "X politician is an idiot, and their poli
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
> If everything had to be known to everyone, it would remove the ability to do a lot of things that nearly everyone would consider good for themselves and society. Would it remove the ability to do these things, or would the collective c
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
> Do you tell everyone about your incontinence, ED or irregular menstruation, sudden fainting spells, etc? I said "ideally". Nobody would ever talk about these things and thus doing so is faux pas. But if we lived in a world wh
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by cetahfh14615 4y ago
Because there's a lot of questionable and predatory content online, parents (and local communities) should take responsibility to make sure their children don't fall victim to it. Also because having a divide between things someon
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The Ungodly Surveillance of Anti-Porn ‘Shameware’ Apps(wired.com)
4 points by cetahfh14615 4y ago|8 comments

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