chachachoney

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by chachachoney 7y ago
If those parents stopped obsessing over their offspring's social and institutional metrics, they'd likely have to confront their own psychological and existential voids.
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by chachachoney 7y ago
>> Apple doesn't cheat me on my privacy when I buy a machine. Have you ever monitored all the telemetry Mac OS sends back to apple related domains?
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by chachachoney 7y ago
Absolutely.
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by chachachoney 7y ago
That's interesting. I haven't read any of the yellow vest comment threads on HN. Are there people posting in this thread who were active in the Yellow vest threads?
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by chachachoney 7y ago
Regulations criminalizing "product substitution" for healthcare products and foods are also in order.
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by chachachoney 7y ago
Loctite (blue package) works as good as superglue but stings a lot less.
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by chachachoney 7y ago
Incredibly useful phrase: "I'd love to get this in front of a judge."
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by chachachoney 7y ago
BM runs on a ton of conventional capital, both through the org and through the corporations that are the largest theme camps. Aspects of the experience a person has attending Burning Man, happen sans a traditional US dollar based market, th
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by chachachoney 7y ago
If the subject of the article wasn't pompous enough to go out of his way to refer to himself as a 'Nobel Prize Winner' in circumstances that didn't warrant it, I'd agree.
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by chachachoney 7y ago
Drastic oversimplification. Many of the showcase playa art pieces are funded by grants supplied by the org. Also, while it contradicts the codified principles, there are no shortage of attendees who believe that the gifting thing is recipro
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by chachachoney 7y ago
Good question. Given that the concept of asylum has been demonized by the current administration in the US, seems like the first step is electing the opposition party and demanding that they express their sympathies for HK protestors with l
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by chachachoney 7y ago
Yeah, it's crazy to witness solidarity amongst people supporting democratic ideals in the age of the troll farm.
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by chachachoney 7y ago
I'd rather apply occam's razor to the situation. As a result, I believe the student's own articulated reasons for their dissatisfaction. Also, they're putting their lives and bodies on the line for this, the least we can
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by chachachoney 7y ago
>> Hopefully they can correct the mistake by granting full citizenship to Hong Kong permanent residents who wants it, otherwise whatever they say is a farce. Same goes for USA, if they want solidarity with Hong Kong protestors grant t
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by chachachoney 7y ago
Another reason to increase nytimes' Gell-Mann amnesia score. The word "placement" isn't found once in the article, nor is there any mention of the actual significant and broad machinations that the org goes through to pl
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by chachachoney 7y ago
The NYT enjoys a significant brand aura which blinds many to the significant editorial and journalistic misconduct commited by the organization.
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by chachachoney 7y ago
I think that one of the reason's we're behind on this is that major players aren't putting R&D into usable clusters of user managed permissions and tools for both power users and average users to manage and introspect the
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by chachachoney 7y ago
Do the stories the developers are given specify that handling of edge cases is not a requirement for completion of the current sprint?
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by chachachoney 7y ago
Interesting that a site published a copycat article of something that the New Yorker ran ten days earlier. Something tells me that external media focus on the moderation of this site is going to be something we're all going to wind up
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by chachachoney 7y ago
>> I know almost no professionals who shoot on manual mode outside of studio settings. Small sample size. Also greatly varies depending on the particular gear, shot, genre, etc... Completely agree that aperture mode is an amazing and
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by chachachoney 7y ago
>>The Google Analytics code collects information about users' browsers, computers and their activity, nothing especially personal. That's more than enough to personally identify a user. Given the sensitive nation of your sit
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by chachachoney 7y ago
I get the impression your heart is in the right place, and you are genuinely interested in helping people. I respect that you've taken the time to develop a proof concept, and that you're asking for feedback. >>Don’t worry,
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by chachachoney 7y ago
The criteria mentioned seem both parochial and specious. I'd prefer meaningful criteria that result in new citizens who would make positive contributions to a community, not criteria that would encourage otherwise ethical people to fal
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by chachachoney 7y ago
>> I don’t care much for the immigration debate in our country, but we should be actively recruiting people like this. Just to be clear, you're indicating that the criteria we should be selecting for is people willing to falsify
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by chachachoney 7y ago
>> I'm saying that I think allowing people to DDOS 8chan will result in more violence. Violence happens because these people follow a hateful, violent ideology whose specific articulated intent is to deprive others of liberty, li
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by chachachoney 7y ago
>> It reminds me a lot of Charlottesville, where people showed up to try to shout over the white nationalists and it just ended up with a bunch of people getting run over by a car. As if something like that happening wasn't entir
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by chachachoney 7y ago
>> It does feel cultural. If Apple can't get this right, then it points to a cultural blind spot for all of tech. I don't think it's so much a blind spot as a deliberate disempowerment of the user. If we actually had ge
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by chachachoney 7y ago
Indeed. It's unfortunate that any useful communication channel is a vector for advertising/promotion and is ultimately destined to be so overridden by spam that we're forced to take drastic measures. If this weren't the
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by chachachoney 7y ago
You make it sound like this is an attempt to return to a more desirable set of circumstances. We aren't talking about small towns here, we're talking about an urban metropolis. Relative anonymity is a feature, not a bug.
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by chachachoney 7y ago
You should take a look at New York Penal Law 240.35(4). Also, 1st amendment challenges only protect you if the supreme court is sympathetic.

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