champagnois

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by champagnois 5y ago
To be honest, no. No, I do not know why you find this so funny.
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by champagnois 5y ago
Firewalls and offline networks are a better line of defense than antivirus tools. If a virus is on your system it is already too late for the tool to do anything.
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by champagnois 5y ago
I understand your words, but that is not consistent with my experiences literally anywhere outside of social media where people are self censoring to conform to the puritanical zeitgeist of the moment. In China, for example, it is generally
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by champagnois 5y ago
Applied genetics will be the future of the species if there is one, and it is a bit wrong to take a hostile stance that "advocates for AG are <insert demeaning term>." which is how I took the comment.
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by champagnois 5y ago
I have read a few books that talk of eugenics in the way that I am describing it. Matt Ridley for example (genome book covers it on a chapter). Most discussions I have had on the topic with experts and such in their labs are usually in good
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by champagnois 5y ago
Prisons have many violent sociopaths. Studies on this are pretty clear. There is, however, the weird outliers. There are those people with similar brain patterns that are not of the violent variety. They seem to succeed in business, for exa
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by champagnois 5y ago
He was a critic of the pseudoscience and bigotry of the time. DNA wasn't even discovered yet. I suppose maybe we have a different set of definitions we are using. I do not view my stances as compatible with those of the time. When I th
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by champagnois 5y ago
I don't think what I am talking about is quite the same thing. Perhaps it would be more diplomatic to call my stance here to be in favor of applied genetics. DNA the molecule of genetics was not yet discovered. I do think there is a lo
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by champagnois 5y ago
There are better ways of wording that idea. There is also value in wording it better. I basically get your point, but the delivery here is not welcoming and is also not really on par with the enthusiasm that bio-scientists have for the fie
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by champagnois 5y ago
True enough. But, maybe things like this should be, you know, patched in an update to the system. It could always be better. https://apple.news/AxzRu5zVfRBmPT81j2_MHDg
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by champagnois 5y ago
Einstein is a good example of a rare genius that helped push the species forward. Not sure what you are even hinting at here? Do you hate his hair or something?
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by champagnois 5y ago
"Joe the Plumber" is a phrase from American political dialogue. It is a phrase that means, politically, a perfectly average dude. In my comment, it is to be understood that an exceptional individual like Einstein is worth more to
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by champagnois 5y ago
The sentiment exists in every society because society and civilization is always hierarchical. That is the root of a simple division that a coordinated state actor will exacerbate, amplify, meme-ify, and repeatedly upvote with bot armies. T
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by champagnois 5y ago
Further, I would add, it seems pretty scarey that many of the platform leaderships trend toward thinking toxicity in the leftwing direction is somehow not bad or censorable due to some absurd logical fallacy of victimhood hierarchies and su
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by champagnois 5y ago
The anti-work content on reddit should be analyzed by the feds a bit. It is promoting illegal sabotage of workplaces much of the time. It is also very similar to an organic movement from China that got banned and censored just before it sud
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by champagnois 5y ago
Consider what this does to opinion and independent thinking. Most attention grabbing platforms are designed to use a variety of reward mechanisns to reinforce the politics of the platform. Some easily botted platforms (like reddit) will con
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by champagnois 5y ago
Medicine is the only profession that seems to have its own specialized "coding and billing" co-professions with schools around the country that train only "medical code and billing" to their pupils. Any other business in
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by champagnois 5y ago
I own airpods because they came free with a macbook I was buying as a gift for someone. I use them. They are a bit of an improvement over some devices out there, but they are probably a downgrade from Bose bluetooth devices I have owned tem
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by champagnois 5y ago
For me, the involvement of another is a motivation amplifier. I sometimes pay people to work on my projects with me even if they contribute almost nothing.
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by champagnois 5y ago
No, they have not. Companies probably see no reason to innovate here either -- it is one of two major reasons for their customers to buy new devices. (1) Battery is nearly useless. (2) The vendor decided to artificially slow the device with
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by champagnois 5y ago
What is the unique feature of an Airpod that was not present in the successful products that launched a decade before? Status symbol for the apple nuts? Most people I know use only one airpod at a time. That applies to my two teens in highs
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by champagnois 5y ago
Nonsense. The earpiece craze started long before. I remember my mono-audio Samsung earpiece that went into one ear and worked perfectly from a decade before Airpods. The samsung charged with a simple USB cable, too.
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by champagnois 5y ago
Almost everything a teenager does is cringey and awkward. People are all imperfect creatures that learn from their mistakes through feedback loops. The digital age is scarey in that it tends to preserve the past in a way that allows a mista
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by champagnois 5y ago
The censorship is an inevitable result of tollerating these tech companies and their promotion of content moderation. If we are under attack from a foreign adversary, then the logical thing to do would be to firewall our social medias off i
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by champagnois 5y ago
That to me reads like a future where the right to be forgotten is finally restored. Anyone can then claim fake news about anything that wasnt enumerated on their resume.
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by champagnois 5y ago
They walk a very fine line. It seems like a difficult balancing act of compliance with regulators while appealing to users who expect hyper inflation and envision a libertarian utopian future.
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by champagnois 5y ago
Summarizing the event from memory, it seemed during the BLM virtue signalling craze -- he told his staff, "Coinbase exists to make money and not to be political. If you are unhappy about the lack of political expression and you need to
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by champagnois 5y ago
It is important people feel accepted and such, but reality requires everyone participate in the meritocracy of struggling through the economy. A company that can afford to do identity-politics based hiring initiatives is a company that has
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by champagnois 5y ago
Organized groups backed by various governments directly or indirectly will pose as extremists, flooding the platform with bots to post increasingly obscene content while pretending to be organic users. The intention of such groups is to get
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by champagnois 5y ago
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/china-1 Regardless of one's feelings towards China, this statement from the US state department, themselves a part of the conflict, more or less describes the ev

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