chiggsy

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by chiggsy 4y ago
So... there are no tools used for managing people that are not used for managing software? Well, that is remarkably fortunate.
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by chiggsy 4y ago
I see that the prison experience must significantly differ from my naive assumption. I struggle to envision a scenario where I would cheerfully trip balls surrounded by people who have committed violent crimes. Unless the drugs are to give
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by chiggsy 4y ago
One founder leaves and the replacement has a different mandate and/or worldview. Happens all the time. You should assume any app requiring contacts and access to photos is exfiltrating them.
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by chiggsy 4y ago
They could change the code after 8 months to exfiltrate your address book, easily. Most businesses pivot for whatever reasons, a giant database of users contacts would be precisely what one would want in order to mitigate unforeseen problem
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by chiggsy 4y ago
So, were we to be voting Italians, we would alter the powers of our caretaker government in order that it might negotiate international energy deals, and supply some kind of martial aid to the Ukraine against Russia? Really? Coalitions diss
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by chiggsy 4y ago
Terraform Mars? Space shields? Poppycock! How long to terraform a planet? Our first one? You don't think we'd retreat to virtual worlds instead? Or fight the fight we all want to fight, lose 80% of the population which would solv
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by chiggsy 4y ago
We are the hostages.
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by chiggsy 4y ago
Right but that cyclist didn't crash into anybody. Some dude grabbed his handlebars, clearly gonna be a fight since the cyclist would be long gone otherwise. Streetfighting is stupid at the best of times. Don't do this thing. Act,
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by chiggsy 4y ago
It ignores motorcycles, who at least in my head is why the term "cyclist." is used. Trucks, Cars, bikes, cyclists. Last two slightly more humanized because you can see the human fly off of the thing in an accident, trucks and cars
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by chiggsy 4y ago
They kind of proving one of your points though. Clearly you did not know what rolling-coal meant, you said so, and admitted it multiple times. Carry on, sir!
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by chiggsy 4y ago
The different treatment is injury and death vs slight inconvenience. It's an asymmetrical arrangement in favor of the car for any kind of two wheeled conveyance. Or are you fearful of ten-speed riders traumatizing you by impolitely sma
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by chiggsy 4y ago
>So your thought is to slow down hundreds of thousands of cars which the road was made for... in order for cyclists not to be inconvenienced? Roads are made for wheeled vehicles, many of which are cars and many of which are bikes. Demand
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by chiggsy 4y ago
He probably loves them, and quite responsibly would prefer to encase them in steel on the way to school. If I see an adult driving with kids and I'm biking I usually just fall back. They will crush you like a bug, and curse you for tra
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by chiggsy 4y ago
People with severe depression probably have things they don't get around to here. No phone or internet means no family or friends, but I guess if you are planning to feed them 10g of shrooms and dump them back into a hunter gatherer li
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by chiggsy 4y ago
If it works, and that's all it takes, that's fantastic! But you have an incredible solution too it seems? “sit in chair for 30 minutes everyday and be mindful of your breathing.” Now this is great advice for everybody. Unless duri
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by chiggsy 4y ago
>There's nothing about the fact that psychedelic researchers are excited about psychedelics that by itself is suspicious, as we are strongly being led to believe. It's also quite possible that they are excited about the potenti
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by chiggsy 4y ago
Mania.
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by chiggsy 4y ago
Surely it depends on what Trump does with his account, right? Does Chick-Fil-A suffer from it's decisions politically? If Trump incites insurrection with his account, why not just do what Twitter did? Everybody is unhappy with Twitter
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by chiggsy 4y ago
You should consider this approach with some caution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble
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by chiggsy 4y ago
Yes, you cede much more of your personal data using the apps than the browser. I would view myself as deranged were I to install those apps on my phone today. The features are there to entice you you install the app.
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by chiggsy 4y ago
Opinions such as offense is not harmful? He's asking why you feel empowered to define someone being upset at some comment as something other than harm. As am I. Is it not possible that your unilateralism on this issue has galvanized th
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by chiggsy 4y ago
It's the veto that's the problem, right? You feel they are claiming harm in order to escape the offending situation. In fact, perhaps they would take exception to your assertion that they are actively seeking control, is that not
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by chiggsy 4y ago
Seems like more is being found out about covid, and so things which were thought early, turned out to have more nuance to them. Vaxxed people absolutely don't get hit as hard by covid, therefore requiring far less expensive hospital ca
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by chiggsy 4y ago
Why do you think multi-million dollar tax paying enterprises are acting in a way that guarantees higher taxation, policies more hostile to business, and, more oversight? What do you think they stand to gain from this? Besides, I suppose, em
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by chiggsy 5y ago
There is no such context. The licence specifies clearly and completely the terms of use. You cannot handwave an unwritten "social context" into existence, that adds and obligation to the creators that their licence explicitly refu
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by chiggsy 5y ago
"Then I gathered supporting evidence to make the prediction convincing." Above quote shows the problem with the system. The intention surely is to gather the evidence first, and use that to make the predictions. What he is describ