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by clavicat 5y ago
When your values lead you to [almost castrate yourself]( https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2119 ) and then publicly flagellate yourself further when your supposed political allies dogpile you, maybe you should rethink them.
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by clavicat 5y ago
Never heard of this before. Thanks, OP.
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by clavicat 5y ago
Antivax is literally as old as vaccines are. There’s an enormous Victorian corpus of antivax literature, complete with crazy claims that vaccines were causing leprosy. In this respect, nothing has changed. Nor does it evince the collapse of
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by clavicat 5y ago
Yes, but being shot was not the fate of a typical dissident under late socialism. Gentler states like that of Hungary also managed to suppress dissident and not with bullets. More typical is the following: >Konrád lost his job by order o
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by clavicat 5y ago
Great choice of name when there’s already an oil company called Shell.
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by clavicat 5y ago
They do have the best-performing stock market.
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by clavicat 5y ago
>Damore wasn't burned at the stake or shot in the head; he was fired from one especially cushy software job at a giant, publicly-traded company. How do you think regimes normally deal with dissent? Extreme violence makes for vivid i
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by clavicat 5y ago
If Damore had instead offered his opinion that Google lacked diversity because of white-supremacist patriarchy, Donald Trump, and rapey tech bros, somehow I doubt that you would have conjured this list of excuses to pathologize him for voic
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by clavicat 5y ago
I’ve always found the Unix preference for concision over descriptive and intuitive commands to be stupid. Even they feel that one-letter commands are too short—two letters are not much better.
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by clavicat 5y ago
>permanent → permnnt Horrific.
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by clavicat 5y ago
/r/cumtownchat
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by clavicat 5y ago
I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.
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by clavicat 5y ago
Better get used to it. The only plausible market for Second Life 2.0 are perverts who want to engage in consequence-free sexual interactions, i.e. the BDSM furry ageplay crowd. There is no other use case for this technology.
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Windows stack corruption – a journey into the bowels of the beast(github.com)
2 points by clavicat 5y ago|0 comments
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by clavicat 5y ago
If it’s such a burden, I’ll do you a favor and take that money off your hands.
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by clavicat 5y ago
So that’s why I’m retarded.
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by clavicat 5y ago
I just lost $5,000 this week and it’s pissing me off, so I can empathize.
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by clavicat 5y ago
This is some asinine cultural analysis, as if entire cultures can be reduced to the embrace of moral philosophies. You could just have easily described China as harboring a deontological commitment to social harmony and deference to authori
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by clavicat 5y ago
The control panel was solved, so to speak, once they added a search interface. It doesn’t matter how complicated the hierarchy of modules is if what you want is only a search away. Only Microsoft could unsolve a solved problem by segregatin
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by clavicat 5y ago
The writer demonstrates some talent, but I’ve always wondered what it is that possesses these translators to devote their energies to translating sapphic boob anime instead of the untranslated works of Japan’s literary greats. The latter mi
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by clavicat 5y ago
The Twitter account named Reddit Status was started in 2010 to track Reddit’s downtime. It has always been unstable. I’ve always thought it was strange how often Reddit was crashing or going down for scheduled maintenance when no other webs
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by clavicat 5y ago
I’ve been reading Reddit for fifteen years. (A sentence that should never be written.) Their engineering has always been terrible. Even when they were much smaller than they are now, their site constantly crashed. It’s remarkable how little
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by clavicat 5y ago
We are barbarians occupying a city built by an advanced civilization, marveling at the hot baths but know nothing about how their builders keep them running. One day, the baths will drain and anyone who remembers how to fill them up will ha
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by clavicat 5y ago
Down for me, as well.
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by clavicat 5y ago
Birds can't sing for shit. When's the last time a birdsong got stuck in your head?
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by clavicat 5y ago
This might be the most boring thing ever written about writing. The English language is a linguistic miracle, a beautiful acrobatic freakshow--and this is what you do with it? If I wanted more of this prose, I would just read Wikipedia. The
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by clavicat 5y ago
Or casinos.
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by clavicat 5y ago
The worst example I know of is Microsoft Office. When I run their installer/downloader, it installs the 32-bit version on my 64-bit machine—it doesn’t let you choose and by the time you realize, you’ve already wasted all that time and
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by clavicat 5y ago
Take the DNT (do-not-track) request for an answer.
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by clavicat 5y ago
I’ve noticed that no one has attempted to answer OP’s question: “why is it so hard?” If you were creating an OS and you wanted to ensure its success, one obvious thing to do would be to make it as frictionless as possible to develop native

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