club_tropical

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by club_tropical 4y ago
Very cool.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Should come out of university endowments first.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Read Nietzsche for the first time this year. Genealogy of Morals transfixed me with its brilliance and settled lifelong questions. A singular intellect cutting through time like hot knife through butter.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
I don't think it's a miserable career for uninterested people. It's a miserable college degree for uninterested people, doing algorithms problem sets and such, but afterwards, you can make money doing mentally unchallenging
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by club_tropical 4y ago
I wish the average American really believed this; it is entirely correct.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Competence is very much a secondary priority of universities whose primary goal is a demonstration of loyalty. All college students are double majoring in Ideology, as demonstrated by their ability to conform for four years. This in turn un
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Universities are a gateway to the party patronage network. The returns for joining, while still positive overall, are diminishing.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Mirrors my experience. The good ones leave and the vultures remain.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
I disagree on every point.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
It has not. And "a lack of accountability" is a band-aid on the real problem: bad gatekeeping. People getting into science, not for the search for truth, but in search of respectability, green card, money, or whatever else. Tryin
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by club_tropical 4y ago
I always wondered about voice deanonymization as well. I feel like between accent, gap between words, tonal variation, and rhythm, there's enough there to fingerprint speech, even with voice changers.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Are you satisfied with the level it preserves your "voice"? Humor, style, metaphors, etc?
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Presumably they can already unmask 99.99% of high-value persons of interest already, this sounds like they want a tool to unmask all the lower-value anons for the journalists to pick off.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
Your example doesn't match the principles you highlighted. Obviate->remove is replacing a perfect-fit with a generic alternative. "Obviate" was neither a word salad nor complex, it was straight up (marginally) better. This
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by club_tropical 4y ago
The threat of suing very much loomed in the background if they did not cooperate. Hegarty is just more slick, buttering them up with (well deserved) praises and attention from grownups to get voluntary cooperation.
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by club_tropical 4y ago
100% veiled threat. Even the "a lot of companies.." interpretation is just a reminder of their power should you not want to hop on that call.