cr4nberry

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by cr4nberry 4y ago
SSNs are incredibly insecure (and also used in a way they were never intended). I don't think we need biometrics to replace them, but if there's a push to replace them, people will likely push for biometrics as hard as possible
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> If you hate your community and everyone in it so much that you want to hurt and possibly even kill them with the pathogens you carry, maybe you should find a different community to be in. Interesting how you default to thinking about t
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> This creates a situation where their economic wellbeing and working life is directly aimed towards enforcing surveillance capitalism and authoriarian tools Adtech doesn't have to be surveillance capitalism If we're talking ab
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
Why is it that the anti test score argument almost always tries to chalk it up to hiring tutors? They consistently try to make it sound like people "buy" higher test scores with tutoring in order to discredit tests like the SAT
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
Imo we should just ban the practice entirely. The supreme court's about to do it for universities, hopefully employers are next
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> At the core, all social structure is built on the threat of violence - Commit non-violent white collar crime? Show up to court, because if you don't you'll get arrested. Run from the police when they try to arrest you? You&#x
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
Something similar happened to me. I had a perfect high school GPA, 1540/1600 SAT. Applied to several schools, all of which I was above average score wise Only got into flagship state schools that were well below my average SAT The one
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> Lots of weird issues with Docker (might be on Docker's side though) Thanks for the heads up on this
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> Interesting story, Apple will not sell you a replacement or upgrade SSD for your 2013 Mac Pro - not for any price. They're only available for warranty replacements, and these computers haven't been under warranty for a long t
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
Imo grep and fd are the most consistent way, all these GUI apps do is get in the way and reinvent the wheel
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> It looks like a whole generation needs to be coached into catching up with the system. It looks (to me) like the older generations are really, really eager to "coach" the upcoming generation
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> This whole exercise in mass mediocrity cannot end soon enough. the point of developing "mass mediocrity" is to prepare the ground for the exceptions by having a strong education system to support them. Equal access to educa
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
4th grade math dropped from 241 to 236, this puts us at around 2003 levels. 8th grade math has dropped from 282 to 274 which puts us at 1996 levels. 4th grade and 8th grade reading dropped slightly, but there's only slight improvement
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
I agree with you that the solution offered was woefully inadequate. What I meant by pseudo problem wasn't necessarily the problem itself, but the framing of it. The author cites a statistic about when students start driving, start drin
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> Look at the reddit front page I'd rather jump off a bridge tbh
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> The healthier alternative involves rethinking internet infrastructure on pro-social ends: platforms owned by the people using them with community prerogatives in mind. The author essentially cites a bunch of unrelated (albeit interesti
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> I believe the era of growth is over. What are your preparation for low growth era? I doubt it. It's a shame to see China isolating itself, but at the end of the day the manufacturing could just be moved somewhere else like India o
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> Reasonable people" are extreme outliers — they're people who will take raw facts, explore their implications, and then use those implications to argue themselves into having different political beliefs, grinding the facts aga
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> It’s a nearly weekly accusation thrown at me on Reddit. I think it's just because redditors tend to be younger (and the site is advertising to young people specifically). There's no point in arguing with literal children
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
The easiest way to spot it (at least for me) is to pay attention to how you feel when reading a forum. If you get super pissed off or anxious while reading, there's a chance you're getting screwed with An example: the other day I
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
Publishing pictures of people taken with literal spyware isn't art. I have no idea what kind of fantasy world someone needs to be living in in order to think this is art. It's a wonder he didn't get prosecuted for it
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
Imo personality tests are bullshit but this is a cool website
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> This strongly suggests that incarceral policies are not the most effective solution to reducing crime. No it doesn't, because you've only changed one variable, and there's a lot more that differentiates the US from those
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
Glad I read this thread so I know to never ever move there
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
Tbh I'd leave after the bike getting stripped, but the other things on top of that? Why do city people tolerate this kind of shit?
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
This wouldn't be a problem if people stopped going to the same platforms for literally everything and stopped using a bugged phone OS Not only this, but closed source software in general, since the black box makes it harder to disable
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> Remember: the goal of political speech isn't to convince reasonable people of anything; reasonable people don't need convincing, they just need facts. The goal of political speech is to (somehow) convince unreasonable people
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
I'd say both. It's a combination of misguided politicians and voters, and also police departments and the intelligence community that want to normalize a certain degree of surveillance
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> I have had my unlocked car rifled through multiple times. I lived inside the loop in Houston for five years in the 1990s and had my car broken into multiple times as well (even inside apartment complex gated garage) so it's just a
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> Come to downtown San Jose and you will see a lot of the same issues I went there once for the library and it just seemed really sketch. I never thought I would say this but maybe the nimbys aren't all bad :/ also should have

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