cr4nberry

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by cr4nberry 4y ago
The weirdest thing I noticed moving to the bay area wasn't SF (have been there a couple times and only saw a little bit of the craziness), it was how different South Bay/Peninsula are from the city I expected the same SF problems
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
Where and how it runs can get incredibly complicated. It isn't a matter of not caring about where it runs, but having a finite amount of time
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> DevOps has different meaning depending on who you’re talking to, even some definitions that appear similar are different in nuanced but important ways. This is always a dead giveaway that something is a buzzword Same for rest. Sometime
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> Note that your phone also defaults to having its microphone on 24/7 There's a difference between it being on vs having a task that's actively listening for trigger words. Idk if Google/Apple put some kind of latent
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> The remainder of his post explains why such an individual solution isn't enough: it doesn't stop society as a whole slipping further into total surveillance, until eventually it swallows you as well. Either compelled by law,
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> That seems kind of extreme. You don't like it, just don't buy it? Me not buying one is pretty much a given here. That wasn't my argument > and it doesn't -- everyone around me has one, it's not noteworthy to
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> I cook a lot and use a watch app called MultiTimer every day for virtually everything I cook. Got detailed overlapping timers configured for all my recipes. That's pure utility, no status signalling involved. I mean, you could jus
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
Because then it normalizes that degree of privacy invasion on a societal level. It makes it more expensive for people to say 'no' to it (because insurance companies profit from it and will nudge it) You might see short term benefi
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
There's something weird about wearables and also recent advances in home surveillance. I see people posting here that the customers don't want surveillance, they want metrics. But, like... why? What's the appeal? People will
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
Probably Hume's Enquiry, specifically how he discusses causality. Tl;dr anything we have to say about one event causing another event relies on the assumption that the future will be like the past. Also the is-ought problem Also "
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
Vaccine obligation is less of an issue for me than the actual social dynamic at play. What bothers me most is every TV channel, every news site, all of social media telling people to think the same thing, do the same thing, and attack anyon
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
The authoritarianism won't come from the government, it will come from the people around you. It's honestly terrifying how fast the media whipped up the craziness a year or two ago. It makes me wonder how much harder they shilled
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> The latest one is against Tulsi Gabbard, who, after announcing she is leaving her political party, is now the target of all manner of attacks from multiple angles, including such things as saying she is a member of a cult. I use this
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
Let me guess, it's yet another AI article written by someone who's never worked in the field, repeating the same drivel seen in pretty much every other mainstream news outlet If there's one thing I'll take out of this ye
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
The interesting thing about Nietzsche isn't just what he wrote, but how people respond to him. It's incredibly hard to read him and look at religion (or anything that appeals to that impulse) the same sort of way. I've yet to
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
You should give the full quote > If you want solutions to the disorder of our time, you will gain little from reading Nietzsche. Yet there is much to be learned about the sources of the West’s decline from the struggles of this unbelievi
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
As a disclaimer I'll say I'm not familiar with Maslow aside from the article you attached. > The bottom 1 or 2 rungs are the hardest to reach. I'm all for helping people reach the bottom two rungs through targeted spendi
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
If you gave the average person additional time or money, it's most likely that they'd piss it all away on some form of recreation > (And all the while complaining about "the billionaires" and how unfair the system was