cryoshon

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by cryoshon 9y ago
you said it yourself: "a few lucky breaks". if we affirm the existing power rather than redistribute it, we're exaggerating the impact of luck by affirming that those who are lucky are by definition those who are more deservi
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by cryoshon 9y ago
why would i get a surprise? i'm just an innocent citizen who loves goatse. there's no reason to single me out for harassment -- or if there IS, there's a lawsuit ready to go
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by cryoshon 9y ago
idea: scrub all data and accounts from your electronics before flying. leave your phone unlocked, but primed with a goatse booby trap so that the agents get an unpleasant surprise that's totally legal and comes with total deniability -
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by cryoshon 9y ago
> they need consent, probable cause, or a warrant in order to rifle through your belongings. which they can invent with no problem if they feel like it. nobody who declines to a search gets away with it; they just call a drug dog to aler
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by cryoshon 9y ago
agreed. but consider how the people being banned will see things. i don't suggest we cater to them, just that we realize their way of thinking and reacting.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
none that i know personally, but your point stands.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
rejecting hand-me-down core beliefs is not nihilism... nor are the smarter people among us burdened by corporate-created fantasies, tbh.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
it's fun, but imo FTL is my favorite because it seems to have way more replayability. i haven't cracked the harder difficulties of ITB yet -- not that difficulty is an issue -- but the gameplay just seems so very similar from one
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by cryoshon 9y ago
here is why: housing and pensions are obligate sinks of wealth. the wealth of the rich is purely for investment, luxury, or speculation. the tiny fraction that is obligate overlaps with the rest of the public's. that's why there i
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>if you move to somewhere to get a job you're out of touch. this is not even the same type of job that the majority of people have access to. people's standard of living is far beneath what you suspect. >If you are making $5
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>Starting investing when your young is so, so important this is why student loans have made perpetual paupers out of the better part of an entire generation.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>saving 10% of your salary impossible for most people >spend <30% of your gross income on housing impossible for many (most?) places with jobs >don't borrow to spend more than you make 90% of the time this factor is indeed
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by cryoshon 9y ago
hm, i like a lot of the author's suggestions, but they're missing one big piece of context. underachieving is a symptom of work input not correlating to pay output. why work more if you don't get rewarded for it? for the joy
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by cryoshon 9y ago
the authors make some good points, but i have a different perspective when it comes to criticizing science. 1. criticism is easy. penetrating criticism that demands an answer beyond the evidence already presented lest the criticized appear
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by cryoshon 9y ago
if only we had so simple and effective of a way to express outrage as dumping tea. the question is, what is the 21st century version of dumping tea into the harbor? we are long overdue.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
it's almost like i detailed this phenomenon two years ago. https://cryoshon.co/2016/01/11/why-the-sharing-economy-is-aw...
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by cryoshon 9y ago
let's say you need a warrant to get X. you use illegal methods to get X without a warrant. but you can't use that information legally. so you use your knowledge of X to find a legal way of learning X, after the fact. then you go t
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>implying the government asks for a warrant for many of their invasive activities they don't play by their own set of rules.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
get over it? it isn't their job to 1. have encyclopedic knowledge of a small and belligerent country and then 2. enforce others to the same standard. no country gets that treatment here.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
this is especially relevant to the software industry. "10x" coders may well just be people who pump the breaks on working long hours and confine themselves to working the number of hours that they can be maximally productive. work
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by cryoshon 9y ago
it's heavily dependent on the right genetic makeup from what i know. for some it provides clarity, for others, fog. the dopamine transporters are very mysterious to me.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
chiming in here to corroborate that stimulant use/abuse is heavily prevalent in scientists and startup types that i know. even the md/phd types who have been in clinical practice for 20 years do it, even after they've had kid
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by cryoshon 9y ago
i don't think that he's pro-russia whatsoever. it's more that russia is the demon we know is a demon. we can't tell whether our own governments are also demons as effectively, so he focuses on that.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
there are many experiences like this. the worst part: those people will leave the class thinking they have the whole story. the part you mention won't ever enter their mind-- it isn't under the heading of "killing" becau
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by cryoshon 9y ago
>Be responsible to someone besides yourself. how silly; we're responsible for ourselves whether we choose to accept that responsibility or not. putting your executive functions in the hands of someone else like a boss is a common mo
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by cryoshon 9y ago
here is a fallacy that is frequently made: everything needs to be profitable. no, not everything needs to be profitable. we accept that things that are for use by the general public as essential to their life are not held to the standard of
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by cryoshon 9y ago
their entire business model is making sure that their users never get a fair deal by communicating directly with the people they find via upwork. is it really so surprising that they are fucking abysmal at customer service? my experiences w
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by cryoshon 9y ago
i'm in favor of shutting it down too. we have other credit bureaus and we need to make an example out of a major company that didn't respect its consumer data to make sure that practices tighten up.
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by cryoshon 9y ago
counterpoint: putin is willing to befriend enemies for pragmatic reasons, as is WL. i believe that this is actually the case rather than longstanding collaboration based on WL originating as a russian intelligence program. anything is possi
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by cryoshon 9y ago
the beauty of it is that most of the items are easy to achieve. individuals can do steps 1, 2, and most of 3 without investing any actual effort. step 4 requires some minimal effort, and more people are getting there. finishing step 3 requi

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