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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
I'm not obligated to be fair, and I remember my favorite novels as intensely as I remember FFIV. I found them at a public library rather than the neighborhood video store, though.
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
> That's interesting, can you elaborate on your qualms with ABA? You mean aside from thinking that I shouldn't have to change my behavior for the convenience of others as long as I'm not breaking the law or making a public
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
I still remember Final Fantasy IV even though I first played it around 30 years ago. Those novels I had to read for school? I don't remember half of them, and the half I do remember are not novels I remember fondly . Why? The game s
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
Little clue: there is no "next nevel" when you're working to realize some other asshole's dream. The "next level" is more of the same, with a small pay raise and a more prestigious title if you're lucky. I
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
> It's just a job, not a career What's wrong with this? You realize that if you died today your job would get posted before your obituary, don't you? Don't let your job mean too much to you. Do the job, get paid, and
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
I'm glad I didn't get diagnosed until I was an adult. It means I don't have to worry about my parents subjecting me to shit like this and applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy.
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
My issue with Mastodon is that it imitates Twitter a little too well. I keep finding people to block when looking for people to follow. The local and federated feeds are infested with spammers, self-righteous ideologues of all kinds, 4c
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
How do you do this without getting nailed for tax evasion?
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
No kidding. This man has too much money and too much power. He needs to be dragged back down to earth.
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
Fuck 'em. I dealt with my doubts and got my shots; they can do the same.
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
Wasn't YC founded by white dudes? Isn't YC mostly white dudes today? If YC isn't diverse, why would they try to foster diversity in the startups they support? The fish rots from the head down. You can answer your own question
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
Do the Linux kernel devs use Zoom? Do they work together in one building? How about any of the BSDs? Do they use Zoom or work together in one building — aside from hackathons? No, but the rest of us are supposed to put up with this bullsh
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
I haven't been on a social network since Google- jumped the shark in 2015, and I don't miss it. I'm certainly not going to be associated with a platform whose name rhymes with a childhood euphemism for piss (weewee).
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
Facebook can be saved in the same way the US military used to save towns in Vietnam. > "'It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,' a United States major said today. He was talking about the decision by allied co
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
This is what people get for obeying authorities. Have the people of India already forgotten Gandhi and the weapon he gave us? Freedom = I Won't The rulers cannot rule unless others obey them.
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
The same could be said about downvotes. You ought to remember that we're all guests here on HN, that HN is private property, and that we have no free speech rights. Otherwise dang couldn't threaten to ban me for using a common slu
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
The only good social network is the WWW, RSS/Atom, and email. Always own your platform.
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
Longer than that. Think back to the 1950s and McCarthyism. https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resource... It's back , only it isn't just about rooting out Communists anymore.
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
They have plenty of constructive ideas that they've chosen not to implement. I've decided my time would be better spent writing a letter to the Attorney General of Delaware to request that they petition the state's Chancery C
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
> For better or worse, in this country you don't get to confiscate assets, dissolve corporations or put people in jail just because you don't like them. This is the country where people have been summarily executed for driving
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
Apple can't, either. More importantly, Apple won't . Not if keeping kids safe cuts into profits.
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
Facebook needs to be shut down. Dissolve the corporation, confiscate its assets under civil forfeiture laws, and put Zuckerberg and his enablers in jail.
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
The old normal wasn't that great for most people. It was just the devil we knew.
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
He's more deserving of immortality than many people we keep alive in memory. Why not preserve it somehow?
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
I pay Spotify $10/month to try new (to me) metal and jazz acts. However, if I like an album I buy it because Spotify exploits artists rather than supporting them. A lucky few make bank, the rest make bupkis, and the house always wins.
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
That's what I get for trolling right-wing trolls at zero-dark-thirty. Sorry.
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
> For example if Facebook could have better communicated the nuance dangers of getting addicted to Instagram the world would have been a safer place for teens. Lack of nuance often serves a purpose. For example, Facebook doesn't nec
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
This is kinda tangential and hella cynical, so feel free to ignore the following. > Does the positive right for every child to receive 12 years of education result in slavery? It isn't slavery. It's just imprisonment. At least,
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
I am not signing up for that mailing list because I don't know you and have no reason to trust you. Instead, I'll answer your question here. I don't use job portals because I literally don't get paid enough to deal with
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
> Remember, most socialists are upper middle class and above. I don't buy this. I also think that the size of the middle class in the US is grossly overestimated. IMO, if you get a W2 because your income is based on wages or a salar

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