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by evocatus 5y ago
Those who readily believe what they are told are easily taken advantage of. While we are on the topic of epistemic integrity, do you not consider it harmful to make a judgment of psychopathy "from the little I know about you," bas
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by evocatus 5y ago
There was a time when the internet was a mythical place, full of fiction and unreality - cyberspace. Nothing was taken for granted here, and everything assumed false. The culture has shifted. Now we expect the internet to be a faithful repr
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by evocatus 5y ago
It's too late. The dilution of the hacker community has crossed a critical threshold.
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by evocatus 5y ago
Are you seriously adopting the position that "third world" is a common moniker for Finland and Sweden?
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by evocatus 5y ago
Be careful. There is a school of thought that equates this form of apathy or indifference to complicity with the greatest of societal evils.
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by evocatus 5y ago
This article reads exactly like how I would expect it to, were it written by a white. > In candor, I’m approaching this topic with a fair amount of bias. Being an outsider early in my adulthood was the most positive experience I have eve
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by evocatus 5y ago
The smartphone, fucking really? No mention of CRISPR-Cas9, the explosion of deep learning and "AI," the James Webb Space Telescope, detection of gravitational waves...? My god. Are people really that myopically spellbound by compu
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by evocatus 5y ago
My favorite tactic is to intentionally write down overly constrained or even "obviously" wrong tickets or issues or what have you, to provoke a disagreement and thereby spark a conversation. You have to write down something for ot
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by evocatus 5y ago
That's OK. Your position is already clear enough.
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by evocatus 5y ago
https://archive.ph/bHy0i > Among the major brands that purchased ad space that was labeled incorrectly in auctions were Sears, Nike, Adidas, Ford, State Farm, Starbucks, Kia and Marriott. Representatives for those advert
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by evocatus 5y ago
Perhaps the Stockholm syndrome ran deeper than I thought. Time to begin work on my memoirs?
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by evocatus 5y ago
The day this happens is the day I unsubscribe and resume aggressive piracy out of spite. Like hell if I am going to pay to be fucking served advertising.
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by evocatus 5y ago
My parents fled from active warfare. My father had AK47s pointed at his chest. They came to my current country of residence with very meager means. None of them participated in local politics or were involved with the school board. Because
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by evocatus 5y ago
If only we could channel all this lost time, money, and productivity into addressing the actual roots of societal problems, _in the real world._
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by evocatus 5y ago
As a minority from a lower-class immigrant background I am always amused (or perhaps, disgusted) when I am lectured by white people resting on generations of accumulated wealth about the hardships of the lower classes and the struggles that
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by evocatus 5y ago
I am glad that people are finally seeming to catch on.
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by evocatus 5y ago
Thanks for confirming that Google is no longer run by the same people I trusted (at least, somewhat more than I do now) over a decade ago. I encourage everyone to make the leap to DDG or some other search engine that doesn't just treat
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by evocatus 5y ago
More pontification and intellectualization of matters that people have no first-hand experience of, as is HN's wont. As someone with over 20 years of mental health issues who refused medication for exactly the same reasons - "suck
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by evocatus 5y ago
This CoC just makes me feel that the Ruby community is no longer a safe space to contribute to. As a minority whose membership in one of these "protected classes" is unclear, and who can no longer be granted the benefit of the dou
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by evocatus 5y ago
Yes, and at least you were not a starving orphan in $COUNTRY.
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by evocatus 5y ago
You still have to look a certain way - even more so on camera. Speaking from experience.
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by evocatus 5y ago
Fully agreed. I didn't endure over a decade of an abusive household and even a few months of homelessness just so my employer could close down its offices and forcibly relocate them into my living room. I was absolutely fucking livid.
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by evocatus 6y ago
My internet journey started with getting into long protracted arguments with others online. Eventually I started to type out comments, give them a read, and decide that either nothing would come of the conversation/argument, or worse,
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by evocatus 6y ago
Thanks for this article, this clarifies a number of things that have been causing me great distress lately.
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by evocatus 6y ago
It's exhausting. Constantly walking on eggshells for fear of being misconstrued. Ruminating over past communications exploring the myriad ways in which your words could have been interpreted. Feeling like you are cognizant of everyone
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by evocatus 8y ago
Fine - you are correct. These people are not "innocent" in the legal sense, in that they are in blatant violation of the law. However I would then ask if the legal criteria of judging innocence are useful to society. My claim is t
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by evocatus 8y ago
Perhaps possible in isolation or on a small team. I don't think this is practically achievable on teams that have grown past a certain size, though. To paraphrase Carmack, "Any syntactically valid code, that the compiler will acce
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by evocatus 9y ago
Absolutely true. The point I was trying to make is that the days of yore OP was alluding to where when I "put any of [my] code on the Web, [...] I can read it" are long gone, thanks to the obfuscation of modern bundling technologi
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by evocatus 9y ago
In my experience a lot of JavaScript code is already unreadable after having passed through minification & concatenation. Even more so with webpack bundles. Now granted, ASCII is still much easier to read than a binary, but I think we&#