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by fogzen 8y ago
How does knowing they have shadow profiles (if they do) help you? What damage is that knowledge protecting you from?
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by fogzen 8y ago
GDPR doesn’t require you protect the data. You can still leave it unprotected as long as you tell them this on some stupid fine print. There’s no damage that GDPR protects you from, and it doesn’t add any liability for stolen, hacked, or mi
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by fogzen 8y ago
How does knowing what data Facebook has on you change anything? You already know the data they have by virtue of the fact that you give it to them . I just don’t get what damage this protects you from?
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by fogzen 8y ago
So buy organic or fair trade avocados instead?
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by fogzen 8y ago
Yes, yes I have. At minimum pigs are castrated, transported and imprisoned against their will, and slaughtered against their will. Small, independent or family farmers do take care to minimize suffering. Minimize, not eliminate. That's
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by fogzen 8y ago
Yes, they are. We can split hairs over what qualifies as torture, but I invite you to familiarize yourself with how commodity pigs are raised and slaughtered.
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by fogzen 8y ago
It’s odd people talk about ethics here but have no problem torturing and killing pigs so they can eat them.
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by fogzen 8y ago
I demand you forget this comment and my username from your memory!
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by fogzen 8y ago
That’s totally besides the point. Let’s not ignore facts or downplay how destructive the Republican Party has been to environmental policy. Anti-environmentalism has been a major feature of the Republican Party’s agenda for decades now, and
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by fogzen 8y ago
The immigration laws in place are inhumane, racist, classist, and anti-American. ICE is hated for the same reason the DEA is hated. People have no respect for those that enforce such stupid laws.
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by fogzen 8y ago
Teaching high school history.
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by fogzen 8y ago
This has been possible for 50 years at least, and the lisp, smalltalk, and functional programmers have been doing this for a long time now. After programming my whole life I have to say this industry is surprisingly math averse, regressive,
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by fogzen 8y ago
> The makers who contribute earn equity. How exactly does that work? How are contributions measured and is equity actual equity or some sort of cryptographic asset?
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by fogzen 8y ago
“What civilization is is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation. And yet you can stand back and look at this planet and see tha
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by fogzen 8y ago
Here’s a radical idea: don’t use Facebook if it makes you feel bad!
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by fogzen 9y ago
Dat+Beaker is way ahead of IPFS in tooling, developer mindshare, consumer friendly UI, etc. With $250 million it's pretty shocking they don't seem more worried/focused on that.
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by fogzen 9y ago
I don’t think creative destruction means what you think it means... They don’t control anybody’s time. I don’t use Facebook. Nobody is forced to use Facebook.
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by fogzen 9y ago
> Instagram or WhatsApp as separate companies would be better for the creative destruction we want out of capitalist competition. The rise of Instagram and WhatsApp IS creative destruction! Creative destruction occurs with or without bre
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by fogzen 9y ago
So I used Facebook for years. Even if my personal information was inadvertently accessed by advertisers, nobody was damaged by it. I just don't understand the outrage.
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by fogzen 9y ago
Punish them for what, exactly? Showing ads?
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by fogzen 9y ago
The person that serves Sam espresso in the morning, why would they choose to make minimum wage? Because they have no other options that’s why. “Do what you love” “work on important things” is so incredibly tone-deaf it’s insulting. It’s not
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by fogzen 9y ago
I hope Sam realizes that living this lifestyle is not possible for anyone in a traditional 9-5. Most people I know don’t have the luxury of thinking about what to work on, they have to get up, go to work, come home, and do it again in order
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by fogzen 9y ago
What's reckless about it? It also seems reckless to suggest using SSRIs when we know low-serotonin does not cause depression. We know the hypothesis of low-serotonin causing depression is false, which is the entire reason for engineeri
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by fogzen 9y ago
I'm not turning anything around. The claim I was responding to was that suggesting the use of LSD was more dangerous or more irresponsible than suggesting the use of SSRIs. I'll say it again: There's no evidence the use of LS
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by fogzen 9y ago
You keep saying "professional" as if that means anything here. The professionals that without any evidence promoted the low-serotonin theory of depression. Who, after over a decade of prescribing SSRI's finally admitted that
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by fogzen 9y ago
> SSRIs are not psychoactive, and better studied. The whole point of taking SSRI's is to affect the mind, so they are literally psychoactive. They are better studied, but the risks you mentioned are associated with SSRI's as we
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by fogzen 9y ago
How is suggesting psychedelics more dangerous than suggesting the use of antidepressants? Data shows both can cause panic attacks and psychotic episodes... Both drugs have mechanisms of action we don’t fully yet understand, and both may cau
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by fogzen 9y ago
What study shows LSD is more dangerous than SSRI’s? Antidepressants can also cause psychotic episodes, panic attacks, suicide, etc. Both drugs have mechanisms of action that we don’t fully understand and both affect the brains homeostasis.
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by fogzen 9y ago
And multiple studies show them no more effective than exercise: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3674785/ The bigger problem is “depression” is not reproducibly measurable, because it has no falsi
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by fogzen 9y ago
SSRI’s are no more effective than placebo or exercise in multiple studies: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3674785/#

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