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by forensic 15y ago
More precisely it is "corporate feudalism" or "neofeudalism"
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by forensic 15y ago
Because democracy and equality is fundamentally superior to feudalism, therefore any system that is on an unstoppable slide toward feudalism is fundamentally broken.
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by forensic 15y ago
Next time, the 500,000 should forcibly take over the media outlets ala V for Vendetta.
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by forensic 15y ago
It's more like the hackers bribed the sysadmins to give them root access, and the users couldn't afford big enough bribes for the sysadmin to care about them.
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by forensic 15y ago
Great hack
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by forensic 15y ago
... So let me get this straight. You're arguing that, based on ethical considerations, entrepreneurs should go easy in negotiations with investors. And they should do this for ethical reasons. To help "investor value" and "other startups" A
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by forensic 15y ago
Oh those poor investment bankers!!! Those innocent investors are being taken in by the cruel and shrewd entrepreneurs!! Who gives a shit? They're investment bankers. I'm pretty sure they can handle their own money and don't need investigati
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by forensic 15y ago
Also it's unlikely that the extra complexity and the risks that poses is outweighed by the espoused benefits. This seems like the type of untrusted software plugin that results in having some horrible overlooked exploit that compromises you
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by forensic 15y ago
Millions? I doubt that. There are socially sensitive nerds, but "pleasant" usually describes their SELF-image, not the view that others have of them. Usually nerds like you describe are socially anxious and attempt to "take care" of everyon
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by forensic 15y ago
Nerd doesn't mean smart. Nerd refers to a particular kind of obsessive skill in a narrow field. People with laser-like obsessions tend to have poor social skills, whether they are programmers or otakus.
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by forensic 15y ago
I guess you need to specify what you mean by "tolerate" If you're saying it's organizationally foolish to let Stallman be the face of the FSF due to his insensitivity... I can see a good argument there. If you're saying we need to stop "tol
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by forensic 15y ago
>horrendously, gratuitously crass and offensive way. And? It's rms. He's the biggest nerd in the world. Nerds are expected to be horrendously, gratuitously crass, offensive and insensitive of people's emotions. This is like being mad th
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by forensic 15y ago
People actually look-forward to dystopian big brother futures like Minority Report now. If you tell someone, "The world is looking like Minority Report" they go "Cool!"
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by forensic 15y ago
It's more important that people believe it works than for it to actually work. Security theatre works because people believe it works.
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by forensic 15y ago
In Canada the BBB logo is often displayed on the biggest rip-off services available. I'm not kidding. Over time I've learned that when I see the BBB logo I need to be really careful, because scuzzy businesses use it as a cloak. A good examp
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by forensic 15y ago
They have a good reputation but it's utterly undeserved. Some of the biggest and longest running scams I've seen display prominent BBB logos.
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by forensic 15y ago
He probably self-educated though. Which is really the only kind of education there is.
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by forensic 15y ago
Eugenicists are out of date. The reason successful people have successful kids is due to enriched environments and increased opportunity. The field of psychology can't even agree on a definition of intelligence anymore, and certainly IQ is
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by forensic 15y ago
But from the perspective of normal people, or "slaves" as Nietzsche would call us, he's just an overachieving asshole with no moral scruples. Going to Harvard doesn't make you uber anyway, it just makes you "best slave". A real ubermensch w
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by forensic 15y ago
And in these threads where you call us sheep, we are deciding that the data price is too high for the service rendered. We have the right to use government to nationalize these programs if they are going to be so deceptive and intrusive. Fa
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by forensic 15y ago
It's out of date. The planet has enough resources for everyone. Humans do not need to prey on our own species.
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by forensic 15y ago
Most computer scientists want to help the world. Including those who believe in the free market.
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by forensic 15y ago
Last I heard actuarial science is brutally competitive and quickly becoming a slog. Apparently all the asian math geniuses see it as their only way to please their grandparents without switching to medicine or law.
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by forensic 15y ago
VP of whatever at Yahoo shoots an email to his pet nerd in ops and asks him to add a few domains to the spam filter. A list of 20 who personally spammed an angry customer. VP of whatever says, "Nerdbro please add these domains to the filter
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by forensic 15y ago
It's not Yahoo's radar. It's individual(s) who work for Yahoo that have their fingers on the censorship button and also happen to be part of a tight-knit oligarchy. Some New York government official phones up his old Harvard buddy at Yahoo
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by forensic 15y ago
When you talk like that you sound like someone who equates 'subjective' with 'useless' The subjective is very important which is precisely the value of philosophy and other liberal arts.
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by forensic 15y ago
An easy way to show the importance of philosophy is to show all the powerful sciences it spawned and provided theoretical underpinnings for. Not the least of which is cognitive neuroscience.
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by forensic 15y ago
Your definition of "important" is deeply subjective.
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by forensic 15y ago
What kind of people does pg draw in? Its mainly naive young programmers (socially stunted nerds) who believe they are smarter than everyone and have everything figured out. I believe nerd hubris comes from a fundamental lack of empathy; an
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by forensic 15y ago
No one is worried about well educated, literate, healthy, young software engineers. And no one should be. I don't post here about poverty for my own sake. Anyone here can handle themself. I'm posting for all the people who are in trouble ri

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