gradExMachina

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by gradExMachina 3y ago
> This does not fall into the fallacy aspect as it is already happening, groups are already being exploited for ulterior motives to control thought. Part of having a background in security research leads one to detect vulnerabilities. Th
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by gradExMachina 3y ago
* shipping those drives [with black hole observation data] from Hawaii to MIT works out to 14 gigabytes per second (112 gigabits per second) https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/289423-it-took-half-a-to...
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by gradExMachina 3y ago
> A slippery slope fallacy (SSF), in logic, critical thinking, political rhetoric, and caselaw, is a fallacious argument in which a party asserts that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events culminating in some s
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by gradExMachina 3y ago
The fact that people get rate-limited and conversations stop mid-track, in the process preventing dissenting opinions from propagating is censorship. All of that is happening not because of Dang and mods, but because it's trivial to us
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by gradExMachina 3y ago
It should be fairly obvious that I am not taking a jab at Dang, I am taking a jab at "people" who flag or downvote me as a form of censorship and stop conversations mid track because they are interested in pushing a certain narrat
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by gradExMachina 3y ago
I have plenty of examples of hypocritical free-speech "absolutionists" to back my belief, but again, people will throw the good ol' no-true-scotsman response. You are just projecting your inability to use data on everyone. So
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by gradExMachina 4y ago
Perhaps you are thinking of Skewomorphism as opposed to Flat design?
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by gradExMachina 4y ago
That was my intention.
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by gradExMachina 4y ago
The online consensus seems to be that Windows Defender (M$'s) is likely the best AV for windows. Perhaps you could tell them to get malwarebytes if they feel the need for one.