imhelpingu

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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Or instead acting like personal PR is your only contribution to the species, you can just say reasonable things that make sense including things like "I don't know" on a circumstantial basis using your human brain and social
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
> Not everyone who puts "we're a bunch of idiots" on their job ad is necessarily really a bunch of idiots. Those companies deserve to be less desirable employers for workers who can be picky.
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Yeah, and similarly nobody needed to bring him up in this thread at all. But don't think too hard about that.
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
I doubt I'm the only person in their 30's+ who can remember warning people that giving so much data to Facebook is a bad idea, and the response was just outright, sanctimonious screeching and accusations of unreasonable paranoia.
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Right. The problem is anything at all other than people who had credibility as their only asset have demonstrated repeatedly that they no longer have credibility. They will always come up with absolutely anything other than "we s
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
And I'll also inform anyone else who may be reading that a simple google search will reveal the guy is a profit-motivated wacko with no credibility who sells paperbacks for 80 dollars.
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Thanks for sharing your personal opinion about videos you've never watched.
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Yeah, and maybe some day I'll be able to do anything on the site whatsoever without it shoving CNN videos in my face.
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Yeah, I also haven't read The Secret to learn the Law of Attraction or how important it is, but I can still identify an obnoxious and dishonest marketing campaign when I see it, and it's still an indicator of how seriously I shoul
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
For anyone curious, David Paulides has been shilling his book on the internet in the grossest imaginable ways for at least a few years now. There are threads banned on 4chan's /x/ board because they're part of this spam.
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
> 1 out of 5 tracks I tried where I could tell the difference at a statistically significant rate. Hate to sound like a broken record, but what are you arguing with me about?
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Again, I have no idea what you think we disagree about. Your reply, like most of the replies, is premised on the idea that yes you can hear the difference in some cases.
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
I did these kinds of tests in my early 20s (not sure how it would go now) and completely destroyed them. (I shut many many people up doing these tests, actually.) > I barely ever can. > It's not something I'll notice when li
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
You would think quora learned their lesson about forcing uses to login just to browse the site after they got hacked. Apparently not.
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
The author explains that it's a psychoacoustic model and then demonstrates how various artifacts in various waveforms are the result of compromises within this model. As an aside, I don't understand why people take the position th
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Reddit and hn are both full of pseudo-intellectuals masticating on something some (frequently illegitimate) authority says. Meanwhile, skepticism or different perspective is frequently washed out by a bunch of tools who have effectively bee
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Oh my! Who can imagine living in an environment where the government is known to be intercepting, monitoring, and decrypting your digital activity as their perfectly acceptable MO!?
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
That's one way of looking at it. There's little we could expect Amazon to do to prevent this given they already store the data. On the other hand: There's little we could expected Amazon to do to prevent this given they alrea
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
And somewhere there's an active intelligence officer ready to respond "thanks!"
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Casting Crowley as the evil crazed Satanist is basically like if people in 50 years were to watch a bunch of Marilyn Manson videos and decide he was really an evil vampire. It's part of the marketing. On the other hand, this > using
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Thelema is basically ritual magic and the direct antecedent to mid 20th century new age culture. Many of its practices are probably the basis for modern conceptions of spooky sex-cult behavior. The theory side does seem to be Hinduism-lit
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Where can I donate?
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Workers who are being surveiled should do the bare minimum while developing skills during free time that benefit future employers and not the current one.
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Can you give an example of a "footgun" that doesn't involve using a --force flag or "git reset --hard" without understanding what they do?
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Google is the quintessential evil tech corporation, and the federal government should prevent them from retaining the power they currently hold over the economy and society as a private autocratic monopoly.
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
The damage control we're seeing is almost as blatantly immoral as a quasi-government monopoly appointing itself as the internet police and then neglecting to disclose its own breeches to the public. Google is evil.
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
> non-social-justice-related branches of Academia > postmodern studies > epistemology OK
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
That would be really horrible, living in a country where Google functions as a quasi-government entity consolidating everyone's access to useful resources on the WAN and tracking users, on some secret police's behalf, under the gu
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Are you essentially suggesting that because everyone depends on certain institutions to be ethical, that's a reason not to challenge them? And you write your friends off based on this, regardless of whether you can actually prove the
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Yeah like those crazy conspiracy theorists who believe that if our government is capable of mass surveillance, they might actually do it. Or those conspiracy theorists who think marijuana is improperly scheduled and there's been a deca

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