imhelpingu

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by imhelpingu 8y ago
> I'm going to act like I don't know how anything in the real world works so I can go on a moral crusade against this guy I heard is bad.
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
I thought this was going to be about information hiding in OOP leading to too many different peer-level abstractions.
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
If you want to learn the trouble with d3, try to apply their general pattern to anything with multiple grouped elements and watch all of your code devolve into forEach loops, or even better, go look up their recommended approach for using i
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Oh no there's no telling what horrible games I'll end up playing. I guess I'll finally have to hire that hipster to follow me around and cover my eyes and ears when they deem it appropriate.
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
This report is, of course, a distraction from their ability to archive historical reality to a resolution 1 mm and 1 ms.
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by imhelpingu 8y ago
Exercise modulates my appetite such that I eat much healthier. I know it's anecdotal, but this effect is patently obviously to me.
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
It's pathetic that it takes a literal propaganda campaign to make people see the problem with facebook after 10 years, but whatever I'll take it.
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
Because it's axiomatic that absolutely the last thing that happened in 2016 is Trump legitimately won after the media lied about consensus.
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
Basically "only 3% of youtubers can make a living doing it," so in other words, if I randomly select 33 youtubers, and put them in a room together, I'll be able to find one who makes a living from it. Furthermore, if I random
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
You talk about burden of proof like the overarching topic of contention isn't whether or not Neanderthals had the capacity for symbolic thought at all. The observation that we keep inventing new OOA migrations and then pushing them ba
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
This article strikes me as an indicator that we've reached peak this-kind-of-thing. In particular, I predict that in a year, it will seriously date your design if you're using a lot of CSS shadows and putting a random bright color
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
> "Why is educating citizens about digital literacy the solution to misinformation, as Mr. Goldman suggested, rather than fixing the tech platforms that make misinformation hard to distinguish from truth?" Literally, "wh
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
> we
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
I'm sure it doesn't feel like they work for a stereotypical evil corporation or anything like that.
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
In ten years: "To further protect our passengers, Alphabet OS cars will no longer be manually navigable down unmarked roads either."
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
How about I just give Google an SSH cert for my router and then they can proactively monitor my entire network to make sure I'm not being MITM'ed.
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
Can somebody explain to me what racial profiling necessarily has to do with "what it's like to live in a surveillance state," or am I correct in my evaluation that this article is doing PR for our own surveillance state by co
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
Why can't the alternative just be a media establishment that doesn't lie all day every day.
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
I'd love to see an example of a tweet he actually deserves to get banned for. Note that "expressing support for Donald Trump" doesn't count.
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
So that's what it's working on when it's starting up.
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
"Letting a giant monopoly control the internet might be a bad idea." Right wing propaganda.
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
What's the point of having an opinion if it's not a morally normative one? /s
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
The capital investment required to make music these days essentially negligible unless your heart is set on setting up a studio so you can have a band like it's the 1980s.
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
I'm not clear on if it's dated and ugly or just way too future for me.
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
If I realize someone I know is one of those "never say you're sorry" people, I lose a little bit of respect for them.
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
Because it's a an irrelevant, circumstantial argument that is largely made-up to begin with.
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
It's not the artists who are struggling, it's the platform. By your logic, I'm oppressing Youtube creators because I didn't buy Youtube Red. In terms of artists posting on Soundcloud, the fact that there's any deman
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
People these days act like the internet didn't go just fine for decades without a bunch of wannabe hallway monitors and other officious bullshit.
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
> Currently the systems we're working with are so complex that we can't comprehend all algorithms and need to use debugging and tracing tools: Oh, not sure you'll get universal agreement on that one. https://lwn
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by imhelpingu 9y ago
Julian Assange is offering a 100K reward for information about the murder. A PI hired by the Rich family has stated publicly the police were told to stand down and that sources available to Fox News told him Seth Rich had been communicating

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