justratsinacoat

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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>I might even say it's a 'hack' I guess it is an appropriate submission for Hac-- er I mean "Left-Facebook-Logged-In"-er News
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>Iog Sothoth It's the Pentagon, so surely you mean Shub-Internet http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/Shub-Internet.html
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
The clickbait 'title' makes some claim to vulnerability, except that's the wrong word entirely. The described "vulnerability" is logically equivalent to briefly removing one's face from the frame, because that
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
Uh, yeah, totally! Note the language used in your excerpt -- it's all finance and macro-scale consequences, job loss and less expensive services and economic growth. He talks about NASA trying to import "Internet age" thinkin
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
I'm shocked that Wheeler's pro-consumer leanings are so obvious to everyone but me. I wonder if we're reading the same archived blog?
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but showing me that the blog you're describing exists yet somehow doesn't have the thing you're trying to show me doesn't really fill me with surety. The post itself is hard
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
Consider me having been led around by the nose by clickbait/outrage farms. I wish you'd been around to provide the link to Wheeler's blog when this was news. If you follow the other subthread, you'll find another HN user
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
Firstly, I'm glad you're not, as you can't! I wasn't an HN member that long ago! :P Secondly, I'm glad you're not, because even 800 days ago when you posted that, someone brought up the extremely inconvenient f
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
The point of view you're riled up about isn't mine. Go try to start fights elsewhere.
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
A great way to understand another's point of view is to strawman it!! If you're actually interested in GGGP's position, look at his second sentence -- it's not that he's some insane opponent of Law and Order, it&#x2
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
I'm not sure Wheeler's turncoat, pro-consumer behaviour was predictable (or, for that matter, predicted) by anyone, you or otherwise. I think it's both more likely and more rational to assume duckness if walking and talking a
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>So basically, you believe dangerous people should remain in society? >Habitual criminals should continue to terrorize innocents such as yourself and your family, and you wouldn't even call the police? One of these sentences is a
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
Sufficiently advanced shittiness is indistinguishable from malice.
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
Don't forget -GMO which is almost certainly owned by Monsanto ~Are we prepared to cede most of the benefits (and control; cf terminator seeds) of GMOs to a ruthless, aloof megacorp?
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>There are quite a few optical illusions photos based on that, for example the face that seems to smile - until you flip it. Ah, the Thatcher effect! [0][1] Although IMO this is a bad example because (er, AFAIK) we don't have the sa
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>As a former FB employee Oh shit, sorry dude D: >I understand why you would have absolutely no reason to believe any of this Well, it's not really that. Most serious tech-folk have realistic conceptions of privacy issues (he said
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
A totally satisfying explanation! I apologize, you had every right to invoke the risking of lives. However, I hope your hopefully hypothetical dissident who is saying the things that cause armed men to knock knows to avoid Facebook altogeth
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>but please feel free to continue risking other people's lives for the sake of feeling smug in your ignorant dismissal of this effort OK, I'll bite. How does this commenter's opinion (which is, to be clear, that the featur
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>> It looks as if PGP's days are numbered Comments like this are inevitable and represent Facebook's attempts to induce us to route all of our communications though its platform. For the quoted commenter, it's probably
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>>If my similarities to you in both physicality and reaction are not enough to convince you I feel pain, why are my words enough? And if they are, if I build a deep belief network which says "ouch, fuck" every time it encoun
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>The discussion of how there is an impulse for people to get upset and defensive when told they're wrong, and how it impedes learning, is very well established. It's not worth wasting time on a weird side argument about it. The
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>> Is this how 'people in general work' >Yes. Well, that was a quick 'discussion'! Glad you came along! Thanks for the downvote!
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
Nowhere did I claim that pigs ought to be treated as humans. For that matter, nowhere did I say you shouldn't eat that cow. Why are you trying to imply that I did? Your thought experiment ignores a lot of established facts, like the ne
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>I was, but people also inflict physical suffering on themselves, from fasting to literal self-flagellation and mutilation. There have been people who offered themselves up for literal torture and sacrifice gladly This behaviour you desc
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>Did we ask the animals too? Maybe the pig consensus is different Most mammals react to painful stimuli (which we can provide a baseline for by testing it on other humans, whom you luckily consider to be reliable enough) with aversion an
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
Here I was, writing a draft response about this personally unprecedented phenomenon of someone who lacked any sense of poetics at all, but I quickly realized that isn't necessarily the case. No one has asked you the right question -- c
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>Right, because you have to convince the high-status authorities to say that it connects on an emotional level so that everyone else will nod their heads to avoid looking stupid Honest question -- did you get the same emotional read off
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>Poetry that scans correctly should be fairly easy to write for a machine - just find words with the right rhythm patterns and rhymes Indeed, Pentametron [0] ('With algorithms subtle and discreet/I seek iambic writings to retwe
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>MS made a couple missteps, but people just love to blow whatever MS does way out of proportion (the same way they do for Apple, only for other points) so instead of having reasonable discourse, all we have is a pile of knee-jerk reactio
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
...man, I was all ready to get out the pitchforks in response to "bioterror" research in a public place, but it turns out it's more "fluid dynamics research prompted by the risk of particulate bioweapons". It's

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