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by jzb 3y ago
"Sure, but it's ultimately not necessary for your participation in society" I'm going to push back on this. I've opted out of Facebook before when I was part of some active social groups, and known others who'v
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by jzb 3y ago
OK, but tell me about RED... :-)
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by jzb 3y ago
Waco is more an example of the FBI doing something it should have been doing, but doing it incompetently. Which is certainly a discussion to have, but intervening against the Branch Davidians seems well within the mandate of law enforceme
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by jzb 3y ago
"but there's no reasonable expectation of privacy legally." Um. Isn't that what this case is trying to establish? It's unclear what the legal expectation is or isn't. Just because we have the technology to do s
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by jzb 3y ago
The idea is that the length and amount of surveillance is invasive. You expect when you walk out of the house a neighbor might see what you’re doing. Hard to call it invasive if that happens a few times a week. But if your neighbors take tu
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by jzb 3y ago
I read the book about this, “The Mirage,” a few years ago. It’s out of print, unfortunately, but worth the read if you can find a copy.
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by jzb 3y ago
No. I'm disputing the idea that this qualifies as merely being "treated well." Treated extravagantly would be more accurate, and from the budget of a non-profit no less.
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by jzb 3y ago
My father was a staunch Democrat, former union (UAW) guy. He always said "both parties are going to steal from you, the only difference is that Democrats believe you have to have something to steal first." I think that's a la
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by jzb 3y ago
Is it? How so? I'm not saying they're angels, but I don't know if I'd consider the MSFT of today "worse" than in the 90s and early 2000s. It's certainly a more complicated beast than it was then.
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by jzb 3y ago
There's a few shows I've checked out solely because I've seen so many reaction GIFs and stills from them. ("Community" comes to mind.) If your show lends itself to the format, it does seem like a great way to market
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by jzb 3y ago
"I have no beef with people getting treated well" Nor I. But there's being treated well and then there's being showered with cash, which is how I'd read getting a severance package in excess of 1.5 your base comp
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by jzb 3y ago
Or maybe most of Russia’s nukes don’t work, but a handful of working nuclear missiles can still ruin a lot of people’s day. And it’s a Hell of an expensive bluff to call. I don’t doubt much of their arsenal is in decay, but I wouldn’t bet
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by jzb 3y ago
You’re not “harmed” by an ugly building. Annoyed, maybe, but you’re not harmed. Ugly is subjective. Even if the majority agree that it is ugly, there’s likely a group that enjoys it. Should they be denied the ability to have architecture th
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by jzb 3y ago
If you really wanted, you should be able to use any old version of Windows or whatever in VirtualBox or VMware or under Qemu/KVM. Probably have limits around screen resolution - I don’t think you could coax Windows 3.11 or 95 to do ful
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by jzb 3y ago
Believe it or not, a lot of people still don’t know much beyond RMS being the founder of gnu. I have certainly found that plenty of people are not aware of any controversies until they’re pointed out. Whether these organizers had any clue I
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by jzb 3y ago
Yes, they can complain - and should. We all should. If there’s no real reason to commute, if the actual work doesn’t require it, then we should push back on this. “How it’s always been” is a lousy reason to keep doing something if there’s a
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by jzb 3y ago
"Why don't you push back against such a bizarre overreach?" Well, gee, I'm just gonna run right out and riot over it. Thanks for the suggestion. Is it not a criminal offense to lie to whatever the equivalent of the FAA
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by jzb 3y ago
"Social media is more like a common space, and unique user names are a limited resource." This doesn't persuade me that culling usernames after someone dies is a great policy, especially when it also removes their content. On
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by jzb 3y ago
What’s the cutoff? Just how popular does my dead friend’s account need to have been so it doesn’t get memory holed?
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by jzb 3y ago
None of your examples are like a social media handle or account. I can’t visit my dead friend’s bank account to see pictures of us together with a story and comments about a great trip. (As just one example.) I can export my history from so
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by jzb 3y ago
Maybe they didn’t get an offer from one of their first choices? Maybe they could live where they want working for IBM instead of having to live in SV for a FAANG? (Less of a thing now, but seems to be making a comeback…) Maybe they did get
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by jzb 3y ago
“Solved by market” is such a bullshit concept in this context. Firstly, the idea that the “market” is this self-correcting process that works out fairly is demonstrably bullshit. Secondly - who gives a fuck if “the market” in the abstract s
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by jzb 3y ago
“People simply do not understand what they are missing.” I think you can say this about people who haven’t learned to write well. ChatGPT seems like a great thing because they can get it to excrete a content-like substance that reads well,
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by jzb 3y ago
Kinda leans into the point of the post, I think. Vai, Satriani, and Eric Johnson are still working today, but they peaked popularity wise in the late 80s / early 90s. Not sure Satriani ever topped “Surfing With The Alien.”
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by jzb 3y ago
You might know of Ryuichi Sakamoto from his work with Yellow Magic Orchestra. (Or not, but YMO seems to have more name recognition.) Big recommend for Keating. She doesn’t have a large catalog, but her albums are fantastic. I wish she was m
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by jzb 3y ago
IMO it's a poor choice on Doctrow's part. Not because I have any real qualms about the use of the word, but because it's guaranteed to draw focus away from the real discussion. George Carlin talked about this quite a bit, t
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by jzb 3y ago
I think Postman might have liked a more interactive medium for entertainment. So the idea of having a Socratic discussion with ChatGPT rather than passively watching TV, where the program flits from "10 people dead in mass shooting&q
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by jzb 3y ago
I often wonder what Postman would have to say about social media, or things like ChatGPT. Nothing complimentary, I imagine.
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by jzb 3y ago
It really makes sense if you consider the budget for RHPS was less than $1.5 million... why make a custom prop if you can just rent it?
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by jzb 3y ago
"Companies are not incentivized to produce incompatible cables, the industry has done a remarkably good job of settling on basically a single standard" If constrained to cell phones and tablets only I might sort-of agree with yo

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