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by kongin 5y ago
scihub, libgen, you now have the keys to the kingdom. Hilariously enough in my current gig I have access to pretty much all the journals out there, yet scihub is still easier to use and libgen has more books. The only place I think that has
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by kongin 5y ago
Of course I vote against socialism in the West, I'm here to make money, the less taxes the more money.
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by kongin 5y ago
>Another case was for a German company so desperate to find people that they paid a friend of mine net 6000 EUR a month as a front-end. That's even crazier. Wait how much? At flat 10% tax that's competitive with non-CA salaries
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by kongin 5y ago
>Perhaps today’s technological and political entrepreneurs, like their socialist predecessors, may find out that a new generation raised in conditions of financial crashes, pandemics, and political deadlock may draw different ideological
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by kongin 5y ago
You also use AC to heat the tens at night in the desert.
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by kongin 5y ago
Solar pannels don't work at night and you can't ask the enemy to attack on sunny days.
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by kongin 5y ago
>Well sure, that's part of the point. There didn't exist a concept of constant access to news and happenings at every point of your day. Couldn't just pull out your phone and check Fox/CNN, or get updates via social m
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by kongin 5y ago
Sounds like they are missing the market segment of the outwardly racist, there's pennies to be made and they are ripe for disruption.
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by kongin 5y ago
That's because you were young and had no idea what was going on. A hilariously depressing exercise is just reading old news paper headlines from whatever decade you want to pick and seeing what the world was like then. I've yet to
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by kongin 5y ago
I find that listening to them multiple times is much better value for time than just doing it once.
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by kongin 5y ago
I find that people who have never used text to speech think that the closer it is to real speech the better it is. Which is simply not the case. Artificial speech is to human speech what typography is to handwriting. For example espeak is b
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by kongin 5y ago
The difference is that facebook used to be an elite corner of the web where you knew you were talking to people who would be in the upper 1% of US society. The reddit tech subs used to be populated with the people writing the software they
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by kongin 5y ago
The solution is obviously solitary confinement \s.
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The idea of consent is a rather dumb one. It came out of kink. Communication and consent in that case is rather important since the difference between rape and battery and a fun night is rather thin. For some getting a toilet brushed vigoro
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by kongin 5y ago
I'll be teaching my children how to use the most tinfoil floss hardware/software so they don't have a digital profile they don't want before they are 18. The pinephone and similar are great for anyone under 12, and hopef
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by kongin 5y ago
But the civil authorities didn't. You'd be still burned at the stake, but if you agreed with the people burning you that you deserved it you'd get a good afterlife. The problem I have is the internet was wild when I grew up a
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by kongin 5y ago
The interest on the British dye patents was paid in German poison gas. If the UK had not strangled that sector of their economy the Germans would have never gotten the industrial know how to make a thousand tons of chlorine a month in 1915.
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by kongin 5y ago
The whole ecosystem around gtk is extremely insular, the devs are hostile and think the users idiots for not doing things the right way. Compare to the qt krita and you see the difference. It's a paint program, but it already works bet
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by kongin 5y ago
When the Mechanical Turk was crated in Austria the country had been nearly conquered by the Ottomans less than 80 years previously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna The name was meant to inspire dread in
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by kongin 5y ago
I'm sorry, but are we talking about the post docs ~running the experiment~ managing the routine tasks beneath the dignity of the department/lab head or the people participating in the experiment?
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by kongin 5y ago
Oh wow, I hadn't heard anything from Ellen Pao since her husband's Ponzi schemes exploded[1][3] and they started trying to divorce[2]. I guess they are close to finalizing the divorce and she's looking for a new place to sue
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by kongin 5y ago
>The issue with this is while the transistors for the CPU scale like that, the structures to do wireless transmission don't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole_antenna To go over it a bit more: the higher the
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by kongin 5y ago
> people need to trust science because the average person doesn't have the scientific background necessary, much less the time, to evaluate the accuracy of everything scientific they deal with - especially in the realm of medicine P
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by kongin 5y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20200731213626/https://old.reddi... Here's a version with a lot fewer deleted comments. If anyone wants to see what 1984s memory hole looks like this is it. You know what
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by kongin 5y ago
I remember when people wanted an aids tattoo to keep those who have it segregated from the rest of us. I hear those peoples kids say that vaccine passports are completely different and absolutely essential. The apple didn't fall far fr
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by kongin 5y ago
The second will be Nazis. The third pedophiles. The fourth BLM, or some type of socialist. At that point you've built up enough bipartisan support to remove everyone from the platform who might possibly threaten ad revenue. Unfortunate
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by kongin 5y ago
>It’s kinda odd to contemplate how this space will evolve. The same way it did on reddit: sock puppets and chat servers outside reddit where the people radicalize themselves further. The cherry on that shit cake was when /r/aga
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Teaching assembly as computer science is like teaching welding as architecture.
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>Most humans working today can't quit their job without another job already lined up. Some people (like those in the later stages of their PhD) can't quit at all. They would end up losing potentially years of progress. I was in
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by kongin 5y ago
>It did make me wonder about how we could restructure academia/society so that random individuals don't have so much power over other people. It seems like a recipe for disaster. Never work in a job you're not prepared to

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