krageon

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by krageon 2y ago
When you compare it with the prices of other realistic costs (housing, transport, etc) it is significantly cheaper than you'd expect in a country with equivalent costs in those areas.
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by krageon 2y ago
Addiction-based exploitation. Perhaps the word "garbage" applies well to it. Or in a good reality, "criminal".
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by krageon 2y ago
At the end of the day the engineer has a valuable skill and you're the one telling them they need to be more replaceable. You're the enemy. Of course you're going to think the tools that let you dehumanise your employees at s
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by krageon 2y ago
It's not been a hugely impactful country in the way that the roman empire was, so at the very least it's not the latter. I know people like to say "pax americana" was a thing, but let's be real - even when the US wa
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by krageon 2y ago
The video just gives execs more leverage to use the skills they use every day (people skills) to overwhelm the skills you use every day (charitably either the same skills or some sort of knowledge or physical skill). The more they're c
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by krageon 2y ago
The only person guaranteeing this is the case and will stay the case is the person keeping your passwords. That seems to me to be a pretty wild thing to have faith in.
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by krageon 2y ago
The truth isn't a decision that's made, it just is. So nobody gets to decide it, it just is :)
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by krageon 2y ago
As someone not from the US the fact that "uwu we didn't know" is an adequate defense for the police to do something illegal is really weird. Is there some crucial context I'm missing?
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by krageon 2y ago
Low social cohesion and high individuality. Zero or near-zero shame built into people for being pieces of shit when they're growing up. It's all very "western".
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by krageon 2y ago
It's not noticeably low when you're from a nice country. It'll be very noticeably low when you're from a nightmare place.
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by krageon 2y ago
What is there to be sad about? You're getting the feedback you want: Don't beg for things, it's obnoxious and destroys whatever goodwill you have.
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by krageon 2y ago
Tangentially related, but a lot of the discourse about societies that people are not a part of end up being similar to the discourse around corporations people are not a part of. Folks come up with reasons for why things are the case, and i
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by krageon 2y ago
I've done the same thing as you and buying the phone separately was cheaper every time. In a normal jurisdiction the phone payment is a clear component of your bill and it is patently clear you're borrowing the full sale amount an
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by krageon 2y ago
Your point is apparently "you should expose yourself to malware so other people can make money". I think this is an unethical thing to say and think, because you are harming the actual human beings around you.
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by krageon 2y ago
> it never lied It's motto was literally "don't be evil". It takes a significant mental leap to take your conclusion from it's behaviour.
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by krageon 2y ago
The issue with ads is not just the fact that they prey on your attention, but also that they're a well-known vector for malware. You should never accept ads, because the risk that matters most to you if you don't have good menta
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by krageon 2y ago
I do the exact same thing and I don't live in the US so suing a party that sells my shit isn't an option, but it's nice to be able to blackhole an alias so that the corporation in question doesn't get to bother me with t
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by krageon 2y ago
It's like when I researched whether an electric toothbrush is better: All the studies say it's not, assuming you're a good brusher . You're probably not. For bad brushers and people that can't manipulate the toothb
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by krageon 2y ago
GP said local / on-device. Most of what you mentioned is cloud shit.
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by krageon 2y ago
What are you talking about? The GP doesn't even mention elections
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by krageon 2y ago
Containers aren't a security measure, so you'd be comparing a stick of wood to a car in this case.
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by krageon 2y ago
If you anything with a GPU anywhere, you can essentially forget it. Or at least this was the case a few years ago when I briefly toyed with using qubes seriously.
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by krageon 2y ago
Having been part of many such hiring initiatives, it hasn't ever panned out in any of my data. It means that everyone needs to be less of a shithead (because folks are no longer broadly homogenous), which makes everything a lot more be
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by krageon 2y ago
With respect, it can be hard to see the nuance in this if you're from the US (a country that is so racist even the government openly practices it, but sanctimonious enough to pretend it is instead free).
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by krageon 2y ago
What do you think the difference is between those?
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by krageon 2y ago
Yes, as far as I know. I thought this was a nice overview: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6300652/
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by krageon 2y ago
We can take it one step further: There are microbes everywhere in your body, they matter and they do things. When you take them away or fuck with them too much, weird things start happening. It is I think not a particularly surprising take.
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by krageon 2y ago
I don't want to sound too negative, but I will say that this is an extremely optimistic take that doesn't often pan out that way.
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by krageon 2y ago
I didn't say this at all. I said you should understand what you run, and if you understand it you realise it adds complexity. I don't really see how this is a particularly controversial statement and I will say I don't apprec
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by krageon 2y ago
You will be happy to learn that it was not in fact downvoted at all. I think this may be the first time I've expressed this sentiment to (mostly) positive feedback and I'm pretty sure it's because it was explained properly th

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