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by lisbbb 10mo ago
What the US needs first and foremost is a better future for its own citizens. We have abandoned our youth to unemployment and underemployment.
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
I'm tired of all the breathless handwringing. I'm sure that science in the US will be just fine without all the extravagant waste.
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
Privacy was a joke--every time I gave someone my data that data got breached, including the US government.
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
Yes. The only question left is when does the terror begin? And it will--it will be our own governments clamping down on all of us. The digital norm globally will be China under the CCP. That is the future for all of us unless we turn it o
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
I believe the entire western world is sleep walking into totalitarianism. It's soft glove right now, but mass surveillance, no matter what the original purpose, only needs concentration of power to turn into something truly inhumane.
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
That's because most devs are so overwhelmed with having to keep up with XYZ that the joke isn't even funny.
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
I worked at a major university that used ColdFusion. They had one guy furiously writing all these websites that were total one-offs. They didn't use source control. Every project was a copy of his original. If there was a bug, he h
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
I didn't look to see if this is a joke, but seriously, is SQL still a big thing in web dev these days? Feels like it isn't. GraphQL is a thing.
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
The thing that bothers me about the whole story, apart from the deaths of course, is that we live in a surveillance state. While I want major crimes to be resolved and there to be deterrents to future ones, I just don't know about tur
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
Lazlo Hollyfield. Life imitates art.
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
It's not that helpful. What stops this technocratic authoritarianism is shutting down the electrical grid. If that happens the surveillance state dies instantly and all of the top echelon becomes vulnerable again. They live in a hous
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
I'm planning on dystopian cyberpunk, which is how we already live, tbh. There was never going to be a golden age because humans are not capable of such.
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
The schools were ever good? FL, and the entire US south, for that matter, have a long track record of poor K-12 performance.
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
So we need color changing cars and we need to make changes to stickers, wheels, and accessories more frequently. It will be like the characters in cyberpunk novels with the odd face paint and stickers that they can change so as to frustrat
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
Every time someone hits back in the name of individual rights and privacy, the same thing happens. The state (aka government) does not want us to be able to protect ourselves from its intrusions. The US has become a surveillance state, it
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
A large number of adults I encounter are functionally illiterate, including business people in very high up positions. They are also almost 100% MATHEMATICALLY illiterate, not only unable to solve basic algebra and geometry problems, but c
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
I wrote my dissertation on information privacy back in 2003. Post 9/11, privacy was WILDLY unpopular thanks to government propaganda. It's never recovered. I walk around all the time thinking about how we are so close to what E
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
I've experienced similar. It has definitely made me less enthusiastic about working for any of those fools ever again. It's all just an exercise in mediocrity. The illiterate emails people send out are even worse--I swear that
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
The problem I have with them is they are a no-talent crowd who enjoy pushing everyone around.
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
I agree with all you said, but it's not like it is well advertised by the companies--they should come right out and say "we MITM TLS" but they don't. It's all behind the scenes smoke and mirrors.
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
I'm glad someone is speaking out about this. When I first found out that the major Fortune 500 company I was working for did this, I was happy I never did any online banking or any personal finance logins using the work computer. It&
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
There had to be other mechanisms, nobody was clipping coins as part of any kind of honest commerce.
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
I don't see the danger of pornography, tbh. Oh, much of it is sick, sure, but violent video games are far more harmful. Would it be better to depict loving, caring relationships? Hell, yes! But there are so few of those these days
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
People in power just want total control of the narrative and they don't want you to find out the truth about anything. Look at Walz in MN--he's like the ultimate Jedi "nothing to see here" mind trick with his wholesome
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
I just can't get behind any of it, sorry. The puritanical moralizing feels so good until you cause a revolution or the species goes extinct.
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
My son is 15. My talk to him went something like this: There's a lot of porn and nasty things that you can't unsee, so be careful what you look at. Also, those extortion gangs target teenage boys, so if some girl is suddenly ho
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
I'm 52 and I'm alone and isolated, so age has very little to do with any of it. There is no reason to pass laws to solve what technology caused and technology will undo or we will go extinct and it won't even matter anyways.
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
I made my Dad buy me a 387 math coprocessor when I was in college because I was taking math and physics courses but I bet none of the software I used ever even accessed that chip. It was more about the empty socket on the mobo looking out
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
My solution as a consultant was to build some artifact that we could use as a starting point. Otherwise, you're sitting around spinning your wheels and billing big $ and the pressure is mounting. Building something at least allows yo
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by lisbbb 10mo ago
Yeah, that's not a comparison to the kinds of highly complex internal systems I worked with the Fortune 1xx companies, particularly the regulated ones (healthcare). The whole "my son's school" thing is very nice, and it

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