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by lurk2 2y ago
> in that the deepest and most shameful secret of both websites' most avid users is that they have always been both websites' most avid users. This isn’t true at all.
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He was a janitor. On the internet. He did it for free.
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> Actual 4chan mods are paid. As far back as I can remember they were also volunteers. When did hiro start paying people?
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They have been doing this for almost ten years now.
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> On top of that, they actively delete and ban posts that go against alt-right. Lurk moar.
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> There's absolutely no indication that it has been overtaken by developing countries. A lot of influencers in this space are non-whites born outside of the west. The scale of what he’s describing is exaggerated, but the trend is th
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This used to be a selling point for me when I was younger, but increasingly I find myself not wanting to deal with poorly-moderated platforms. I can’t tell if it’s because the transgressive vulgarity that these platforms enable has lost its
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> Algos are bad. they inherently carry a huge risk to accentuate the biases of the datasets from which algos were created. They do not do this “inherently.” They don’t do it at all if they don’t have or create a feedback mechanism.
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> Property Management Systems (PMS) or Hotel Operating System (HOS), under business, terms may be used in real estate, manufacturing, logistics, intellectual property, government, or hospitality accommodation management. They are compute
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I had this experience years ago. The first place I ever rented in had Wi-Fi that didn’t work and after about a week the water stopped working. I cancelled my booking through support and the owner called me 3 or 4 times on WhatsApp and then
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I’m in a group chat for a language I am studying. It gets targeted for event flyers due to the group’s subject. These sorts of flyers are allowed where other advertising is not because they add value to the group, even though most of them a
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> Or would I have been able to learn even more and faster, since I wouldn't have been all alone banging my head against some trivial problem for weeks? This was my experience. I’m not a programmer but I enjoy playing around with Pyt
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> Any sort of communication of a novel thing would fall under this banner Yeah, that was what I was getting at. I believe it in theory, but in practice I find all advertising to be the sort of implicit-mugging the grandparent is describi
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> The spherical-cow "ideal" 100% efficient perfect marketing campaign/tactic literally hypnotizes you into dropping all your money on an arbitrary good or service. It is isomorphic to somebody mugging you. I like the quote
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> Its an implicit promise It's an inferred promise, not an implicit promise. Lots of schools do try to make it an explicit, qualified promise (e.g. "80% of grads work in their field!"), and even more are shifting towards b
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He's saying that the economic viability of the model is illusory.
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> The reformation is more closely related to "westenrism" than the Greeks or Romans who laid some of the philosophical groundwork. I can see where you're getting this, but I would disagree. Western civilization is insepara
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> The core founding principle of western society is solidarity via collective bargaining What is the basis of that assertion? If you go back as far as the Greeks, this only holds true if you focus on one specific city-state, and ignore t
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> You are confusing the actual accounts with the surrounding article. The first one is hearsay from a dead guy and the other one is a creative writing project. If you had these accounts handy from reputable sources, you would have posted
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> All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary. Did any of the people who were deported claim to have been citizens?
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https://studyinternational.com/news/trump-student-wharton/ > Despite the US president attesting to the fact that he finished “top of his class” at Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania, his
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I always thought “soft skills” were a cope for those who didn’t learn an actual skill, until I entered the workforce. I was working mainly in customer service, construction, and facility maintenance roles, and in all three I found it was in
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> MEGAs illegal CEO abduction from their home soil in the 2010s for a particularly egregious example I’m assuming you’re referring to Kim Dotcom since I can’t find any other reference to what you are describing. Kim was not abducted; he
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>by all accounts Which accounts?
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> The 1st (because the actual basis was often protected speech unrelated to the asserted premise of removal) This sounds like you are talking about the students who were detained and deported. Were any of them sent to El Salvador? My und
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> When has he publicly or privately intimated that he understands how tariffs or trade work? He has a Bachelor's Degree in Economics.
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China detained two Canadians for almost three years in retaliation for Canada cooperating on a US warrant for Meng Wanzhou. They can make you disappear in the way that people in this thread are pretending the Americans can. It is not safe t
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> so much of it is predicated on actually keeping you locked ino one geographical location. Most of the digital nomad hubs have the same laws with regards to worker protections and tax residency; they're just too poor to enforce the
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> Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm jus
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> That the administration thinks they just just drag people into vans and ship them off to a foreign prison? Can you point to a specific instance where this has occurred, and what laws you believe were broken? I'm not qualified to s

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