mark_edward

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by mark_edward 8y ago
Cite a study
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by mark_edward 9y ago
If you always find yourself liking things mostly unsavory people like, maybe you should think about that thing.
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by mark_edward 9y ago
But immigrants talk different languages and look funny, this frightens me and I need protection
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Just ask ICE
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Are you a physicist or cosmologist?
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by mark_edward 9y ago
How do you plan to make money as an adblocker?
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by mark_edward 9y ago
I agree with you, but wanted to make a correction. MKULTRA was the batshit scheme to hypnotize and mind control people where they dosed people with LSD. You're probably thinking of COINTELPRO, the FBI program of activist and political
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Yes, without the Britain First Facebook page, how will we ever know that xenophobes exist?
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by mark_edward 9y ago
This has been false from the beginning though, you are referring to an imaginary capitalism that never existed.
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by mark_edward 9y ago
I think what you do is super helpful and I appreciate it. Maybe adding context or just saying it's a paywall workaround would prevent people from getting the wrong idea.
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by mark_edward 9y ago
If there only thing your country has to offer is tax shelter instead of infrastructure, talent, resources, etc. Maybe work on that
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by mark_edward 9y ago
When profits come up against morality, profits will win every time. How do you think we even got to this situation in the first place?
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Do you think petty cruelty towards prisoners makes society safer and reduces recidivism?
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Get them a life sentence, sounds good to me
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Wholehearted thanks for people like you!
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Sounds good to me. Screw you data vampires.
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by mark_edward 9y ago
HN is an oligarchy, the mods have a lot of arbitrary and invisibly operating power, they're not elected, not subjected to popular control. I'm not necessarily complaining, it's what make the site what it is, but it's def
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Fair enough. I see a lot of two-facedness on this.
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by mark_edward 9y ago
>No country, much less one that considers itself a superpower should be willingly letting a foreign nation spread propaganda. Is this a rule you apply equally or is it OK when we do it, like the ex-CIA director says [0]? Should the NED,
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Demand proves that things are good, this is why slavery and cold prostitution are good, for example. Your brain has been broken by money.
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Ah, the old, "it's good because I make money off of it", the argument of scoundrels and thieves.
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Those are nice analogies, but what is actually confusing about building gigantic data-mining and surveillance infrastructure, like working at FB and Google? At best it's used to manipulate and sell ads, at worst it gets turned over to
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Yeah, that's what I meant. The economic and political incentives for this are gigantic. There's no reason not to collect data if you can. Combine that with the lucrative pay for the workers and whatever... It's a bit like t
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by mark_edward 9y ago
We won't. Many of the brightest and best paid of us are busily working at places like Google, building ever more powerful surveillance and analysis machinery to target ads. Of course it will be used for more than that.
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by mark_edward 9y ago
It does require factories, data centers, ISPs, telecom infrastructure, DNS, all of which is controlled by somebody with their own interests. This declaration is amazingly naive and increasingly being proven wrong, as effective controls of t
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by mark_edward 9y ago
Do you actually think a slave-driving genocidal America invented freedom?
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by mark_edward 9y ago
As I understand, generators are a subset of coroutines. Generators can only yield to their caller, but coroutines can yield to other coroutines. coroutines are more general. they can be implemented on top of generators with some fancy stuff
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by mark_edward 9y ago
No, you're on HN
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by mark_edward 9y ago
You know nothing about me. I love writing code, I do it in my free time. I also have student loans to pay and food to eat. I am not kicking myself out of a job for the fun of it.
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by mark_edward 9y ago
You say it like there's something to do, but in your formulation it's actually a lose-lose situation. Either you automate and get fucked, or someone else does and you get fucked anyway. Either way you have to try and find a differ

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