matrix87

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by matrix87 2y ago
> I expect the first shot was fired with the Google+ Real Names policy, What is this about?
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by matrix87 2y ago
would you go up to a Russian coworker and get in their face about Ukraine? people have a right to feel at ease in the workplace. if you think that your politics come before that, you aren't mature enough to work in a professional envir
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by matrix87 2y ago
Maybe for healthcare, in a preventative sense like eating a healthy diet. But for stuff that requires actual care like your counterexample, yeah it's 100% a government problem Maybe for crime, diet, civic engagement, it's more of
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by matrix87 2y ago
> They cost more in healthcare, crime, and other support systems. Not really sure causality is being poor -> being more expensive Could go the other way, behaviors that make people more expensive -> being poor Different hot take: i
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by matrix87 2y ago
> so to bottom out intensely like that feels extremely hopeless. Had a similar experience to you but took it in a different way. Came down out of the craziness and realized "hey, I'm still here, shit could be a lot worse"
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by matrix87 2y ago
What's going to happen if we don't listen to your red-lettered life advice? Are we going to spontaneously combust?
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by matrix87 2y ago
Well in theory yes, but legally no
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by matrix87 2y ago
> And while computer engineers are not repair technicians, they usually know better than the average person on how to fix a computer. Computers are a relatively narrow domain. How broad do you have to make the subject in order to fit lif
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by matrix87 2y ago
It's kind of strange that psychology has this dual role of both giving advice to the sane and managing the insane. The same division was a thing in psychoanalysis too with neurotics vs psychotics Why does it do both? Why do people use
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by matrix87 2y ago
it does, just your ODD keeps you from realizing that :)
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by matrix87 2y ago
> Legitimate advances are being made Like what? Realizing that lobotomies aren't a legitimate treatment?
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by matrix87 2y ago
it already is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppositional_defiant_disorder
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by matrix87 3y ago
> When you tell them they both can't be highest priority, the answer is: make it happen "Quality or quantity?" "Yes" These types are some of the most insufferable people imaginable
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by matrix87 3y ago
> The strategy is to hire enough and be managed to a degree such that the operation of any single system is never left leave to any single engineer. In code the equivalent of this is having some bloated thing that's been touched by
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by matrix87 3y ago
leisure isn't wasting time. Not everything you do has to have economic value
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by matrix87 3y ago
What's stopping them from just delisting news sites? Doesn't the first amendment protect that?
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by matrix87 3y ago
It may be different in the USA though because of the first amendment? If google decides to delist, forcing them to list news sites would constitute compelled speech, would it not?
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by matrix87 3y ago
> and that can't really be done without completely destroying internet anonymity. doesn't have to in the general case maybe just have it at the OS level, have parents set up the phone, prompt on setup whether it's intended
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by matrix87 3y ago
maybe in sf but not really anywhere else
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by matrix87 3y ago
Who's better off, people who are more paranoid or people who are more trusting? It's not an easy question
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by matrix87 3y ago
The way they use it is so stupid. It's this constant game of trying to one-up each other and create a "personal brand" I really don't get it, people can't just sit and do shit in the moment, everything has to be for
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by matrix87 3y ago
Yeah maybe some people like getting manipulated. What's wrong with that if they're having a good time?
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by matrix87 3y ago
depends on the university
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by matrix87 3y ago
> Even if you do need paid support By paid support, you mean free steak dinners for middle management? After dealing with Azul people, give me Oracle. Instead of seeing Azul people shuffling a bunch of charts around and making up shit on
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by matrix87 3y ago
> Dunno why you think more prosperity leads to more children when it's almost always the other way around Because capitalism incorporates more and more of their lives in the production of economic value. That isn't the same thi
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by matrix87 3y ago
> what is fundamentally a public health problem You see a public health problem, we see a crime problem. Maybe to you, throwing them all in prison doesn't "work". But if there are fewer psychotic homeless and streets are c
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by matrix87 3y ago
Excellent news! Less property value for you! Next stop, no more prop 13 either
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by matrix87 3y ago
that's cool, do the harm reduction shit, just keep it confined to SF and Oakland so the rest of us don't need to deal with the aftermath
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by matrix87 3y ago
No, I need CEQA in order to preserve my inflated property values so I can steal other people's economic surplus. This is a bad idea

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