mvncleaninst

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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
I don't think that would mesh well with the neighborhood character
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
"The gap in life expectancy between the richest 1% and poorest 1% of [American] individuals was 14.6 years (95% CI, 14.4 to 14.8 years) for men and 10.1 years (95% CI, 9.9 to 10.3 years) for women." [0] [0] https://www.
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> Our enemy is anti-merit, anti-ambition, anti-striving, anti-achievement, anti-greatness. if you run with this attitude, it sort of destroys society. Everyone is too focused on being better than everyone else. It essentially sacrifices
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
I'm assuming this thread is non-programming related since that's like everything else on this website Probably Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. And it didn't impact me in a way where I agreed with it, it was more the opp
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> Question - how long will this last before the young say "enough" and vote for politicians that just redistribute assets? Bc that historically has not worked well. The NIMBYs: they don't pay their fair share of property t
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> As the money got bigger we got more grifters / professional manager types. First thing they do is rebrand middle management as “leaders” and the other thing they do is make management non technical. God I hate this, having to atte
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
This isn't how people are in practice. People aren't "digital citizens" who critically examine online sources and cross reference. This isn't some "ideal" to be reached either, it's completely out of
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> When personal responsibility gets mocked we lower expectations and beget the idiocy we claim to detest. Where do you see this happening?
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> A surprisingly large amount of all human economic activity is around exploiting other people's psyche/biology. With this, you can acknowledge that it's going on in the general case, but the second you start naming specif
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> with a corresponding political flame war. aforementioned topics aren't "flame war" topics, generally the people who know about the NSA pissing on the fourth amendment aren't in favor of it
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> "I just searched for 'tooltip' in the entire code base, examined stuff for possible candidates, and inserted debugging print statements to follow the execution," This guy gets it
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> If you don’t like ads and desire to continue using the service, it’s time to consider paying for it. Or maybe just use something like AdNauseum that just emits a bunch of noise
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
from my experience IT people normally worship windows for some bizarre reason, which imo is a joke of an OS compared to the other two
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> This may be a bit naive. How do you make sure that there are no intentional security issues / backdoors in Chips from a vendor? Seems like you're confusing designs (that is to say, speech) and actual manufactured chips, the t
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> "I fear that our export-control laws are not equipped to deal with the challenge of open-source software - whether in advanced semiconductor designs like RISC-V or in the area of AI - and a dramatic paradigm shift is needed,"
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> Some of us have events in our past that we try not to think about, because if we think too hard, we might realize that we crossed the line. This fills men with guilt and uncertainty, but also fear. We know the consequences if our doubt
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> Apparently "do something" doesn't extend so far as to naming names? Might be too risky, legally speaking
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> But the calculus in your mind should be that the writing of the dependency is a loss. It is a loss of developer time, of future maintenance, of mental mindshare Why should it? Why is efficiency some kind of moral imperative here? Why s
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
Why did Drew all of a sudden start doing this advocacy stuff? Not that I disagree with it, I'm just curious... it feels performative. Like is he trying to prove some kind of point to someone? It's definitely an entertaining read,
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
Here's how to tell the difference between blue and gray: "latinx", "POC", "intersectionality", "toxic masculinity", "allyship", "lived experience" Or one of those hideous &quo
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
I'd imagine when you have an online presence with a relatively large audience, some % of that audience is going to be crazy like this stalker guy I really wouldn't be surprised if big youtubers keep private security on payroll for
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
They should append "From a White American Journalist's Perspective" to the title, would make the whole thing a little more honest
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> The benefit (prevent rash action and ensure control of a single branch/chamber/etc does not lead to negative outcomes) are effectively being presented while the downside is not, and people then go on to blindly chant these me
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
From a local high school history textbook (commenting on the the first amendment): > Just how liberty should be limited is a matter of debate. For example, most of us support freedom of speech, especially when it applies to speech we agr
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
Switzerland is relatively niche, I think the UK would be a better comparison
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> One end is idiotically naive, and the other means we're imminently going to suffer in a civil war or be enslaved. We aren't stuck with the institutions that we have. We have the resources to create new ones as old ones die ou
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> And how capitalism will, well, capitalize on this environment, and have its own effect in turn. I'm with you on both this and trust (with one caveat). I get the impression that you talk about trust in individuals and trust in inst
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
In my graduating class for undergrad, there were like 3x as many journalism majors as there were CS majors. And it wasn't a particularly good journalism school either. Same for other majors like sports medicine, political science, etc
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
> In the meantime, Americans' trust in their institutions is languishing at rock bottom[0]. And when people lose trust like that, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. Things don't look good, and the problem might be much bigg
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by mvncleaninst 3y ago
You could just self host an alternative front end, is probably easier that way

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