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by p0pcult 4y ago
Did I say income taxes?
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by p0pcult 4y ago
>how does one explain the pop culture of 80s nostalgia The fact that people who were teens in this era are a desirable market segment with a lot of purchasing power, and nostalgia works. If it were anything about the actual historical v
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Just because other people cheat, doesn't mean that you should. Taxes are the price of civilization.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
I got the joke, even if others didn't.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Anyone else (mis)read the title as "Walker's Manly Excuses"? As it stands, the actual book disappoints me.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Imagine it is 2080 and the news of the day is that farmers will be allowed to buy "BioSerum" that extends the expiration date of their genetically engineered HyperHorse by one month.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
When I was in my last round of job hunting as a data scientist, a recruiter approached me with an offer to interview for a job in "kill chain analytics" for a defense contractor's drones. I noped the hell out of that asap.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
America was built on slave labor, and used exactly your arguments to justify the slavery.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
This is how i characterized NYC traffic when I lived there 2 decades ago: 100% predictably aggressive, which made it safer.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Protecting your family while letting the society in which it exists rot is not protecting your family.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
>How to assist privileged students who lost two years of in class instruction is less important ...as it should be. If the privileged keep playing their privilege games while neglecting equity, society does not work.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
As a former teacher in one of the poorest congressional districts in the country at the time (South Bronx, early 2000s), as well as the current parent of a kid in a very different (Midwestern) city's public school systems, this is the
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by p0pcult 4y ago
I am actually fascinated with these, enough to seriously consider a deposit. But I am very concerned about their ability to tackle an "AI-drivetrain" when they can't even get counting numbers right. To wit, from their Quick
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Doesn't "military-grade" imply the lowest-possible cost to get the job done? I.e., the exact opposite of the marketing PR it is servicing?
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by p0pcult 4y ago
The more free games you have, the less time you have to spend on games you bought on Steam, slowly decoupling you from the Steam ecosystem. Maybe this isn't a money play, but an attention economy play, in the short run?
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by p0pcult 4y ago
How many of you are open to the piracy of your work product, by people who work for your company's competitors? Or by someone else on your team pirating your code and claiming it as their own? I oppose piracy because I recognize that
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by p0pcult 4y ago
But keeping people employed because "we have money" is a really good reason.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Seems like this is what you get when you have programmers try to be statisticians, I suppose. "Statistically correct" gobbledygook that signifies nothing.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
It doesn't; however, the signature in your hypothetical doesn't correspond to a known/trusted author.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Calling a flat earth or a geocentric universe "statistically correct" at past historical points is really inane, don't you think? In doing so, you abuse the notion of what statistics is supposed to represent, which is, gener
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by p0pcult 4y ago
1. If "bullshit motivational quotes, carefully constructed outrage takes, or purportedly expert content about topics [the author] knows nothing about" makes your world a miserable place, you are part of the globally privileged. U
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by p0pcult 4y ago
They judge the maximum likelihood answer. I take issue with your usage of the word "correct" because it can too easily be confused with "accurate."
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by p0pcult 4y ago
This seems to make a lot of sense. The artists themselves also have an incentive to be blockchain validators/miners, thereby reducing the need for token payout, and the subsequent speculation that comes with tokenization (I think).
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by p0pcult 4y ago
It is very nice of you to be so concerned about these folks' inner lives and psychological well being! Are you going to pay their rent, and feed them too?
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by p0pcult 4y ago
>Some people Other people think those first people are complete nutjobs.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Agreeing to disagree with intolerance just furthers intolerance, to paraphrase Karl Popper.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/three-men-plead-guilty-conspi...
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Washington State Power-Station Attacks Are Latest Assault on Grid(bloomberg.com)
8 points by p0pcult 4y ago|1 comments
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by p0pcult 4y ago
Social media has feedback loops that can adjust themselves orders of magnitude faster than legacy media, to keep you addicted (er, "engaged") with near zero friction.
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by p0pcult 4y ago
The pocket veto is a ridiculous thing.

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