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by philovivero 4y ago
I'm struggling to find something useful in this comment. I'll just pick one point. > Elder Americans are straight up grifters, free loaders with no ability to accept the rest of the world is not a post-WW2 crater Compare agains
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by philovivero 5y ago
Pretty disingenuous. You can ask a representative sample, then assume people follow that. If you ask a few hundred people and 99% say they don't want it, then you make the default that they do want it, you're doing it "wrong.
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by philovivero 5y ago
You're right. The mouth movement was awful. I have no idea what OP is on about saying it was good. Maybe my uncanny valley is also steep, but nothing about this demo struck me as good. The tech maybe is good, but I wouldn't know i
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by philovivero 5y ago
If Vladimir Putin sucks, why is everyone letting him be in charge over there? If Donald Trump sucks why did we ele-- If Barack Obama sucks-- The FBI sucks. Facebook sucks. C sucks. The WWW sucks. Fiat currency sucks. Maybe the real truth is
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by philovivero 5y ago
Did a quick search and didn't find it. All I remember is it was written up in a rather major publication some years ago talking about the fall of Stasi. While trying to find my source, I did find out Putin was in East Germany when the
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by philovivero 5y ago
Yes. Person-A was in an online forum I was part of. Person-A said to Person-B, who was getting emotional in a discussion, to not act emotional, as it was a factual discussion. Person-B accused Person-A of being insensitive to women, as it t
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by philovivero 5y ago
Sometimes I think this sounds conspiratorial, and surely isn't happening. Who has the time or money to pay 5 people to just go around harassing and stalking people for political gain only? Then I remember the story of the lady in East
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by philovivero 5y ago
Yeah. Let's do make it personal. (I'll rephrase another commenter's comment) If I disassemble you and redistribute your body parts, I could save several people who are in dire need of a heart, some kidneys, some blood. Should
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by philovivero 5y ago
Bringing sanity to the discussion. Thank you.
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by philovivero 5y ago
I am appalled at your insinuation, but even more appalled at all the replies that take your premise at face value. No. No, there is no such scenario. You can coerce the information out of someone who has the knowledge in other ways, if that
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by philovivero 5y ago
I get scam phone calls with area codes from most of the major metro areas all over the USA although since it's a California area code, it seems most are from somewhere in California. Your final paragraph is pretty on-point. > It is
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by philovivero 5y ago
I've been in the unfortunate position of having had to fire about 5 people over my career. I take it as a very solemn responsibility that requires full attention and compassion for the person being fired. I make it a real conversation,
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by philovivero 5y ago
I was watching the old 2014 video: https://youtu.be/4fFDFbi3toc?t=1081 I've included the timestamp of the relevant bit. He is talking about swizzling, which is like clogging++. He says they take a subset of the network
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by philovivero 5y ago
In the USA, there is nothing stopping you from going to learn all the pro-Trump, anti-vax, anti-mask propaganda you want, yet millions of people do not. What makes you think it's any easier for someone to leave their filter bubble in R
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by philovivero 5y ago
> Neither you, me or Google are “benevolent actors”. This is nihilism. Google is definitely not a benevolent actor, as we can determine by examining the actions of the company over the past many years. I assume you also are malevolent, b
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by philovivero 5y ago
> we have a rule where we don't try to assasinate leaders unless strictly necessary And yet, here we are. Maybe this is the rule that needs to change. How many of these wars will we see in the coming decades if we simply start assas
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by philovivero 5y ago
Ah yes. The age-old conversation. A: It's a good idea! B: In theory, yes. In practice, no. A: I'm only talking theory. Great. The rest of us are talking about practice.
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by philovivero 5y ago
So, what's a charitable interpretation of that? For five straight years, we were bombarded with how awful it is that someone could be so extreme and racist, then we elected a card-carrying KKK member into office? Seems implausible. Tha
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by philovivero 5y ago
Fellow outsider here. I worked in one of the FAGMAN in a group of about 50 Indians. It became clear rather quickly that I would never move up or get any serious promotion/raise. So at least this one group treated outsiders as lower-cas
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by philovivero 5y ago
> Elon ... have taken all the talent that would have gone to bell labs and used it to generate ad revenue This is pretty unfair to Elon. He took all that talent and started putting things into space. And building the next generation of c
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by philovivero 5y ago
Also been using FF for 2 decades, but can corroborate the experience you cannot. I have seen all those things he complained about. Diversity initiatives, new features, etc. For me it appears as a new tab on restart that I have to close, and
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by philovivero 5y ago
I knew a Facebook employee a while back, but when there were still enough problems known and public. I asked him about it. He just said they were all lies and BS. He worked there, and never saw any of that. So either he rationalised it away
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by philovivero 5y ago
Wow. That your comment isn't greytexted into its bigoted oblivion makes me lose hope for Hacker News. Old people are not like what you just laid out.
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by philovivero 5y ago
When would it chime 4 times?
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by philovivero 5y ago
Are you sure you're not talking about the feast scene from Galaxy Quest?
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by philovivero 5y ago
When did they start to look prescient? 1776? Or was it earlier?
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by philovivero 5y ago
Yes. We should do that. We won't. Pro: everyone is fine, the hospitals aren't overwhelmed, the anti-vaxxers will be fine along with everyone else. Con: can't speak with disgust and disdain anymore to those who disagree with y
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by philovivero 5y ago
I could use a marketing intern.
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by philovivero 5y ago
This sort of sanity in interpreting written texts is disallowed on this forum. Here, guns are bad. The second amendment was meant to take away guns from the people and allow them only for the government, specifically, the armed forces. This
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by philovivero 5y ago
The old adage fits here. If you can't look around the room and identify who the bottom 10% are, you're the bottom 10%.

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