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by pierat 3y ago
Remember, 100 IQ is the peak of a normal distribution. Half of the people are under 100 IQ. People here are likely 2-5 standard deviations above the 100 IQ average. If you want to interact or witness "average" people, go to a Wa
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by pierat 3y ago
I had a private conversation about customer service, rudeness, and such. It's terrible that in order to do something as simple as "I want to cancel this service", you have to scream and make legal threats of retribution. Thes
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by pierat 3y ago
When said housing is being bought by VCs and companies, then to be rented back to people in the community for 50% more than purchase, yeah it's not going to do much at all. I've watched my 2 local communities go through this right
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by pierat 3y ago
To be fair, it behooves local governments to solve it. However, the moment a community does do something good, like UBI or small apartments, they get flooded with every other community exporting their homeless there. Same goes for states as
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by pierat 3y ago
Why should I care? Dealing with homelessness is a massive money suck with no real return (in the quarter). Homeless people arent making any money that goes into taxes... or businesses. Homeless people aren't stimulating the economy. La
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by pierat 3y ago
And somehow, seeing Palestineans' parts of bodies on the front page of CNN is fine. It's the puritanical idiocracy of "woman body bad, death and dismemberment good". (I don't mind seeing topless people. Indifferent
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by pierat 3y ago
Point to the phrase or sentence where I said ALL of 5.3% declined was all "covid deaths", or all "moving away".
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by pierat 3y ago
Every government has a justification to minimize Covid deaths. And that quote is the 'official death toll'. My guess is this is grossly underreported. My original idea to track deaths was to compare before-covid year-to-year to du
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by pierat 3y ago
Thanks for that 'fact', but that is nearly a generation old. I guess it could be used as a longitudinal study... But the speed of technology is speeding up (technology is accelerating technology). I can't see this being that
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So, are there any schools measured who already did ban smartphones? Did they fare better? Where's the control group? I can accept the assertions about smartphones, being massive attention grabbing devices. I know before I neuter all th
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by pierat 3y ago
https://archive.is/a2spO
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by pierat 3y ago
Ublock Origin is great at anti-adverts and anti-anti-adtech. For everything else, use SponsorBlock! (Crowdsourced auto-skip YouTube for annoying in-video adverts)
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by pierat 3y ago
Use energy with atmospheric 3(C02) + 8(H20) -> C3H8 + 7(O2)
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And the US nationals are also buying everywhere they can. But you avoid THAT discussion. Its all about diversifying your wealth. Hell, even the elites who run HN/Ycombinator have their own escape 'end of the world bunker' in
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by pierat 3y ago
> Interesting that not long time ago USA was at the forefront of world technology. But nowadays not so much. The entrenched players figured out that they could instead of develop, research, and make new stuff, they could cripple existing
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by pierat 3y ago
> Infinite combos that are not optional but do not win you the game result in a draw. There's the 'donate an unsacrificable islandhome creature to an opponent who has no islands'. Infinite amount of state based checks happ
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by pierat 3y ago
No pirhana water, I'm sad. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_solution
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by pierat 3y ago
> That's not a problem with Scrum, it's a problem with your team. I've seen that justification time and again, and it feels disingenuous every time it's said. (Feels like a corrolary to No True Scotsman.) I've al
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by pierat 3y ago
You're wrong! /Sarcasm Seriously, there's also destructive arguments where you know you're not changing the other arguer's viewpoint, but instead aiming to change onlookers's views. There's also other type
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by pierat 3y ago
> You could argue that unless the $10/mo subscription offers a dumb chronological feed That's around what I pay to the maintainer of the Mastodon server I'm on. And I get that nice dumb chronological feed. Oh, and it'
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by pierat 3y ago
i expanded it for ya :D Sharing is caring!
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by pierat 3y ago
Soulseek STILL WORKS igg-games.com eztv.re 1337x.tw sci-hub.se libgen.rs torrentfreak.com opensubtitles.org nyaa.si So is thepiratebay.org . Search using yandex.com they dont filter torrents like scroogle or bingbong Pirate libraries are th
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by pierat 3y ago
> Sucks if you bought it but yeah just like the games in your Steam library you never actually owned it, you merely licensed it. If you're lied to about a "sale" and it's really just a shitty rental, we have a differe
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by pierat 3y ago
Sometimes, the victim is *also* to blame. When shitty policies are part of the root cause, then yes, the victim also shares in creating an environment that allowed easy victimization. You wouldn't secure your laptop in the front seat o
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by pierat 3y ago
This is no different than someone with access to expensive machinery gets wooden shoes, chains, corundum grit, etc thrown in. Sabotage is sabotage. Just because it was done with a computer is of little point here, other than the specific la
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by pierat 3y ago
I don't mind additional factors. It's the disablement of things like paste and similar that I despise.
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My decisions are based on: 1. Engineering from inside the orgs 2. Treatment of workers in said orgs 3. Treatment of customers 4. Capriciousness of their CEO. It's not just 1 thing. It's a whole slee of problems that coalesce into
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by pierat 3y ago
I would never buy a Tesla. Or for that matter, I've made a point to stay away from Musk's anything. --------------------- Ive seen engineer reports from Tesla. https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-tesla-employees-rev
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by pierat 3y ago
And as someone who pirates, I highly discourage pirating proprietary programs that save your data in their locked-in formats. Your data is more important than to be locked into a data-roach-motel. The companies know this, and count on pirac
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by pierat 3y ago
Wow, that's hella tone-deaf. EVERYBODY under Capitalism, aside the owner class, is getting exploited. It's not 'if you're getting screwed'. It's 'how much'.

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