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by poszlem 4y ago
This is something I've been thinking about a lot recently, especially since listening to John Carmack interview ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4 ) and him saying that almost nobody uses IDEs at Meta. I think
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by poszlem 4y ago
> When people don't quite know what's going on a lot of crazy ideas can seem legit. Kind of makes you sentimental when you realise you've lived through something like that by being a software developer in the 90s.
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by poszlem 4y ago
Kind of makes me wonder what would those people say if we played them Bo Burnham's Welcome to The Internet from 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
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by poszlem 4y ago
It is a question of big principles. To quote Orwell: "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people things they do not want to hear."
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by poszlem 4y ago
We are getting closer and closer to a simulacrum and hyperreality. We used to create things that were trying to simulate (reproduce) reality, but now we are using those "simulations" we'd created as if they were the real thin
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by poszlem 4y ago
And yet we talk about the "white privilege" all the time, and I bet dollars to doughnuts that "beauty privilege" has more impact on a person life in the year 2022.
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by poszlem 4y ago
One of the few "privileges" the people who usually talk about such things still haven't properly acknowledged.
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by poszlem 4y ago
.. of the US.
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by poszlem 4y ago
It's not "in OP's view". We know that _on average(!)_ they don't really matter that much. What matters _on average(!)_ is power, position, and success. Even in this thread someone already posted how differently wome
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by poszlem 4y ago
Because "Eat the rich" has never ended in a disaster?
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by poszlem 4y ago
„The original "lesson" is not actually about respecting people's needs, or about ensuring accessibility for all. It's mainly about disregarding some people's preferences entirely in favor of certain others, holding
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by poszlem 4y ago
Well, before it was a cool identity to have, geeks used to go into computing often in order to escape what they perceived as reality that was hostile to them. I guess if you think you are an animal (even if ironically) you would also be mor
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by poszlem 4y ago
Globalization has ended with the Russian invasion on Ukraine. What we are seeing now is a huge "divorce" between the West and China/Russia that will only get more and more intense as the international order no longer works fo
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by poszlem 4y ago
The problem with that is the same as we would get if we decided that the way to treat anorexia is by allowing the patients to starve themselves to death. They would die thin and happy, but I don't think many people would agree with it
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by poszlem 4y ago
I am sorry, but no, that's not coming from the conservative media. See for example "sex assigned at birth" https://service-manual.nhs.uk/content/inclusive-content/sex-... as an example from a mainst
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by poszlem 4y ago
Not really - we now create stable identities from what is essentially a form of mental illness. We no longer say that someone suffers from "body dysmorphia", instead we say that they were "assigned the wrong body at birth&quo
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by poszlem 4y ago
I don't say this should be forbidden for consenting adults. I am saying that it should not be sold as "the treatment" but as "we don't have anything better for now, we are working on it, if you can't wait, you
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by poszlem 4y ago
This type of "treatment" is an utter failure and surrender of the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and neurology. The way we used to think was - a sex change surgery used to only be performed because we could not fix the mental
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by poszlem 4y ago
I could not agree more. A lot of game producers get this arrogant approach of: "Making games would be such awesome job if it wasn't for those pesky gamers". The question here is: "Is this a really innovative graphical de
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by poszlem 4y ago
I don't see where you took the n-word from, but even that to me as a non-american is peculiar. As much as I don't think the word should be used as a slur, people have lost jobs over using it when quoting someone else or even using
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by poszlem 4y ago
As always in those situations - people like the parent post author pretend that "what is offensive to who" is a settled issue and not the main front in the current culture war.
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by poszlem 4y ago
Makes you think how much better would the social science studies be if they hired more diverse (i.e. not only left wing progressive) scientists who could point out those errors and inconsistencies to the authors of the paper.
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by poszlem 5y ago
Rob Henderson also coined the term "luxury beliefs" which is one of the most apt name for something we've been witnessing lately ("defund the police" or "healthy at every size" or "marriage is just an
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by poszlem 5y ago
You are describing exactly me before my depression treatment kicked in. I would also call that a "rumination" and there were times when I though being one of the few people who SEE what the world really is like was somehow good
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by poszlem 5y ago
I am not trying to diagnose you, so I'll just say that from my experience as someone suffering from depression, I would think of "the idea of dying most night" during a depression episode, but not when it was over, and defini
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by poszlem 5y ago
I think it should be the voters who decide what the standars are, not random corporations.
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by poszlem 5y ago
Because they have the weight of people who elected them behind them. I don't understand how that's hard to understand. It's the same reason why we care about murder of an elected official more than a murder of any other perso
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by poszlem 5y ago
They posted this https://thoughtbot.com/blog/dei-at-a-company-level a few days back, looks like they are now fully converted into a truly enlightened company ("woke" one could say).
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by poszlem 5y ago
That's because you apparently can't read. The only thing I said was that treating sick people is why we have the healthcare system. If you think treating COVID patients is too much just triage differently and lower the priority, t
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by poszlem 5y ago
Ironically, this probably proves their point of "this being a slipper slope", since now the fact that we agreed to wear seatbelts is used to force us to do other things.

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