pyjammas

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by pyjammas 6y ago
It feels like Spotify keeps recommending the same few somgs to me unless I go for the weekly 'Discovery' playlist.
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by pyjammas 6y ago
> This is some next level theater. It's what I suppose both the 'left' and 'right' call "lib shit". It's at the heart of what's gotten me very confused politically: I'm probably proper le
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Why Didn’t America Become Part of the Modern World?(eand.co)
19 points by pyjammas 8y ago|23 comments
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by pyjammas 8y ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but I can't help but wonder if the increase in peace and progress, assuming that's actually true (imperialism has caused quite a bit of suffering, just often not in our back-yard), cannot be expl
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by pyjammas 8y ago
What makes you think the problems of immigration are not just Trumped up (heh) to distract from the much bigger problem that is the very hierarchy and filthy-rich class (that your president represents) of people that has steadily been fucki
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Background papers submitted by Christopher Wylie [pdf](parliament.uk)
2 points by pyjammas 9y ago|0 comments
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by pyjammas 9y ago
Apologies if I misinterpret your comment, but aren't we arguing the same thing?
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by pyjammas 9y ago
Thank you for elaborating. Truly. Is there any way I could continue this conversation via email or some other form of communication? I very much would like to pick your brain on some of this in a more personal form. EDIT: my email is my use
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by pyjammas 9y ago
I see your point. It's depressing, but still.
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by pyjammas 9y ago
If I were in charge of company that does what CA does, I'd specifically hire 'IT guys' that I have dirt on that is worse than any of this... Or I'd find dirt on people that my IT guy cares about. I might be giving CA mor
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by pyjammas 9y ago
How would you define 'fringe', and how does this not include views that are less pro-state?
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by pyjammas 9y ago
> Railing against "the state" or "our corporate overlords" is not a mature political position Why not? Historically anarchists played a mentionable role in this whole leftist thing. EDIT: Also, could you elaborate on
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by pyjammas 9y ago
How much of that relies on the raided party to have a desire to remain in business and to avoid criminal charges? I can't help but feel that those individuals who really 'matter' in this situation have insulated themselves ap
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by pyjammas 9y ago
I understand this line of reasoning from a butt-hurt nerd perspective, but surely we can agree that it's a good thing that the consequences of 'all this' is finally hitting the mainstream? And if so, what is the value of such
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by pyjammas 9y ago
Too early to tell. It took almost a week to get a warrant to raid the CA offices, and while I do sort-of understand why, it's not promising. Furthermore, the Snowden revelations didn't have as much of an effect as I'd hoped,
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by pyjammas 9y ago
> It is historically accurate to identify the extreme left with the ComIntern, i.e. the Soviet communist party, ruled during his lifetime by Stalin. No, it is absolutely not.
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by pyjammas 9y ago
> The historical record of the left is extremely pro-state, pro surveillance I think the problem with your comment is that you're flat-out misrepresenting the 'reeeally left wing'. There are plenty of 'leftist' m
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What the F*** Was Facebook Thinking? – James Allworth – Medium(medium.com)
6 points by pyjammas 9y ago|1 comments
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by pyjammas 9y ago
If by public information you mean 'information a friend has shared with you', then yes. I would not exactly call that public, though.
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by pyjammas 9y ago
I can't seem to edit my comment, so I'll comment on my comment instead: To put this in a broader perspective, because I'm tired of the comment-sniping that doesn't seem to lead anywhere: I find myself already a bit uneas
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by pyjammas 9y ago
While I sympathize with that concern, I do really believe that actively preventing employees from employing natural means of 'private' conversation is squarely in the 'panopticon' sphere of employment. I find it difficul
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by pyjammas 9y ago
I remember not thinking much of the whole CA story back when I read about it (few years ago?), but what makes me less certain about this is that they might have vastly more data to work with than I initially thought. I'm not a data sci
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by pyjammas 9y ago
> Furthermore, the whole "no data collected" has any value from the perspective of the user only when using real names. That might be true for you, but I've more than once had to ditch an old nick because over time I'
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by pyjammas 9y ago
Isn't all that end-to-end encrypted?
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by pyjammas 9y ago
Most people I know have switched to WhatsApp exactly for the reasons you mention. I'm not a very social person, yet I'm already in multiple chat groups: 'family', 'siblings', 'social groups', 'ac
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by pyjammas 9y ago
The 'why is this news' sentiment is understandable, but people underestimate how much this kind of public /mainstream attention can matter when it comes to action being taken. The only analogy I can think of is smoking. IIRC
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by pyjammas 9y ago
I've been curious about what the effects are of people moving to Instagram and WhatsApp. I'm not too familiar with the former, but am I correct in assuming it's less useful, compared to FB proper, for both ads and information
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by pyjammas 9y ago
You're quite possibly right, but don't underestimate the huge difference between 'some friend telling them about risks' and 'media hysteria'.
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by pyjammas 9y ago
> Chipotle had tremendous negative press years ago from food poisoning issues and hasn't recovered since. Chipotle is an excellent example of how this might affect Facebook. I think Chipotle could have recovered from this scandal if
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by pyjammas 9y ago
We once had a Hitler. Therefore any warnings of genocide are just convenient bullshit stories, and people just need to grow the fuck up.

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