rdiddly

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by rdiddly 4y ago
Fine but it's an approach to knowledge, not a belief system.
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by rdiddly 4y ago
Trying things is science, and any experiment can be retried to see if results replicate. People who aren't scientists or don't have time or equipment to be scientific about a thing have to decide where the balance lies, between ho
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by rdiddly 4y ago
Well that was content-free.
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by rdiddly 4y ago
Siblings of this comment piling on to point out the timing: yes, yes. I don't suppose proximate or triggering causes can coexist alongside ultimate or long-term causes by any chance? Like hey did the last straw break your camel's
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by rdiddly 4y ago
Yeah on the one hand, isn't opening your source all about not really minding what happens to it after that? It's intended to be copied and used. On the other hand something about the term "laundering" kind of resonated f
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by rdiddly 4y ago
He means too costly, because of the level of safety we demand.
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by rdiddly 4y ago
That quadrant is called "manager." (I jest. But not all the way.)
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by rdiddly 4y ago
This is painfully quaint and embarrassing. Not because there's no cause for concern (though it does overestimate the concern), but because it's so naive and utopian about the nature of humans and the world. Do we think the world i
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by rdiddly 4y ago
There's not that much to it brah.
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by rdiddly 4y ago
A river kinda has access to the real world a little bit. (Referring to the other part of the argument.)
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by rdiddly 4y ago
Though Netflix is presented as a counter-example, it kind of proves the rule in that they just can't seem to resist tinkering with their app experience, which over years of such, has become akin to one big manipulative dark-patterned a
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by rdiddly 4y ago
Agreed. Corruption was exposed. How did we ever let the exposed corrupt people control the narrative? They unsurprisingly would rather talk about (and malign) the source of the info, rather than answer to the charges. RE the source, whoe
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by rdiddly 4y ago
Just to throw another variable in there, the clause about the ratio is separated from the one about completing things, by the conjunction "but," indicating opposition. So it can be read as something like "I've always pri
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by rdiddly 4y ago
Jeez I suppose it makes sense from a "one world" perspective but as soon as you start thinking about continents, the "optics" are terrible... plundering Africa yet again for European gain!
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by rdiddly 4y ago
The second guy said that. The first one sounded like he'd prefer you know like, having a normal goddamn conversation. And to be fair, both were asked by a reporter two things, 1) did you give up on dating, and if so, 2) please explain
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by rdiddly 4y ago
I think that part was included just to illustrate the more baroque manifestations of commercializing relationships. The main point that I took away was that commerce itself (commodity-based, transactional, impersonal/disconnected) is a
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by rdiddly 4y ago
I guess we're not counting the fraud that was Nazism. snickersnicker
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by rdiddly 4y ago
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy too. Any transportation facility during rush hour would be literally the best place and time to look for people too busy for (whatever your bullshit is unless it's a ride to work). It's even ca
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by rdiddly 4y ago
Somewhere (my own head I guess) I got the idea it was supposed to evoke the business end of a microscope, albeit abstracted, y'know with the 3 rotatable lenses.
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by rdiddly 4y ago
So was this a breach of cPanel that therefore could affect other providers that use cPanel?
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by rdiddly 4y ago
I didn't read it as political balance, though it's possible they meant it that way. But before I saw your comment I read it as a balance with the other side being "fossil fuels are pretty damn convenient." Like for cooki
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by rdiddly 4y ago
No way. If I were a solitary hunter-gatherer I would still have the right to speak. In fact I seem to gain more rights the fewer other humans are around, so obviously those rights are not coming from other humans. That's how you know t
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by rdiddly 4y ago
Not a problem. I don't need to be taken seriously in general or by people whom I likewise don't take seriously.
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by rdiddly 4y ago
If you're gonna condescend like in that last line, your spelling ought to be impeccable. Security patches... so 10 full-time engineers ought to take care of that? "Thousands of dependencies" was a mistake. The ideal is minima
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by rdiddly 4y ago
I don't need to be granted that right, I was born with it, just like you with your far more demeaning and ignorant comment about things (me) you know nothing about.
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by rdiddly 4y ago
Why would Twitter be constantly in danger of crashing without human intervention? Isn't it just a bunch of software that just runs? If not, why was it not properly engineered, and who needs to be fired for that? Musk is embarrassing as
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by rdiddly 4y ago
There's no hard divide between the two. It's a continuum.
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by rdiddly 4y ago
The assigning of purpose to a human life is some unholy paradoxical combination of a vast flattering overestimation of its worth, on the one hand, and a blasphemous insulting affront against its dignity on the other. The purpose of life is
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by rdiddly 4y ago
It costs more than $5 in administrative time/squandered mental energy to own, store, carry, and use (or remember to use), a $5 gift card. Net value is negative.
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by rdiddly 4y ago
I would classify that act of editing as "completing the remaining 10% of the work." Somebody has to do it, whether you're doing it from the writing side as in your example, or making the reader do it from their side, as in my

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