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by rl3 4y ago
> I’ve got a coworker who’s profile pick is Earthworm Jim, and I don’t ever picture him talking as such. That's a shame.
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by rl3 4y ago
> If you ever find yourself about to say that Nixon did something that a non-evil person would do, you’d better triple check your facts. I mean, he did give us the EPA. What the ulterior motive was, I'm unsure.
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by rl3 4y ago
Don't forget Microsoft Research. I mean, OP has been working on their PhD for four years now (albeit part-time).
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by rl3 4y ago
Spotify did this a few years back. It used to be amazing for exploration, then they changed the algorithms and now it aggressively feeds your own preferences back to you.
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by rl3 4y ago
Our species' nature has built a civilization-level quagmire that—again, owing to our very nature—is effectively inescapable via all but either further technological advancement, or a stone age-level disaster. Seeing as the latter would
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by rl3 4y ago
> More likely is you go out and encounter someone with a $600 ship and you lose $60. This is so much more insidious than pay to win games. This is paying to steal other people's money, and is going to be quickly optimized by anyone
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by rl3 4y ago
> I don't think we'll see this in our lifetimes. I already see a clear path that'd take about 20 years to execute properly. That's assuming low pressure conditions and a very large amount of funding though, both of w
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by rl3 4y ago
It probably depends on the person. I'm not sure I'd want to work with people who see it as a negative, unless you're applying for a position where a PhD is required. You could try rewording: "unfinished PhD" seems a
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by rl3 4y ago
> Kinda curious how "child abuse" a remit outside the scope of GCHQ ... I wouldn't be so sure. Their mandate includes combating organized crime. If it's a trafficking ring, there's your justification. > Not t
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by rl3 4y ago
You may be interested in this: https://www.legendkeeper.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31612007
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by rl3 4y ago
I don't buy that narrative. As if things were somehow fine until the stupid public ruined it all. Facebook is and always has been deep in adtech, which is fundamentally slimy. It's no surprise that led to a history littered with d
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by rl3 4y ago
Sure, but you also can't squeeze blood from a stone. That said, I was mostly talking credit cards, since that's what most tech services would fall under in a zero-money consumer situation. > And if not, why don't poor inde
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by rl3 4y ago
I think it's a rather common dysphemism used in context of targeted advertising. Monetizing user data—while not actually selling the data (in the literal sense of the term)—is considered by many to constitute having their data sold,
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by rl3 4y ago
> But don’t muddy the waters by calling it something fundamentally different. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46618582 " In total, it said the social network had special arrangements with more than 150 com
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by rl3 4y ago
> But there is zero money to be made out of people who have zero money. That's not true. That's why credit exists. Selling poor people shit they can't afford with terrible terms is a long-standing American tradition. When
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by rl3 4y ago
> Imagine Oculus becoming Meta without the Facebook baggage – a hardware-focused company with a major services play, but no adtech business. I think this was called Magic Leap. I don't know, I think I still prefer Rony Abovitz awkw
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by rl3 4y ago
Right, but the comparison here is that Meta also does this, in addition to selling every iota of information they have you. Content scanning is just an assumed part of every major tech platform these days. That of course doesn't nece
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by rl3 4y ago
You're probably right, though I don't think it all comes down to disposable income. Laziness, apathy and network effects are perhaps equally powerful forces. After all, I continue to use Google and Instagram despite my knowing how
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by rl3 4y ago
> ... but I think beyond that, deep down, he's just a nerd who wants to live in a VR dreamland to shut out the millions of people who call him a weird lizard. I mean, in his defense he might be pretty normal by lizard standards, I
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by rl3 4y ago
> The only weird one is quantum entanglement, but even then information transfer doesn't travel faster than light ... For anyone wondering why that is, I found this explanation super interesting: https://www.forbes.com&#
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by rl3 4y ago
> No one is forced to be a Catholic. Except for kids, and—historically—large swaths of various populations.
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by rl3 4y ago
> None of those things are in the best interests of the people involved. Homosexuals who engage in same sex activity are more propense to addictions and self harming behaviour, ... So you're saying being a homosexual is not in one&
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by rl3 4y ago
> Yeah, no. He did not protect his paycheck. He did the opposite. Admittedly my wording was a bit ambiguous, to clarify: I was referring to the manager's intent [by not taking action]. Granted your statement's probably true ei
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by rl3 4y ago
> I'm glad someone else gets my point. These were all someone else's problems to deal with, but this guy kept sticking his nose in even when he was repeatedly asked by his friend, a manager, to butt out. That manager could ver
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by rl3 4y ago
You bring up a good point, and I think what you're describing is more a type of coercion inherent to the teachings themselves that occur at a societal level. Distinct from the explicit, aggressive actions of members against other membe
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by rl3 4y ago
> Should we forbid Catholics for the same reason? Your answer lies in the distinction between cults and religion. In a nutshell, cults exert control over their members such that they compel them to behave contrary to their own interests
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by rl3 4y ago
> ... or were sponsored by them. Quoting again from the article: "The wine was our most consistent feature, and the invoices I’ve seen suggest we were buying hundreds of thousands of dollars worth every year, just from Grant Marie
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by rl3 4y ago
>Not really sure what the big deal is. Did the cult hurt this fellow? Abuse him? Discriminate against him? Mob him? No. The article really just talks about his own disapproval of the cult. >It wasn't his business what these pe
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by rl3 4y ago
Well put, I think you're correct.
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by rl3 4y ago
> I really hope it continues to be possible for this art form to exist. Hopefully AI doesn't one day ruin the demoscene as well. Seems like a Pandora's box for cheating and/or asymmetric resource advantages.

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