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by robswc 4y ago
I truly wish Trump would have been able to actually ban TikTok (or at least force a sale). The recent twitter files show that the bond between Government and social media companies is a little too close... but it would be foolish to suggest
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by robswc 4y ago
Tbf, it seems this could happen anywhere. Imo, seems it would be more prevalent in bigger, more established businesses where you’re further away from the core of the technology. I’ve done consulting and seen tons of bad practices. This i
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by robswc 4y ago
>The point is that it's better than no having no solution IMO, I just feel like it wastes too much time to justify itself. Hundreds of thousands of hours spent on a solution that relies entirely on the (unreliable) respondent.
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by robswc 4y ago
They may have already made the changes. I started playing again and I've found they're pretty damn fair with pricing. You can "earn" the currency to buy the skins. I never really buy much though but at least it feels
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by robswc 4y ago
This I can get behind... but I do always go to the options and turn on "push to talk." I don't like the idea of legislation requiring such a thing though.
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by robswc 4y ago
What is the point then? It would be like a bar tender asking if you're 21 and letting you drink if you just reply "yes." Regulators would be happy though because "at least you tried?" I get its just trying to shif
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by robswc 4y ago
It seems so pointless though. I was signing up for all sorts of things when I was a kid. Nothing bad by any stretch of the imagination but I knew when they asked "are you 13" you just click "yes" and you're good to
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by robswc 4y ago
Wym? This happens all the time. Many of the popular subs will retroactively ban users for posting in other subs. I was banned from a fair amount of subs because I had a trivial argument with a mod in one sub. IIRC it was literally an &quo
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by robswc 4y ago
Reminds me of that joke where the worlds entire computing system is perched upon a tool by a guy that lives in the middle of Nebraska. Seems the field of people that could get this stuff working (some really awesome hacking) is so small...
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by robswc 4y ago
I think it's also caused a feedback loop. Very hard to get things off the ground (at least relatively speaking) in Europe. The software salaries also reflect that.
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by robswc 4y ago
You're never going to be able to follow everything. I only click on a few posts a day. I get what you mean tho. I'm usually frustrated at the fact that there's only 24 hrs in a day.
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by robswc 4y ago
I really like Fireship. I don’t think I’m in the market for a sub-based learning product but his YouTube videos are always incredible
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by robswc 4y ago
Yep. I always say “oh, I’ll keep my leet code skills up!” But I can’t for the life of me reason that it’s a better investment actually building things and by the end of the day I’m too burned out.
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by robswc 4y ago
That has got to be frustrating. I'm a long time OW player and I literally _never_ bought skins or used them. I had 1k in loot boxes that I never opened just because I don't care about the skins... but now any sense of "progr
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by robswc 4y ago
I’m not really shocked. Interesting to see it all finally come out though. People were certainly made fun of for implying that they were shadow banned (in the sense that they were more suppressed than the average user) and tons of people w
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by robswc 4y ago
Everything else aside, it is just a shame what has happened to Blizzard. They used to have a reputation of quality and care and now its anything but. Blizzard has completely tarnished its reputation for a quick buck. I guess you're s
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by robswc 4y ago
Yep! Seems to only lend itself to creating a feedback loop too. The more entrenched people get, the more they suck all these other issues into their tribe.
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by robswc 4y ago
>I wonder whether someone who’s truly internalized these lessons will actually write a post like this. I honestly do get what you're saying... but I think a post like this can only help people. Ironically, one of the ideas is that
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by robswc 4y ago
IMO, this only creates a feedback loop where you eventually will support contradictory and completely unrelated positions. I totally get the idea of delegating away thinking about specific, maybe esoteric issues... but we're at a point
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by robswc 4y ago
I worked on a research project that dips into some of these concepts. http://stephendavies.org/writings/mitterederEtAl.pdf We referred to the phenomenon of supporting "unrelated" issues as "issue alignme
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by robswc 4y ago
I think in general, in regards to human companion and aprentenceship, yes. I think however that with these conveniences, we're able to achieve much more satisfying things though. I certainly couldn't do half the things I do if I
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by robswc 4y ago
Really interesting story... but I think the age old adage of "as long as I'm happy" should apply here. $20k for what amounts to a short story is an insanely good and fair price, compared to the market rate. I know he says he
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by robswc 4y ago
I _really_ love this tool and the implications it has for productivity... but I would always look over whatever it outputs... for now. i.e. I asked it: Write a sentence, using only 5 letter words. And it gave me many sentences, but none of
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by robswc 4y ago
That is insane. Had similar issues but not really banned... just "error-less" issues coming up that would lead you to believe the problem is something else entirely.
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by robswc 4y ago
>Maybe some of them do have categories that are too broad or subjective. All of the ones I have looked through have that. Every single one. We're looking at just one metric though. Freedom to express ideas on the internet. Countr
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by robswc 4y ago
I looked at a random few of those and I honestly believe their categories are too broad/subjective. Funny enough, downloading an actual report ( https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index/2021 ), the UK scores almost
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by robswc 4y ago
Well, a journalist goes after a politician for corruption and then his house is firebombed... The government itself doesn't have to "organize" that but a corrupt politician with friends certainly could. >Aus and UK are wor
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by robswc 4y ago
>And for the record the UK and Australia are generally higher up on the various freedom lists that rank countries. Do you have a source for the ones you are referencing? I looked a few and they track things like "whether both men an
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by robswc 4y ago
>These governments are not firebombing domestic youtube-grade nonentities or anyone else, nor are they enabling it. We don't know that one way or another. We just know he has pissed off someone enough to firebomb his house. Unless
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by robswc 4y ago
>I wouldn't talk about that as someone being "arrested for a tweet" When the reasons are "being critical of the monarchy" or "causing anxiety" I think "for a tweet" can only make things look l

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