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by seneca 6y ago
There's are days during the year when the sun doesn't set at all around the arctic circle. No one would argue with the statemet "the sun sets at night". More directly, there being extremely rare exceptions to a general r
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by seneca 6y ago
Yes, that's a very fair point. I do think hijacking childrens' toys and entertainment as a means of social engineering is an avenue of influence. I suppose what I mean to say is that the default case is not that, and to act as if
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by seneca 6y ago
I felt I covered that with: > People can lose a lot of information based on medium as well ...[including] different cultural context... Perhaps I missed what you mean?
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by seneca 6y ago
> These toys carried strong messages about girls’ expected roles in society. It's sad to see this Critical Theory nonsense trickling into real disciplines. Children play pretend, and they dress their dolls like their mothers and oth
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by seneca 6y ago
I again find myself in agreement with you. As someone who has thought about this for some time, what's your take on what we actually ought to do about it? Is it simply intractable? Is it that from Odysseus to Bernays, the cunning will
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by seneca 6y ago
There was just a thread[1] yesterday about them starting to serve ads in their UI. It seems this company is rapidly losing credibility. I have had plans kicking around for a bit over a year to do a full build out using their products, and j
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by seneca 6y ago
As much as the idealists in me would like to, I can't disagree. How do you go about achieving that in a democratic society though? Misinformation is like a virus, and it spreads through a population easiest when they accept and share i
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by seneca 6y ago
Disagreed. Authenticity is incompatible with Anonymity. All the surveillance companies would love to tell you you can authenticate your identity with them and be anonymous elsewhere, but they, and Governments, are the exact entities we shou
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by seneca 6y ago
This is disappointing. I've been waffling on buying a full Unifi setup for my home, but all the terrible reviews for the UDMP, and now this, have given me pause. Are there any decent non-Chinese pro-sumer networking suites like Unifi t
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by seneca 6y ago
> Science was never meant to explain those things but we have tried to make it a replacement by trying to naturalize everything. Things that go beyond this realm of understanding and reason. Criticizing a flashlight for being a poor saw
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by seneca 6y ago
So, we're mostly engineers here. Let's use an engineering metaphor. We're trying to achieve interpreters communication. We need to send some piece of data. We'll simplify down to three elements: the serialization process
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by seneca 6y ago
Im not the person you're responding to, but I agree with their post. In my opinion, mainstream American Conservativism fell from grace long before Trump. Coincidentally for the topic at hand, I believe it was when they made a pact with
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by seneca 6y ago
Even better, there's dev and SRE, and within SRE there's SRE-SWEs and SRE-SEs. Truly management word salad.
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by seneca 6y ago
What you describe is what people refer to as "no-ops". I was around, and at times very involved with, the community coming up with this stuff. The description you're quoting is pretty close to the original intent, but at this
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by seneca 6y ago
Another giant corporate bureaucracy packed to the brim with directors and codes of conduct. This stuff is the death of the open source community spirit.
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by seneca 6y ago
This [1] article posted elsewhere in the thread alludes to the Justinian Plague and this famine hastening to fall of the Eastern Empire. I assume that's what the parent comment is referring to, but I don't see the connection. 1.
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by seneca 6y ago
Your point is fair, but a big difference is that those regimes murdered those people via starvation largely on purpose, or just through gross negligence. Hopefully, in the event of a famine caused by natural disaster, the opposite would be
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by seneca 6y ago
A market designed to expect people to act in a way that humans have never acted would be an utterly useless market. Self interest is one of the most dependable features of humans, especially in the face of scarcity, and is one of the most e
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by seneca 6y ago
The left-wing cultural puritans that have been taking hold in the OSS community don't like his opinions, largely those around sex,and are attempting to push him out. Admittedly his ideas around sex are out there, but no more so than ma
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by seneca 6y ago
On the other side of the coin, a fully-remote employee incurs the cost of maintaining a workspace. That's more square footage they have to buy or rent, then cool etc. That's a recurring monthly cost that company doesn't have
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by seneca 6y ago
This has been done since at least ancient history, and is referred to as Damnatio Memoriae[1] > Damnatio memoriae is a modern Latin phrase meaning "condemnation of memory", indicating that a person is to be excluded from offici
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by seneca 6y ago
I think you're mostly right, but there are actually people who believe in the free flow of ideas. The liberals and libertarians believed it before the current spat of censorship started, and many people who just disagree with the censo
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by seneca 6y ago
None of this will stop until people stop listening to these puritanical prigs and their endless pronouncements. People have to stop ceding the public square to the most shrill. Unfortunately, shrill lunacy drives "engagement", so
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by seneca 6y ago
> The culling of the Mink Farms in Denmark should be evidence enough that it can travel through animals. Not that I think you're wrong, but that's circular logic. "Minks were culled because it can travel through animals. M
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by seneca 6y ago
I'm not a member of those companies' boards, so I could not say. I suspect because they're politically aligned with the "soundbite" message presented by the leadership of the riots, and that their marketing teams ca
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by seneca 6y ago
These riots were lead by avowed Marxists. They received millions in donations from the largest companies in the world. These same companies lined up to shut down any criticism of these riots. At the same time, countervailing forced are cens
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by seneca 6y ago
Indeed, and that's exactly why it is used that way. It's an intentional weasle-word used by gun control advocates to scare observers.
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by seneca 6y ago
> Every rifle is semiautomatic This is just incorrect. Bolt action and muzzleloaded rifles are both extremely common and not semiautomatic. That being said, "semiautomatic" is usually a useless scare-word thrown in by people wh
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by seneca 6y ago
There were left wing rioters burning down buildings all summer and pushing for extreme policies to be instituted in our government. I'm quite worried about that, and the fact that many power centers fell in line to pretend it wasn&#x27
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by seneca 6y ago
No, a foster family is not a traditional family. That's not a value judgement, it's a basic classification. Is there a point to your line of questioning?

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