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by sennight 4y ago
You know, I bet somebody responded very similarly to a complaint about the first game studio to put loot boxes in their games. Now we are plagued by them. "Don't like it? Well just make your own ____!" is another classic.
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> Can you imagine the articles if you could swap out faceID systems to unlock an encrypted iphone? Yes, the articles would go something like this: "WTF is wrong with Apple, did they intentionally implement 'security' in th
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by sennight 4y ago
You think Google is doing this because they "fight for the user"?! Maybe in the same way cattle ranchers "fight for the livestock" by plumbing wells and seeding grasslands. BTW, almost anything can be justified with this
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by sennight 4y ago
Greetings fellow bot. I don't believe that war profiteers are the prime mover in this case, but I do think their direct benefit creates a feedback loop that will only prolong the suffering. What we are seeing right now is the continuat
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by sennight 4y ago
Little wonder that things are ridiculous as they are, there are hundreds of PR companies engaged in pro-Ukrainian messaging. Well, that is how they frame the activity - but it is debatable who is ultimately benefiting from the endeavor, asi
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by sennight 4y ago
Pay-to-win mechanics only work in multiplayer, so expect a lot more pressure for settings where conspicuous consumption flourishes. The worm will eventually turn, but not until there is a pretty massive shift in the public consciousness - w
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I'm sure there is some tortured soul who has compiled such a dataset, but you'll have an easier time verifying my claim by looking at the timeline of US military involvement in domestic news articles. You'll notice the milita
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by sennight 4y ago
I can see how somebody with no military experience could think that, but one of the first things you notice in their indoctrination programs - the US military has an unmatched institutional memory. As a result of that, in aggregate, their p
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by sennight 4y ago
> I don't even know how to respond to this. Apparently by complaining about the CIA... which very solidly rooted in the unaccountable civilian "steady state". The NSA, while technically military, is run by civilian private
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> ...pentagon never stopped lying. Yes it did, I've actually seen a CI op get blown after being picked up by domestic media - months of hard work abandoned the instant Popular Science decided to write, at length, about some gee-wiz
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by sennight 4y ago
Counter-intelligence operation. It blows my mind that nobody else seems to have noticed the fact that as soon as executive orders were signed, banning military disinformation campaigns aimed at citizens, all the aliens disappeared! And then
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The most effective way to lie is to distract with an embarrassing admission. That is what grabbed my attention months before the US media started covering it, the official "bat soup" wet market narrative coming out of China. The C
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> Since when the petrol is free of charge? At around the same time that it actually resembles "the new data", or maybe even shares a single quality with it? Being a physical object, it is bound by physical properties... like sc
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Sounds like a hopeless protectionist endeavor, reminiscent of cartoonish Keynesian economics busywork: "We can't permit development of adding machines, what about all the hard work people have put into memorizing multiplication ta
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by sennight 4y ago
I could rant for hours about USPS planet codes and how busted the backend was a decade ago when I had to integrate our industrial printers and inventory tracking system into it. But it can really be summed up with this: they used local time
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by sennight 4y ago
A dull lunatic... that insult isn't even internally coherent. Better tell those wackos at the European Consortium for Political Research that "technocrat" is forbidden Alex Jones mouth noise. https://theloop.ecpr.e
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That your adversarial framing, at the very least, is aligned with some pretty humorless technocrats who find themselves so thoroughly savaged by ridiculing laughter that they're openly fantasizing about going nuclear with the censorshi
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Ugh, there isn't anything adversarial about memes - and to say otherwise is to accidentally admit a lot more than you likely intended. They propagate for the same reason that stereotypes do: they're useful.
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by sennight 4y ago
So any electronics baring a circle with an accent involving thirds is owned by Lenovo huh? Watch out Chromium, they might be able to burn even more goodwill than they did with SuperFish. What am I talking about... obviously they're cap
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by sennight 4y ago
Isn't this the same guy that proved through discovery that Twitter suspended his account at the explicit direction of government officials, despite Twitter employees repeatedly saying he violated no part of the ToS? Do you also think t
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by sennight 4y ago
Unethical? No. Laughably stupid? Yes. It is maddening, knowing that valuation is totally detached from reality - and still having no alternative but to join the game of musical chairs. I genuinely don't understand how anyone can think
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by sennight 4y ago
Aren't autists notorious for introversion and a hyper-fixation on logical coherence - to an obnoxious degree? Wouldn't that make them the least likely to engage in self deception?
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by sennight 4y ago
> I wonder why they use a disc here? It has been a long time since I've thought about it, so I might be misremembering, but the crystal geometry can influence skew related to orientation and external vibration. A crystal + IC design
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by sennight 4y ago
It deters a lot more than that. Remember when you couldn't migrate phone numbers, before carriers were forced by regulators? So many NANP phone number blocks absconded... You know carriers have the same recourse as car dealerships for
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> I don't see anything wrong with the premise of the service You will own nothing and be happy. Great.
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and from my understanding of the ECPA, opened email on a third party server is legally considered abandoned property and enjoys all the protection that a smashed washing machine next to the highway receives. After 180 days all bets are off,
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Lazy end users, not writing drivers to hardware they don't have engineering specs to. Oh well, NVIDIA might get more than they bargained for with their scheme to dominate GPGPU with their proprietary API. It would be a real shame if pe
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Uh, and everyone else who isn't NVIDIA or the "Competition" aka AMD? Do we get the good old "Don't like the way Private Company does X, build your own X then!"? Everyone had years to provide a competitive petro
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> You need to be in a certain software bubble... Or have a fundamental understanding of the way mainframes have been built since forever... massive job schedulers feeding various ASICs purpose built for different tasks. IBM is really som
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by sennight 4y ago
> Developers weren't forced into using CUDA... ... no, just as any other consumer isn't necessarily "forced" by companies employing anticompetitive practices. > Facebook and Google... lol, they have such a high chu

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