snakeyjake

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by snakeyjake 2y ago
The number of people who have lost all of their money and then killed themselves using Google and Facebook is not zero. It's a fuckton lower than the number of people who have lost all of their money and then killed themselves due to b
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
At least someone realizes the soulless unimaginative mediocrity machine makes people sound soulless, unimaginative, and mediocre.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>You're telling me that food has become so addictive There are labs full of people whose job it is to specifically make food addictive. More scientists and engineers have worked on the contents of a bag of Doritos than the Falcon 9.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
I was there, at the dawn. I remember spigots giving out whole-ass bitcoins. The "we're going to change the world" folks either became, or were pushed out by the, Gordon Gekko cosplayers approximately 227 milliseconds after th
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>Regulated like pressure regulator I've read every single word that Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin ever wrote that survived to be collected into the various volumes of their collected writings. Regulated has always meant &qu
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>Isn’t it a little like Ted Bundy pointing out he hasn’t murdered the vast majority of Americans, though? You expect there to be no murders. I expect murders to be low, and for murderers to be punished. I also expect the number of murder
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
7,000 times out of how many accesses? 7,636? 10 quadrillion? Does California law enforcement's rate of misuse of information systems exceed, equal, or fall short of my own misuse (usually unintentional, due to lack of clear policy&#x2F
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
The fact that you want to know what I think it says about you says a lot about you.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
When large sums of money are involved the techbros will burn everything down, go scorched earth no matter what the consequences, to keep what they believe they're entitled to.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
Masks, gloves, and frequent hand washing with soap and warm water have been proven to work for both COVID and other viral diseases and this has been settled science for a long, long, time. Of course your definition of "proven to work&q
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
Where I live only pimps (fake), retirees who got one 30 years ago from their employer upon retiring(real), nightclub promoters (fake), and criminal defense attorneys who will berate an underaged rape victim on the stand until they break dow
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>At what cost? $14.03 per American per year.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
That's another option. Plausible, even. The range would be very limited. But we both know what everyone thinks is happening.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
So what? And? "they did it so we're doing it to" is childish, worse than childish: infantile. Looking into the social media footprints of people who are most vocal about censorship in various models it appears that for a grea
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
It was not common for the low-end phones of the type used by Iraqi insurgents in 2003 to be equipped with Bluetooth. Remember the "NSA can track phones when turned off" was from 2003. Try to remember 2003, then adjust your memorie
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
Why should anyone think that if the NSA was brute forcing DES in 2003 they wouldn't be doing the same thing to AES256 in 2025?
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
It is inappropriate to assert that a capability from 2003, used against what were almost certainly Nokia x100-series GSM phones, will still work against devices in 2025.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
There is a difference between not telling someone how to make Sarin/age-gating certain topics and censoring works of fiction or references to politicians and anyone who claims there is not is so full of shit they need to have their sto
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
There has been a ~90% decrease since the 1960s in the cost to fly from NYC to London due, in large part, to mind-blowing technological innovations in materials, engines, and aerodynamics.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>It sounds like your employer could save a lot of costs by hiring remote workers in the countries you mentioned. Payroll is one of the smaller slices of the expense pie when it comes to space. It would be extremely challenging to find en
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
Nothing can save me if cancer comes. Cancer is either treatable or not. You either get cured or you die, and I don't care if I die broke. If it is curable I'll pay for it. If it is incurable, I'll go broke: so what? That bein
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>In that case, your effort to pass yourself off as the quintessential 'regular Joe' is comedy gold. I, an individual contributor, have the same HDHP that the CEO does-- with maxxed-out HSA of course.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
My employer is a multinational engineering firm. I travel to the UK, France, and Germany multiple times per year to meet with customers and suppliers. If you add up funding my own retirement, paying for my private health insurance, paying f
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
It depends. Many "intellectual" jobs build things that have never existed before and I have never seen an automation for something that has never existed before. I have also not yet seen a model create something new that was not a
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
The potential of x-Models (x=ll, transformer, tts, etc), which are not AI, to perfect the flooding of social media with bullshit to increase the sales of drop-shipped garbage to hundreds of millions of people is so great that there is a nea
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
Libertarians are the cheapest fucking buys of all time. They will sell their souls to a man who would grind them into a paste and sell that paste as a protein snack to his cultists-- in exchange for a hollow, symbolic win that either impact
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
Yes, they can. Anyone can sue anyone else for any reason. It will be a colossal waste of everyone's time and money, though, because they will never prevail.
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
>Can somebody give me a rational take on why? The current techbro CEO squad is a small group of people who got extraordinarily lucky and made a bunch of money. The techbro CEO squad takes their luck to be ability, and they think the fact
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
> the cashier tested it for cocaine and it came back positive There is no commercial product capable of testing cash for drugs. Anyone claiming to sell such a product is lying. There is a wipe, like a baby wipe, that is sold as a "c
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by snakeyjake 2y ago
The developers who freely, voluntarily, and willingly work on these projects, min-maxing human suffering to add 0.01% to a cell in a spreadsheet somewhere, deserve everything that's coming for them.

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