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by sobkas 4y ago
If you believe entities* on the internet to do anything(that includes investment) you have bigger problem than some random crypto investments. A lot of parts of internet looks safe, but it's always one step away from a hack, so don&#x2
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by sobkas 4y ago
> I keep asking people if they know anybody excited about the metaverse. I have not found any even among people who are total Facebook products. There are people that are willing to zap their eyes with laser only to not wear their glasse
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by sobkas 4y ago
> I don't. Windows 10 and 11 turned my OS choice from a preference to a requirement. I will not buy a Windows machine for a long time. They turned their OS into borderline malware. That's because you are not their customer, you
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by sobkas 4y ago
More like you hire a cleaner and then doesn't allow them to clean in some meta places and then complain they are filthy. And then sometimes you swing by the dumpster and grab few things that look interesting only to dump them
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by sobkas 4y ago
If they start paying for stuff like this without any resistance they will lose deterrent of having enough lawyers to bombard you with lawsuits to the end of your life. Now I will think twice if I want to cross any corporation. This is a chi
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by sobkas 4y ago
Angry mob doesn't work in case of bad cops(and many more) because it's not that angry and definitely not that big. And there is also a very happy mob that is happy about bad cops and think they work as intended. Because sacrificin
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by sobkas 4y ago
Because permafrost melting is the only negative consequences of climate change. There are no forest fires, no problems with insect due to milder winters, etc.
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by sobkas 4y ago
There are sinkholes appearing due to permafrost melting and ice keeps ground solid, otherwise there would be mud(and sinkholes) all over the place.
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Do you really think anyone in Siberia, one if the poorest places in the world, cares about carbon emissions? Unfortunately they care. For now only poor face real consequences of climate change. They are to poor to mitigate its effects.
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by sobkas 4y ago
> If you live in Siberia you presumably want the planet to warm up more. ;) No you don't, when permafrost melts it causes ground to move. It is really bad for everything build on or in it. Something like houses sinking and falling a
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by sobkas 4y ago
> The closed source driver still exists but there will hopefully be a completely open source stack (Nouveau++?) For nvidia. I can only hope they change name to aidivn, like any sane driver should.
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by sobkas 4y ago
>I don't deny any of that either. These matters are complex and I cannot reasonably argue them here without discussing other factors in detail such as changes in life expectancy over the past century, the more fatalistic approach to
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by sobkas 4y ago
> I'm not denying that those issues all contribute to the problem. > However, teenagers had a terrible, rotten time during WWII - bombs on cites, constant threat of military service, parents and elder brothers killed in war, one&
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by sobkas 4y ago
Media obsesion with providing both sides of the controversy is just a disgrace. Is earth flat? We will bring both sides of the argument, so audience will perceive it as equal arguments and think there is 50:50 split between scientists. And
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by sobkas 4y ago
My personal pet hypothesis is that people see experts to advocate one point only to be it revealed later they had a conflict of interest. Some scientists were paid by tabaco/fossil fuel industries to spread doubt about harmful effects,
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by sobkas 4y ago
> > * The key mechanism that makes Radiopaper different from other social networks, and more resistant to trolling and abuse, is that messages are not published until the counterparty replies or accepts your comment. >Edit: Also if
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by sobkas 4y ago
>Do you have proof that there would be less of these without capitalism. If anything the homeless population has increased in the USA as the market has become more regulated, so I don't see the proof that more capitalism produces mo
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by sobkas 4y ago
>This is a straw man of capitalism. The idea that in capitalist countries citizens would be left to die and starve requires a great exercise of imagination. Just don't search how many people die due to lack of healthcare or how many
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by sobkas 4y ago
>Technology is a slave to capital. You mean it's slave to people controling capital? Because capital by itself isn't sentient or capable of making decisions. >Talking about technology as though it has any moral imperative ot
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by sobkas 4y ago
> The problem is that I tried to put myself into a software development filter bubble but yet the herd mentality and polarization bled through the filter. But you understand that technology have social consequences? Discussing them is vi
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by sobkas 4y ago
> that is not what i asked. why did YC fund hackerrank? sounds like a shitty idea and bad for our industry. Idea of assigning number to a person and then judging that person based on that number? How it could happen in real world... Also
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by sobkas 4y ago
> it's fairly simple, at some point you have to evaluate somone technical skills to make sure they are suitble for the job, and well designed tests do that. There is employment contract for a trial period, because you only know how
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Hello again, Vivek, founder/CEO here. In the interest of moving swiftly, here are the actions we are going to take: So you are taking action only after news spilled all over the internet? So I can assume that if no one(in internet
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Seems like one step along the way for the government to criminalize personal VPN access and ban the websites they don't like. They could already do it but this way is so much easier. You mean much harder, because when government (
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by sobkas 5y ago
> Recommender systems like Twitter are as much about data as they are about code. Without the dataset and the derived statistics and models that are used for ranking and recall, the code is not going to help much with transparency. And a
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by sobkas 5y ago
Find a thing people already do and will want to do no matter what, insert yourself between them in a way that makes original ways of doing things not viable/hard/insecure. Then start charging rent on normal human behaviour. ps. do
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by sobkas 5y ago
> > Question: does anyone actually know what DDG does with user data? Like they market themselves as a "privacy respecting" search engine, but how much of this is truth? > It doesn't matter. > Why? Because when go
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by sobkas 5y ago
In the end how many rules you can break depend on how much money you have and/or how many friends in high places you have. Because in the end it's only illegal if you get caught and find someone willing to prosecute you. And if mo
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by sobkas 5y ago
Debian have problems like this one: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/FAQ#Q:_Does_dpkg_support_... Discussion on LWN: https://lwn.net/Articles/889026/
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by sobkas 5y ago
> At a more basic level, the single-player RPG is essentially dead because it's the most difficult to introduce MTX mechanics into those genre of games. And sure you can point to Elden Ring but even then they are using "coopera

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