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by somrand0 4y ago
wow, that's a very interesting perspective on the difference between 10 and 12 as numeral system bases. also, what a terrible state of affairs for obsessively-minded people. that we cannot even out buns and hotdogs.
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by somrand0 4y ago
chromium is a business? I thought the business was Chrome, whereas Chromium was the open source (and GPLed) project that makes the code that Chrome uses and that would almost certainly not start out as GPLed if it was a new project now.
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by somrand0 4y ago
imagine a platform that shadowbans people, but then has them interacting with a chatGPT based bot; so they keep busy and don't notice their shadowbans any time soon. if I can have this idea, so can others, and it's not even a diff
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by somrand0 4y ago
there's always the romanticized idea of the 'cat burglar' who spends more money trying to steal something that the actual pay off from the heist... that's fraud like an art form... maybe mr. bankster-"cooked in oil&
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by somrand0 4y ago
I think I added far too much perspective... so this comment may as well go unwritten, but whatever... reddit shadowbanned so many replies like these, because replying under a -4 points comment was still too visible. hn, otoh doesn't no
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by somrand0 4y ago
the conspiracy here, is the way this system of employees and companies pretends that it's very different from masters and slaves. the real difference is that a slave has one master, but an employee is some sort of partial-slave that is
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by somrand0 4y ago
sounds like this is in line with this kinds of reasoning: "death is a natural part of life, whether you die of old age or you get murdered by too much work" ah, them wise ruling elites.... (or more accurately, them wise ruling eli
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by somrand0 4y ago
> The problem is not victims, the problem is scammers but the solution isn't on the scammers side only, there are a series of circumstances on both sides involved that cause these things to happen. if people weren't desperate
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by somrand0 4y ago
the US is on another train, they don't have this problem because POTUS is not the real executive power... that changed for national security reasons probably since around september 2001, or before.. impossible to know. moreover, the u
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by somrand0 4y ago
what I'm interested in are the military-grade models they already have deployed against the russian and against the chinese. we're witnessing a war but cannot acknowledge it publicly.
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by somrand0 4y ago
I like to think how, in a certain way, this means people growing up on that place right now, are having childhoods comparable to yours, in the 70s-80s (I'm assuming) right now. 30-40 years behind. That's cultural lag... I'm
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by somrand0 4y ago
this is reminiscent of that time I heard that South Korea had prosecuted and found an ex-president[1] guilty of crimes! There was a Samsung VIP involved too. [2,3] I was quite impressed because putting ex-presidents on trial is (was?) illeg
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by somrand0 4y ago
but the internet no longer teaches you how to use it that content has been paywalled.
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by somrand0 4y ago
you need to study lots of higher algebra to get a sense of what they mean... all I can tell you (because it's all I know) is that "the structure" is preserved by transformations. and what the subject focuses on and studies is
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by somrand0 4y ago
> If he treated the issue rationally and sent it to this agent, he would be far happier today. this reasoning carries an implicit assumption (or axiom[1]): "money can buy happiness" in fact, the argues in the story, that they
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by somrand0 4y ago
wrong. that's not the point. the point is the gift economy
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by somrand0 4y ago
> You're trying to ship a game. wrong. by that point they are trying to close a business deal for a lot of money
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by somrand0 4y ago
did you read it all the way? (I didn't; I skipped the beginning, it gets better)
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by somrand0 4y ago
well, that person is an artist, artistry is all about SELF expression... people who make it along that path have a strong trait of wanting their EGO (their selves) to be seen and attended to. that's why they are artists. the end poem i
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by somrand0 4y ago
well, I'm not considering software specifically, but any and all "digital" media; including and without any special focus on software. I suppose software is the least affected by this alleged "problem". after all, t
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by somrand0 4y ago
truly privileged "kids" ain't going around looking for jobs thorough interviews, they show up as "investors" or are otherwise brought in by their 'connections'...
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by somrand0 4y ago
> I thought HAARP had roots deep back into the 1950s but all I can find is the 90s. maybe you're just experiencing some "mandela effect" > I'm not seeking to feed the conspiracy in that case you should not sear
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by somrand0 4y ago
well sure, I completely agree that it's indeed a boon. a HUGE boon. the problem I describe is not a technical one, but a social one. and it's only a problem due to the current way society works. It's only a problem for some p
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by somrand0 4y ago
oh yea. using a software framework like django for "rapid application development" gives me a feeling closer to writing configuration files rather than actually "programming" (where "programming" is writing har
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by somrand0 4y ago
because as the world becomes a more chaotic and unstable place, the price of freedom (which is risk) also increases. I think that maybe "real ID" has been delayed because USA truly has been the most free country on earth (at the c
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by somrand0 4y ago
why isn't a human being enough? why do we require a paper trail to what is already here? because we prefer to own things. it's always been all about whose is what. that's what any national ID says: "this person belongs t
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by somrand0 4y ago
because maybe it understands that banning stuff is not to be done lightly. any action that restricts anyone's individual freedom must be very carefully vetted. because without freedom we will die. but this also applies to the corporati
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by somrand0 4y ago
from a more generalist viewpoint, we must consider not only the business models, but the mindsets behind them consider an example from another area. the assembly line and "k12 education". a 'raw material' (but it's
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by somrand0 4y ago
> another interesting quote: "Microsoft and other companies railed about Open Source being a cancer on intellectual property: because it is" well, that's wrong because Microsoft and other companies were worried about fre
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by somrand0 4y ago
so google still does that 20% thing? I thought that went away when google's unofficial company motto stopped being "do no evil"... in the time before Schmidt CEO.

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