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by tarotuser 4y ago
Previously, Scot Adams "identified as a black person because he wanted to be on the winning team". And then he decided that 'its OK to be white' was perfectly fine and re-identified as white, and that black people hate w
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by tarotuser 4y ago
To be fair, its best not even to discuss. It's not like discussing Jewish stuff is normal... well, outside being Jewish or being a neonazi/white supremacist, or awkward discussions here. But discussing here, I try to keep as neutr
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by tarotuser 4y ago
Human migration. The thing that makes it weird is that "Jew" represents both a religion and a people. We really don't see that in other cultures or religions. Now as likely as my profile isn't going to be outed, but &#x2
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by tarotuser 4y ago
Quit gaslighting your definition of toxic, Stan.
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by tarotuser 4y ago
I make a point not to argue with stupid people. And instead, everybody I help with their computer, I show them adblockers, paywall bypassers, anti-trackers, and other user-enabling tech. Computers act against the intentions of most people b
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by tarotuser 4y ago
It's a great way to get up to the 500+ threshold as a full account here on HN.
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by tarotuser 4y ago
Then you grossly misread the articles. For the majority religions, its still a paperwork game. However it's also rather standard filing and granting said non-profit status. The minority religions are told time and again, that "we&
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by tarotuser 4y ago
That may be the law, but I'm aware of plenty of church leaders publicly saying a whole bunch of "vote for X candidate" (lets be fair; trump), with absolutely no repercussions. I also found no evidence of any church losing its
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by tarotuser 4y ago
A "religion" primarily assumes standard Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism, etc: all of which have buildings, assets, collections, and such. For those of us who either have a solitary practice or meet with a small gro
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by tarotuser 4y ago
I had a similar idea of "Reddit Pot Metal" which someone could buy for another account to "punish" them. And "Reddit gold" would be the only way to remove them or to wait 1 day per pot-metal. Reddit gold lasts
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by tarotuser 4y ago
It's easy to dismiss a whole class of phenomenon just because there isn't an ample understanding of it. And much of mind is unfalsifiable becuase we don't yet understand how to make heads or tails of the largest neural networ
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by tarotuser 4y ago
"Up to...." "Save ___ or more!" "Sale! X% off" (but is always 'on sale') "Only X left! (Where x is random number from 1-9)
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by tarotuser 4y ago
"You're a horrible person. You are stupid, and you smell. People stay away from you. You're the most disgusting human in the area..... But amazing wonderful intelligent people use this product. And it makes them smarter, and
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by tarotuser 4y ago
I'd argue that we're already being targeted by very carefully placed comments positively supporting products/services, and responses on negative articles by "leaders" at aggrieved companies when users come to social
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by tarotuser 4y ago
Wired should know better. Microsoft is not removing IE from 'personal computers'. MD is removing from machines running Windows . None of my Linux machines are affected, and damn straight are personal machines. Edit: for those of
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by tarotuser 4y ago
> How does the average person We're not talking about an average person in this instance. We're talking about a company using video surveillance in watching their business. If it were individuals, I would have a bit more sympat
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by tarotuser 4y ago
That's exactly what I do, and advocate. I've been suckered to buy cloud-shit that I wasn't aware it was. When helping some family with a failed wifi/router, I got some newer Linksys router. Brought it over to them, and d
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by tarotuser 4y ago
Wow.. the cognitive dissonance here is staggering. Nowhere did I say "build it yourself". There's plenty of turnkey commercial/industrial solutions that are also plug-n-play. Most even have PoE already built in. The prob
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by tarotuser 4y ago
> Nobody "deserves" to be the victim of false advertising or broken guarantees, particularly when they can reasonably lack the necessary contextual knowledge to analyze them beyond face value. Most people do not have the time o
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by tarotuser 4y ago
To put bluntly, anybody who buys hardware that is inexorably linked to some cloud-crap should be ashamed of themselves and deserve the loss of money as a learning experience. I *only* buy hardware that can be controlled and/or managed
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by tarotuser 4y ago
The other thing not present in this, is that this idea of adolescence is completely arbitrary by western current culture. Even as soon as 75 years ago, people were marrying as young as 13y in the USA. There's an old, but crass, adage:
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by tarotuser 4y ago
> I recall reading about retailers using license plate scanning in their parking lots in the early aughts. Yep, that technology is called ANPR - automatic number plate recognition. Outputs a license plate, state, date/time, and gps
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by tarotuser 4y ago
> Is it virtually impossible to do some kind of phased array that tracks the location of mobile transmitters since they're encrypted? A phased array can still provide positioning reports even if it can't decipher the data. And,
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by tarotuser 4y ago
> his is fine, but it's not really about tracking you, it's about tracking the habits of shoppers in aggregate, of which you are a participant. (Yes, having your real address to mail flyers is a bonus but not the end goal.) Lik
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by tarotuser 4y ago
> Apple could allow personal hobby apps at basically no cost. > This does not require sideloading or loosening the security. It requires a slight relaxation of the provisioning system for single devices - something which exists alrea
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by tarotuser 4y ago
> I don't view the iPhone and iPad as "computers" or "personal computers" any more than I view my cable TV set-top box or Sonos speaker that way. Why should your personal view obviate the devices' nature? Th
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by tarotuser 4y ago
Grew their office size? Grew their square footage of their office? Grew their costs? Grew their profits? > Data shows that pre-seed and seed startups with employees showing up in a physical office have 3½ times higher revenue growth than
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by tarotuser 4y ago
"But if we told you why, you could..... subvert the system!"
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by tarotuser 4y ago
It's a protestant (or WASP- white anglo-saxon protestant) history in the USA that has caused innumerable damage on medicine, education, and what is 'acceptable'. In sex-ed, we're not allowed to talk to children/adol
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by tarotuser 4y ago
> Why must an apartheid state have so much power? Lets be serious here: I figured the Jews would have learned that holocausts are bad... Except they run their own holocaust against Palestine. Seems like collectively they didn't lea

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