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by the_af 11mo ago
Isn't this more or less rediscovering hierarchies like that of the military? (i.e. "two levels down command & control"?).
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by the_af 11mo ago
Wait, I'm not taking about "avant garde porn". I'm not being snobbish about this. I mean two (or more) people of your preference fucking. Nothing avant garde about it, just the good ol' thing goes inside another thi
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by the_af 11mo ago
We are in agreement. I'm arguing this isn't about "scummy porn". It's about censorship in general, but when it's about porn it's about all sorts of porn or sexy/naughty content. And it's wrong
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by the_af 11mo ago
The internet was pretty fucked up in the 90s / early 00s. Much less regulated, you could find all sorts of weird stuff (and yes, also porn) in it. And it didn't mess us up. Before that, we teens had access to naughty magazines. I
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by the_af 11mo ago
> fuck scummy porn It usually does involve fucking, yes. "Rid of both"? This is against all kinds of porn, sexy stuff, erotica, and also unsexy things considered not suitable for teens. It has nothing to do with "scummy&
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by the_af 11mo ago
Direct action against a government is usually taken when the economy crashes, families cannot make ends meet, there's no food on the table, etc. It won't happen over VPN restrictions. I'd like people to protest these draconia
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by the_af 11mo ago
I seriously doubt people didn't write blog posts or articles before LLMs because they didn't know how to write. It's not some magic roadblock. They just didn't want to spend the effort to get better at writing; you get b
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by the_af 11mo ago
I've seen AI generated comments on HN recently, though not many. Users who post them usually only revert back to human when challenged (to reply angrily), which hilariously makes the change in style very obvious. Of course, there might
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by the_af 11mo ago
But China also doesn't see war as the best path forward in Taiwan (they want to return it to the mainland, not lay waste to it). The grandparent comment is unfairly downvoted in my opinion, the fact remains modern China is far less lik
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by the_af 11mo ago
The best path for victory for China is probably no war at all. War is wasteful and risky.
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by the_af 11mo ago
I think Boeings bring themselves down on their own. ba-dum-tish!
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by the_af 11mo ago
What's the explanation for housekeeping? I actually prefer very little to no housekeeping, especially for short stays.
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by the_af 11mo ago
Brush your teeth three, four or as many times as you like! As I said, beyond the minimum it's just a cultural habit. I knew one person who wouldn't consider her tooth-brushing complete if she didn't also brush her tongue, the
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by the_af 11mo ago
Two?
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by the_af 11mo ago
Just because I won't brush my teeth thrice a day? Wow... calm down, armchair therapist. Just do your thing and let others live their lives. Most people do NOT brush their teeth after lunch. It's just a cultural habit. See the comm
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by the_af 11mo ago
Oh yes, Alien Isolation is quite good. I must finish it some day!
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by the_af 11mo ago
Like I said, I didn't brush my teeth at work. When I went to the office, I tried to go in and out of the restroom as fast as possible, touching as few things as possible, and didn't linger to do things like brush my teeth, eat or
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by the_af 11mo ago
Alien and Aliens were masterpieces, but I've been consistently disappointed by everything after. Let's agree to ignore the awful VS Predator crossovers for a second. I'm not sure they are canon anyway, and they are obviously
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by the_af 11mo ago
Thanks for reminding me: I need to finish that game. Visually it's a masterpiece.
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by the_af 11mo ago
Latin American here: my coworkers used to (note: I'm remote now, that's why the past tense) brush their teeth after lunch, so if they also brushed in the mornings and before going to bed, that'd make it three times. I didn&#x
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by the_af 11mo ago
In the "Deckard is a replicant" version that Scott has defended for years, I assume he's simply living in someone else's place (unaware that it's not his own).
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by the_af 11mo ago
> Nadella does not need to justify his layoffs. Only if his goal is to make money at all costs, which is the stance you're taking even if you protest you are not. > It's bad, because it makes businesses highly reluctant t
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by the_af 11mo ago
It's ridiculous to expect every single aspect of the employer-employee relationship spelled out in the contract. There are - or should be - certain societal expectations that the employer will not cause undue stress or unhappiness on t
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by the_af 11mo ago
But that's the kind of argument you're making by dismissing opinions that e.g. clubbing other athletes since winning is the most important thing is bad, and that if we don't like it we should "join a commune". Other
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by the_af 11mo ago
Nobody argued pop & mom ("and larger") businesses don't strive to make money, the argument was that that's not their only goal. We're arguing against your "at all costs" because you did imply it. Maxim
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by the_af 11mo ago
Your answer seems in bad faith because it ignores parts of the answer like this: > "Instead, I will respond to the former, which is the original point, and say that there are plenty of mom-and-pop (or larger) businesses, as well as
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by the_af 11mo ago
But is it universal for companies that aren't startups (or FAANG, where I hear they are also pushing for EMs to get their hands dirty or be fired -- or was that just Facebook)? Like the comment you're replying to, I've also h
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by the_af 11mo ago
By predatory I meant addiction driven free 2 play games where players are encouraged to spend money on "coins" or whatever to speed up the game, gain more turns, or skip boring parts, with a lot of grinding. A kind of gameplay tha
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by the_af 11mo ago
Mobile casino games? Interesting, so Zynga just changed the skin of its games, and the basic premise of addictive behavior and "catching whales" remained intact? Yuck.
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by the_af 11mo ago
Is it me or is this interview incredibly boring? Lots of words that say very little. Also: Zynga (and its clones, like Vostu) used to be the cancer of gaming, rightly reviled by people like Jonathan Blow and Ian Bogost. From a predatory bus

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