the_gorilla

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by the_gorilla 2y ago
This is apparently a controversial opinion but I don't think the government should be allowed to break the law. And no cheating by writing a law that laws don't apply to you.
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
It's more the breach of trust and how systemically rotten the entire company must have been to make a decision like that. I don't really buy that one guy could be the cause, and it also appears to be the CEO's job to hit the
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
There isn't any real coming back from this other than waiting a decade for people to just forget about it. They went out of their way to do something that was highly unpopular, retroactively binding, with nebulous enforcement rules tha
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
I haven't seen any evidence that giving more money to academia improves student results. It certainly hasn't worked for colleges, where you've seen a negative correlation over many years between quality of education and fundi
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
> That is what you get when you stop funding general education because you think people should pay for it themselves. People lose the ability to separate fact from fiction, lack the ability for critical thinking. On the other hand, this
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
That's the issue I take with the "phonebook" defense. It justifies doxing people by collecting and connecting publicly available information online. All the information is out there, it's all on a phone book, your email
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
I can't imagine having to experience the world exclusively through WW2 propaganda.
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
If I published a list of all name and addresses, that's still different than "here is harywikle's full name and address". I imagine you wouldn't be too pleased?
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
That's a positive feedback loop. Ads are the root of all evil on the internet, and the end of that loop is "no more ads". And I don't want to hear shit about the internet dying without ads, in the same thread people are
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
> Wow, ok. So that kind of idea is really completely new, so it can't be valid? Theoretically it could be, but you should be aware if your argument directly contradicts years of other people advocating for DEI. The idea being sold i
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
American States have their own culture and identity. The ideals of America was never being an economic zone to house the entire third world, who think the only utility of a state should be to fly over it.
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
What do you think the word "Flyover" means? You live in it now, they let you in so you're not flying over it. It's obviously derogatory, and even your link says it's derogatory. That'd be like me going to India
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
> DEI is more about getting equally qualified candidates to the table that are ignored or missed. This is the first time I've heard that. The normal party line is that, yes, they're worse at the job but it's because they n
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
There should definitely be a clickbait exception to that. Sure, "YOU WON'T BELIEVE what robot vacuum ABC hacked" might be work better if you want an unaltered title, but it's objectively worse in every way.
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
You don't. Any language that tries to do both turns into an unusable abomination like C++. Good languages are stable and the bleeding edge is just the "new thing" and not necessarily better than the old thing.
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
Why are some functions addressable in C++ and others not? Seems like a pointless design oversight.
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
"Denial" crimes. There's at least 3 of them involving race, gender, and religion. Good luck getting funding or even keeping your shitty job if you commit any of these cardinal sins.
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
This also applies to the US to a lesser extent. If you want to work in academia, there's a very strict subset of ideas you're allowed to even consider.
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
Yeah, when we make generalizations like that we have to assume rational actors in the same earning bracket. I was also describing people outside the US where people are a bit less willing to buy the new thing every year if they can't a
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
No, it's just vague whining about the idea of capitalism itself. Updating capitalism is not talking about any specific problems.
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
>No! I actually do take personal responsibility by: None of these are taking responsibility. This is just a normal nihilistic life style being spun as meaningful behavior. You not having kids isn't making a sacrifice because there i
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
> With enough around you could run a low-power mesh network in an emergency to keep communication open between folks that are separated. And it plays videogames. Sounds like a win-win to me.
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
Every single thread has someone complaining about capitalism. It's childish, and more importantly, not interesting. We get it, capitalism bad, but communists produce even more e-waste.
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
> People don’t want to pay to fix things This just isn't true, as long as there's repair shops out with a sizable customer base. The issue is companies do everything in their power to make it impossible for that service to exis
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
> consumers choose what to buy, who to buy from, and how often. Sure, but when companies can all collectively decide that they're only going do one thing, you either stop consuming entirely or put up with the abuse. > Why should
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
I don't know anything about warfare but it's impressive that everyone here is an expert in it. AI, drones, AI powered drones, I just can't keep up.
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
I don't think it's part of an antitrust case, but I am tired of seeing every item being sold from 200 chinese companies with randomly generated names and fake/bought reviews. Walmart has started to do something similar with t
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
Is this a joke? Right, women wear makeup, might as well AI generate every image we look for.
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
> But it's their product they can do what they want. To the extent that we let them. There's no natural rights going on here, so theoretically (if you believe in democracy) we still get to decide how much power foreign companie
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by the_gorilla 2y ago
It's important for low skill developers. I never understood why everyone was afraid of the shit chatgpt output, until I finally realized it actually surpassed many "software engineers" in skill. Sobering!

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