tikititaki

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by tikititaki 6y ago
> First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is n
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by tikititaki 6y ago
The point was just to illustrate that inaction is an action. Not taking a political stance is taking a political stance. It is a game you cannot help but play. Politics is more than government. It's our society, it's how we deal w
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by tikititaki 6y ago
> A passive stance is, by definition, not active support for anything You are sitting at a bus stop and you see a man having a heart attack in front of you with nobody else around. If you call the authorities and send for an ambulance, y
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by tikititaki 6y ago
tldw: Rats cannot vomit.
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by tikititaki 6y ago
I know this isn't books, but let's look at 2 examples of games that came out through community funding, either through something like Patreon were people make donations or something like Kickstarter. A) Dwarf Fortress. It's a
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by tikititaki 6y ago
I don't think it would be effectively any different than right now. Majority of the content is 'pulpy' right now and then there are a million niches filling the demand. It would likely be no different. Just look at all the ty
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by tikititaki 6y ago
Fair enough. Usually when I use "Navigate to the nearest gas station" or "navigate home" or "set an alarm for 8am on Tuesday" it all works perfectly for me, but I concede I don't use the feature that often
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by tikititaki 6y ago
Obviously, kids are all going to want to emulate their role models. Whether the role models are Lance Armstrong or Lebron James, they will be influenced in one direction or another because of that. But there is a very real fact that certain
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by tikititaki 6y ago
"A close examination of wealth in the U.S. finds evidence of staggering racial disparities. At $171,000, the net worth of a typical white family is nearly ten times greater than that of a Black family ($17,150) in 2016." Source:
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by tikititaki 6y ago
While I can't speak for Siri, Google's voice recognition continues to surprise and even frighten me. And if you go online and look up deepfakes or AI generated voice of famous people, it also is freakishly accurate. Sure, there ar
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by tikititaki 6y ago
In a sense, yes, the engine is too good. If you continue this trend, eventually nobody will have a reason to leave Google because anytime you search for anything Google will have the answer to everything. Sure, it's convenient but it&#
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by tikititaki 6y ago
I don't think the group targeted anything specific. They seem to be mercenaries. Sure, there were some environmental activists targeted but also a long list of targets that have presumably nothing to do with the "left". >
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by tikititaki 6y ago
> no need to invest decades in people, culture, and research equipment when you can just steal the result from others. This isn't really a new phenomena. The USSR had spies in the Manhattan project and was able to create a nuclear b
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by tikititaki 6y ago
> What perplexing is to think about how humans can cooperate effectively on a scale of billion people to solve humanity biggest problems. I think the opposite is true. We cannot properly cooperate effectively on a large scale to solve hu
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by tikititaki 6y ago
Yep. I like this bit by Slavoj Zizek: https://youtu.be/IISMr5OMceg?t=407 This is just racism in a different form.