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by typomatic 8y ago
> They are also victims, but until you—often at considerable personal effort—have gotten all the debts and other bad marks by the fraudster dissociated from your identity, you are disadvantaged by it, and if you are disadvantaged or have
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by typomatic 8y ago
Sending me robot-generated messages is quite antisocial!
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by typomatic 8y ago
GDPR is a bit extreme. This isn't an observation on the goodness of it, simply that it requires extreme measures (relative to the status quo) for compliance.
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by typomatic 8y ago
> Sometimes it's hard to tell when a resource is shared, but that has more to do with not knowing how the code works than it does with multi-threading. With respect, this sort of thing works a lot better for small codebases where yo
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by typomatic 8y ago
Maybe you didn't read the post, but in the use cases specified, performance is not important--the author is mostly speaking about deploy and test scripts. Whether these take 1 minute or 10 is not particularly interesting, but you wou
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by typomatic 8y ago
What is "bustling"? People lived there and enjoyed their lives, raised children, and participated in a culture. Who are you to look down your nose with "bustling"?
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by typomatic 8y ago
> I worded this statement carefully to exclude exotic languages like Haskell or Erlang I suspect that your definition of "exotic" is exactly "not like C".
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by typomatic 8y ago
> This is much less interesting than the rust belt decline Can you expand on this? Is it because you don't care about farmers in comparison to industrial workers, or is there a deeper meaning?
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by typomatic 8y ago
> But this isn't true. No one knows anything about a user on Stack Overflow unless they explicitly announce it, and generally my perception seems to be a disdain towards newer members in general, not ones from any particular group.
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by typomatic 8y ago
> The unfortunate truth is that unlike other forms of discrimination that are more arbitrary and capricious, age discrimination can often be a result of objective and sound business justifications. The entire ridiculous immoral premise o
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by typomatic 8y ago
> what is the takeaway here? You didn't seem to have the endurance to make it to the closing paragraph, so I've reproduced it here: > I have new lessons in not stopping, after the election. If you are reading this, and you’r
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by typomatic 9y ago
Well, unless you, like me, think that blockchain is malware.
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by typomatic 9y ago
If 1Pass added an optional bitcoin-browser miner, would that make you feel better about its security? What if it partnered up with BonziBuddy and pinged you during the installer? Just simple choices, they don't affect the security prof
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by typomatic 9y ago
> Why? Pensions exist to serve retirees, not those retirees' former corporate masters. One of the only truly kind things an organization can do for an individual that serves them over a lifetime, and you would shit on it? Morality l
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by typomatic 9y ago
I dislike this because I have respect for human beings instead of applying moral rules like a robot.
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by typomatic 9y ago
Usually people use the slippery slope to avoid things, not encourage a descent into depravity, but to each their own. In any case, you shouldn't pretend as if this is morally okay just because you can focus in on each individual step a
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by typomatic 9y ago
Yeah, we've outscaled capitalism and it no longer allocates resources well.
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by typomatic 9y ago
There are good programs, but this reveals that you shouldn't trust HackerOne as far as you can throw them
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by typomatic 9y ago
Why do you think the boring company plan is so much more viable than improving public transit? Note that I am not using your strawman here (subways everywhere) as that's not the point--the point is better public transit, which includes
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by typomatic 9y ago
You don't want to ride the train with unattractive people, but you're not elitist.
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by typomatic 9y ago
Philosophers believe that morality needs to proceed logically. Your attitude leads to people declaring that both morality and logic are worthless, and you should change.
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by typomatic 9y ago
This is nonsensical--your interactions with other entities belong to them just as much as you. Chase gets to talk about their experience with you just as you may talk about your experience with Chase.
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by typomatic 9y ago
This is an error called survivorship bias. You cannot evaluate the strength of a strategy post hoc based on its success.
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by typomatic 9y ago
You are correct, of course, but in the case of a twitter thread, the author themselves has (perhaps begrudgingly) already broken their train of thought into bite-size pieces. In fact, the commenter you were responding to already did so an
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by typomatic 9y ago
OP didn't say "all insight". There's a difference between being unable to see a stream of change events and not being able to see the current state of the system. The latter is completely unacceptable, whereas the former
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by typomatic 9y ago
People are getting relatively poorer in comparison to their health care costs. So yes, we have been getting worse, and at some point the character of a problem changes into a crisis, which can seem "sudden".
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by typomatic 9y ago
Thanks for posting. The original article is clearly hyper-racist--how unbelievable that the only cultural tradition suited for the 21st century also just happens to be the one which you hail from--but also just weirdly certain about things
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by typomatic 9y ago
> the situation described in the article which seems to be engineered to simply keep people in the hole once they through misfortune or carelessness slip up. It's sad too that it should come to volunteers to correct such situations,
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by typomatic 9y ago
> If the government ID infrastructure ran as well as Facebook's ad targeting department, we would have no problems of this kind whatsoever. You might want to rethink that statement. I suspect that the government ID infrastructure wo
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by typomatic 9y ago
It's really dumb and patronizing to believe that people who won't leave your organization chasing a dream are automatically your dumpy leftovers. A lack of ambition doesn't imply a lack of skill.

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