vagrantJin

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by vagrantJin 3y ago
a quick aside... Whenever music is mentioned in conjuction with technology, one artist seems to always - in a very literal sense - pop up like a zombie in a B-movie...Taylor Swift. No idea who this person is or what they do but they appear
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by vagrantJin 3y ago
another thing. firefox issue. firefox on android no longer supports mobile view?
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by vagrantJin 3y ago
> Insurance is a waste until the accident happens and you get value from insurance. I can't quite put my finger on it but there is something dubious about "insurance" or at least as it currently exists.
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by vagrantJin 3y ago
> But I think the European Commission is in the pockets of Washington Now there's an understatement.
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by vagrantJin 3y ago
Super cool this is for screenwriters to knock ideas before making hige committments. Anything to get an idea away from the page. Fantastic.
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
> Somewhere, someone is boiling water so you can boil water. When you put it like that...
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
> very irrelevant compared to the limited software updates That's the funny thing. Security? I don't want updates and my phone is over 6 years old. But the app developers usually threatens and holds my data ransom until I updat
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
> Hardly "practice what you preach". My comment was about Sam Altman doing what he was telling startups to do for many years at YC, ie - ship product and iterat
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
> vs OpenAI which... Just ships things). Sam Altman practicing what he preached at YC for so many years. There's something wholly respectable about someone whose words closely match their actions. And haven't we all been better
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
Sure.
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
I doubt ChatGPT is a fad. Feels like the second coming of the gun and it will have an outsized impact.
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
> ...being ostracized for being LGBT...sexual trauma...autism Right...
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
That was a whole lot of psychobabble.
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
Interesting that you want stats. In the interest of science - would you be willing to talk to actual prostitutes from down the street to those on social media and platforms like only fans - to collect the data yourself. Thats within your me
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
Pimps are not neccesarily traffickers. It might be hard to digest but a large majority of people in the industry go in by choice. We should have tougher law enforcement to weed out the bad apples, but that is difficult since this isssue see
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
I suspect that OP is indirectly if not casually admitting that react core is bad or terrible DX. Can we discuss technicalities of our decisions and not just shill react frameworks? That thread is just a niagra of nonsense. The most impressi
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
> thermals seem to be more or less a solved problem due to the characteristics of the Apple Silicon chips. I am actually at a loss for words. So I'll ask a question instead. Do you really believe what you just said or do you have no
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
Meh. I think criticism/public outcries of self driving is neccessary. Needs tight regulations because as much as I think self driving is entirely moronic, it is becoming reality, and that reality needs a way for the law and justice sys
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
> Just hang up on them I prefer to leave them talking while I do more important things. Wasting their time is a better MO than anything.
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
Yeah. Probably.
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
> As someone who came from extreme poverty, I don't agree with this take at all. What you are doing is taking things to a personal level when my point was really about systems, macro. So that an individual need not feel guilt. At le
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
The systems in place should not actively work to keep others down, whether its by race, socioeconomoic status, religion etc. What matters is people's potential and capacity to be healthy, productive members of society. It's unlike
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
> What you do with your talents and resources is what counts. This os the argument made by right wingers. No different from "pull yourself up with your bootstraps" and as a famous US rapper asked "pull ourselves up by the
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
It isnt so simple as they start having sex. The idea that teenagers sleep around like rabbits is relatively new. Usually sex followed some form of commitment - this case being marriage - in order to protect young women from free willies. Se
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
Nice. This is a lot more useful than you can imagine. Extend this to TOS pages/cookie consent BS - have a summary of terms to cut away the BS legalese. Super useful. Will check it out.
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
Why though? Companied invest in due diligence people and processes (unlike us plebs) If they get swindled, a fool and his money are soon parted. My intrigue is that due dilligence is quite lax for certain types of people. I wonder what the
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
Isn't it strange that human cultures at some point thought "teenagers" are when people should start families all over the world from the rolling hills of Bahia to Tamil Nadu to Guandong to the riverlands of Ahafo? Thats more
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
To make an anology. Js is a shovel. Simple. Does its thing. Digs dirt in our quest for gold. TS is like adding a two stroke petrol engine so the shovel vibrates up and down. Loud, jerky, difficult to handle. A sane person looking in would w
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
> Dishwashers and laundry machines > enabling feminism Thats all it took? So if theres no electricity - its back to square one?
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by vagrantJin 4y ago
> but definitely start with one and stick with it for a bit Devs are paid quite a bit of money to play russian roulette with their tool choices. Frameworks are an abstraction and not really key to understanding anything. And devs need to

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