voakbasda

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by voakbasda 4mo ago
After three decades slinging code, my stress response to high pressure tends to be inversely proportional to the size and competency of the org/team. Suitably sized and capable team? Not going to sweat too much about it. The smaller
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
Show me the consequences. I hear there are supposed to be repercussions, but these asshats never seem to pay for their crimes.
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
Having been the guy to speak the uncomfortable truths at such meetings, I can tell you that does not end well for anyone. Expect to look for another job shortly afterwards.
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
That’s actually an argument in support of life existing in many places across the universe.
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
> Meta is simply playing a strategy game to make everything shittier for everyone else (everyone uses an OS) in order to protect themselves (not everyone uses Meta). You just summed up regulatory capture.
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
Hey, at least they can exist. Many businesses in the US can no longer exist at small scale, because the barriers to entry are too high because the entrenched interests achieved total regulatory capture.
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
Ever signed a severance agreement?
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
This sums it up. I can’t understand how people think these people are anything but the world’s worst sociopaths. I cannot understand how so many people idolize and buy into them.
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
What reasons do you think exist that lead you to believe Earth is special for having evolved complex intelligent life?
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
Indeed. The system’s purpose is what it does.
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
If we don’t/can’t do the latter, I expect we won’t have the former for very much longer.
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
I would wager it is being used for such things, but those users have managed to mask their activities. Give it a little more time, and we will find the bad actors that have been using them recklessly since their release.
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
That is not just the auto industry either. US manufacturers have really dropped the ball across the board, and tariffs are not going to fix it for them. I’m not really sure what the solution is at this point. We can’t just drop the tariff
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
There is a ballot measure this Fall in Oregon that would ban pet and livestock ownership in the state. The backers got over 100,000 people to sign the petition. There are people that either simply do not understand the natural order that
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
I have regretted everyone that I ever voted for. Every candidate will ultimately be regrettable, because it’s not the candidate that’s bad - it is the system itself that has become irredeemably corrupt.
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
You seem like the type of person that will take advantage of others when a loophole law permits it. Sure, it may be legal, but it still makes you a bad person in my book.
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
The law is not what determines right and wrong. Following the law can still result in unethical and immoral behavior. Exploitation of others through information asymmetry, whether illegal or not, is inherently wrong.
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
You are approaching the problem with upstanding ethics and morals. I think that’s the difference, because the outcomes you list are exactly what we get with the current system.
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
I think you are flatly wrong. For example, our current system is abusive by coercing something like 90% of defendants into unfair plea deals instead of allowing them fair trials. Fair and speedy trials are a fundamental right, and that’s
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
There can be complicated tax implications. And standing up a new company has a fair bit of overhead.
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
Your really think this would be investigated? An uncorroborated story shared on online forum by an anonymous poster? You really think highly of authority, don’t you?
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
Look, you want people to get involved? Then it needs to be safe to do so. Recent history has demonstrated that whistleblowers have no such assurance. They risk damage to their reputation and future employment prospects; some even end up
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
Except it is literally not innocent. They are violating an innocent person’s rights.
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
> Why does the freedom matter above all else? That’s what voters need to be convinced of. Because without freedom, you cannot really have anything else. You are a slave. Is that really what you want to be? Or how we want children to be
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
I wonder if creating more laws designed to punish parents correlates with declining birth rates. Sure makes me think twice about having them.
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
There is no question in my mind that the terrorists won. The result of the Patriot Act has been exactly what was predicted: a country that no longer respects the fundamental freedoms that birthed it. In my eyes, the US government itself tr
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
And as long as money = speech, this will never change.
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
Yeah, I am genuinely confused how anyone could think otherwise.
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
And it would be within the landlord’s right to move on to the next renter in their queue.
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by voakbasda 4mo ago
I certainly would not bet on anyone else to win this game. It will be a decisive tipping point, revealing US tech hegemony has fallen.

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