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by zo1 2y ago
Some days it's worth it to burn some imaginary internet points for the good of the discussion and article. People downvote for various reasons, which we will never be able to figure out why definitely. Each person is different, and the
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by zo1 2y ago
I think you took my comments a bit too literally and out of context. I'm not sure why you felt the need to be so uncharitable and mean-spirited, other than because I decided to have my little side-rant in your sub-thread. > Erm yeah
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by zo1 2y ago
I'm "that guy" that questions everything, leaving no stone un-turned and no assumption unquestioned. I came to this point after being told that saying "no, here's why" all the time made me "difficult to wo
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by zo1 2y ago
The link details posted to you by the other commenter might be one part of why Twitter left Brazil. But there could be "more devious" stuff happening behind the scenes. If that's the case, and with Twitter being a tad too twi
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by zo1 2y ago
A reference to "The Iron Curtain"?
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by zo1 2y ago
> "An healthier way to respond would have been "Sure, but because of X and Y difficulties please consider the time to finish development will be increased by Z"" In practice this never goes as smoothly as you think. I
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by zo1 2y ago
* was to bold or to emphasize stuff way before markdown was even a thing. That's how I remember the early days of the web in the early 0's.
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by zo1 2y ago
If you're phrasing the entire situation as a genocide, then arguably yes, because you're doing it to the detriment of the Jewish people and arguably on purpose because the word and it's application here is gooey and not strai
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by zo1 2y ago
It's very clear that the "1st World" nations are adamant about destroying themselves by importing the third world, and it's also very clear that places like Russia, Israel, and China are not. Not to put the three in the
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by zo1 2y ago
So we all came together, agreed on a shared store of value, then said no one can "poof it" into existence, and then gave said power to only a single entity that now makes more of it without doing anything and we're all suppos
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by zo1 2y ago
I have a hard time just convincing people in my company to buy a license for some software we arguably need. I literally can not convince them using any logic or facts, it's downright infuriating and I feel like I'm in a crazy wor
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by zo1 2y ago
Everyone is offering their suggestions, but no one has posted about marshmallow which handles everything out of the box including serialization and de-serialization. It's the perfect balance of dataclasses, (de)serialization, and lack
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by zo1 2y ago
I'm a full-on free market freedom person, but even I'd agree with this kind of stuff at this point. One thing we really need to be careful to avoid whilst going down this proposed route, is to not mimic the failure mode of sociali
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by zo1 2y ago
How about we don't let companies control their dividends. Excess profit that's not reasonably ear-marked for growth, should be mandated to be distributed as dividends. And that's probably just one item we can start doing to
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by zo1 2y ago
This is the kind of thing I expect and want investigative journalists to write about and quiz politicians about non-stop, all the time. Instead they interview them about vacuous things like "ice cream", non-committal questions abo
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by zo1 2y ago
So for a perfect match they'd need to have some sort of unique identifier that's present in the first set of data you ask them to remove, as well as being present in any subsequent "acquisitions" or "scrapes" o
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by zo1 2y ago
This is such a defeatist attitude. We're arguing two different things too. We're not saying you have to personally know 500k people. We're saying that to some people, it's very clear and obvious that someone working for
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by zo1 2y ago
There is no reasoning with "privacy advocates" on this. Your argument is essentially "think of the children" to their ears and they're used to blocking it out categorically without thinking. No amount of "check
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by zo1 2y ago
There is no reasoning about this. Government as an entity (especially the "Rainbow" West ones like the EU and US) is literally schizophrenic or crazy or has multiple personality disorder (that's the best analogy I can come up
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by zo1 2y ago
Totally fair point, work isn't supposed to be fun. It's being paid to do something that provides something of value to the person doing the paying. However, at some point, employers heavily leaned into the whole "work is fun&
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by zo1 2y ago
But right now we know neither (Bob or Steve being bad), and we hide that behind some objective metric that gets diluted at every level. We hide it in Steve's reviews, in Bob's reviews, in the post-weld reports, in the weld-quality
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by zo1 2y ago
Fair point - but we've seen how metrics can be gamed and cease to be useful measures of reality. People are smart and they will game them, even if it means hiding it behind a score/checklist/report. We can either choose excel
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by zo1 2y ago
All the more reason why we should be uplifting the third world. Instead of allowing them to proliferate their own suffering using debt and population booms.
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by zo1 2y ago
How is no one worried about this? This is dystopian-level stuff, and we're all either cheering it on or ignoring it as if it's "harmless".
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by zo1 2y ago
Agreed. We simply have been functioning off the premise that what we do has no impact. But we are in the billions now and most of what we do we do at a huge and unimaginable scale. Nature could, before, take time to heal and "absorb&qu
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by zo1 2y ago
We're all deceiving and manipulating everyone else all the time to some degree. It's one in a million the person that behaves 100% in accordance with their internal beliefs and values, and they're quickly ostracized or marked
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by zo1 2y ago
I've yet to have any python feature/function/API change on me between minor versions. Yes, the big 2->3 thing did happen, and there were a few breaking changes that came along with that. And I've been the semi-proud o
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by zo1 2y ago
I honestly don't know where this "python is brittle" comes from. I've been using python heavily since the 2.5 days, and I can count on maybe 2 hands the times I've had a library or dependency break on me. Most of th
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by zo1 2y ago
I honestly don't think our current "implementation" of government has the required momentum to do anything to stop this or enable the will of the people to be enacted on such large corporations. Our government is a highly-rea
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by zo1 2y ago
And yet here we have this: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/why-was-russia-banned...

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