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by zpallin 7y ago
The copypasta makes a good point but is just over the top about it. However what they call emo I've always called "emocore" which is, of course, the source of the word. Emocore as a word was invented when the DC scene began d
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by zpallin 7y ago
Indeed. I actually ordered it just now.
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by zpallin 7y ago
I think everyone has different tastes and making a catered list is neat, but probably only going to work for some people. And people have some pretty weird tastes. For example, I've been listening to the original Resident Evil 3: Nemes
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by zpallin 7y ago
Ask most people in SF or Oakland and they'll probably think SJ is not part of the bay area. Lol. Mostly joking, but I grew up in the Bay Area and live in SJ so it's not actually that uncommon to hear, especially from new folks to
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by zpallin 7y ago
I wish we could do the opposite because every time I listen to the cool music I discovered in high school I'm unfortunately teleported back to all the emotional distraught of those years.
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Twitter plans to label, but not remove deepfakes(techcrunch.com)
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by zpallin 7y ago
Same here. I've worked for mostly Mac or Windows shops, so I'm the Linux expert just cause that's what I've preferred. I've tried a few different setups, but I'm basically an Ubuntu/Gnome3 Linux casual. It
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by zpallin 7y ago
Sounds like what we need is a way to curb the actions of these bad actors.
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by zpallin 7y ago
Maybe it was all part of the golden age and people just remember the specific year that they started using it? 20 years of a free internet for the masses was not a very long period of time.
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by zpallin 7y ago
Exactly my point. Facebook's APIs were not designed for CA's style of scraping, but they took advantage of it anyway. You can try limiting access to data but infiltrators will find a way to abuse it anyway.
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by zpallin 7y ago
Except Cambridge Analytica occurred in a closed-access scenario. It's a problem either way.
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by zpallin 7y ago
That's not at all necessary. Redesigning roadways into pedestrian areas does not have to exclude utility and construction equipment, just traffic.
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by zpallin 7y ago
I've been using duckduckgo as my primary search engine for a few years now, since 2014. It has improved significantly over that period of time and I am happy that it has come so far. I used to use g! flagrantly, but now I find myself u
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by zpallin 7y ago
> China is not turning out to be a land of milk and honey for western corporations. The best business decision for a Western business with regard to China may be to give up on it, because the PRC wants your local competitor to succeed, n
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by zpallin 7y ago
>That's naive, totally not going to happen. I find many mainland Chinese people are proud of their country's political stance and return to the mainland proud of their allegiance to their country. Coincidentally, the opposite o
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by zpallin 7y ago
I didn't try to define philanthropy at all. Call it what you will. I'm not thinking of any celebrities, and it's really weird that you made that assumption. It's simply unimpressive to me when people give away money thro
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by zpallin 7y ago
This reasoning is anecdotal, but coincidentally it's my experience as well. Most of my Chinese friends have expressed the same change of mind as yours. If any of them are supporters of their government they've certainly kept it to
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by zpallin 7y ago
I think you misunderstand my intent. My advice is not for governments or individuals, but rather corporations who are invested in their own survival. I don't think it's wise to disagree that a missed market opportunity can spell t
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by zpallin 7y ago
I think you're horribly twisting my words. I didn't mean that at all. I meant exactly what you wrote and there really isn't anything there for you to accuse me of otherwise.
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by zpallin 7y ago
Actually, they do. Considering how large China is and how powerful their economy is now, ignoring them will mean you are less competitive than the companies who don't. Even if you're a well meaning company, a competitor who doesn&
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by zpallin 7y ago
You won't need to grow livestock-grade soy if you don't have livestock to feed. But we will always have humans to feed (because we're humans).
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by zpallin 7y ago
Well actually no. Kings and Dictators also gain power by being opportunistic in the same way as Musk. They begin by amassing social power, and then at the right moment they take over. See the Medici family of Florence, or the East India Com
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by zpallin 7y ago
Yes, but the bigger question I think is if the majority of humans on earth will adapt and also "how well". A lot of environmentalists are misled by the promise to save endangered species: we won't. But can we save humanity fr
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by zpallin 7y ago
You're right, but unless a person is spending money for a social-cause that benefits us all, they absolutely do not deserve any special status, press coverage or a title such as "philanthropist." They're just spending mo
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by zpallin 7y ago
What Jeff Bezos does for humanity: kill lots of small business owners, drive down wages, eliminate blue collar jobs, and amass entirely too much power and wealth for himself. Yes, I would like to "disincentivize" this.
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by zpallin 7y ago
That logic justifies Kings and Dictators; if someone, by force, amasses total power over a people, then according to your rule they deserve to control it. Kings and Dictators get overthrown for a reason. All people deserve to have a say in
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by zpallin 7y ago
Exactly. How's someone gonna be claimed the "Chuck Norris" of something without a continuous stream of references to impossible feats?
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by zpallin 8y ago
Look, it's everyone's responsibility, this doesn't just fall on Systemd. While it's clear that Systemd made some difficult changes to how user processes operate, it still performed the due diligence of providing the orig
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by zpallin 8y ago
Steve, you have inspired me many times over for your diligence and incredible work. Good luck on your future project, whichever one it is!
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by zpallin 8y ago
However, such memetic behavior such as fads, echo chambers, and meme outbreaks predates the internet and even modern technology. So, according to your logic, it would seem we have always been the Borg.

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