Sideloader

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by Sideloader 6y ago
Yup, the future is looking pretty sinister these days. It’s all about tech being used to surveil and control people and parasitic companies commodifying the data they produce. The free and open internet died when Facebook and social media b
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by Sideloader 6y ago
And of course China and Russia are mentioned in the comments. Propaganda works. Repeat something often enough and people will internalize it and assume it’s true even when no proof is provided.
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by Sideloader 6y ago
Isn’t this beating a dead horse? The video game/violence link has been debunked many times. OTOH, a comprehensive study determining whether violent games and movies contribute to people becoming desensitized to actual violence would be
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by Sideloader 6y ago
Hmm...from a tech porn perspective it’s a cool little gadget. But given the shadow surveillance and police state that was erected post 9/11 and how often “national security” outfits have been caught playing fast and loose with the laws
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by Sideloader 6y ago
A lot of the comments seem to be discussing social anxiety, which is not the same as loneliness. In my late-teens and early-20s I was extremely anxious in social situations but I did not feel lonely. Social anxiety, and the isolation that o
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by Sideloader 6y ago
Loneliness is primarily a psychological state. A person who spends a lot of time alone, and is ok with that, is not lonely. Conversely, there are people who say they feel lonely even when they are in the company of others. Since you don’t s
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by Sideloader 6y ago
+1 Well put. Corporations aren’t people no matter what Citizens United “says.” Their goal is maximizing shareholder profit at any cost. They do nothing out of the goodness of the hearts they don’t have and they certainly are not guided by e
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by Sideloader 6y ago
You are teaching your nephews to be greedy and to value individual ambition over everything else. In other words, encouraging them to internalize the values of the society in which they live. This is not very bold or novel, but rather ordin
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by Sideloader 6y ago
Well put. A lot of people miss this fact. Also, the US/UK trying to pin the blame for their own incompetence on China suggests that reality attachment in these places, at the government level at any rate, is seriously sub-optimal. In t
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by Sideloader 7y ago
Many HN types don’t really care about politics that don’t affect them directly. Imperialism and war directed at countries they never think about doesn’t bother many Americans. Only fellow Americans who share their ideology matter. Everyone
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by Sideloader 7y ago
Advertises and marketers mislead and exaggerate with near impunity and use legalistic language drafted by lawyers to cover their asses. It is standard practice for companies to knowingly deploy psychological trickery in order to manipulate
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by Sideloader 8y ago
Very cool article. Somewhat surprised China wasn’t included on the list as they have built a high speed rail network in the last several decades that already has more track mileage than Europe’s. Where there is a will there is a way, as the
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by Sideloader 8y ago
Does it also bother you that the hysteria over Russia’s “guilt” is shamefully hypocritical and misleading? Are you aware, for example, of the role the Clinton administration played in 1996 to get their man Boris Yeltsin re-elected? One reas
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by Sideloader 8y ago
Convoluted piece that uses a lot of words to say very little and ends up being (yet another) defense of “social” media and its billionaire owners. It matters little if Facebook users, their attention-span or their data trail and the content
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by Sideloader 8y ago
I am shocked, truly shocked at this development. An app that collects user data and passes it on to third parties without users’ consent? Unprecedented!
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by Sideloader 9y ago
I’ve only read the abstract (will read the full paper when I get home) and I think the authors are on to something. Our society with its emphasis on cold, mathematical calculation and material gain as the only valid measure of success, whic
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by Sideloader 9y ago
And FF Developer Edition still lets you install unsigned extensions.
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by Sideloader 9y ago
Firefox has been my daily driver for 2-3 years now. I’d switched to Chrome several years before that but when FF fixed its lag issues I went back right away. Mozilla overplay the “not for profit” card but with Google you can be sure they ar
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by Sideloader 9y ago
The United States and the United Kingdom are actively participating in the Saudi war against Yemen. They supplied the military hardware (for a tidy profit) and also provide advisors and intelligence personell to "help" the KSA&#x2
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by Sideloader 9y ago
Yeah yeah the NSA data mines everyone and their dog. Welcome to 2013. Now why doesn't the NYT investigate what other illegal skullduggery the NSA and its 16 sister agencies are involved in? Wasn't there a massive leak of intel ag
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by Sideloader 10y ago
Is Rubio part of the apocalypse cult advocating a confrontation with Russia to "punish" it for transgressions for which no proof has been brought forward? If so, "rational" isn't really his strongpoint.
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by Sideloader 10y ago
Why do so many "critical" stories about Apple products come across like ads for Apple stuff? Even this piece starts with a run down of features even though it's not relevant to the main point being made.
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by Sideloader 10y ago
Cool! I even like the fake static and squelch... it reminds me of tuning the 80s era shortwave radio I found when I was a kid.
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by Sideloader 10y ago
Whoops...please pardon the typos and stray letters
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by Sideloader 10y ago
She doesn't say what happened after she got the paper back but going by what she wrote there is no evidence that the prof singled her out because of her ethnicity. If he or she just handed her the paper back with that scrawled on it t
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by Sideloader 10y ago
So SV tech billionaires are not just eccentric libertarian weirdos who believe free wifi and internet connected toasters can save the world and cure everything that needs curing (and a few things that don't). They are also, apparently,
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by Sideloader 10y ago
Why is this being down voted? Do readers of this board really think a woman chess player from Papua New Guinea would be allowed to participate in a chess tournament on American soil if she refuses to conform to the US cultural norm that req
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by Sideloader 10y ago
Rebel Media, the publishers of this piece, is Ezra Levant's project. He's a Canadian far-right agitator/performance artist with a particular hate on for Muslims. His shtick is OTT whining about Muslims and "leftists&quot
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by Sideloader 10y ago
Did the UN report actually set out to rank countries by order of "greatness" or was that the mass media's contribution? The compilers of the report probably stated something like "based on criteria x,y and z which are ba
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by Sideloader 10y ago
+1000 Science has, for a growing number of Westerners, become a kind of secular religion complete with its own dogma and irrational adherents who put worship of science (or Scientism) ahead of reason and critical thinking.

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