StopTheTechies

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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
Sure, but that doesn't mean I lost my brain in the progress. Most of the bad people in society certainly aren't criminals.
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
TBH, Condé Nast can only be blamed for a small part of Pitchfork's fall. They've always been wildly inconsistent in their ratings and beholden to a few darling artists, and none of the acquisitions have improved this. Over time th
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
> They present how the world is improving in an irrefutable way but media and politicians would only focus on the negative People are allowed to have their own opinions about what to value in the world. The idea of "irrefutable proo
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
This seems to conflate the idea of a nation (ie a people) with that of a country or state, which I find pretty odd. Many countries are composed of many constituent nations, many of which will cross state borders.
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
I mean if being politically energizing is all you care about, just court folks scared of immigration. Of course if you actually want to not make the world worse you need to argue for a better world. Liberals seem literally and generally inc
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
The oddness of referring to the "slave trade" is the height of the "Atlantic Slave Trade" far predated the peak of slavery in the US and contributed directly far more to the Caribbean and Brazil than to the rest of the A
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
> Why in the world would they delete that data vs just putting it on mute/ignore/etc? If you're serious it's because having a fig leaf is useful to reduce risk in controversial business practices, especially if the v
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
I don't believe any of this is true—it certainly smells a lot like Cold War propaganda from the 50s. I don't believe we currently have anywhere near the nukes produced to have this happen even if we tried to perfectly cover the su
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
Ok—you seemed to have missed the main point. If people react to xyz, it doesn't matter if xyz is actually occurring. In fact the only thing that matters is peoples' reactions.
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
Yes, this is exactly what I mean—media distribution is inherently a losing war against the internet.
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
Do you have a peer-reviewed source? I should have specified before-hand. If we're referring to "science" in any meaningful sense, of course.
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
I mean it in the sense that Marks used it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation I mean this not to imply a structural sense of our society, only the shock that his prediction is insanely accurate
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
The common supposition about video is that convenience makes the price worth it versus piracy. It'll be very interesting to see this unfold. Not only are streaming services in direct competition with a free option, but they'll hav
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
> I find it really challenging to talk with people who have completely separated their work from their emotional being. Is this not everyone? Who the fuck brings their emotions to work? I thought the whole trope of "you should love
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
> There's no underlying nexus between the list of symptoms beyond statistical correlation Correlation is correlated with meaning, so what are you saying
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
The book ostensibly lacks Wittgenstein and/or Chomsky. Not much point in discussing the 20th century without them....
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
> On the contrary, many old-timer traditional literature-focused e.g. Object Relational psychology schools are having a heyday having their insights shown to align with reality using all the bleeding-edge genetics and AI-powered data goi
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
Not to mention this presumes some "default" way the mind works that is commonly presumed and commonly accurate, which seems transparently absurd.
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
I've heard this reactionary spiel my whole life—it's easy to be afraid. Terrible way to run a society, though.
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
I'm sorry, S3 insures your data in case of loss? How come they don't ask the value of what you're storing then?
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
What is wrong with the tried-and-true "alienation"? This seems like a continuation of trends that were happening long before computers came around.
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
I think you're forgetting the cost parameter—obviously no provider can guarantee either reliability or stability
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
> but it is a far more modern and less dangerous language than most people think. I suspect a better answer here is that people have wildly different tolerances for safety and don't discuss the subjective aspects of interactions wit
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
Really? I think it adds much more to a city's character than Banksy's hokum. I'd happily pay to put this up across my local skyline.
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
Debit cards have the same processing fees, the credit cards are a complete red herring. If anything credit cards are much more evil than just charging the processing fee.
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
Somehow this isn't surprising given their music.
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
I don't understand why these institutions are treated as "educational" rather than "investment funds" when they evidently act like the latter. I understand the legal protections, but why have politicians sat on thei
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
This really just underlies how shitty the concept of "constitutional right" has become at expressing "behavior I'd very happily kill to protect".
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
> we are only talking about $16-50k for electricity, that seems pretty small I suppose this depends greatly on how you view the utility of LLMs. In a capitalist sense, sure—there's great utility here persuading VCs to part with thei
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by StopTheTechies 3y ago
Known legal expert "vice media"

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