TheOperator

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by TheOperator 6y ago
Buying Microsoft for it's OS and Apple for it's hardware? What is this opposite day?
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by TheOperator 6y ago
Silicon Valley is infamous at this point for running loss leaders to lock people into their ecosystem with the expectation of being able to milk people dry later. The fact that the services are "worth the money" doesn't mean
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by TheOperator 6y ago
An IP based economy just on its face seems like such a laughable house of cards. So your economy is based on government enforced imaginary rights to ideas? The proliferation of tax havens should be a sign that the system is bullshit - it
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by TheOperator 6y ago
The point wouldn't be to sell laptops.
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by TheOperator 6y ago
This article was eye rollingly heavy on moralizing ultimately to only eventually hit on the point that what the algorithms are measuring is the odds somebody will be convicted and not the odds somebody does illegal things. Appearance is kn
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by TheOperator 6y ago
I know exactly what he's talking about as somebody who ran a win7 and Linux VM on a 4gb MBA. I had to be incredibly choosy about what I kept open at any given time or my system would keel over. It enforced discipline that I just didn
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by TheOperator 6y ago
I have made one complaint about signal in my entire life after the outage hit 9 hours. They did fail. It's just an inconvenient truth thus the character assassination and apologism.
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by TheOperator 6y ago
Yup they're already under 99.9% reliability for the year. Never mind WhatsApp this makes them a questionable replacement for SMS. Not only "was" it a disaster for signal the disaster isn't over. Reliability is more imp
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by TheOperator 6y ago
Go back to WhatsApp. Signal is crashing because it appearantly went up 5x in userbase. I can't guarantee any other service would cope with such a rapid expansion of their userbase other than WhatsApp. Or stick it out a little and sms
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by TheOperator 6y ago
For me what made me give in was realising how useful the features would be in regards to ADHD, allowing for a new input modality that just straight up reduces the friction it takes for me to set a reminder. It's routine that I will jus
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by TheOperator 6y ago
I just think that rating the interpretation of what Trump meant, as equally valid to the literal truth of what Trump said, is veering right into the territory of "Alternative facts". How we felt about what Trump said has become j
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by TheOperator 6y ago
I don't read his post as pointing the finger at all Republicans. I see it more targeted at people like Cruz who refused to even Certify Biden for President. I doubt he's saying Pence who was notably outspoken in his support of c
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by TheOperator 6y ago
How would one prove that Trump knew they would do this? The vast majority of "reasonable persons" sure didn't expect this to happen despite hearing Trumps rhetoric around this. Most people were completely shocked. I think t
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by TheOperator 6y ago
Not really. They said it was sort of yes and no because he said “you have to show strength” and “demand that Congress do the right thing”. No those are not telling people to storm congress, in the context of what he was saying before, th
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by TheOperator 6y ago
Anything that touches the GPU is notably flaky over parallels (or any hypervisor for that matter), otherwise it's more or less seamless. I always had Windows open on my Mac before I abandoned them during the 2016-2020 dark ages.
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by TheOperator 6y ago
If it takes a court order to get pornhub to remove content they have failed.
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by TheOperator 6y ago
Not only "It's filled with rape and child porn" but "It's filled with rape and child porn and revenge porn that pornhub tacitly tolerates by ignoring removal requests"
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by TheOperator 6y ago
While sterilization has jumped up several times, one cannot actually effectively commit a genocide by performing sterilization operations on an entire population. Most of what's going on is coercion and soft power.
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by TheOperator 6y ago
Protesting electoral fraud is also absolutely required, even if I am extremely extremely sceptical that it actually happened. Some of the protests that happened in the civil rights movement were indeed violent although this has been rather
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by TheOperator 6y ago
The story has nothing to do with Steve Bannon's podcast channel and everything to do with the sea change in how social media moderation policy is being interpreted and enforced.
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by TheOperator 6y ago
Gonna need to ban a lot more people than Bannon if you're going to ban everybody who used figurative calls to violence and was associated with some group which engaged in violence. Especially given 9 people died in BLM protests last y
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by TheOperator 6y ago
>Free speech for a corporation is allowing them to ban whatever they want that's effecting their bottom line. That's freedom of association.
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by TheOperator 6y ago
The fact this isn't a 1st amendment issue doesn't mean by extension this isn't a freedom of speech issue. Freedom of speech as a concept is much broader than the 1st amendment as well as the United States. Anonymous feedbac
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by TheOperator 6y ago
I'll bite. Censorship of social platforms is absolutely necessary and this is obvious if you think about the problem for long enough, and even more obvious if you try to run one. Spam is a form of speech. You will get DDOSed by bad f
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by TheOperator 6y ago
I'm not quite in that rough shape but I have several medical conditions and for years I just stared at summaries and "Pay just $40 to read this article" and the article would be a freshman level essay about the sociological i
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by TheOperator 6y ago
Yes, and? You think it's worse to interpret a word literally if that literal definition is broad, than it is to interpret a word in a way that makes the other person seem delusional and nonsensical? In the context of a specific conver
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by TheOperator 6y ago
So Trump got kicked off twitter, and people can get kicked off various platforms for saying extreme things, but deplatforming does not exist because you agree with the reasons why those people got kicked off, and therefore other people are
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by TheOperator 6y ago
I believe you're bias towards centrism and the belief that the truth is somewhere in the middle, the cited people are wrong, and their perception of this site having a socialist lean is precisely what demonstrates their own bias. Beli
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by TheOperator 6y ago
My favourite part of psychiatry is that diagnosis never shrinks, it only grows, and this makes people healthier and the increase in mental illness is just us "discovering" that people were mentally ill all along. The field is an e
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by TheOperator 6y ago
It's Hacker News do you expect people to not compulsively bend the knee when a corporation is discussed?

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