authoritarian

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by authoritarian 7y ago
So what?
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by authoritarian 7y ago
People dying of starvation and homelessness doesn't matter to many people but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a negative impact on society or shouldn't be solved
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by authoritarian 7y ago
How many of those companies business models relies on getting you hooked so they can continue to perform mass surveillance and being careless with the personal info of users and non-users alike?
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by authoritarian 7y ago
Except it did.... smoking is at a record low
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by authoritarian 7y ago
So very effective?
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by authoritarian 7y ago
As usual the Facebookers are coming out in mass to defend their cash cow, despite it's major negative impact on society. Par for the course on this site
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by authoritarian 7y ago
It's incorrect, not new
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by authoritarian 7y ago
I have near 0 trust in the major tech companies (Facebook/Google/Apple/etc.) but amazingly I trust the US government even less. I have absolutely no faith that the US government discovered and solved the salary issues in thos
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by authoritarian 7y ago
Don't buy a new mid-sized jet then...? You can certainly afford a small, used private jet if you have $100 million. Not to mention a lot of people that own private jets rent/lease them out, just like they do with yachts, which can
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by authoritarian 7y ago
Those lists are alphabetical, not by size...
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by authoritarian 7y ago
To support creators and avoid youtube/google
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by authoritarian 7y ago
You must pass on a lot of services then, considering how prevalent similar arbitration clauses are in ToS
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by authoritarian 7y ago
The Netflix library is awful, and continues to get worse and more limited. There are multiple channels I follow that I get more watch time and utility out of than Netflix
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by authoritarian 7y ago
You said you feel bad, in what way did that cause permanent damage? I stubbed my toe this morning and it felt bad but no permanent damage was caused
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by authoritarian 7y ago
>I believe that wine tastings are primarily for the social value You have apparently never tasted wine with a sommelier or wine enthusiast, because I can assure you it is 100% about the wine. Socializing is minimal >with the socializi
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by authoritarian 7y ago
I remember thinking this... as an 18 year old in college
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by authoritarian 7y ago
I knew this crazy kid in college who purchased pure methamphetamine off the dark web to use as a study aid. He is currently pursuing his doctorate at one of the best medical schools in the world
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by authoritarian 7y ago
You must be using some awful services because my experience has been that piracy, and pirate streaming services, are better, easier, and more available than ever
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by authoritarian 7y ago
>Instead they go in the spreadsheet for the next round of layoffs, which are mechanical and depersonalized. I've never worked at a company where anyone was fired that way
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by authoritarian 7y ago
>I know analysing social interactions is seen as a rather, if you will forgive the term, "autistic" That may be your perception of autism, but this statement is more akin to using "retarded" derogatorily than actually
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by authoritarian 7y ago
None of the examples of the "sensitive" questions I've read are anything that HR would discipline someone for (at least where I work). If the environment was so toxic that people were reporting each other for questions like t
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by authoritarian 7y ago
Nowhere in OPs comment did he state, or even imply, that he got urine on his hands... The point he was making, which you seem to have missed entirely, is that he ISN'T in fact trying to wash away urine but rather any other nastiness he
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by authoritarian 7y ago
>Increasingly, if you want to be in infosec, you have to learn how to code on the level of a SWE I think this depends on what kind of infosec work you plan to be doing. I have been a security engineer for the past 4ish years, and while I
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by authoritarian 7y ago
>I would also like to add signing up for an AWS Gov account was at least 12 months ago...a completely automated process where I was approved in no more than 15 mins. The account had a credit card but otherwise was 100% still in free tier
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Judge Rules FBI Cannot Hide Use of Social Media Surveillance Tools(courthousenews.com)
2 points by authoritarian 7y ago|0 comments
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by authoritarian 7y ago
This sounds a lot like the the "I have nothing to hide so it doesn't matter who has my data argument," in which case here are a number of resources discussing why privacy matters and why you should care even if you have &#x27
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by authoritarian 7y ago
In the past I used IG to interact with people from niche communities (primarily aquarium related) but I left both because it was acquired by Facebook and I was seeing the huge increase of ads and sponsored posts/accounts as you describ
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by authoritarian 7y ago
You say that "a list of quotes from the past has no bearing on the present reality" and then go on to say that "people are really struggling to focus" which is essentially the same point, or at least closely related, tha
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by authoritarian 7y ago
This is pretty cool. It would be interesting to see more industrial projects using some of the space available to them for community activity spaces such as this
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by authoritarian 7y ago
If pharmaceutical reps were "advertising to physicians" in that they provide medical information on how a drug works, why a doctor should prescribe it, potential risks, etc. then I might agree. However, it seems like more often th

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