guscost

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by guscost 5y ago
You are serving an evil cause. It will go down in history as such. Hopefully you never find out how hard people fight when they know that they are fighting pure evil.
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by guscost 5y ago
No true patriot, eh?
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by guscost 5y ago
Nah, please delete my account. I should be putting energy into a community that isn’t dominated by fascists. To the fascists: Get the fuck out of our business, and maybe we can coexist peacefully. Or don’t, and see what happens.
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by guscost 5y ago
Please wake up before things turn violent. Your side is literally going to start a war in the name of “public health”, if this continues.
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by guscost 5y ago
The point is that this only works when the truth is on your side. “They” are understood to be the dominant/incumbent forces, but the truth eventually wins.
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by guscost 5y ago
1. They ignore you 2. They mock you 3. They fight you <- You are here 4. You win!
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by guscost 5y ago
Even the word “coronavirus” sounds scary and exotic.
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by guscost 5y ago
No. Here are your guerilla tactics: http://www.jointhewhiterose.com/ Hiding will only grant legitimacy to tyrants.
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by guscost 5y ago
In this case the flame is necessary, because these people are behaving like cowards, and many of them need to be slapped out of it.
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by guscost 5y ago
Alright, mom ! Sheesh!!
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by guscost 5y ago
“CCP good”
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by guscost 5y ago
Pathetic. If you’re going to stand up to the government, stand the fuck up! Don’t hide like a rat.
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by guscost 5y ago
Here’s what I wrote in May 2020 (I underestimated both the seasonality, and the speed of mutations, at least): https://guscost.com/2020/05/12/pandemic-woo/
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by guscost 5y ago
Yep, thanks.
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by guscost 5y ago
Asking this question pretty much reveals what you’re going to recommend. Obviously, I’m looking for opinions about: “CCP good, or CCP bad?”
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by guscost 5y ago
Eh, I don’t really care which username recommends things on the internet, I care about finding more sources to expand my understanding. pphysch’s sources could very well be garbage, but I can decide that for myself.
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by guscost 5y ago
I’ll add these to my sources, thanks.
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by guscost 5y ago
Ok, do you have any recommendations for uh, China analysis YouTubers?
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by guscost 5y ago
Thank you for the source.
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by guscost 5y ago
I can’t help but wonder how badly the CCP is actually fighting to suppress this, though - I think I heard laowhy86 argue that they might allow it to consume the news cycle, to distract from something else. Seeing this comment, and seeing e.
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by guscost 5y ago
Love/stealing this, but adapting it to be: > Does the product generate the revenue for their paychecks, plus extra for the company? You want to be comfortably generating/contributing more revenue than the expense of employing
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by guscost 5y ago
> bitcoin is a meme token for gambling on a fantasy about living in a cyberpunk dystopia. Ok, thanks. > It’s a scary but essential truth to realise that normal software engineers like us are an integral part of society’s immune system
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by guscost 5y ago
It’s a “people don’t like paranoid hypochondriac fascism” shock, and you know it.
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by guscost 5y ago
You either misunderstood or ignored the point I was trying to make, and filled in some additional details about risk... to what end? None of this is relevant to the conversation, unless your goal is to imply (without actually claiming) that
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by guscost 5y ago
You don’t fully understand the risks or benefits - nobody does. Where are you going with this?
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by guscost 5y ago
We’re so far past good faith at this point, try to at least wake up to that fact. My good faith expired around week twelve of the original two weeks.
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by guscost 5y ago
I didn’t start any of this shit, someone else is barging into my life and saying that I need to comply with paranoid hypochondriac fascism, or else. I have tried arguing rationally with these folks, but this is one of the situations where t
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by guscost 5y ago
The right response is not “no, your concerns are actually illegitimate.” That direction only ends in war, because you will discover that I don’t care whether you agree with my choices, and I am 100% ready to die over them. Are you?
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by guscost 5y ago
So at this point, we have now seen legitimate questions raised about both the benefits and the risks involved with this stuff. I can still totally understand anyone who decides the risk is worth it for themselves or their understanding
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by guscost 5y ago
I will probably never care about “climate change solutions”, but I’m happy to support this campaign to rehabilitate nuclear power, because it is a very good idea.

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