illustriousbear

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by illustriousbear 5y ago
Ah, I see you too are a gentleman of culture.
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by illustriousbear 5y ago
When I'm trying to take care of basic bodily functions, I don't need some exec using it as an opportunity to manipulate me into workplace / social interaction.
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by illustriousbear 5y ago
Yeah I do my most productive conversations when I'm rushing to do a big shit.
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by illustriousbear 5y ago
A frosted sliding door couldn't cut it? what a stupid engineering decision. All of this looks like a dystopian nightmare. Glad I never worked in big tech.
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by illustriousbear 5y ago
Hackernews has plenty of posts that have nothing to do with digital platforms.
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by illustriousbear 5y ago
If people can post about China's human rights violations against Uyghurs, the same can be posted about Israel's human rights violations in Palestine.
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by illustriousbear 5y ago
What a waste of electricity for a stupid religion.
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by illustriousbear 5y ago
The anti-theft argument is a bit over stated. 1. The thief would probably still find the tracker. 2. You would probably still lose connection/track of the device. 3. Police would probably still be reluctant to travel to a private resid
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by illustriousbear 5y ago
Hopefully the obnoxiously loud people will learn that no one wants to hear their crap at work (or anywhere else). Your take on race? I don't care Your take on gender? I also don't care Your take on politics? Nope, don't care.
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by illustriousbear 5y ago
No thanks, I'd rather own my home. We should be working towards the practical goal of making owning a home practical again. I don't want to live in some box owned by a collective.
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by illustriousbear 5y ago
Is it an American thing to vigorously defend corporations from accountability to the public? Twitter and even here seem full of people defending Peloton when clearly there have been enough incidents to warrant some design changes. It seems
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by illustriousbear 5y ago
And yet I'd never want to go through the brutal/grinding process of a PhD in the United States. You guys have it really bad in terms of workload, length and insane costs.
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by illustriousbear 5y ago
HackerNews usually: But they're a private company, they can do what they want!!! Reality is Spotify and other companies are trying to corner the podcast market, this is going to lead to more censorship in this space. You might be incli
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by illustriousbear 5y ago
Don't like it? Don't use it. Afterall, private organizations can do what they want according to the mantra repeated here. At least that was the defense for social media organizations implementing censorship and bans.
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by illustriousbear 5y ago
My point is completely justified when you read the article attached (and much of the comments here).
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by illustriousbear 5y ago
99% of the opposition to Signal integrating cryptocurrency payment seems to be from people who generally disagree with the idea of cryptocurrencies (the article has this position). These arguments of course are veiled as keeping the Signal
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by illustriousbear 5y ago
Australia is riddled with this kind of Chinese pressure, particularly at universities. My university went as far as to install an ugly out of place confucious statue. This was followed by being pressured to cancel a talk from the Dalai Llam
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by illustriousbear 5y ago
It's really not a cool way to think about this. People all around the world have state sanctioned freedom of speech but are oppressed by the majority in their country. This infantile view of freedom of speech is simply a way to pretend
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by illustriousbear 5y ago
Go tell that to all the minorities around the world who have state granted "freedom of speech" but are suppressed/controlled by mobs in other countries. It's counter to freedom of speech and it isn't acceptable.
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by illustriousbear 5y ago
This is the same idiotic phrase as "Freedom of Speech is not Freedom from Consequences". You know who else thinks this way? Many repressive countries such as those who control how women / minorities / etc behave in publi
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by illustriousbear 5y ago
There is a big difference between fair accountability and the internet mobs that want to wipe out your whole reputation/career. We don't let internet mobs run courts yet we allow them to ruin people's lives for some reason.
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by illustriousbear 5y ago
The UN's main benefit is that it gets a bunch of nations around a table to discuss various issues. This is something that should not be underestimated. Unfortunately if the UN could directly exercise authority over nations, many nation
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by illustriousbear 6y ago
I understand it but reject it. If it's a problem for the platform owners, I'll be even more political. Screw them.
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by illustriousbear 6y ago
M1 macbook, 512gb hdd here. Anyone mind sharing their total "real" space. Mine is 494.38gb Thanks!
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by illustriousbear 6y ago
You can create more diabetics by being a hip trendy company who employees lots of poc and women.
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by illustriousbear 6y ago
This kind of rhetoric is subjectively aimed at driving white people out of the workplace. As a white person, would you honestly be comfortable working in such a company?
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by illustriousbear 6y ago
The thing I find funny about HackerNews is how you see plenty of wasteful hobby projects hit the main page. Yet someone using a crypto miner to generate heat / side money is somehow a terrible project.
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by illustriousbear 6y ago
This is not necessarily evidence. Your tinnitus might have just become noticeable with the Airpods or perhaps something completely unrelated impacted it. I had tinnitus flare ups during lockdown so went to both an audiologist and an ent spe
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by illustriousbear 6y ago
Apple has sold about 90 million of these things. At 600 it is far more likely people have just noticed they have tinnitus or have had damage from some other exposure. For instance I have tinnitus and it also flares up due to my jaw clenchin
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by illustriousbear 6y ago
Is it just me or are a lot of people going overboard with hand sanitizer? I find it odd to see people applying hand sanitizer even though they've just left home and are visiting one place. Then you see people constantly applying hand s

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