kraken_cult

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by kraken_cult 3d ago
Might as well call them Kleenex surveillance cameras. The point stands.
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by kraken_cult 3d ago
right, it probably cost two new swing sets in people's time to make this even happen.
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by kraken_cult 3d ago
It'S ThEiR FaUlT, I'M juSt MaKinG mOneY. Is such a lame excuse. A real engineer knows ethical boundaries. Get lost.
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by kraken_cult 4d ago
2030*
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by kraken_cult 13d ago
"anyone whose material circumstances are impacted by immigrants and voices that == literally hitler"
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by kraken_cult 15d ago
This is the most insane cope. The old web was good because a naive user could find the coolest thing imaginable. The naive user isn't digging into a forum, finding a reference to a niche forum from the other forum, figuring out how to
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by kraken_cult 15d ago
I'm failing to parse the "own ethical standards" as it relates to chromium-based browsers and this conversation about firefox..can you maybe explain, does removing the ability for users to block adds seem more ethical than no
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by kraken_cult 15d ago
> a lawyer "shall not delegate the practice of law" to generative AI. Lawyers writing laws to protect lawyers. Never saw that coming.
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by kraken_cult 19d ago
I stand corrected, they are not corvids. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_magpie
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by kraken_cult 19d ago
This is just crow slander, they're magpies. So corvids, but not crows. And the people are walking under their nests.
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by kraken_cult 19d ago
Isn't it just as likely they are using facebook, instagram, and tiktok?
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by kraken_cult 21d ago
This is just false. There are lot of reasons people hire immigrants, very few are truly incredible, singular talents. I lived with a bunch of Indian immigrants when in SF and it was universally guys not as skilled as me hired because there
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by kraken_cult 23d ago
Forced rehab if needed and then somewhere they can work to pay their way, learn the skills to help themselves. There's a ton of manual labor that needs doing, potholes to be fixed.
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by kraken_cult 23d ago
There has to be a line draw somewhere. Generally people who say this don't actually have regular interactions with aggressive, hostile, homeless. Or are you just really cool with going to a coffee shop and have someone screaming in a p
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by kraken_cult 27d ago
If someone or something does the writing for you, you are, by definition, not a writer.
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by kraken_cult 27d ago
Remember "Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers". There's a reason they go together..
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by kraken_cult 27d ago
Automated slop?
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by kraken_cult 27d ago
There are pitchforks in Ireland as well!
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by kraken_cult 29d ago
Riding the boom times doesn't have merit either.
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by kraken_cult 1mo ago
Except we both know they weren't really that independent though... This was on HN a few days ago https://archive.is/Ayf4R
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by kraken_cult 1mo ago
Ah yes, the famously fair, famously well thought out "witch hunt for thee, but not for me". How about acknowledgement that there was a reason these people got elected and the addressing of grievances that brought that about. Probl
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by kraken_cult 1mo ago
off topic but I've noticed this CAPITALIZATION more and more in online discourse. I don't like it, but if you're using it can you maybe explain where it comes from? It definitely seems like a zoomer thing.
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by kraken_cult 1mo ago
US is currently recovering (fever breaking) from the petty and micromanaged stage. We haven't been coherent as a nation for like 20+ years.
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by kraken_cult 1mo ago
This is flagrantly untrue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit...
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by kraken_cult 2mo ago
I think it's more for folks who were making ~150k starting in 2012-2018. Most of them can afford to keep a place in new york and take a sabbatical.
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by kraken_cult 3mo ago
Your boot sir
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by kraken_cult 5mo ago
We will see if this is all the chips that Epstein bought
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by kraken_cult 8y ago
And furthermore, how do we collectively decide which laws and institutions are codified and which ones are not? How do we ensure that the life and dignity of a rural fisherman is supported to the same degree as an ivy-league educated progra
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by kraken_cult 8y ago
I'm curious, how does globalism benefit everyone, at all scales economically, equally?