nebulous_two

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by nebulous_two 4y ago
Why is it only when things go bad that people realize that human priorities are not the same as company priorities?
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
Do you also give all your information to a random caller that offers you a free cruise? I think you forgot that politicians are legally bribed to behave against the wishes and/or needs of the people. You're right that moralizing i
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
Reading your comment made me realize that you're right, there really isn't such a hard rule even with physical exertion. Even putting some motivating music on might make you push for an extra rep or two. If a gun was to your head
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
And yet we are bombarded with them. Thanks, market. You really gave us what we wanted. Oh wait -- that's not actually your objective!
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
It might be worth thinking about what it is that is being depleted, exactly. When I "run out of willpower" it doesn't really feel the same as when I "simply cannot do it anymore". If I lift a weight enough times, ev
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
If you compare the same pizzas restaurant vs. homemade then sure, but learning to do it well allows you to modify everything to suit your needs. A really nice thin crust can be made with quite a bit less dough, which may then need a lot les
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
I don't know what rock you've been living under, but licking the boot and bring patient leads you to be stuck in the same position because "you're too valuable right where you are" for 33 years until the company get
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
Your fear is as old as time. The act of writing was considered a threat to human memory capacity and therefore wisdom too.
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
Did you forget what site you're on? Tech people might be good debaters but they are rarely good at relating
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
The whole thing about fecal transplants is that the resulting changes in your microbiome make it so your pull to sugar is weakened. Your diet changes because your cravings change. Imagine how easy it would be if you craved food that was &qu
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
Put yourself in the shoes of your average content moderator. Aren't they there for the paycheck like most people at their jobs? Why does everyone assume these people are first and foremost bastions of acceptable behaviour? They are ins
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
What is the difference, from an employee's perspective, between an abusive employer, and one that would not hesitate to steamroll them in the name of profit. Sure one is intentionally targetted and the other is collateral damage, but i
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
You're right it's not greed itself, but the scale of its target that has grown. One person losing their job to corporate greed is a tragedy, and 10000 people losing their jobs is a statistic.
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
Thank you for taking the time to explain this to me.
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
Not true. What stops this is the creation of another service that comes in to take that space...until they go public again OR They remain a private business that keeps that long term aim in spite of the volatility they are bound to experien
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
There is an understanding between shopper and shop owner about what is happening on said property. The shopper normally does not expect that the shop owner would instantly know your entire biography + family lineage just by stepping onto th
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
The cynicism is fueled by opinions like yours that present a false dichotomy of "western democracy (implied as the gold standard) or anything else (implied as garbage)". This is pure western exceptionalism. The only reason you thi
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
What is the objective in saying that the USG is the shiniest turd of the bunch? What is you told you that the USG has, over the course of its relatively short history, destabilized and created power vacuums and installed puppet governments
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
You're basically saying you think depression/anxiety/ADHD are disorders but autism is "part of who you are". Is a personality change indicative of whether something is a disorder or not? Is it only when the change i
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
Adobe and Serif won't be around forever. The list of reasons why NOT to be on Linux in some form has been, and continues to, shrink as old proprietary software gives way to the new. While it's true that industry software is often
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
Thank you for giving me this perspective. I think it's hard to see it this way because of the emotional load money has due to its necessity for ones survival these days.
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
This is some fatalistic nonsense. There is a long way to go for an IT person to die of starvation. It would have to be intentional: wanting to die of starvation.
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by nebulous_two 4y ago
It's not a conscious design effort in the sense that the blueprints were designed and implemented this way. It's more that gradually with every political decision that is based on greed, we sink deeper in a world that is defined b
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by nebulous_two 5y ago
This is the million dollar question. I think there are cases where executives take this kind of aggression like it's tough love and so they argue with the warlike technical folks but ultimately concur, like old habits dying hard
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by nebulous_two 5y ago
I agree with you on your description of community inceldom but I don't agree with your "fight propaganda with propaganda". If something is true, then it should be shown as such. Adults need to be able to handle the truth even
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by nebulous_two 5y ago
You claim it gives legitimacy to copyright regime but then go on to show exactly how it subverts the requirements of a license to be usable (clear, unambiguous, etc). You even finish it off by saying it's not good enough. That is exact
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by nebulous_two 5y ago
You're missing the point. The engineers might be great but the incentives are all wrong. Engineers from those.companies aren't specialized in making software that improves peoples' lives. They are specialized in making softwa
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by nebulous_two 5y ago
Terrible food gets marketed to you all the time every day. TV, internet ads, highway billboards, subway panel ads, sides of buses, etc. Every time, you have to fight the added pressure of wanting to eat addictive crap and there's only
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by nebulous_two 5y ago
Interesting just means "properly aligned with incentive", which in this case is to make money
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by nebulous_two 5y ago
If they succeed then aren't they an acceptable fit for the role? If it devalues the role then that means the job isn't as demanding as the title makes it seem.

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