rfrey

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by rfrey 3d ago
You don't think there's a difference between recording somebody on the street installing mass surveillance devices and peering into person's window?
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by rfrey 3d ago
I think if you're worried about being harassed by your neighbours if they find out what you do during the day, you should be thinking hard about what you do during the day.
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by rfrey 9d ago
Child porn is an unavoidable consequence of having computers? Is that what you meant to say? I doubt it but can't find another reading of your comment.
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by rfrey 12d ago
Plenty of people have become alienated from their own family due to blind loyalty to Trump and support for his cruelty. They remain loyal.
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by rfrey 25d ago
You do not believe in statistics as a discipline?
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by rfrey 27d ago
Furthermore, what's aggressive about it?
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by rfrey 1mo ago
Just go take the food.
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by rfrey 2mo ago
There is a lot of variance in the price of cleaning tied to location. Cost of living in the area for sure, but also presence or absence of economic migrants and new immigrants.
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by rfrey 2mo ago
The studies I'm familiar with have tested recall at various intervals, not brain activity.
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by rfrey 2mo ago
He made money when he was working for other people. He did not make money when he tried to trade off his ideas. That was 25 years ago, since then he just broadcasts his ideas. No skin in the game, as it were.
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by rfrey 2mo ago
If the toilets at all those firms started operating in reverse, very little would get built. The conclusion is that plumbers are extremely important, not that plumbing is de facto engineering.
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by rfrey 2mo ago
I know lots of writers who have (reluctantly) stopped using em-dashes. Many replaced them with colons, and are now wondering what they will replace colons with.
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by rfrey 2mo ago
Yes, but do their publishers need to be compensated for a century after their death?
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by rfrey 2mo ago
We certainly wouldn't want to return to the pre-1976 era, where, as we all know, no books were written.
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by rfrey 2mo ago
Anybody who still writes using their own mind has stopped using that pattern, along with others. "The thing nobody tells you:" is no longer used by decent writers.
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by rfrey 3mo ago
Somebody saying hello to you has you reaching for pepper spray?
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by rfrey 3mo ago
So what accounts for the current state of the USA? Not exactly platonic ideals of courage these days.
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by rfrey 4mo ago
Federal crimes such as having an Hispanic name.
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by rfrey 4mo ago
This time, there is nowhere to move to. And there is no interest in supporting the displaced people in any way.
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by rfrey 4mo ago
In the opinion of the champaign socialists in the West. In the opinion of people who lived under that regime... Not so much.
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by rfrey 4mo ago
I think it is uncharitable to say "your convenience". It's more like "your vision as a creator". We're talking about developer intent that isn't possible otherwise. You can say "good, it shouldn'
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by rfrey 4mo ago
What would that "you problem" look like? Bought the wrong laptop? Bad aura? Clicking links wrong?
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by rfrey 4mo ago
Man, I remember when the common wisdom was that there would NEVER be enough people willing to put their credit card into a web browser to support a business. I never expected to be nostalgic for those days.
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by rfrey 4mo ago
Although if a big pothole remains for several years amid many complaints, it's reasonable to think there's no such list. Or there is a list, but it's so long that it might as well not exist.
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by rfrey 4mo ago
Countries taking care of their citizens is communism? A social safety net leads to empty store shelves? Am I the latest victim of Poe's Law here? Every advanced economy in the world except for the United States has a well developed soc
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by rfrey 5mo ago
Many of us (worldwide, I'm not American) watched China massacre thousands of its own children at Tiananmen Square. The US is descending into totalitarianism, but it hasn't reached that level yet. And China may have changed in some
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by rfrey 5mo ago
What you are describing is not evidence, it is a willful misuse (charitably perhaps, a misunderstanding) of statistics. It is exactly analogous to using a mean in a distribution with extreme outliers. The only reason is to hurl numbers arou
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by rfrey 5mo ago
Your point is even more graphically illustrated if you compare the extremes... Say trust fund babies to homeless people. The trust fund people spend at least ten hours a week reviewing investment and disciplining their entourage, whereas ho
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by rfrey 6mo ago
Tobacco executives probably prevented their children from smoking, especially as evidence emerged. That's just parenting. It doesn't forgive them for lobbying ferociously against any regulation of marketing to children.
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by rfrey 6mo ago
I didn't "vote" but there aren't many clues in your comment suggesting it's satire. It is a mainstream presentation of a mainstream point of view, how would anybody distinguish between you believing it earnestly and

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