sinecure

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by sinecure 21d ago
Educated, young Americans are pissed off because the life they were promised when they went to college is not attainable for a majority of them. Inflation caused by the government's pandemic response has devastated US consumer buying p
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by sinecure 22d ago
This was never about talent. It's about companies hiring foreigners on h1b visas at below market wages where their life in the USA is contingent on their job performance forcing them to work harder and longer than their peers to remain
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by sinecure 2y ago
You are spot on about Adobe's products not having adequate alternatives. I see a lot of new artists online saying to use Affinity or Gimp, but they do not compare. Even Blender lovers, myself included, who have embraced the open source
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by sinecure 2y ago
Photoshop is, unfortunately, the most comfortable art application out there for a lot of art related workflows. The pattern preview mode allows for painting tiling textures easily (a feature oddly lacking from all competitors--except asperi
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by sinecure 3y ago
Walmart also announced they are closing 4 locations in downtown Chicago due to profitability issues related to crime. Choosing not to prosecute criminals and releasing those that are caught immediately only emboldens and worsens crime. This
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by sinecure 4y ago
This has been my experience as well at 32. The commercial real estate firm I work at has a 4 days in the office policy, so we have a fairly robust social atmosphere. You can't design a building on a webinar, you need to sit together in
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by sinecure 4y ago
Moderation is such an interesting art. There is moderation like trimming a bonsai tree... the effort is to keep everything healthy and beautiful, but not to avert the nature of the plant, to embrace its natural growth... then there is moder
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by sinecure 4y ago
I've spent decades exploring online communities (haven't we all?). From forums to 4chan, from Digg to reddit to hacker news. I would say that hacker news has one of the highest quality, most engaged and passionate user bases aroun
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by sinecure 4y ago
I think covid's lasting impact will be one of vastly growing mistrust in the political and scientific organizations that society looks to for guidance. From the CDC's ever changing guidelines, the liability-free, fast tracked vacc
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by sinecure 4y ago
They're a perfect example of how in America we have these public services that get overloaded and degraded in quality (because they are public), so the rich go and make their own private luxury versions to enjoy a more selective and hi
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by sinecure 4y ago
Content, info, arguments, etc. are all propagated online based on their deliciousness. Is it dramatic? Easy to digest? Shocking? Emotionally powerful? Bright and alluring? Sexy or disgusting? These are the elements that push information to
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by sinecure 4y ago
The end result of all this fakery is a growing doubt and distrust of the world and the information presented to us. Bots on twitter, corporate reddit moderators pruning discourse, astroturfed discussions, deepfakes, AI generated news articl
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by sinecure 4y ago
That is a beautiful quote, I had never read it. Novelty and ever growing detail of artistic creation have their limits and their downsides. Video games are an excellent example of this. Take early 3D games like Thief, a steampunk thief simu
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by sinecure 4y ago
The most valuable thing online in the next few decades will be authenticity. Authenticity is really the new luxury. The beauty of the early internet was its pure, passion driven authenticity. Websites sprouting up for every interest, built
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by sinecure 4y ago
I disagree that the 1031 exchange laws are detrimental to society. In fact, I would argue that their existence boosts the rate of development and increases housing supply in the US. Firstly, why does the government deserve to tax these tran
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by sinecure 4y ago
Online artists, particularly those gunning for a big twitter following, have to hit it with a specific niche to make it big. I've seen people blow up for drawing really great knights, or sexy sea monsters, or for making really cool spa
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by sinecure 4y ago
Your summary of this phenomenon resonates with my experiences navigating the internet all these years. I find reddit to be the most perfect example of watching something authentic, human, and real... devolve into a manufactured, astroturfed
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by sinecure 4y ago
The cleanest and easiest use case I see for crypto is just optimizing the whole securities issuance and fund management legacy system. For my business in alternative investments if I want to raise money for a project with a Regulation D off
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by sinecure 4y ago
A childhood friend of mine developed schizophrenia at 25, so I am surely convinced of the existence of true mental illness. To me a mental illness is defined as a clear defect in the workings of the brain, such that you have uncontrollable
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by sinecure 4y ago
A city breaking the law for decades by paying the school district illegally and no one doing anything about it out of fear of getting bad PR for their election campaign... or mishandling property assessments for 8 years are all pretty huge
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by sinecure 4y ago
There is so much incompetence and political game playing regarding property taxes. I work in commercial real estate development. We negotiated a TIF district in a small midwestern town to help redevelop their vacant mall. In theory, if we c
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by sinecure 4y ago
Belief dictates reality. This is the fundamental driver behind the common effectiveness of placebo. Which leads to the question, does depression exist as a flaw in the brain? A malfunction? Or is it like a mind virus, that it becomes an ine
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by sinecure 4y ago
This is essentially what Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) theorized and wrote about in his manifesto, that industrialization and its abundance of comforts and options have destroyed human happiness and that we would all be better off if we liv
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by sinecure 5y ago
nytimes is the worst, next to predatory gym memberships. It took me 45 minutes in a chat with the agent screen to cancel my membership, and they refused to send me any confirmation or email. He told me to screenshot our chat. The NYTimes is
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by sinecure 5y ago
Assuming your position on any subject, especially novel viruses and novel vaccines, is 100% correct and immune to debate or criticism is irrational. When your position is "I'm right, they're wrong, they shouldn't be allo
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by sinecure 5y ago
Absolutely. It's been incredible watching it happen in slow motion over the last decade. What was once a bastion of free thought and discussion online (after the fall of Digg) has turned into another trimmed and controlled mainstream p
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by sinecure 5y ago
Reddit's procedure for communities that go against any mainstream progressive narrative is to quarantine them and then ban them under the accusation of "brigading". They have essentially trimmed all alternative thought or dis