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7 lat temudiscuss

That sounds pretty dangerous. Specialists need to be kept in line by managers, in other words: people who specialize in human behavior and ethical concerns. I know that figuring out some obscure software pattern makes you feel like an omniscient god who should be corralling lesser beings into useful behavior, but really you have just ended up in your position partly because you are bad at other things.

7 lat temudiscuss

The salient point when comparing modern SJW mobs with muck-raking journalism is the ease with which information spreads and the highly effective propaganda (which wasn't even a concept). We are at a turning point where one large portion of society knows how to use photoshop and another large portion will believe anything mildly illusory put in front of them.

7 lat temudiscuss

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7 lat temudiscuss

I don't see why anyone would even need to research this. How could someone be so stupid to believe all the "hacking code" made direct cultural references to the source?

7 lat temudiscuss

Because it is more dangerous. When the internet was treated as just images on a screen that one could turn off, it wasn't taken seriously and people weren't afraid to put up stuff on textfiles. Now some trash people would dox you and it is easy because your entire personal network is ubiquitously connected. So all it takes is persistence from a malicious actor and they will have a lot of influence on your real life.

7 lat temudiscuss

All you can do is complain until you get critical mass to move off the platform all at once in most cases. If I need to order something online without a physical address, do I have an option besides amazon or do I just go without and pay more for the same product? If I want to receive payments online do I use paypal or try and use something niche like bitcoin and have most customers move elsewhere? If I want free email do I use gmail or do I go with a service that is way less secure? It's a winner-take-all effect in an unrestrained market where the corporations have more power than the actual government. The only thing that has an effect is massive propaganda supported by large tribal groups, an individual is literally meaningless and in fact encouraged to slough off and die.

7 lat temudiscuss

No one really does street art like they used to. The chance you will get caught is almost 100%. We have wiped out the ability to do innocuous things like this and creativity suffers for it. It was pretty much self-policing in the sense that is was so difficult to that just because you could get away with it, it did not result in everything being covered in graffiti. But a few times a year, someone would pull off a piece in a difficult area that was aesthetically pleasing, placed in such a way as to emulate marketing/billboard placement. Now you would have 100 people filming it on their phones because they can't do anything risky themselves so they want to gain notoriety by outing someone else. Or there would be a team of nerds behind computer screens coming up with new technology to automatically bust out people. A lot of the times you get shitty graffiti (of which I am guilty myself, but it's a learning process) in shitty places. That is the price you pay for allowing people to take risks. Everything is too sterile now. For every person that is willing to risk their life and livelihood to put up some art, there are a million idiots eager to put it on youtube so they can feel like they accomplished something.

7 lat temudiscuss

What needs to be in recommended videos is niche stuff that falls into similar categories of things you have watched. That is what needs to be recommended, not a video with a million views already which compounds the winner-take-all tendency of the internet and memetic information spread. Something that is so hugely popular will be recommended through word-of-mouth or posts from other sites. They are making it harder to find lesser known pieces of information, essentially burying valuable stuff in a torrent of already popular videos.

7 lat temudiscuss

How about not allowing for using ad campaigns for targeting individuals or even groups of individuals by email or other personal information, you fucking retards (youtube employees responsible)? How does it feel to know that your "don't be evil" corporation is what allows for the radicalization of fringe/psychologically-vulnerable users? They have literally placed a greater importance on fine-grained targeted advertisement than one of the most subtle forms of malicious manipulation that has probably had a great deal of influence on the worst atrocities of our time.

7 lat temudiscuss

If you are going to go to this extent, why not limit the computer by making it control a meat-puppet that has to physically manipulate the mouse and keyboard. And also give the computer carpal tunnel syndrome and get distracted by its questionable past.

For the people complaining about the information availability of 'one screen at a time': what is the difference between seeing the whole map with fog of war and quickly iterating the over the minimap at a very fast rate? Answer: a few milliseconds which would be irrelevant to a human anyway. Are they trying to make a computer that plays sc2 well or are they trying to make a computer that simulates expert human play to an indistinguishable level and which of those is more broadly applicable to other AI problems?

7 lat temudiscuss

"Virtue Signaling" or "SJW" as derogative implies useless or hypocritical sense of the terms. Of course it's a good thing to signal positive virtues or fight for social justice. Used negatively, "virtue signaling" implies that one is using perceived virtue as a way to dog-whistle for a specific tribal group, for a trendy but ultimately counter-productive virtue. It is disingenuous and not the point of actual virtue, which is selfless and not using virtue to primarily increase one's social standing. Like SJW is used for someone tilting at windmills and going out of their way to attack someone for views which are only 'bad' through a lot of mental gymnastics. Like the phrase "make america great again" or "freedom fighter" can ostensibly be a positive thing, but in actual practice is often used to disguise negative things.

7 lat temudiscuss

sounds legit

7 lat temudiscuss

Is he a chicken?

8 lat temudiscuss

VPN's need to be resolved regarding the following points: 1) Currently, only financially gifted people can even afford to consider privacy at this level. 2) Is complete, non-logged privacy even a desirable outcome? 3) Who should be able to request or correlate log data (governments, the company employees)? In its current incarnation, VPNs and security in general only changes who can be easily targeted or prosecuted, much in the same way that residents of poor neighborhoods are routinely arrested/searched for drug use where a rich person just doesn't have to worry about getting caught for the same actions. So paid VPNs contribute to an 'internet ghetto', or more accurately: disproportionate enforcement.

8 lat temudiscuss

The problem with stuff like uMatrix (not specifically, but in general) when compared to Google services is that large, bureaucratic services have oversight where more than one person is responsible. Small services based on 'trust' rather systematic checks and balances (maybe rotating staff, management oversight) get compromised when guy's (sole dev) buddy asks for 'a favor'. You have these niche, word-of-mouth trust system that are anything but trustworthy when there is really nothing to stop a small group of devs doing 'favors' for each other because their morality is more based on personal philosophy and personal networks than anything objective. This used to be known as corruption, but I think that term has lost all meaning.

8 lat temudiscuss

What about all the people who play from a poor internet connection in a poor geographical area? Should they just not play so as not to ruin other people's experience?

8 lat temudiscuss

Speaking of disconnects, I find it ridiculous that people fret over manufactured ethics that one can easily assimilate for social gain, (read:own) while those same ethics would eventually lead to a situation where one has to perform the same act (ending life for the sake of life, either in the form of animal population control or human progress). All the while having absolutely no problem in participating in much larger systems that perpetuate much worse. To me, hearing people talk about ethical animal consumption is like hearing Dr Mengele talk about fracking versus coal, and obviously feeling superior while talking about it. People can't even treat other people half decently.

8 lat temudiscuss

Keywords should have to be from some scope that is easily differentiated from a library or module. They already can cause a lot of name collision/confusion. Have a some basic rules for declaring variables (must start with alpha, must contain only alphanumerics), and have all keywords prefixed with, for example, std.raise, p.except or whatever

8 lat temudiscuss

Problem for me is that brain no work good in this state. Like trying to read with massive headache.

8 lat temudiscuss

So in the US they ban things based on the expected stupidity of people swallowing the entire egg, and in the EU they ban based on carcinogenic additives that increase short term profit whose negative effects won't be seen for years? Seems appropriate.