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- Comment on Zionists doing a rave to block aid trucks at Ker Shalom crossing while Palestinians are starving 8 months ago:
This is a difficult problem to solve.
Starving the entire population, half of which are children is an inhumane solution. If it is too effective, it becomes the final solution.
- Comment on Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV 9 months ago:
Micropayments would scale at a ridiculous rate like microtransactions in games have, so your $20 example would be at least $200 in reality by now.
- Comment on What is a good, healthy, unhurtful, socially positive way to express anger? 9 months ago:
I get angry because of frustration about things beyond my control that impact me negatively and can't simply be ignored. Knowing that extra step is great and all, but doesn't reduce the frustration or the anger. I'm sure that identifying the difference is helpful to some people who can ignore or address the actual cause of their anger.
Note: I don't get angry about frustrating things that I can do something about, or can be ignored.
- Comment on What is a good, healthy, unhurtful, socially positive way to express anger? 9 months ago:
Calm down.
- Comment on How Spoutible’s Leaky API Spurted out a Deluge of Personal Data 9 months ago:
Ahhhh, I was.wondering why they would take the time to set up an API with that data and forgot that almost everything has a way to just dump things into it without needing to be set. I forget because where I work we actively avoid that approach because of risks like this.
- Comment on Hi so i am trying some shit for fun like summoning any kind of entities. 9 months ago:
Candyman and Bloody Mary require you to believe to work :)
- Comment on EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea" 9 months ago:
This is the first time for me as well, and it sounds likely to be the last.
- Comment on How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees? 9 months ago:
If they didn't do it they get the same 'not guilty' verdict, so what is the recourse for someone who was falsely charged. I am specifically thinking of the US where there are a lot of black men falsely convicted of violent crimes they did not commit because of racist eye witness testimony and prosecutors who want higher conviction rates.
- Comment on If one day our Fingerprint ends up Getting Stollen, Is There a Way we can Change it? 9 months ago:
Not to mention that not everyone has fingers.
- Comment on U.S., Missouri Republican senators vote against allowing abortions in rape, incest cases, arguing that "giving birth in the cases of rape and incest could help the mother recover" 9 months ago:
How deplorably evil.
- Comment on Apple Is Lobbying Against Right to Repair Six Months After Supporting Right to Repair 9 months ago:
They aren’t going to make this easy cause it quite literally means giving the shareholders less profit, which is illegal in the US.
Making less profit than previous periods of time or even operating at a loss is not illegal in the US. Many companies have periods where they lose money or sacrifice short term profits for long term growth.
Investors with enough control might boot the leadership out, but they can also do that for whatever reason including unrealistic expectations.
- Comment on Maybe Lovecraft wasn't as talented as people think? 9 months ago:
The whole Lovecraft universe is sort of a hog podge of other's authors work as well who sort of expanded and formalized parts of it.
It is a shame that the other authors are overlooked because it was an awesome collaboration.
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 9 months ago:
That is what the help files say, but when I tried to register a work account yesterday it did the verify you are human, then said there was something suspicious and sent the email verification, then said there was something suspicious and is now requiring a phone verification even though I did not enter a phone number.
At no point was I ever signed in and able to even pick a channel. This all happened while trying to log in foe the first time through the browser at work with my work email. I guess that someone else might not hit that phone requirement as I only tried to do the registration once, but it is in no way limited to joining a particular channel.
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 9 months ago:
I don't know if it is new, but it is in the help files when I tried to figure out why it required both confirming an email and the phone.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
Do you think I'm talking bout inherent value to dogs and cats?
I'm going to assume you are trolling and kick myself for falling for it.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
I don't think you understand what inherent means.
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 9 months ago:
The worst part is that they act like you can set up an account without a number, but then it acts like there is 'suspicious activity' and requires you to verify with the phone immediately.
Just rant into this yesterday trying to set up a work account as my work phone is not a mobile phone with sms.
Was registering really suspicious?
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 9 months ago:
My only complaint about discord is that it requires a mobile phone number for an account, and you can't use the same number for multiple accounts.
I want separate personal (with a silly account name) and professional (with my name) accounts, but only have one phone.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
Pants have value in any climate.
Pants can have value, they do not have inherent value.
You’re looking for particular circumstances that mitigate or otherwise affect the inherent value of certain goods, though your scenarios depend on those goods having inherent value in the first place.
I am pointing out that there are exceptions to the assumption that there is inherent value to show that material goods do not have inherent value. That is the opposite of 'depending on them having inherent value'.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
Pants can be what keeps you from freezing to death and going to jail.
Can be, but pants do not have inherent value in the context of a tropical climate where freezing is not an issue and nudity is allowed. They have contextual value.
Food does not have inherent value, it scales with availability and demand. An excess of apples that will spoil before they can be processed into something that can be consumed do not have inherent value.
This is important because while money's value is far more volatile, the argument that material goods have inherent value as a comparison is flawed.
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
Or if you pretended that material goods had an inherent value.
- Comment on Discovery returns to screens April 4th 9 months ago:
Keep hoping!
- Comment on Childhood disrupted: is the internet damaging young people’s development? 9 months ago:
Fewer kids are going to church to learn about who to hate, so I think it balances out.
- Comment on What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk? 9 months ago:
And not everyone should.
- Comment on What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk? 9 months ago:
Somebody spent the money on a research team and five years is why it is very attainable now.
Someone trying to write the code from scratch would still take a research team and years to replicate it from scratch.
- Comment on Let them warm up for a minute 9 months ago:
Zero ice cubes is the correct amount.
- Comment on Let them warm up for a minute 9 months ago:
get permanently disgusted
Typos can be so entertaining.
- Comment on Social media algorithms ‘amplifying misogynistic content’ 9 months ago:
They could in theory, but that would drive down engagement and they would make less money.
It is pretty hard to identify negative posts though. How do you tell ridiculous rage bait from a good Onion article when the only real difference in context is who posted it?
- Comment on Social media algorithms ‘amplifying misogynistic content’ 9 months ago:
They push the stuff that people spend more time interacting with. People tend to interact more with negative stuff.
- Comment on It would be simpler 9 months ago: