If you’ve read stuff like Hackers by Levy or Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Hafner, there’s a very happy, “look at this cool shit we built” attitude to everything (both books are fantastic and worth the read). Levy’s Crypto begins to dance around some of the dangers when he writes about Diffie-Hellman. MIT AI especially has its roots in this gnarly defense world even though it’s usually portrayed as anything but. The amount of computing used for RAND to support the war in Vietnam is terrible.
It doesn’t sound like you’re aware of PCI DSS
Regulatory burden aside, you don’t do data analysis at scale running “some big wigs’ nephew’s VB/C# app.”
Code has been skills-based for as long as I’ve been working. The few places I’ve seen that really have a hard degree requirement are not places I’d work. Most CS degrees are also mostly worthless for most app jobs because the theory is not the practice. There are degree programs that focus on shipping applications. In my own hiring, I’m looking for experience over degree and potential over buzzword bingo.
The amount of inbreeding with other “historic” organizations like the Daughters of the American Revolution means that most of these orgs have well-documented ties to the KKK and other white supremacist causes. It’s enough to put most folks off supporting anyone who claims some historic tie.
Take for example this fucking loser and make sure you mark all of her orgs as “all about when white people could own people.”
His commentary about why they had to nuke all the fun shit in BL3 is equally piece of shit of material. I don’t want to dig through his Twitter to find stuff. Shit was wild. I dislike a bunch of folks in the gaming industry for poor decisions. Randy’s one of very few I will always go out of my way to highlight how much of a piece of shit he is.
CBD has almost zero regulation and oversight so its labeling is widely inaccurate. Granted, the products reviewed in this study tended to overlabel, so there is some variance. I get that you’re talking more specifically about an in-depth analysis posted per batch on a website. I just don’t see that being a reality with the status quo.
@Aboel3z@programming.dev are you ever going to interact with the community or are you just pushing your blog?
Also how did you solve this problem in 2010 if you only learned how to code in 2019?
What evidence did you find to support Substack’s claims? They didn’t share any.
You can quickly and easily find good evidence for things like Reddit quarantining and the banning of folks like Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos.
Which claims are empirical again?
I think you very ably demonstrated my point. Thanks!
@Aboel3z@programming.dev do you plan on ever interacting with the community or do you post your links to drive Medium engagement?
The last post I commented this on has been deleted. I will say this is the first article I’ve seen that wasn’t under your normal byline; given the comparable writing style it kinda seems like it’s still your article.
I don’t really care about what happens to my body or my stuff after I die. Growing up in a hoarding home, my goal is enjoy what I have now and minimize what others have to deal with when I’m gone.
If I go unexpectedly, the people in my life need easy access to my stuff to ensure they’re not fucked by rapacious corporations trying to profit off “sorry thesmokingman died someone didn’t cancel the electric so you owe a ton.” Any assets I have (after student loans, of course) should be easily accessible. The people close to me might want some token of me or some insight into what data I like to hoard. I’ve got a dead man’s switch with my password manager that goes to specific people. They can have it all.
If there’s no one in your life, by all means, nuke your shit. If there are people in your life, why do you care what happens to your things when you’re dead? You’re dead.
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As soon as I read about the shoe cell modem, I thought Eudaemons. It’s rad Ars called that out too!