Are you seriously adopting the position that "third world" is a common moniker for Finland and Sweden?
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Reject the simulacrum.
> In candor, I’m approaching this topic with a fair amount of bias. Being an outsider early in my adulthood was the most positive experience I have ever had. At 25, I moved to a foreign country where I didn’t speak a word of the language, and knew not one soul save for a woman I hoped to marry, but who spoke little English.
> That woman became my wife, and subsequently became an outsider in the United States.
Translation: I subjugated someone of a culture historically regarded as inferior to my own to the supremacy of western culture. Since they are now my wife, this gives me moral clearance to extol the virtues of a disadvantaged upbringing without having actually suffered any of its hardship myself, and also paint myself with an aura of pseudo-accomplishment for having experienced a mere fraction of that lifestyle.
No mention of CRISPR-Cas9, the explosion of deep learning and "AI," the James Webb Space Telescope, detection of gravitational waves...?
My god. Are people really that myopically spellbound by computing these days?
You have to write down something for others to disagree with first, however. This is the function of the ticket.
I think this post is missing the final piece - folding those conversations back into the original ticket or document. That's how you record the output of conversations, decisions, and keep the document "alive."
> Among the major brands that purchased ad space that was labeled incorrectly in auctions were Sears, Nike, Adidas, Ford, State Farm, Starbucks, Kia and Marriott. Representatives for those advertisers didn’t respond to requests for comment.
> “Programmatic advertising relies on a lot of data being self-reported by those selling the ads,” Mr. Vickers said. “That this issue went undetected for so long suggests that the processes in place to verify this information are not sufficient.”
Why the fuck are we collecting all of this personal information on users of the web to "improve ad targeting" when it appears that the industry as a whole is grossly incompetent at measuring the efficacy of their advertising campaigns?
Like hell if I am going to pay to be fucking served advertising.
Because they both experienced poverty, violence, and actual warfare, they understood the value of education - to prevent me from falling into similar circumstances.
I suppose, to you, this now constitutes privilege? I always thought this was something reserved for the whites. Or, are you bringing the notion of "white privilege" into question? Otherwise, it seems that you are implying that I am not deserving of preferential treatment based on my race, and that I have not experienced any particular form of persecution.
I am further disgusted when I am told I am wrong at the slightest point of disagreement.
I encourage everyone to make the leap to DDG or some other search engine that doesn't just treat you as a data cow to be milked for your precious, precious "insights."
Even GMail is no longer an attractive proposition - the risk of being locked out (perhaps, even automatically!) of an account that serves as your primary mode of recovery / identification to other websites, with little to no chance of getting an actual human on the line to address your issue, is too great. I would rather not have my finances and other important accounts be subject to the whims of the big algorithm in the clouds.
As someone with over 20 years of mental health issues who refused medication for exactly the same reasons - "sucking it up," trying to address root causes, meditation, spirituality, exercise...
... none of it worked. You could easily spend a lifetime trying to "root cause" the source of your malady and return empty handed, as I have. When the bills need to get paid, and your options are psychological collapse or some chemical attenuation of your mental state, I think the choice is clear.
I agree that it's sort of twisted that modern society is structured such that we need to constantly medicate ourselves to cope with day to day existence.
Alas.
Speaking from experience.
I was absolutely fucking livid. Can't a man just be left alone in his own home any more?
It seems that I am in the minority here.
Eventually I started to type out comments, give them a read, and decide that either nothing would come of the conversation/argument, or worse, I would find myself in a flame war. I'd just delete the comment and move on.
It's been years since I've really written anything substantial online. Simply not worth it these days.
Eventually, yes - the frustration subsides into a cold, resigned, sense of fatalism.
Spoken as a minority who really can't find any labels they identify with.
However I would then ask if the legal criteria of judging innocence are useful to society. My claim is that they are not, in that we label people as "guilty" and socially disadvantage them, when they may otherwise be perfectly productive members of society. Their use of cannabis in and of itself causes causes comparatively less harm to others, at least relative to harder drugs like alcohol.
To paraphrase Carmack, "Any syntactically valid code, that the compiler will accept, will eventually make it into your code base." [1]
The point I was trying to make is that the days of yore OP was alluding to where when I "put any of [my] code on the Web, [...] I can read it" are long gone, thanks to the obfuscation of modern bundling technologies.
By the same logic, all compiled code (including WebAssembly) is easily reverse engineered if you want to know how it works.