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thrwayxyz··on Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work
It takes a huge amount of privilege to be able to talk about politics at work. The despised minorities, like zoophiles, would not only be fired but arrested with the whole office cheering that on.

Something I find pretty odd given that fucking a cow is a lot better for the cow than eating it.

thrwayxyz··on Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders who break rules
8chan. Contrary to popular belief being accused of a crime by a mob does not mean you are guilty.
thrwayxyz··on Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders who break rules
Daily reminder that you can get run off all of those without doing anything illegal.
thrwayxyz··on Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests
Sounds about right.

I have an iq of 80 yet somehow I published papers in physics, maths and computer science and I'm in the 1% of NY income.

Psychology is used to keep the working class down and disunited the same way religion was used in times past.

thrwayxyz··on Stallman Still Heading the GNU Project
In a same world a reply like that would be taken to court and litigated for the slander that it is.
thrwayxyz··on Brains are the last frontier of privacy
And people laughed when I surgically installed a farady cage inside my skull.
thrwayxyz··on Richard M. Stallman resigns
And for centuries society decided that 1 was the correct view and anyone who disagrees with it was to be shunned or worse.
thrwayxyz··on Richard M. Stallman resigns
>That said, I think Stallman's position really is fundamentally wrong and problematic.

So you have the default opinion anyone in our society will have. I'm interested in what the heretic has to say why we are wrong.

However with what has happened to Stallman I doubt I ever will. A shame because something has gone hugely wrong when half of all children are thinking of suicide.

thrwayxyz··on The Myth of the Wealthy Welder
Or incredibly arduous and you need to train for years while your actual working life is 10 years or so. I know metalworkers who can't pick up their tools any more because of the damage their bodies have sustained from their work.
thrwayxyz··on A Technology Freelancer's Guide to Starting a Worker Cooperative [pdf]
You don't. They are there to provide a human friendly system that supports it's members from birth to death.
thrwayxyz··on Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second
-p 100 -s 1000 -v male7
thrwayxyz··on Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second
I'm fully sighted but I use espeak tts at around 1000wpd for fluff text like ecnomist articles and 300wpm for heavy going text like the text sections of math books.

I also watch most video at 2/3 times the speed since the skills seem transferable.

thrwayxyz··on OpenBSD was right to disable hyperthreading [video]
It was meant to be.

Now try and think it trough instead of having knee jerk outrage as your reaction.

thrwayxyz··on Western officials say Chinese agents contact foreign citizens using LinkedIn
Being gay in the US is about as blackmail worthy as being left handed.
thrwayxyz··on U.S. Designates China as Currency Manipulator
Russia has the population of Nigeria and the GDP of Italy.

The cold war ended a while ago. Worrying about them today makes about as much sense as worrying about Autria in 1930 because Austrohungaria used to be a world power.

thrwayxyz··on 8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service
The www is fucked. Move to tor. The only place where you can have an interesting conversation is one where the conversation can't be monetized.
thrwayxyz··on Kern Microtechnik: Accurate CNC Machines [video]
A number would be nice.
thrwayxyz··on Kern Microtechnik: Accurate CNC Machines [video]
Could you give hard numbers for what you would consider reasonable pay?
thrwayxyz··on America’s urban rebirth is missing actual births
Most women today yes. Most women in 30 years? Depends on a lot of factors. Given how poor genz is at 20 to the next generation the stability of living in a one family house vs working a minimum wage clerical job could well be worth giving up the idea of a career.
thrwayxyz··on America’s urban rebirth is missing actual births
It's a problem for women over 30. If men merely have to delay reproduction by 40 years to their 70s you can quite easily kick the can down the road for the next generation to deal with. Given how much worse each next generation is doing this may well seem like a great deal in 2060 to the women who are born in 10 years time.
thrwayxyz··on America’s urban rebirth is missing actual births
Yes, then for their second and third marriage they choose younger women. The average marriage lasts o my 8 years currently.

Again this is a problem for women, not men.

thrwayxyz··on America’s urban rebirth is missing actual births
The white category in the US has always been shrinking and childless. The only way that it isn't 5% or less or the population is that every generation another group get a added as white. Be they Irish, Swedes, Germans, Poles, Jews, Ukranians or currently Asians.
thrwayxyz··on America’s urban rebirth is missing actual births
That sounds like a problem for women. Men can happily have children in their 70s as the current president has shown.
thrwayxyz··on Thiel Urges U.S. Probe of Google's 'Seemingly Treasonous' Acts
Multipart project. It starts with artificial uteri to harvest neural stemcells, probably from rats, then gets worse.

If you have 500k to invest I can send you some of the preliminary results and the roadmap for the next few stages.

thrwayxyz··on Thiel Urges U.S. Probe of Google's 'Seemingly Treasonous' Acts
If you think that's bad you should see the startup I'm trying to get funding for.
thrwayxyz··on Thiel Urges U.S. Probe of Google's 'Seemingly Treasonous' Acts
I interviewed with him once.

Got on the short list by telling the recruiter that "Palantir is a bunch of really smart guys run by a Bond villain". Not sure if that ever got back, but not being thrown out of the process tells me a lot about the company.

thrwayxyz··on I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017)
I worked as a spreadsheet DevOps in a financial company. We used to have a python script to spin up windows vms with the exact version of windows that was known to be good, with the exact version of excel and then automatically kickoff the computation.

The reson for this was someone once got the order of execution wrong and screwed up a couple billion dollars worth of trades.

Excel is great until you have to maintain it. Same reason why you don't let people build bridges with Lego.

thrwayxyz··on Debian 10 “Buster” Released
Who ever told you that has no idea what they are talking about. Debian testing is more stable than the average release of other distros.
thrwayxyz··on Deepfake revenge porn distribution now a crime in Virginia
Endless war is a mistake. Which is what people were arrested for in that case.
thrwayxyz··on Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to stand trial in 2020
Can't remember but probably called her a fraud and the people supporting her useful idiots at best and doing more to discredit women in the workplace than the worst misogynist in the inbred backwoods of North Virginia ever could.
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