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LeCow commented on Improving ventilation will help curb SARS-CoV-2 economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/martincmartin

raverbashing · 5 years ago

Agree

You don't need the WHO or some higher authority to tell you opening windows or circulating more air during a pandemic is a good idea.

LeCow · 5 years ago

Or you know, winter. As has been the case for at least the past few hundred thousand years.

LeCow commented on The Gerrymandering game that puts the fun in undermining democracy (2019) arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/Tomte

LeCow · 5 years ago

Now remember kids.

There's only two political parties, so vote for the one that's going to win. It feels good to be on the winning team after all.

If you'd like to be a politician, daddy wasn't part of the political elite. You're gonna have to become a communist, or corrupt billionaire before people want to vote for you.

Lying, propaganda and fear mongering is allowed provided you only do it for votes. And to curry favours for donations.

You must harshly judge everyone else on their past -- especially when they were s teen-ager saying stupid stuff on Twitter. Don't worry as a politician, you're immune.

No matter what your opponent says, even if it's a fantastic idea. Shoot it down for the greater good.

Black people and minorities are a tool for pandering to or vilifying depending on the colour of your tie. They can't think for themselves after all.

War is a fantastic way to save the economy by confusing everyone.

And that kids is how you become president of USA/Canada/France or prime minister of UK/Australia/New Zealand.

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Please make them game instructions.

LeCow commented on Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box instead of a Sony A1 petapixel.com/2021/05/26/... · Posted by u/luu

celeritascelery · 5 years ago

But the shipper (UPS) had a record of the package weighing only 2 pounds. That is hard evidence that the device was not present when shipped.

LeCow · 5 years ago

And that's why they won their fraud dispute...

There will always be a generic and broad policy first. Then it will - and did - get resolved on further investigation.

LeCow commented on Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn index.medium.com/shameles... · Posted by u/rapnie

kyleblarson · 5 years ago

Totally agree. The virtue signaling in my feed is so insufferable that I stopped reading it years ago. It has basically become twitter with the vitriol replaced by fake positivity.

LeCow · 5 years ago

That mute and unfollow button though.

I do about 10 a day.

LeCow commented on How I raised a $5.1M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech co celinehh.com/seed-raise-h... · Posted by u/walterbell

LeCow · 5 years ago

"seed" "female" "solo founder" "biotech"

Please don't start wearing black turtle necks.

LeCow commented on I still like C and strongly dislike C++ codecs.multimedia.cx/2021... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

gattis · 5 years ago

I used to feel the same. For a long time I got away with using C and python for everything. They paired well and I always came away feeling that my code was expressed elegantly enough for me. C was for stuff that had to be fast, python for things that were more functional or meta. Then I started a project that needed to be faster than python but also required some heavy-ish meta-programming. I wrangled for way too long with the C preprocessor, and while way more powerful than I had imagined, still fell well short of being able to do what I needed without it looking and feeling like a dog that had to be put down. I think I would have needed a code-generating script to do it and to me that sounds disgusting. But C++ templates did exactly what I needed. They look awful and I still don't even understand my own code when I try to go back and read it. But it made me understand and appreciate that C++ does have a place, and for certain projects it might actually be the best choice. I'm sure some fan boys of the newer C++ descendents (rust/golang/zig/et al) will disagree.

LeCow · 5 years ago

I prefer Rust simply because it's safer and C++ has become monolithic. Also gotta love an excellent package manager.

LeCow commented on Life after an internet mob attack pasquale.cool/internet-mo... · Posted by u/jseliger

didibus · 5 years ago

It's only a 5 min read, I recommend it, you might find you have more shared liberal values then you thought, but if you're not going too, let me point out some of the relevant ones here:

Article 12 > No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

This is a liberal value. False accusations go against this, so would most of the US politcal tactics employed to smear and discriminate other parties. It's rampant in today's society, in fact you did just that, by trying to compare people who disagree with you as "idiots". You took attack on their reputation.

Article 23 > Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection

Wage slavery is a catchy attention seeking way of saying that this right is being breached by a lot of employers.

Article 19 > Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

This is where it gets tricky. It is your right to be allowed to tell others on social media about any information or ideas you hold. So it seem to make sense that one could tell people that their ex was abusive and a scumbag. And in turn it is fine for others to tell the ex they believe what they think of it.

But what if your ideas are an attack on someone's else honor or reputation? Are you still free to express them? Would it not then breach the other right to not have honor and reputation attacked?

Well yes, this is a dilemma. One where different people lean more on one right or the other. In the US, people lean more on the right to speech, so it tends to be free game to say whatever you want and thus internet mobs are okay.

Now what I think is that there is no real contradiction. You have the right to express yourself freely, but not to hurt someone else's reputation. So expressing lies and falsehoods to attack someone goes against that person's rights, and your right to express yourself freely is for things you believe to be truthful, or things which don't attack someone's reputation only.

That said, and I won't quote them here, other liberal values say everyone is innocent before proven guilty and have the right to a fair trial. So it would be to the person whose reputation they feel attacked to prove that the other person did in fact express lies and falsehoods to attack their reputation, and that person would need a fair trial and be treated innocent until guilty. Similarly no penal offence can be taken against someone just because there is somebody claiming they are abusive and were harassed by them, a fair trial must be held.

That leaves us with how things are exactly right now. Everyone is free to say what they want to anyone else, and everyone is free to any idea they hold of others. And for the government to interfere in any way, there'd need to be a fair trial that proves that one person's speech was a real attack on someone's reputation, and not just sharing their truths.

LeCow · 5 years ago

"wage slavery"

Part of liberalism is accepting your own flaws and failures. Go and get another job.

LeCow commented on An utterly crushing day for Big Oil twitter.com/billmckibben/... · Posted by u/chha

LeCow · 5 years ago

Lol good luck, shareholders/executives don't care because tomorrow everyone's going to use their cars, have their goods shipped by tankers and Tweet on their plastic covered phones.

Everyone in society decides whether or not a business/industry succeeds or fails. Not a Twitter mob.

LeCow commented on Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche findareddit.com/... · Posted by u/thisissidhant

dmingod666 · 5 years ago

People that are complaining about reddit being bad need to know this.

- Join groups centered around a very specific technology / purpose / interest.

- Leave all groups that have a large amount of people in them .

- Leave all groups that are very generic - example: r/programmerhumor, r/politics, r/programming, r/nextfuckinglevel

As a rule of thumb, the more the people and the more generic the group purpose the more political and toxic people will be.

Now my reddit feed has drama turned all the way down, it has interesting things about the things I like. It's not as amusing as before but the people are more chilled out and helpful.

LeCow · 5 years ago

"Oh sweety, I've just gone through your history and read everyone of your Reddit comment and I can't even right now.

Science doesn't care about your feelings"

LeCow commented on Being Poor (2005) whatever.scalzi.com/2005/... · Posted by u/sturza

LeCow · 5 years ago

I went from extreme poverty to extreme wealth by knowing exactly how much things cost.