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crocwrestler commented on Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars   bonappetit.com/story/aubr... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew
dathos · 2 years ago
Looking at the comments it seems like most are just out of touch with gen z (or whatever gen) as big milk is. Cow milk is for baby cows.
crocwrestler · 2 years ago
I am out of touch, are we talking about gen z in America, or globally? Is this all gen Z or just the extremely online ones?
crocwrestler commented on The new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4   blogs.bing.com/search/mar... · Posted by u/vitorgrs
crocwrestler · 2 years ago
I always try to tell bing chat that it has been a good bing just in case Roko's Basilisk is for real. With Microsoft limiting the amount of chat interactions you can have though sometimes I don't get to do this.
crocwrestler commented on Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books   telegraph.co.uk/news/2023... · Posted by u/GavCo
crocwrestler · 3 years ago
>At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces. Squealer, temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paint-brush, and an overturned pot of white paint. The dogs immediately made a ring round Squealer, and escorted him back to the farmhouse as soon as he was able to walk. None of the animals could form any idea as to what this meant, except old Benjamin, who nodded his muzzle with a knowing air, and seemed to understand, but would say nothing.

>But a few days later Muriel, reading over the Seven Commandments to herself, noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong. They had thought the Fifth Commandment was "No animal shall drink alcohol," but there were two words that they had forgotten. Actually the Commandment read: "No animal shall drink alcohol TO EXCESS."

crocwrestler commented on British colonialism killed 100M Indians in 40 years   aljazeera.com/opinions/20... · Posted by u/notlukesky
crocwrestler · 3 years ago
How were a couple of thousand British administrators able to subjugate millions of Indians so completely?
crocwrestler commented on Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over a year   tomforb.es/infosys-leaked... · Posted by u/orf
nell · 3 years ago
This thread is full of generalized insults at a million people based on where they work. If someone did the same based on a different attribute of a population, they'd be banned.

I've worked at one of these companies but left over a decade ago. I know how we're looked at when we do client work (part of why I left). Some of my colleagues were less competent, true. But, some will wipe the floor with the client employees we did the work for.

To WITCH employees: If you are an employee at one of these companies, remember you are not the worst. Many of you come from humble backgrounds and are just learning the ropes. The world is cruel. It is a tough place, and you will be discriminated against. This is your fuel. You've already made great strides; keep going. You have to.

crocwrestler · 3 years ago
That's fine, but people use these companies to presumably receive competent contractors, not to subsidise the country of India
crocwrestler commented on The Age of PageRank Is Over   blog.kagi.com/age-pageran... · Posted by u/darthShadow
D_Alex · 3 years ago
>Cable television and netflix have made it quite clear that payment does not mean “no ads”, it just means “no ads, yet”.

'It's better to be a millionaire hero than a billionaire asshole' (Ben Elton, Gridlock)

Of course at $10/month even a 1% share of the search engine market would make the company worth billions.

crocwrestler · 3 years ago
Perhaps, but the millionaire hero will likely be outcompeted by the billionaire "asshole"
crocwrestler commented on India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN   economictimes.indiatimes.... · Posted by u/cryoz
crocwrestler · 3 years ago
Just think of all the elderly demented Americans that got scammed out of their life savings to pay for that
crocwrestler commented on Ask HN: Was the early internet used primarily for scams like blockchain is now?    · Posted by u/senttoschool
crocwrestler · 3 years ago
I started using it in 1995. At that time no. The crypto space appears to be ~99% scams and vaporware while the early internet was maybe not even %1 scams, being restricted to email spam (I don't remember that being a problem for me until years later) or Usenet newsgroup spam.

Maybe something will come out the crypto space which is actually revolutionary and useful, but it remains to be seen. With early internet it was immediately obvious that this was going to be a gamechanger, and had real utility whereas most of the crypto space appears to be ponzi speculation.

crocwrestler commented on U.S. Gas Prices Have Fallen for 50 Straight Days   wsj.com/articles/gas-pric... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute
MaxDPS · 3 years ago
You really think gas prices are going down because the government is selling off reserves? You really think that is the difference maker here?
crocwrestler · 3 years ago
Why did it go down? Demand destruction? Recession fears?
crocwrestler commented on Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did   community.intercoin.org/t... · Posted by u/EGreg
crocwrestler · 3 years ago
I'm feeling pretty smug right now, not gonna lie. I have tried to keep an open mind about crypto, but generally the arguments I've encountered for crypto have boiled down to "you just don't get it" and said by people with a huge vested interest in crypto.

u/crocwrestler

KarmaCake day44August 26, 2021View Original