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snowgrove commented on The data are clear: The boys are not all right   washingtonpost.com/opinio... · Posted by u/paulpauper
rdtwo · 4 years ago
Well if your looser your job will your wife and kids follow you to the next one? Mine probably won’t so what do I do? Live alone and send money home or do I hop Between low wage jobs?
snowgrove · 4 years ago
It gets bad. In Janesville, Wisconsin when the GM plant closed:

>The fabric of hundreds of families unravels, as an itinerant class of fathers — “Janesville Gypsies,” they call themselves — start commuting to G.M. factories in Texas, Indiana and Kansas, just so they can maintain their wage of $28 an hour. Those who stay home invariably see their paychecks shrink drastically. One of the men Goldstein follows, Jerad Whiteaker, cycles through a series of unsatisfying, low-paying jobs, finally settling in one that pays less than half his former wage and offers no health insurance. His twin teenage girls — to whom I’d also like to send awed notes — share five jobs between them, earning so much money for their family that they compromise their eligibility for student loans.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Foodforthought/comments/67lg2q/in_j...

snowgrove commented on Early ‘lab-grown’ Covid virus found in sample lends weight to Wuhan theory   telegraph.co.uk/news/2022... · Posted by u/forthelose
dnautics · 4 years ago
I think you mean wet market theory. This is true, but at least there was a "high bayesian prior" due to that being how it happened in the past. Nonetheless the wet market proponents were irresponsibly aggressive in their forcefulness.
snowgrove · 4 years ago
As other commenters mentioned there was a “high Bayesian prior” for lab leaks, too.
snowgrove commented on You can change your number   signal.org/blog/change-nu... · Posted by u/feross
sneak · 4 years ago
You know that. It's unlikely that all of the rest of the people who join Discord because "all of their friends are on it" that your presence there influenced know that, and in many possible future scenarios, you and others' presence there directly contributes to the harm that may befall them as a result of their loss of privacy thereby.

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/cardinal_richelieu_183310

It's also impossible to effectively self-censor in the present for potential content-based threats in the future.

Discord also bans certain entire domains from being sent as links in DM, as an antispam measure, and requires in their ToS that people give up their civil rights to join. It's not polite to ask friends to submit to third-party censorship of private conversations just to talk to you.

snowgrove · 4 years ago
It’s not polite to assume ignorance of all this on the part of my friends, either, but here you are.

If Signal didn’t suck as much, my friends wouldn’t have left and I wouldn’t have followed them. It’s really that simple.

snowgrove commented on You can change your number   signal.org/blog/change-nu... · Posted by u/feross
sneak · 4 years ago
Discord is not end to end encrypted, and Discord, along with whoever buys them, will receive the complete plaintext message history of all of your conversations with those friends.
snowgrove · 4 years ago
Yup, and I don’t care. If I ever organize a protest I’ll do it on Signal, or another end-to-end encrypted platform. For daily banter I’ll use whatever a majority of my friends prefer. That’s currently Discord for the above-mentioned reasons.
snowgrove commented on You can change your number   signal.org/blog/change-nu... · Posted by u/feross
snowgrove · 4 years ago
I stopped using Signal, along with my adult tech-oriented friends, when we all had bad experiences migrating our accounts to new phones. That plus the phone number requirement, intrusive contacts integration, and the weird crypto side projects killed my interest in Signal entirely. My friends and I use Discord now.
snowgrove commented on Thank You, Valve   kinduff.com/2022/02/06/th... · Posted by u/kinduff
selfhoster11 · 4 years ago
Yes, and now we are living in a reality where Steam has taken over ~all meaningful, non-niche digital PC games distribution. They got into a monopolistic position during a small time window of inflection where the market was transitioning from physical to digital distribution. It's meaningless to talk about the past in these circumstances, unless something truly drastic happens to open another such window to let someone displace Steam.

Heck, Microsoft followed exactly the same trajectory some years earlier, to the extent that their operating system is still synonymous with the idea of a desktop PC outside of the US (which I understand leans heavily towards the Mac, somehow). Their position is showing signs of crumbling only after multiple years of neglect and outright self-damage to their OS. The stability of a monopolist position locked in early is sometimes greatly understated.

snowgrove · 4 years ago
You’ve flown far beyond the original comment’s context, which was Valve’s entire history from way before there was Steam. I don’t know whose point you think you’re responding to.

Dead Comment

snowgrove commented on Thank You, Valve   kinduff.com/2022/02/06/th... · Posted by u/kinduff
alexb_ · 4 years ago
Steam is a money printing machine, I don't think they have a money problem
snowgrove · 4 years ago
Valve predates Steam by a number of years, and Steam wasn’t always in the dominant position it’s in now.
snowgrove commented on Thank You, Valve   kinduff.com/2022/02/06/th... · Posted by u/kinduff
regnerba · 4 years ago
Why does them being private make what they have done impressive?
snowgrove · 4 years ago
They did it all without outside investors or stock sales.
snowgrove commented on What Was the Ted Talk?   thedriftmag.com/what-was-... · Posted by u/bryanrasmussen
mayankkaizen · 4 years ago
I too know a guy who did TEDx talk. After he did this talk, he suddenly became self-proclaimed intellectual authority on everything from Quantum Mechanics to politics to religion to what not, on his Facebook page.

He couldn't write a 3 line Python program or solve a high school trigonometry problem or answer a basic history question.

snowgrove · 4 years ago
I think Sam Hyde’s TED talk, or even just his introduction, is the final word on that group’s lack of speaker vetting:

https://youtu.be/9cflCyyEA2I

u/snowgrove

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