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sixstringbudha | 7 years ago | on: The Privacy Revolution in Action

>It's amazing how easy it is to get the majority of people to completely shut down their critical thinking abilities. In this case, it only took 3 words.

One amusing thing I have noticed is that how fast all of the internet got converted into google catcha system which was originally supposed to convert books, but now a days just show traffic lights, cars, buses and fire hydrants. And no one, bats an eye. And even worse, still calls google the "good guy".

Do you know how many images it makes you click if you try to access it with a clean state?

sixstringbudha | 7 years ago | on: Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta

When I see things like these, I always think. Oh look, another thing that will eventually get bought out.

I mean, I woulnd't want to depend on one of these things unless the people behind them has shown a enough defiance against the buying power of money.

sixstringbudha | 7 years ago | on: What Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work

>Parents can be rather selfish too, most can't wait until their kids turn 18 and leave the house. The want to live alone too.

This is the worst aspect of it. The hypocrisy! When I was young and naive, I believed parents loved to have the kids around. Oh boy. Don't they right? The only problem is that they want us still to be kids, and won't leave the household to you and let you live a full adult life there. If you are going to live with them, they want you to depend on them, and they want you to let them be the one who runs the house. All the sob stories you hear, when you are growing up, about kids leaving their parents won't tell you that side of the story.

So if you are a kid in the same situation, and have philosophical/ideological difference about how to life a human adult life, DO NOT PLAN ON living with your parents if objectively they don't need it. Don't do it becuase of some romantic notion of the "right thing" that the mainstream narrative has fed you. *ITS FUCKING BULLSHIT!"...

sixstringbudha | 7 years ago | on: What Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work

What a crappy article and an equally crappy title.

> Some days I would go to bed 3am, others I would sleep until 2pm.

There is your problem. Don't blame it on being remote. If you don't have the discipline, you will find that you ll hard time making a lot of things in life work..

sixstringbudha | 7 years ago | on: SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy

>Can you suggest an environment conducive to life that isn't exposed to EM radiation? Life itself creates EM radiation.

There is nothing in the definition of "life" that warrants an ability to observe EM radiation or create it for that matter..By the way, what is the definition of "life" that you are using here?

>there are fundamental forces left to be discovered then they are not having any observable effect on the world..

So just because we haven't discovered something, does it mean that that thing is not observable at all? We are still discovering "things" in our own body, let alone in the entire world. The fallacy that human beings are capable of detecting every observable (by observable, I did not mean observable with our current tech) phenomena in this world is exactly what I was indicating before.

sixstringbudha | 7 years ago | on: SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy

> as long as we lived somewhere EM existed had a noticeable effect, which is just about everywhere.

You should have understood that I meant otherwise. Of course, if we could notice the effect of EM, that could trigger an investigation eventually leading to the discovery.

>we know our sensory understanding has sever limits...

Did you really think I implied that no one knows the limits of our built in senses? When I said sensory capabilities I meant the stuff we can sense, directly or indirectly (By indirectly, I mean by the help of another device, to make it very clear).

sixstringbudha | 7 years ago | on: SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy

That is because we could "see" it. Imagine if we were not able to see. Could we have known the existence of EM?

Or think if we were not able to hear. Could we have imagined the sensation of sound, or the concept of music?

Human beings are so pathetically stupid that they think that their intelligence and sensory capability are at the limits of what is possible.

sixstringbudha | 7 years ago | on: Ending PHP Support, and the Future of Hack

>. It's been done to death..

You are missing the point. I am not saying Php is crap for the people already who know it. I am saying Php is crap for people who are new to programming and don't know to stay away from Php yet...I thought I made it clear in the last comment.

sixstringbudha | 7 years ago | on: Sperm Count Zero

Some statements might warrant citations, while some might not. That is your argument, right?

Given! Now, hop along your merry way!

sixstringbudha | 7 years ago | on: Tell HN: Google requiring phone number to log into Chromebook

>Am I crazy or does this seem like an extremely cynical attempt to get more phone numbers?

Yes it does. The normal Gmail interface I get now has a forgot password link which is by default activated after I enter the username. I have to explicitly jump over that to continue entering the actual password and thus to my mail box.

sixstringbudha | 7 years ago | on: Top cancer researcher fails to disclose corporate ties in major journals

>If he had disclosed all his conflicts, the same research would have been published in the same places with the same people. Nothing would have changed.

Speculation.

> Nobody really cares or pays much attention.

Maybe they should.

>When it comes to clinical trials, there are many checks and balances that prevent a 'rogue' conflicted investigator from influencing the results.

And you think these checks and balances work good enough, most of the time?

sixstringbudha | 7 years ago | on: Sperm Count Zero

I have a similar explanation to this dropping hormone levels phenomenon.

It is simply just that it does not require to be a 'manly man' in these days to have the same amount of "success", as it required in the old times. For example, take the whole mating game. Earlier, you had to look good/manly, need some quick thinking, timing and wit to pick up women. But now those things are not so much required.

I think multiple factors have contributed to this. But I think the all encompassing one is capitalism. And things like these are the an emergent result, of trying to maximize profits, and thus it is molding the very source that it generate the profit from, namely the human population. Simply put, much less profits can be made from a manly (manliness being comprised of things like but not limited to, looks, having some individuality, own principles and views and a taste for independence) and intelligent population than it can be made from a feeble/stupid, but heavy earning population. I am not saying that there is some conspiracy that is trying to accomplish this. But it might be a case of a death by a thousand paper cuts. I mean, like every time you try to sell something to the public, by social conditioning, you might be inadvertently contributing to things like this...

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