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slickrick216 | 2 years ago

You should care about the work you do. Just remember who you are doing it for. They own the work they being the company. If the company wants to reward incompetent kleptocrats then I salute them as long as I get PAID the second they stops happening they can with the greatest of respect get f’d. then you just take your trade and apply it somewhere else having learned expensive lessons they paid for about what worked.

slickrick216 | 2 years ago

Islam will not take over France.

slickrick216 | 2 years ago

Is this the same for Russia, China and India? Are political elites generally just older globally.

slickrick216 | 2 years ago | on: Training Video for Bell Labs' Holmdel Computing Center (1973) [video]

Security operations centres for private companies that have lots of screens in them and tiered rows of desks. Bonus points if they have a podium at the front for briefings. Additional bonus points for having glass window view plane for visitors. Final bonus points for a button that converts the graphs on screens to a world map or some other BS when actual guests do arrive. It’s like some type of Apollo 13 fever dream.

slickrick216 | 2 years ago | on: Basic Physics of Rowing (2007)

The move slowly thing is likely to account for jerkiness as a thing people do is rush up the slide and wait at the catch position. You want to get to the catch without the inertia of being forced forward so you can raise your hands get ours in and then push. From a physics perspective there’s also the possibility that rushing up the slide forces the stern down faster breaking the about however that Varys massively and I don’t know about it being proven.

Regarding the order of operations after the catch that’s because a stroke is similar to power clean sitting down. You are effectively maximising the lever arc.

slickrick216 | 2 years ago | on: Eye Candy

Really great site would make solid Tik toks and YouTube shorts one technique a minute long. No joke can see this being useful for prompt engineering like for people making AI memes. It’s about knowing what to ask for.

slickrick216 | 3 years ago

And (mostly) low salaries with high taxes.

slickrick216 | 3 years ago | on: Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability

Yeah like you say this isn’t a new phenomenon. In some cases they even try to shield themselves with legislation.

For example let’s look at Ireland.

[0] Ireland tries to exclude itself from GDPR https://www.thejournal.ie/data-protection-bill-2018-3853647-...

[1] Entire health system compromised and possibly majority of PHI data exfiltrated https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/publications/conti-cyber-att...

[2] Irish health service only begins notifications to confirmed affected individuals a year later https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/media/pressrel/hse-begi...

[3] selective punishment of companies whose data is breached eg google https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/14/dpc-sued-google-rtb-compla... vs meta https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/data-protection-...

Laws unevenly applied make a mockery of justice.

slickrick216 | 3 years ago | on: Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU

“Strangest thing to me about the topic is that it’s obvious vast percentage of citizens within democracies wish they lived in an authoritarian country, yet choose to live in a democracy and use the liberties they’re provided to actively destabilize and destroy it.”

Yes agreed.

“Yes, I am aware current authoritarian countries wage propaganda campaigns, but in my experience such campaigns would be meaningless without an existing tendency to seek out authoritarian rule.”

Yes agreed.

“While likely flawed opinion, I do feel like one possible explanation is nationalism in general, since while many democratic countries will argue they believe in the rule of law, ultimately any non-citizen is treated as if they are within an authoritarian country and for sure not as citizens by default.”

Losing me. Non citizens aren’t citizens by default and therefore should in any country be extended the same rights. As they don’t bear the same responsibilities.

“Only once there are countries that treats all people equally and as citizens, will such an issue be addressed in my opinion.”

This is where I think the breakthrough was lost in my opinion. Having the realisation of the first few paragraphs but getting it backwards. All I have ever seen is a corrupting influence of some groups from authoritarian countries who move to democratic states only to attempt to take their brutal systems with them. Specifically here to avoid doubt I’m talking about Islamic and Chinese immigration both have in various countries setup their own police systems. This is wholly unacceptable and should not be tolerated in the same way Irish/Italian/Russian organised crime shouldn’t. Not saying it’s all people from a place or a “racial” thing cause there are many people trying to escape the regimes of their homes. However it’s clearly motivated by nationalism but by external nationalism. People taking pride in their own countries is a counter to this influence.

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