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New comment by bootcampwhere in "‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies"

bootcampwhere — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 21:53:53 +0000

Social media like Reddit has stumbled upon the perfect way to censor unprofitable or anti-state content.

Superficially give moderation to users, then continually ban users when other users complain about them.

In this way with just a few dozen accounts anyone can control the narrative in their niche while Reddit claims they have no control.

Recently an independent chinese reporter has been banned from reddit using this technique.(0)

(0) https://www.google.com/search?q=the+china+theu+dont+want+yoi...

New comment by bootcampwhere in "We Are Built to Forget"

bootcampwhere — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 07:03:46 +0000

What a great article and comments :) Since I was a kid I would "replay" events. In grade school I could (and would) recite the Star Wars movies on the playground. I was a freak.

At 35 I haven't lost it yet but for at least 50% of my life have been a HEAVY marijuana user because it helps dull this problem.

School was easy but dreaming is a nightmare. Again, drugs are the the only thing that helps. I hate having such vivid dreams and remembering all the awful details. I remember dreams from decades ago like I had them last night. It's horrible mostly, again, marijuana was a God send.

Killing my memory with drugs and alcohol isn't great but I've found it better than the alternative and often discuss with my therapist how jealous I am of people that waltz through life confidently forgetting all their screw up and mistakes.

New comment by bootcampwhere in "The Digital Nomads Did Not Prepare for This"

bootcampwhere — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 15:42:25 +0000

So sick of paywalled articles making it to the front page :( Not all of us can afford subscriptions to every news site.

New comment by bootcampwhere in "Internet sleuths take down the SSC Tuatara's 316-MPH speed record"

bootcampwhere — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 07:04:49 +0000

Sonar tech here, this was true 20+ years ago but new torpedo and sub blade configurations are not only highly classified but any nuclear powered subs no longer even use blades to counter this exact problem. Only old russian and N. Korean subs can be identified this way anymore. Even when I was active duty 10 years ago china and us subs were basically silent and torpedoes surround themselves with air bubbles so the acustics dont really escape. You know something is coming at you fast but that it

New comment by bootcampwhere in "Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in your terminal"

bootcampwhere — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 06:52:36 +0000

I also am regularly limited in opening large text files working with genetic data.

New comment by bootcampwhere in "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020"

bootcampwhere — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 23:47:27 +0000

Yes, very common. Bullshit gets published and great work is ignored EVERY DAY. Academic research is broken.

New comment by bootcampwhere in "Gmail, Contacts, Assistant and Messages apps no longer support sending money"

bootcampwhere — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 03:34:12 +0000

Yes.

New comment by bootcampwhere in "Never Have I Seen So Much Fake Unemployment and Jobs Data by the Bureau of Labor"

bootcampwhere — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 05:50:54 +0000

I've been saying this since QE1. A nation cannot continuously devalue it's currency forever while producing less and less of value. The collapse has already happened and we're just running on fumes.