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Conspiracy Theorists Are Now Making Deepfakes

doki_pen — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 15:33:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.webworm.co/p/deepfakes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28075153

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by doki_pen in "Ditching Medium"

doki_pen — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 15:08:13 +0000

I totally agree. The internet is where people live now and there is no "commons", no "public square". This is where people get so irritated with private companies that own all the space and decide how we interact. The internet is a libertarian dystopia. Things like "free speech" would apply on public social media platforms. If this idea were ever to come to fruition it would probably need to start at the local scale and focus on local political issues.

Weaponized Information and Psychological Warfare in the 21st Century

doki_pen — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:13:35 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@timboucher/hot-singles-in-your-area-want-to-putin-f0f46519207a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15798504

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by doki_pen in "A Good Way to Grant Equity to Your Employees"

doki_pen — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 21:32:00 +0000

Until companies start having longer exercise periods after employment ends, options have close to no value.

New comment by doki_pen in "The hunger mood"

doki_pen — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 14:55:09 +0000

do you know the long term success rate though? I've lost over 50 pounds and kept it off for a couple of years, but my body eventually went back to it's normal weight.

New comment by doki_pen in "Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay"

doki_pen — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 18:49:55 +0000

The problem is, that's 98% of coders that you've described.

Medium acquires Embedly (YC W10)

doki_pen — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:08:02 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/the-story/a-new-team-embeds-e3c69a74ee8e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12210941

Points: 26

# Comments: 3

New comment by doki_pen in "A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning"

doki_pen — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 17:53:35 +0000

Isn't existentialism the cure for nihilism? It doesn't matter to the universe, but it matters to ME. I exist. From this we are left with the heavy burden of deciding what we think is good and bad, right and wrong.

New comment by doki_pen in "Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour"

doki_pen — Fri, 27 May 2016 15:16:47 +0000

I disagree that copyright is a natural right. It is a right that societies bestow to creators to incentive them to create. It has not valid purpose beyond that and is quite unnatural to me.Part of the problem with today's law is that it is being pushed as a natural right and a form of justice. This is a fairly recent development, historically speaking.

New comment by doki_pen in "Michael Bloomberg: Why Safe Spaces Are Terrible Mistakes"

doki_pen — Thu, 05 May 2016 17:35:26 +0000

It sounds like you are coming from a place of extreme privilege. Many many many people have terrible parents.

New comment by doki_pen in "Michael Bloomberg: Why Safe Spaces Are Terrible Mistakes"

doki_pen — Wed, 04 May 2016 13:51:54 +0000

It turns out there are degrees of PTSD, it's not binary.

http://advocatingopportunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/...

New comment by doki_pen in "Michael Bloomberg: Why Safe Spaces Are Terrible Mistakes"

doki_pen — Wed, 04 May 2016 13:46:30 +0000

You have no idea what you are talking about and are projecting your own life experience on the many people who have actually experienced trauma.It's not something that can't be measured. It's very real and has clear cut physiological risks.

http://advocatingopportunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/...

New comment by doki_pen in "Why Go gets criticized so much"

doki_pen — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 14:59:44 +0000

If the engineer who wrote the code understood the problem well and was a decent engineer, then the code will be maintainable no matter what the language is. Understanding the problem well is very rarely achieved.

New comment by doki_pen in "Vis: A Vim-Like Text Editor"

doki_pen — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 13:43:45 +0000

Why is this better than neovim? How many modern "vi"s do we need?

New comment by doki_pen in "Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL"

doki_pen — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 19:23:28 +0000

Tubing is a Python I/O library.

I've been using it for batch data transformation tasks at Embedly. It's still early and things can still change, but it's starting to stabilize. Tell me what you think about the gross abuse of the __or__ operator. I love it, but if I'm alone, I can remove it, or at least remove it from example code.

https://tubing.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

New comment by doki_pen in "This is the most depressing chart in the world"

doki_pen — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 13:40:03 +0000

I would expect as more of the world becomes automated and work becomes easier, we would see more economic growth.

New comment by doki_pen in "SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’"

doki_pen — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 14:21:55 +0000

You're right. It's just one categorization of many. I might have more in common with a person who grew up in the same socioeconomic situation as me, but is separated by 30 years, then with someone born the same year as me with a vastly different socioeconomic background.

New comment by doki_pen in "SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’"

doki_pen — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:44:01 +0000

"we live in a free market society" "AH! GOVERNMENT! PLEASE SAVE ME!!!"

cognitive dissonance is high in that post

New comment by doki_pen in "SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’"

doki_pen — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:40:10 +0000

"The wealthy working people have earned their right to live in the city. They went out, got an education, work hard, and earned it. I shouldn’t have to worry about being accosted."

I hope to god this guy didn't come from affluence.

New comment by doki_pen in "SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’"

doki_pen — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:35:25 +0000

I'm 38. I can relate to millennials, but I'm not one. I know many people my age that can't relate at all.