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New comment by meta_gunslinger in "The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel"

meta_gunslinger — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:14:53 +0000

Virtue signal received.

New comment by meta_gunslinger in "The last Romans are still around"

meta_gunslinger — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:11:29 +0000

I was using the word 'sacrosanct' in a figurative way.

New comment by meta_gunslinger in "The last Romans are still around"

meta_gunslinger — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:25:52 +0000

That's not true. Roman citizenship was sacrosant, there was even a war during the late Roman Republic time between the Romans and allied Italians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_War_(91%E2%80%9387_BC) fought over it. During the Roman Empire, Caracalla extended citizenship to everyone mainly to spite the Senate.

New comment by meta_gunslinger in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"

meta_gunslinger — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:47:24 +0000

I’m not sure what you’re aiming for here. You’re making an assumption that in an alternative history that unions did not exist working conditions of that kind would not exist. This assumption does a lot of work and needs substantiation.

e.g in the tech industry you have high salaries, flexible schedules and generous vacations and unionization is virtually non existent

New comment by meta_gunslinger in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"

meta_gunslinger — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:09:40 +0000

Worker here, with no aspiration of being a millionaire, a manager or an owner:

I hate unions. They always end up being led by parasites that have no idea how to do the actual job, looking to rent-seek on the backs of people who do.

New comment by meta_gunslinger in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

meta_gunslinger — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:43:46 +0000

It's the scientific slash managerial state brought to you by Anglo-German leftist thinkers of the 19th century. Enjoy utopia.

New comment by meta_gunslinger in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

meta_gunslinger — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:03:45 +0000

The functionally correct code could be rejected in PR for many reasons other than style:

1. Solution under-engineered/over-engineered. 2. Code is hard to read or comprehend. 3. Design/Archtecture lacking. 4. Principles decided upon by team not adhered to.

These are just some of the reasons I've rejected functionally correct code before.

To summarize, in any software engineering course you learn that there are other metrics used to evaluate code other than correctness (maintainability, readability, scalability, portability, efficiency etc.)

New comment by meta_gunslinger in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

meta_gunslinger — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:49:15 +0000

Comprehensive end-to-end tests and CI can only attest to correctness, most engineers worth their salt won't review code only in regards to that aspect though.

New comment by meta_gunslinger in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

meta_gunslinger — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:01:10 +0000

Sure, everyone can be on their high horse from the comfort of their arm chair.

New comment by meta_gunslinger in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

meta_gunslinger — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:41:28 +0000

Well they weren’t silly but they were definitely deluded. They still are.

New comment by meta_gunslinger in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

meta_gunslinger — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:22:57 +0000

Tons of people have died for a variety of causes throughout human history. It does not mean that the causes were not silly or deluded. (e.g religious wars, Communism, Fascism etc.)

New comment by meta_gunslinger in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

meta_gunslinger — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:18:01 +0000

Please stop spreading misinformation, the European Parliament constituted by the MEPs has zero legislative powers.

New comment by meta_gunslinger in "AI is slowing down"

meta_gunslinger — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:17:14 +0000

The problem with grandiose statements like the GGP's are that they compare a realized outcome with an entirely idealized outcome they have in their brains as an alternative.

New comment by meta_gunslinger in "AI is slowing down"

meta_gunslinger — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:00:09 +0000

Confusing a logarithmic trend with an exponential one is also a classic mistake.

New comment by meta_gunslinger in "UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases"

meta_gunslinger — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:52:54 +0000

Try harder.

New comment by meta_gunslinger in "UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases"

meta_gunslinger — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:09:06 +0000

I see downvotes but not rebuttals. I guess facts just trigger some ideologically captured users.

New comment by meta_gunslinger in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

meta_gunslinger — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:00:05 +0000

Thank you for confirming.

New comment by meta_gunslinger in "UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases"

meta_gunslinger — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:13:46 +0000

Which section of the population is allowed to be armed by law and which is not?

New comment by meta_gunslinger in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

meta_gunslinger — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:08:07 +0000

Yeah I am aware that post modernists and leftists in general redefine words so that they can play dumb with enough plausible deniability. Equivocation is their bread and butter.

New comment by meta_gunslinger in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

meta_gunslinger — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:35:01 +0000

Dualism is not radical by definition, since most cultures during 99.9999% of human history believe/believed in it. What's radical is Scientism.