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Yeah, we went back and forth on whether to include it in the newsletter, but ended up going with it as we ended up feeling that it was a subset of the internet "conversation" as a whole.
see (to a greatly reduced extent): Soapbox.
And yes, a world-class snarkist indeed 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: we ended up feeling that it was a subset of the internet "conversation" as a whole.
That's fair go, so it was a good call, given that it was given the right kind of consideration.
It could have been a lot snarkier AND a lot funnier, though. People who take "creative writing" courses all too often end up only being fit for Mills & Boon.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I don't trust the article. It reads like an advocacy piece, skipping important details. One subject of the article complains of PTSD, but at another place it's pointed out that the vast majority of the stuff being reviewed is benign, so what is the real cause? The material being reviewed or how the company lets the reviewers handle dealing with "intense" material, or is simply a work environment with little respect for the people in it?
The rigid schedule strikes me as counter productive. Seems to me that at the very least, the company should have staggered breaks and deal with the issue where someone may need extra time to wind down for the rare instances of reviewing genuinely intense, if not traumatic, material.
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It's a sh1tty fact of life that those who are paid the least are also driven the hardest.
The Highly Trained and Experienced Manager said: You took 2 minutes 37 seconds to take a pee? I'm docking you an hour's pay!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The shear volume of stuff they're looking at means that even though most is relatively harmless they're still going to be seeing lots of really awful stuff.
ex If you review 400 items/day and 99% is benignish that's still 4 instances of kiddyporn, or torture porn (isis, drug cartel, etc), or kids walking out in front of a truck and getting splatted, or etc.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I was once a moderator for a site with over 100K members. Even on that scale it was a real PITA and I regret ever getting involved now. I can think of very few positives from the experience.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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What is sicker?
1. That people have to watch that crap to moderate the content?
2. That they are paid $15 / hr to moderate that content?
3. That people post that content?
4. That technology in general and FB in particular exists to enable people to post that content?
I don't know. I think they are all equally sick.
Perhaps what should be required is that Mark Zuckerberg be required to spent at least 20 hours a week as a $15/hr moderator. Just so he knows exactly what he created and the depth of mankind's disgusting behavior.
Latest Article - Web Frameworks - A Solution Looking for a Problem?
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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When SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off on Thursday night, it carried humanity’s entire backup plan with it. It was headed to the moon, the world’s ultimate cold-storage unit. I guess that counts as "offsite backup"
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That's just a complete waste of money.
If they want eternal storage, where something will not be touched for millions of years, until someone needs it (which will be never), they can just stick it under my kitchen sink, next to the foot spa and the electric carving knife.
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I hope they have also sent how to manual and player for the disk.
Recently I got a cassette as a movie promo material but I don't have a cassette player so it is pretty useless to me.
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Probably in IKEA format, so no one will ever get it to work. 
TTFN - Kent
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Anyone finding the data and seeing the video content will undoubtably make the same mistake that we made in interpreting the ancient Egyptian's cultural remains, they will think that we are cat worshippers.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Why don't we just stick a sign on the moon that says "This is as far as we have ever been."
If intelligent life-forms ever see it, at least we might impress them with our honesty. Any attempt to impress them with our knowledge is going to be a bit of a non-starter.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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3000 years in the future:
Historian: Found another one of the "archive" cubes. 20 facebook coins that it does not contain an weird stuff we know they got up to, but yet to prove.
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Since its open-source release on December 3rd 2018, Microsoft SEAL has become one of the world’s most popular homomorphic encryption libraries and has been adopted by security and privacy professionals world-wide in both academia and industry. For all your homogenized milk encryption needs (I may have read that wrong)
My original thought probably wasn't KSS.
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A group of academics have found three new security flaws in 4G and 5G, which they say can be used to intercept phone calls and track the locations of cell phone users. "Mr. Telephone Man, there is something wrong with my line"
I'm sensing a theme forming today
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Who cares?
I have it on good authority that we'll be getting 6G, within a few weeks!
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LMFAO - I'm 6G and I know it.
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Flaws? Or did they just get caught?
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In September of 2018, an anonymous independent security researcher (who we'll call X) noticed that their power company's website was offering to email—not reset!—lost account passwords to forgetful users. Security is Job 0
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What, you mean that someone could order crates full of my electricity to be delivered to their homes!
Sometimes, uber-high security ain't all that necessary -- especially with things like utility companies, who send you snail-mail confirmation of changes.
If hackers get access to the password database, they've already got access to all the other details worth hacking.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: If hackers get access to the password database, they've already got access to all the other details worth hacking.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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