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mechanical_bear

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About mechanical_bear

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #46786504

    A thousand digital monkeys and a thousand terminals..

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    Comment #42191616

    You need legal insurance.

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    Comment #41204451

    Cutting yourself off from civilization is not the hallmark of a society that is growing in a positive direction.

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    Comment #41178632

    Where does this lack ethics? It seems that they are providing a useful service, that they created with their hard work. People are allowed to make money with their work.

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    Comment #38973691

    It absolutely is. I know of independent researchers doing some side project work on various social media platforms utilizing chatGPT for responses and measuring engagement.

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    Comment #38970699

    If you give a mouse a cookie…

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    Comment #37042773

    This has definitely not been my experience, nor my colleagues’ experiences.

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    Comment #36922793

    As to your very last point, it isn’t my “job”. It’s yet another task that I take on for no recognition, nor additional pay - as is much of academic life.

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    Comment #36916686

    “Just a phone” is incredibly reductive, and not an argument made in good faith.

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    Comment #36562606

    Religions “take” 10% of your income??

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    Comment #36562295

    Definitely end the H1-B program.

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    Comment #36562267

    It’s bad for everyone in tech because it drives wages down artificially.

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    Comment #36386645

    What “we” did? Speak for yourself sir.

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    Comment #36341632

    Easy to predict the future when you write about it after the fact.

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    Comment #35397053

    That’s literally what it is though.

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    Comment #35304279

    How is it that a domain is an abstract entity, when something like an API is concrete? They are both something that is interacted with in the system? Or is it purely contextual bas…

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    Comment #35268739

    Rgr. Thanks again for the balanced moderation.

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    Comment #35262943

    Agreed, I was merely pointing out what their initial comment was saying.

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    Comment #35262749

    I understand what you are saying. My only comment on that matter would be that one need not reside in any particular location to work for the CCP, they have workers all over the wo…

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    Comment #35262508

    That was not their reaction. They just wanted to know how it qualifies as “cyber punk”.

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    Comment #35250508

    It lets others understand perspective a bit better.

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    Comment #35233124

    [flagged]

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    Comment #35232969

    How long have you worked for the CCP?

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    Comment #35135550

    Why all the quotes? It makes your response seem either sarcastic or disbelieving, either way a bit disrespectful.