the virgin dataviz blog -> data science -> adtech pipeline vs. the chad dataviz blog -> what the hell am i doing -> trying to abolish software pipeline
standing under the bleachers after every R bloggers post being like "hey kid if ya wanna be cool you'll smoke this direct action against the surveillance industry"
stamping your button in the database perf assembly line and one day looking up like "my god! what am i doing!" ripping off your smock and running off into the forests of piracy never to be seen again
at the very least we should face it and admit when you see a software doing an impressive thing it is almost always really bad news for humanity.
tests pass! algorithmic trading velocity just increased by a degree that measurably impacts the climate survivability of earth!
whatever the movie cliché is, if i were scoring it i think the scene of quitting writing code for extraction would probably sound like this
btw since i'm linking to a yt video, inject this into every yt page using something like greasemonkey and it is much better trust me
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this is the most platonically correct colin stetson yt comment that is possible Pass the bong to Stetson and you won't get that shit back fo
until you expand the comments "bro I'm wheezing from reading this" "hes abo

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distributed triplet graph backbone for scholarly communication let's go
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