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by Barrin92 1y ago
Zulip. Open source, self-hostable, looks decent and not only does it have every feature that discord has, their version of threads/topics to spin off individual conversations is extremely well done.
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>prioritizing growth over profit makes economic sense in the long run only if you have a believable plan on how to reverse that, selling 2 dollars for 1 dollar isn't a business model and no amount of praying for the future is going
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>"Do I actually want to do that?" There's no reason to believe you can be any more confident about your answer to this then the person in the article is about their hazy idea about what something is like. If people "u
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> I care that when I want to leave, I can pay quickly. In Europe, it's incredibly slow Maybe when you come to Europe adjust to the culture. In Europe you don't eat with the clock in your hand so you can run off too the next mee
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>I very much prefer to guarantee that data doesn't leave my trusted servers in the first place, rather than to encrypt it. what's the rationale behind this? The point of a server is to ... serve things. If you're not gonna
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Very recently actually yes. Not that it mattered if I wasn't, because I was a kid and I know how important freedom was to my development, as does everyone who had it, that's sufficient to be inoculated against this safetyism. And
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> there are tons of good reasons to disallow minors from participating in the free online commons. there isn't unless you're a neurotic helicopter parent who wants to infantilize people up until they're adults. I'm on
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The problem was them going public. Honestly looking at the fact that it's a 20 year old company that's really good at one thing, take it private if you can, slim the company down and offer more competitive prices. The other user i
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Anthropic, to their credit, just published that pretty funny paper about how they couldn't get their chatbot to run a single vending machine profitably[1]. Admirable that Mark is so visionary he's skipped straight past Bodega-inte
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>Unless it was common enough to show up in a well formed question on stack exchange, it was pretty much impossible sorry but if you've gone to university, in particular at a time when internet access was already ubiquitous, surely y
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no, it isn't egocentrism. Egocentrism is to think you're special when in fact you're not and thinking that empathy requires, rather than understanding, constant affirmation of your point of view. I can certainly understand th
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>this really looks like a spectacular lack of empathy No, fake kindness isn't empathy. This wasn't about me. Everybody is actually exactly the same in that we all should care about our bodies, nobody should care about the bioch
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>want to willingly diminish the impression and reputation of their web properties because that's not what happening. The average Chrome user finds that feature useful, and personally I have to agree because having a sign-in option t
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>with real problems that people might actually have. But it's not a real problem, that's my point. The infertility is obviously, but that's not the identity issue here. Most people with infertility issues don't have a
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Stood out for me as well. For all I care you could tell me I'm genetically a giraffe or I was sent here from Alpha Centauri. If I was fine with it an hour ago when you hadn't told me I'm fine with it now
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>How about we accept that children are part of society and not try to put them in little cages like songbirds? It's the correct idea but the way it should be done is by coming to a democratic consensus that helicopter parenting is b
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the most confusing thing about this is, do people think there's just one porn site on the internet? Nobody needs a vpn, they can literally type "porn" into any search engine and land on one of fifteen million sites sitting in
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the intertwining of entertainment or fun with learning is a problem because it teaches kids that if something isn't fun it isn't for them, the "infotainment science" genre that's very common these days I suspect is
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>Paid or unpaid. That's the normal nature of democracy; It isn't in Europe. Most European countries have limits on how much can be spend on political campaigning and when campaigning takes place, and the difference between the
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>Every civilized culture on earth has norms against public nudity Every civilized society has norms for everything , that's the tautological definition of what being civilized means. It's how civilized people define success. B
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>It's a much bigger question why, such a completely natural and normal thing, like nudity, [...] be made and exclusive thing. As Nietzsche said, the time has come when we have to pay for having been Christians for two thousand years
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it wouldn't, if the implication of you wondering is supposed to be if someone will find and treat a "gay gene". Homosexuality is (like almost all complex traits[1]) influenced by thousands of genes in addition to environmenta
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It ought to be obvious. A chocolate donut, large Frappuccino or pick your unhealthy food of choice are about equivalent to half an hour of running. Given how many people throw in a snack like that several times per day good luck burning tha
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It's honestly depressing how many of the comments seem to completely miss the point of the post and respond with something along the lines of "there is too little signal and too much noise in stuff". The entire point of the a
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>There's no lack of demand for longform content, but it's mostly not writing. Because reading requires focus and attention on one thing over a prolonged amount of time, something a lot of people aren't able to do. Which sp
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>Do billionaires affect the area they live in much? Not by their consumer spending or how they live but given that SV billionaires have increasingly become politically activist with their vast sums of money, almost certainly.
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>Japan famously has censorship; In Japanese culture there's often an 'official' layer of proper behavior that in some sense is a pretense and in reality people are much more free-wheeling, including in the adult sector whe
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the value of human beings isn't in their capacity to do routine tasks but to respond with some common sense to all the critical issues in the 2% at the tail. This is why original problems are important, it's a measure of how sensi
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That's exactly what they're wowed by. The general audience cares about the risk-taking, the bravery and daring aspect of it, and maybe the visual flashiness. It's the psychology that's interesting to a general audience b
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For one that is objectively incorrect. GDPR prevents a whole host of data collection outright, shifts the burden for corporations to collecting the minimal amount of data possible, and gives you the right to explicitly consent into what dat

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