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811.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
I would interpret this as similar to being able to take paper napkins or straws at a restaurant. You may be welcome to take napkins, but if you go around taking all the napkins from every dispenser you'll likely be kicked out and poss
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Fun post! I like reading blog posts like this. I did wonder about one thing: > The first measure I tracked was a ‘Colourfulness score’. This measures how intense and varied the colours are in a poster. Higher values mean the image conta
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> I think people get the wrong idea that Wayland is telling them they can't ever do this, but it's really just telling application developers they can't absolutely count on being able to do it like they can in X.org. That&
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> anyone who recognized the computer running Zoom as Linux surely strengthened their conviction never to try that. It always boggles me how supporters of Wayland (or other things that are new and better and worth deprecating the old one
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> The change to STAR is something the states can do themselves and some states -- notably California with its large population -- have referendums. Put it on the ballot until it passes. And then what? California already passed the citiz
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> the speed and ease with which I can find what I want (as a potential customer) using that top navigation menu is superior to anything I've seen done so far. The web catches up to the past again. :-) Despite all the modern attemp
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> And you can also implement that in the US without major constitutional changes. In theory yes, but in practice I think we cannot. That is, the system you describe is allowable under the current constitution, but the path to realize it
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Those are interesting ideas. I still tend to think though that such fiddling is only necessary if we insist on single-member districts with first-past-the-post systems. A proportional system essentially forces each party to pay attention
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
We're in for a rough ride as a species.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> Public transit requires a certain level of unspoken agreement. "We will all behave in this manner." If this unspoken agreement is broken often enough, then it must be enforced. All of society requires this, not just public tr
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
If there is no meeting of minds, why are you going to websites? You go to websites to see information that was in someone else's mind and load it into your mind.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> If you got rid of the +2 electoral college votes for each state independent of its population, votes in Arizona would still matter more than California. There's a bit more to it than the +2 electoral votes from the senate, because
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
But what about all the re-presentations of the same content in YouTube clips, etc.? It's true that cable as a delivery mechanism is declining but that doesn't necessarily mean stuff like Fox as a content source is declining in in
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Other commenters already mentioned that the current situation in the US shows how fragile this "ironclad" norm is. Aside from that, though, the fourth amendment wouldn't necessarily prevent a law that requires companies to
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
My main fear with things like this is that using it will get me into a pattern of thinking I'm safe, so that then when I'm doing something on another system that doesn't have this, I'll accidentally make a mistake and wo
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
It is kind of crazy how skewed the eyeball-to-websites distribution is. Like there are so many websites out there that have interesting content of some sort but only a tiny proportion of people ever see them, while a small number of websit
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
This is an interesting idea but I'd like to see a version aimed at people who are opposed to all the other bad things these companies do.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
William James was a rather staggeringly good writer and had a lot of good insights. It's always intriguing to me to see how people cycle back to his work over a century later.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
It won't change until there is better regulation with muscular enforcement. Right now the choice is between paying an $X bug bounty and the vague possibility of some problem for not paying a bounty (e.g., someone sues you, or a PR fia
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Unfortunately they will spend the next several years building up an immunity.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I was wondering about some of those people of whom supposedly only a very few photos exist (like Thomas Pynchon). Presumably though they could just exclude those people from the list.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
A prescient cartoon from 15 years ago: https://archive.rall.com/main.php?g2_itemId=14184&g2_imageVi...
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I was a TA and knew many TAs, and no one I knew did things that way. (To some extent this can depend on the field though.)
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
But if that family and play time is being used to watch pointless videos online, or go down some sort of horror spiral with an LLM, that critical work is also not being done.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
What do they do in the flipped classroom when (not if :-) some students come to class having done absolutely nothing at home?
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Part of that question is whether society is responsible for the adults' well-being, so that they can then do a better job at improving their children's well-being.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Part of the problem is that in some areas schools (and parents) have leaned so heavily into certain notions of "equity" or "care" that they no longer are willing to require anything so specific. I use quotes because whi
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Don't jinx it.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
The best way to make it easier for people to choose a homeserver would be to have a complete migration system so that people could easily move their account to a different server if for whatever reason they decide they chose the wrong one.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
You can do some, but many of them have license restrictions that prevent you from using them in certain ways. I can buy an Intel chip and deliberately use it to do things that hurt Intel's business (e.g., start a competing company).

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