BrtByte

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by BrtByte 1y ago
It's messy, but honestly, that mess teaches you way more about how information is shaped than a polished "final" version ever could
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by BrtByte 1y ago
It's not about trusting Wikipedia blindly - it's about knowing how to read between the lines
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by BrtByte 1y ago
Wikipedia isn't perfect, but it embodies the idea that knowledge should be built collaboratively and made freely available to everyone
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by BrtByte 1y ago
Moving to decentralized hosting would be extremely hard without compromising performance, reliability, or the ability to moderate effectively
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by BrtByte 1y ago
Wikipedia's value isn't that it's perfect, it's that it shows its work
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by BrtByte 1y ago
Wikipedia definitely isn't perfect - bias in editing is real, and it's fair to critique how reliable it is - but threatening their nonprofit status over it is wild.
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by BrtByte 1y ago
Wikipedia isn't immune to influence campaigns - honestly, no open platform is - but the key difference is how seriously the community takes it. The amount of volunteer effort that goes into investigating sockpuppets, enforcing sourcing
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by BrtByte 1y ago
Gotta respect the planning that went into choosing a problem that's both absurd and actually solvable
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by BrtByte 1y ago
South Korea really said "you will not be thirsty on our watch."
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by BrtByte 1y ago
This is both hilarious and genuinely impressive. A TSP solution involving nearly 82 000 bars? That's a level of dedication to both math and beer I didn't know I needed in my life
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by BrtByte 2y ago
Fair take, but I think the key distinction is why Instagram and WhatsApp were targeted specifically
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by BrtByte 2y ago
Yeah, 100% agree - calling all these platforms "competitors" just because they exist on the same internet feels like tech company lawyer logic, not reality.
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by BrtByte 2y ago
Meta's stuff gets a lot of attention because it's flashy and tied to social media drama, but the structural power of Amazon, YouTube, Apple, and Google is way scarier long-term. They're not just dominating products - they&#x2
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by BrtByte 2y ago
It always cracks me up when Meta trots out the "but look, there's competition now!" argument like that somehow erases the intent behind those acquisitions
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by BrtByte 2y ago
Regardless of where you land on Meta's ethics, this case feels like a high-stakes stress test for retroactive antitrust enforcement. If the FTC succeeds here, it basically rewrites the "finality" of M&A decisions in tech.
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by BrtByte 2y ago
Sierra games had this uniquely goofy, irreverent tone that felt super personal, like the devs were sneaking in jokes while no one was looking
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by BrtByte 2y ago
So true. Money has this weird way of making people seem smarter or more trustworthy than they actually are, especially if they talk the part
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by BrtByte 2y ago
Yeah, that exchange says so much in just a few lines.
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by BrtByte 2y ago
Jimmy Maher has that rare mix of deep research and genuinely engaging storytelling. He somehow makes technical or historical rabbit holes feel like page-turners
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by BrtByte 2y ago
The part that really got me was him packing up and leaving with no fanfare, no goodbye, nothing. Like, this guy built Sierra from nothing. And it ends with him slipping out the back door.
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by BrtByte 2y ago
Change won't come from inside a district that's already comfortable... It has to come from broader coalitions that push past local veto points.
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by BrtByte 2y ago
Removing barriers is necessary, but not always sufficient
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by BrtByte 2y ago
Politicians respond to incentives. If the status quo starts losing them elections, maybe they'll finally stop mistaking stakeholder management for leadership.