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by CivBase 6y ago
I really like Louis' approach to Right to Repair. He doesn't want to force manufacturers to re-design products for repairability or make their designs open source. He doesn't even want to force manufacturers to offer repair
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by CivBase 6y ago
Today I learned the US Strategic Command has a Twitter profile. For some reason. Seriously, why? I don't see what could possibly go right.
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by CivBase 6y ago
I don't have a Facebook account so I cannot provide screencaps, but the article itself doesn't hide the fact that it exists. > Those sources were placed in one of five categories for partisanship — Far Right, Slightly Right, Ce
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by CivBase 6y ago
I don't think it's a demographic issue either. The problem isn't older people are more likely to be conservative. The problem is that engagement-driven social media platforms profit from being echo chamber factories. It ha
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by CivBase 6y ago
Facebook has become increasingly popular with older people. Older people tend to be more conservative. People engage more with content which confirms their preexisting biases. Facebook prioritizes engagement above all else because their
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by CivBase 6y ago
The US's current dependency on China is one-way. China is not co-dependent on the US. The existing dependency structure does not incentivize China to avoid war. Besides, most of the US wars in the last half century have been started
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by CivBase 6y ago
> If we always had to buy OEM dealer parts and only dealer 'certified techs' could repair, then only the rich can afford vehicles. Assuming Apple even sells their "authorized independent repair providers" the parts or
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by CivBase 6y ago
> I have no idea why the level of discourse is on average so primitive, I think church leaders have been systematically underestimating the populace. They're not underestimating the populace. They're catering to them in a desp
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by CivBase 6y ago
I think when people talk about a "literal" interpretation of the Bible, they mean that it uses human language (including figures of speech like "sunrise", number rounding/approximation, etc) to describe literal, his
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by CivBase 6y ago
I'm not OP, but I felt compelled to offer my own response to this one. Hopefully some people find my perspective interesting. 1) I grew up in a different church - the Catholic church. It felt more like a social club than anything els
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by CivBase 6y ago
I'm not sure what that process would look like, but I'd be interested. I think the world needs more empathy and I have no doubt there is a lot I can learn. However, I'm skeptical that my anxiety comes from a lack of insight
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by CivBase 6y ago
> There does not seem to be a shortage of church variety to choose from. I think this is a deceiving metric. Most churches are less places of worship or religious education and more social clubs dressed up in religious phrases and icono
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by CivBase 6y ago
I'm not sure spreading the problem to everyone else is very good solution.
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by CivBase 6y ago
As a guy this would only put me at ease in a one-on-one conversation with the woman in question. I am just as wary of others' opinions as hers.
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by CivBase 6y ago
> But imagine that every time you have an 'off' experience with someone, you end up wondering whether your race or sex had something to do with it. I can't pretend to have any idea what that's like. However, I do kno
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by CivBase 6y ago
Performance is not the only value consumers consider. System76 has already demonstrated there is a market for computing devices which charge a premium for better repairability, security, and privacy. Even in the smartphone market, Apple h
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by CivBase 6y ago
To be fair, he said "This is one of the aspects of the Islamic world that I do not like." That does not imply that the practice is limited to Islamic countries, but it does imply that it is common in all Islamic countries. That
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by CivBase 6y ago
> just like Linux did I think you and I have very different ideas of what constitutes "mainstream". > No mobile phone will sell enough to survive by offering low-performance hardware and off-the-shelf software no matter how
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by CivBase 6y ago
PinePhone doesn't need to become a mainstream smartphone to be valuable just like Linux OSes don't need to become mainstream to be valuable.
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by CivBase 6y ago
> It’s not going to become a common mod. It’s likely not even feasible for someone to offer as a service due to the risk involved in shipping expensive GPUs two ways and then reworking the PCB with hard to source chips that can’t necessa
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by CivBase 6y ago
I'm not sure what demographic you're talking about that can afford a $2-5 premium on every meal but cannot otherwise access or afford means to safely access a grocery store or restaurant. It would be much more economical for me t
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by CivBase 6y ago
Importance is subjective. Personally, I think the PinePhone project is much more important than an expensive restaurant delivery service.
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by CivBase 6y ago
This project is awesome. I wont be buying this particular model, but I envision myself picking up a PinePhone once it's a couple generations out of beta.
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by CivBase 6y ago
> Somehow this kind of nonsense has become culturally acceptable in the software industry. This seems to be particularly common in the web development world, even in the fundamental tech upon which the web is built. Missing the closing
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by CivBase 6y ago
This is why we need AI. Look out adtech here comes big pasta.
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by CivBase 6y ago
> This is all within the 3.5-inch form factor. Data density is great and all, but this line got me wondering if we wouldn't be supporting more than just the 2.5" and 3.5" form factors. I'm suspect there would be a ma
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by CivBase 6y ago
That's actually a cool idea for a password manager in general. After logging in, you input a "salt" value that is appended to the end of all your passwords. That value is never sent to the password server, so even if the se
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by CivBase 6y ago
My wife's district's budget includes "Instruction" as one opaque budget item which accounts for 47.9% of the 2020 budget (up from 46.3% in 2017). Admin accounts for 9.6% (up from 8.3%). There is also a vague "Non-
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by CivBase 6y ago
I'm not prepared to write an entire article on the subject and I'm not sure it would be wise for me to publicly criticize my wife's employer. But I can at least elaborate on how I feel the funding is being mismanaged. The bi
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by CivBase 6y ago
> More money isn't going to fix it. Bingo. My wife teaches for an urban school district. They get plenty of money. We see where it all goes, and it isn't into supporting education.

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