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by CivBase 6y ago
> “Meritocracy!”, I hear you cry. “They pick from the most talented students. The ones that worked the hardest to get into the most elite schools. The black students should have just worked harder”. I guess mummy and daddy paying $20 mil
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by CivBase 6y ago
Hopefully they give up on the idea for future cards. NVIDIA shouldn't decide what I can do with my GPU.
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by CivBase 6y ago
I switched to DDG and ProtonMail with very little effort, even after using multiple GMail accounts for well over a decade. I occasionally retry searches on Google if the DDG results aren't good enough, but Google rarely finds anything
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by CivBase 6y ago
Many places in the midwest have actually switched away from using salt to melt snow because it does a lot of damage to concrete and vehicles. Sand is a popular alternative, but frequent ploughing is often enough to keep main roads clear.
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by CivBase 6y ago
As I understand, artists haven't made much from record sales or radio deals historically. Most of that money goes to publishers. Instead, artists used those mediums to boost their popularity and made most of their income from merchan
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by CivBase 6y ago
Containers, like a lot of tech tools, is situational. You should use a tool because it solves a problem you're having, not because it's popular. There's a lot of value in keeping your pipeline simple, but there's also
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by CivBase 6y ago
You know what they say about history repeating itself...
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by CivBase 6y ago
> We don't allow apps whose primary purpose is featuring or hosting objectionable [User Generated Content]. [...] your app currently only includes feature to flag inappropriate users. [...] the app must provide a user-friendly, in-
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by CivBase 6y ago
I just refreshed both the Primary and Classic front pages and did a quick comparison. Classic had 14 articles that were not on Primary. The first unique article for Classic showed up at #15. All of the unique articles for Classic were at
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by CivBase 6y ago
Isn't the point of a password manager that you only have to remember one password? If you put it in another password manager, then you have to remember that password instead, so have you really improved the situation? Plus it just a
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by CivBase 6y ago
I just skimmed the source code and it looks like you could add support for other aspect ratios really easily. Not sure if OP is accepting pull requests. EDIT: I went ahead and added quick support for other aspect ratios myself. Feel free
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by CivBase 6y ago
Thanks! I'm using Duolingo and I'm sure I'll get some extra use from this.
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by CivBase 6y ago
I'd rather "write usefully" than "write simply". If a "fancy" word is more useful for getting my thoughts across, then I will use it. I think of "useful" language as a balance of precision, conc
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by CivBase 6y ago
> Do they? Given that you later claim we don’t have the necessary criteria to determine repairability, this seems like an unsupportable claim. They absolutely do. We don't have objective legal criteria, but Louis Rossmann's
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by CivBase 6y ago
To specifically answer your question, I don't think anyone's advocating for users to be provided with parts and schematics to repair a faulty L1 cache on a CPU, or for the CPU to be designed to support that kind of repair. Most &q
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by CivBase 6y ago
> The problem is you need to be highly skilled to do that repair. You also need to be highly skilled to do a lot of automotive repairs, which is why there is a thriving market of third-party mechanics who will perform those repairs for a
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by CivBase 6y ago
> A - A classification system that makes defines how "easy" it is to repair something, but necessarily doesn't mean that you or I can repair it at home.It will be "easy" IF you have the right 50,000 GBP tool. Lou
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by CivBase 6y ago
I recently bought my first home in Iowa. I was only a couple years into my career and wanted to start with something small which would allow me to build up equity so I could eventually trade up for something I'd want to keep long term
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by CivBase 6y ago
I never said anybody was working for fun. The disabled people to which I am referring are certainly dependent on others for their care. The livelihoods of most people in the demographics I mentioned are not dependent on a part-time job li
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by CivBase 6y ago
Where I'm at, the vast majority of employees working "grunt" positions in supermarkets are high schoolers along with some elderly and disabled folks. Given those demographics, I strongly suspect most of them are not working
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by CivBase 6y ago
> As organizational complexity increases, design debt and responsibility becomes diffused among larger and larger groups of people. Leading to the bizarre situation where no individual has power or responsibility over anything specifical
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by CivBase 6y ago
The mobile games market is an excellent, concrete example of service providers which not only favor "short term trickery" over "long term quality", but actively reduce the long term quality of their services to engage in
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by CivBase 6y ago
> "some users are manipulated, some receive value." Sure. That brings us back to my original question. Why invest in "providing value to users" when psychological manipulation is so much cheaper? So long as psychol
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by CivBase 6y ago
I was providing a quick and simple example, not making a generalization about all Facebook users. Just as my anecdotal evidence does not necessarily demonstrate an addiction problem across all Facebook users, your anecdotal evidence does n
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by CivBase 6y ago
I'm not so sure about that. What value does Facebook offer that isn't done better by a dozen other platforms? Most people I talk to openly admit it provides them with no value, but they still idly scroll through their feeds day
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by CivBase 6y ago
Why invest in "providing value to users" when psychological manipulation is so much cheaper?
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by CivBase 6y ago
I threw together some CSS for dark mode in the "HTML" version using values from the normal JavaScript version: https://gist.github.com/CivBase/818f7f4f56050c9769c4b783c08c... EDIT: I replaced the raw code wit
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by CivBase 6y ago
If a service is monetized with ads, then the user is the product. We say that a lot but I think a lot of people still don't understand it, especially outside the tech sphere. "Engagement" isn't about building a better
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by CivBase 6y ago
> There's a checkbox there to 'search only this subreddit' which is disabled by default. I've always wondered why that checkbox is even there. Why are they even the same search box to begin with? If I go to a partic
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by CivBase 6y ago
> We believe Online Presence Indicators could be beneficial to some of our communities where we see more real-time discussions unfolding Most communities would not obviously benefit from this. Surely it would make more sense to have thi

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