CodeyWhizzBang

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   by CodeyWhizzBang 5y ago

   I would extend this and say anti-vaxers and covid-deniers are also a symptom of this. The "freedom of speech" group are clearly just as easily upset, but about different things. The fact that parts of some governments in some coun
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   by CodeyWhizzBang 5y ago

   I checked the historical precedent. Current situation looks pretty dire. Also checked what was coming to me via my eyes and ears from the real world. That also looked pretty bad too.
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   The Surprising Similarities Between Writing and Coding(simon-pitt.medium.com)

   1 points by CodeyWhizzBang 6y ago|0 comments
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   by CodeyWhizzBang 6y ago

   I don't think he's saying that what we have now is worse than what we had then. He's saying that with today's hardware we clearly can have instant start up times in pretty much every app. But we don't.
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   by CodeyWhizzBang 6y ago

   There's also the point that banks want you to put down a sizeable deposit so that if the market crashes and you lose your job they can sell the house, recover their outstanding debt and you lose your deposit. So you might be able to af
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   by CodeyWhizzBang 6y ago

   I moved all mine across to YouTube Music - they have an automatic process that copies it across in the background for you.
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   by CodeyWhizzBang 6y ago

   When you write an article on Medium you can choose whether to put it behind the paywall and monetize it, or make it available to everyone for free and not monetize it. That feels like a pretty good capability to me really.
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   by CodeyWhizzBang 6y ago

   For me, it's not that they can't stand up a website, but that there's very little barrier to entry. An article on the New Yorker, say, tends to be better than one on Medium not because the writer can make a website but becaus
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   by CodeyWhizzBang 6y ago

   I don't think you can fairly say that type P pretend to mentally fragile. There are plenty of people who will be genuinely upset. Isn't the issue that it allows bad actors to pretend to take offence and we don't have a mechan
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    by CodeyWhizzBang 6y ago

    Weirdly, Medium seems to be the closest.
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    by CodeyWhizzBang 6y ago

    Isn't the point that "western medicine" is a set of things that have been shown to work based on the outcome of controlled tests - double blind tests and so on. As a result of these tests we say that, in general, statisticall
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    Zoom Is a Nightmare. So Why Is Everyone Still Using It?(onezero.medium.com)

    3 points by CodeyWhizzBang 6y ago|0 comments