EarlKing

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by EarlKing 2y ago
Right, but that's kind of my point: someone else gets to do the filtering and they can't stand it.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Because Mastodon and the entire Fediverse is infested with the most rabid sort of users that even Twitter couldn't stomach and has turned a blind eye to this fact? I mean, there's a reason why they keep getting brought up over and
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Does that include going extinct?
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by EarlKing 2y ago
This. It's not just The Guardian, though. It's pretty much all moss media. They got too used to an era where they could talk and the public couldn't talk back (or they could but only through letters to the editor which they c
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Clearly Sauron is a jealous ringmaker and doesn't like hobbits using his ring to shitpost.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Even then it seems like a crapshoot whether or not it works, because somehow if you become highly infective but otherwise are flying under the radar you'll still be detected and suddenly all governments start closing up shop... or at l
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Madagascar has closed its ports.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
I'm sure this won't lead to people flooding X with the most racist, sexist, and otherwise offensive content they possibly can in order to ruin the value of that training set or anything. No, surely... no one would do that, right?
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by EarlKing 2y ago
OH GOD, MY EYES. While I'm sure this was fun to make, it's a nightmare to use.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
The point of going to your own site, though, is not to rely on algorithms, but construct your own marketing funnel.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
> My wife is a content creator on YT and hasn’t spent a dime on advertising. Is your wife a representative sample of all Youtubers? If not, your datum is irrelevant. > unless your audience is very tech oriented, they’re not going to s
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Persuasion is the art of supplying facts to enable mutual self-interest. Not everyone has an implacable class interest.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
If you think that all politics is violence then you're always going to be woefully ineffective at it. Never bring a shotgun to a negotiation when a well-placed fact (or fiction) will do.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
A certain medieval gentlemen from Alamut would beg to differ. One does not need a standing army and nuclear weapons so much as the ability to inflict your politics on others credibly and unavoidably. There are many ways to do that, not all
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by EarlKing 2y ago
The "make money" button, however, is an illusion for 99% of publishers. The one case where it does seem to make out is with livestreams, and then only because unlike topical short-form videos, streaming is not a winner-take-all en
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by EarlKing 2y ago
It really doesn't. To understand why, you have only to comprehend the following: Whether someone is searching under a particular keyword, or just browsing whatever pops up on the home page, the average browser has a finite amount they&
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by EarlKing 2y ago
.....I mean, clearly someone was confused by what you said, and I took it as an opportunity to make my own point. I don't really see a problem.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
...which is precisely the point of the other half of the sentence you snipped: > maybe imperiling the archive in the process is not.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
The Jovian satellites would like to have a word with you. Also, Earth already has a second moon: 3753 Cruithne.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Pretty sure he's talking about the way things should be, not the way things are. The way things should be: None of this would be a problem. The way things are: Brewster Kahle is jeopardizing the archive's mission with his cavalier
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by EarlKing 2y ago
We're here today, but we'll be gone tomorrow(-ish). Before HN I was on Reddit, before that Digg, before that Slashdot, and so on. Being in any particular place at any particular time is no guarantee we'll be there going forwa
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Aversion to open conflict isn't an American thing. It's an imperialist thing. And it's really annoying.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
It's a combination of things really. Part of it was not being able to discover new content (Google notwithstanding, since Google is good for finding things when you know what you want, while social media feeds you things you didn'
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Kinda. It's sort of a mix of Habitat and PlayNET/QuantumLink... more the latter than the former.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
It really depended on the era and what area you were in. After the breakup of the Bell System, flat-rate areas (Zone 1 calling) spread across the RBOCs, but ultimately that still meant that metropolitan areas tended to benefit more than rur
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by EarlKing 2y ago
What? No one's mentioned how firms have been leveraging Malta as the new leg of the Double Irish / Dutch Sandwich? How disappointing.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Not really that useful if I can't sort based on last publication, nor see how many episodes a given podcast has published when searching.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
I'm not going to copy-paste paragraphs from The Mythical Man-Month for you. I will say that my definition accords with Brooks's definition presented therein.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
No, I want "it should exist and should be paid for"... even if that amount winds up being quite small, and only a one-time payment... but I know I'm in the minority that believes nobody should work for free. I'm willing
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by EarlKing 2y ago
After dealing with the products of people writing either "just for fun" or "just for profit", I think I'm ready to meet someone who's willing to try something a little in-between... because here we are, decades

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