Jochim

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by Jochim 4y ago
I've had the experience of both tax funded and private schooling. Without the tax funded school I, and the vast majority of my peers there, likely wouldn't be literate or numerate. I wouldn't have been in a position to win th
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by Jochim 4y ago
I think that'd be a reasonable policy for anyone who isn't claiming to be a free speech absolutist. If you make that claim and then enact censorious policies then you're plainly a liar.
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I like roads and schools.
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> you can't have your business grow above a certain size I don't think any business should be allowed to grow above a certain size. I believe it's a massive net negative for society. I'd support a taxation system that
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He created it for the thread.
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The UK runs one of the worst rail services in Europe[0]. The involvement of the operating companies is a charade with the sole purpose of siphoning public money into private hands. What value is a private operator adding to the system when
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We have something like this in the UK. It's a dogshit system that leads to service that is both awful and overpriced. The whole thing should be nationalised.
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Caching can often cause more issues than it solves. While largely fixed now, older C# projects suffered from separating dll references from the reference to the package that provided them. This lead to the situation where you may be referen
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by Jochim 4y ago
You haven't answered the question. That Mojang paid some money isn't disputed. What they paid for is the unknown. > It is a reasonable amount of money for the kind of work that was completed. Paying to use something isn't
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What did Mojang pay for though? That appears to be the point of contention. It sounds like Mojang threw £20k at the author without understanding or articulating what that payment entitled them to. At a later point they realised they didn&#x
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Home routers often greatly simplify the interface. BT, one of the largest ISP's in the UK, only allow the configuration of destination IP and external/internal ports[0]. I've never expected my NAT to do anything other than ma
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I think there are multiple layers behind why someone might find "they" inappropriate. I don't think they're necessarily all valid but I think they're understandable. 1) Gender is currently a political topic. The use
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> Most other professions would get in real trouble if they faked and cheated with their product. I don't think this is true at all to be honest. The world is drowning in false claims of product capabilities. See these flashlights&#x
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by Jochim 4y ago
Jellyfin's support for Audiobooks is still fairly rudimentary. Most of the features mentioned depend on the client app's level of support. There's a feature request that details some of the support already in place: https:&#
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by Jochim 4y ago
Based on a very quick search, there are absolutely drivers who are actively and deliberately trying to maim and murder bicyclists. It actually seems much more common than I thought it would be: > A driver who told a cyclist “I’m going t
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I'd assume in this case that they'd be allowed to call his business. It sounds like his personal contact details are entirely separate from his business ones. I don't believe they should ever be using personal details to cont
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by Jochim 4y ago
I once failed a quiz that would have granted me the privilege of frying chicken at KFC. There was no feedback on which of my answers made me an unsuitable fast food worker. > What I have noticed is that the more menial, low paid and gen
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It's more like 6 once you include the HR screen and Department head meetings. 4 interviews seems totally unnecessary in itself. Especially if they were all 1 hour or more. Their current process would take 4-6 hours and that's only
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Other people are already deciding what information you have access to each time you visit one of these sites. While they might allow you to alter the probability of certain types of content showing up, the platform is already the arbiter of
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There's no definitive answer but I'd argue not really. When you first land on a platform they decide what kind of content you're exposed to. For the majority of users any curation they're likely to carry out will be base
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by Jochim 4y ago
> When a browser vendor advocates for "amplifying factual voices", in my mind's eye I see a browser tab filled entirely with a well-styled notification: "This site may contain misleading or harmful information. It has
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When I replied the question was: > Who gets to say what is factual? To which my response was: "The people who already have absolute control over what you do and don't see in your feed." The question was not "how we wo
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It was certainly intended to be a sincere question, thank you for your perspective! I do have a few follow questions if you're happy to answer: Why does it matter if it's woke? The majority of the points seem to be purely benefici
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> "out of filter bubbles" == "into other filter bubbles". This isn't empowerment, it's hijacking. It's hardly hijacking when they placed you in those bubbles in the first place. I'm quite happy to
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The article doesn't suggest at all that Firefox or Mozilla are looking to limit what you're shown by your browser. 3 of the 4 points involve making the reasons you're being shown something more transparent. The remaining poin
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The people who already have absolute control over what you do and don't see in your feed. The algorithms of these platforms have been extremely effective at enabling the dissemination of lies and misinformation. When you consider that
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What's woke about any of the points in the article? What does the word mean to you? The points in question: > Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted. > Commit to meaningful tra
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We've also steadily lowered tax rates over the last 50 years. Many countries are at historically low tax burdens despite rising inequality and no evidence of this improving economic growth.
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> Is this hypothesis completely incorrect then? Pretty much yes. A local taxi services usually pays for their drivers and a few dispatchers. In my city they'd even introduced basic mobile apps around the same time Uber popped up. Th
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> Are you really going to put the onus on private companies to ensure that no one ever has to move from their hometown? Not at all. I do think companies should be prevented from firing people without generous severance and/or good

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