KarlKemp

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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Since age ist continuous (at the scales that matter here), as are “situations” and peoples’ wellbeing, it does seem quite blurry to me. A twelve-year old being forced to dance, for example, would fit both categories you mention.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Did you read the part where they got exactly what they wanted, by doing something that a tiny minority would even think of doing?
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
The cynicism "the media" gets is entirely boring and mostly wrong. If you read one of WSJ/NYT/WashPo and never get near youtube, you will be well informed. But the actual problem with your statement is that it implies so
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Yes, your original post was indeed correct by hedging a bit, speaking of "adult life expectancy" vs. "infant/child mortality". People read that and it registers as infants dying within days after birth. But life exp
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
The NYT and WSJ were always available outside of their respective home markets. You would maybe get each day's issue a day late. But that still meant you got the same stories on the day the local paper reported on them.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Sure, the few remaining quality papers can (and do) introduce local editions for markets other than their "traditional" home base. Unfortunately, the economics aren't much different than they are for the regional paper that p
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
It's the rare product where it's good for you even when others consume it. Sort-of like a vaccine, but for democracy.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
This is mostly an urban legend. Yes, some amount of the increase in life expectancy is due to reduced infant mortality. But it’s nowhere near the bulk of it.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
I doubt that they are being paid by Apple. Would we mind expressions of enthusiasm for, say, works of art? If not, what's wrong with such statements for products as long as they are genuine? The sales figures speak to a specific aspect
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Name any CSS or JS exploit that had meaningful real-world impact in the last decade. In 20 years on the Internet, most without an ad blocker, I haven't suffered from any lapses in browser security (that I know of, sure, but I don'
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
You can add custom javascript to User:YourUsername/common.js on Wikipedia, so this wouldn't be much of a problem.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
I believe those texts are specifically set either on Wikidata, or via the template "short description" at the start of the article. Only where those are missing should it fall back to the beginning of the article text.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
I keep thinking of modern as the 1930s-style minimalism. Following that, isn't/wasn't "modern" the default Wordpress theme?
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Looks great, doesn't work for me: * It seems to constrain the width to something even smaller than usual (800px?). I have 6000px of horizontal real estate, and while it would be mad to let text run to that length, the optimum is not wh
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
That, like everything else in the space, breaks at the point where anything of non-virtual value needs to be returned to the buyers/investors/etc. That just happens to be impossible unless you allow for trusted people observing an
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
People are free to post opposing arguments wherever they want, including this thread. So far, they have come up with a few ad hominems, three invocations of “socialism” none of which come close to the concept, and complaints that their side
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
It’s a cliché because it’s true. Just pointing out that it has been true for a long time doesn’t change its truth.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
He does understand. It’s for the people that manage to grow into adulthood without realizing that Ayn Rand was a terrible hack. “Trustless” sounds like a good idea to these most boring of cynics who consider anything but ruthless short-sig
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
It’s silly to pretend that anyone could just magically start a company, and therefore no company will ever do harm. Consumers would also like to spend their money on ethically responsible products, and yet we have (and need) laws on polluti
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
As a general rule, nobody is willing to pay what they are worth to advertisers. Facebook makes 70$ / y / user in the US. You would pay $70 for an ad-free Facebook? Congratulation, you must be an above-average earner. Also: your va
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Yes… Democracy isn’t two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner. That being said, if you declare any consideration of the actual policies to be off limits for supposedly being subjective, you won’t ever be able to make any decision. Specifical
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Are you under the impression that only a minority cares about minority rights and, for example, heterosexual people would uniformly oppose LGBTQ rights? In that case I’ve got news for you. But first, I need you to stay strong: President Ken
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Patents cover discoveries, which, as a class, are limited, whereas copyrighted works are created, and therefore (in some sense) unlimited. Or, in other words: a patent can block access to something that is potentially irreplaceable, and tha
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
A shitty wrapper. The answer to the question “why isn’t there another middleman between content and readers, scamming both?”
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Agreed… there’s very little surface that isn’t taken up by the website, so it makes far less sense than, say a terminal. It’s a uniquely bad fit for theming. A useable method of styling webpages, however, would be quite interesting. CSS jus
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
As someone who has lived through the browser wars, I have no idea what you’re trying to say? The situation today is vastly better than it was back then. It’s not hyperbole to say that porting JS from, say, IE to Mozilla took just as much ti
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Im not sure how good our instinctive expectations are. The folds in the shirt, for example, are very prominent in the normal photo because of the shadows. But the difference in depth really isn’t that large. Say you have the 255 shades of g
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Apple has both an SDK for turning a series of photos into 3D models and scenes, as well as LIDAR sensors in their high-end phones and iPads. Notably, though, last I checked these are separate initiatives and the SDK doesn’t use the LIDAR da
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
It’s f2.2 divided by 9.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
No, I don’t think it would increase noise levels . The number of pixels the sensor captures remains the same, the resolution is cut to 1/th. Each individual pixel in the final image will be some sort of combination of the respective,

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