LarryDarrell

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by LarryDarrell 5y ago
It's fine to have religious beliefs. No one was forcing churches to perform gay marriages, so there was no reason to get the state constitution involved. There was no real reason to support Prop 8 unless your goal was to "lessen t
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by LarryDarrell 5y ago
I groan whenever I see a Firefox post on the front page. -"X moved Y pixels making Firefox UNUSABLE! So now I use Brave." -"Mozilla is run by a bunch of SJW idiots because they ran their CEO off. So now I run Brave." (I
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The dark truth behind what makes a ‘good’ neighborhood(fastcompany.com)
2 points by LarryDarrell 5y ago|0 comments
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by LarryDarrell 5y ago
Who exerts the most control over Chromium? Google shareholders or the OSS community? How much Chromium development is done by people not employed by Google or now Microsoft? Brave/Edge/Vivaldi/Opera are all Google controlled
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by LarryDarrell 5y ago
I remember re-covering the roof of an apartment building for a slumlord I worked for in college. We ran out of tar, so I had to wait an hour while the boss went to get some more. Sitting for awhile in the shade of the roof access entrance w
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by LarryDarrell 5y ago
The Cold War propaganda machine messed with a couple of generations' minds. Thatcher aside, I think maybe such propaganda was not as severe in the UK? You guys did have the community building exercise of rebuilding after the war, where
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The BYTE magazine covers by Robert Tinney(lunduke.substack.com)
242 points by LarryDarrell 5y ago|66 comments
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by LarryDarrell 5y ago
This may be true. Ultimately my personal story is not worth much. I do know that there is a growing community of people who share this story, though. One does not personally need to be affected to notice an uptick in anti-knowledge behavior
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by LarryDarrell 5y ago
> 3. Do recommendations drive viewers to increasingly extreme content? > As I’ve explained, we actively demote low-quality information in recommendations. But we also take the additional step of showing viewers authoritative videos ab
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by LarryDarrell 5y ago
I've been using mxroute.com for my business and personal emails for 6 months. Anecdotal, but my biggest client has said my emails no longer tend to hit his spam folder since I've made the switch.
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by LarryDarrell 5y ago
I think the Startup Processes really gets abused and people default to blame Windows for it. My time to a usable desktop seemed slow until I removed Teams, Steam, Dropbox and some other update utilities from Startup. Now it's pretty mu
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by LarryDarrell 5y ago
I remember growing up in the 90s, and in the AOL Instant Messenger profiles of my friends, was commonly the quote: "You have to love yourself before you can love another." Also a lot of DMB song lyrics... it was a different time.
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by LarryDarrell 6y ago
I know I shouldn't, but this is beautiful. You've taken every low-understanding drunk-uncle anti-union take and have written some true troll poetry. This historical perspective is so shallow, and your understanding of the motivati
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by LarryDarrell 6y ago
Chrome, or at least it's rendering engine, has won the World Wide Web. It was able to do this because the company that was the best at monetizing every last packet decided it wanted to own that last endpoint as well. HTTP is a lost cau
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by LarryDarrell 6y ago
Yes, the mechanism is the same. However, Facebook has lines that when crossed result in being moderated. Their moderation system is obviously imperfect and a lot of the time they act too late, but it's there. Parler was courting all th
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by LarryDarrell 6y ago
I thought that at first, but I realized that I was biased towards the people I personally know who have been fully consumed into the right-wing conspiracyverse (older boomers who never liked computers until the internet was easy). Ultimatel
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by LarryDarrell 6y ago
From what I understand, Parler was bankrolled and designed to do exactly what it was ultimately shutdown for. That is, be a concentrated anger-machine-echo-chamber. I'm not angry at the public corporations that have dropped Parler. I&#
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by LarryDarrell 6y ago
Thanks, I'll give it a listen!
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by LarryDarrell 6y ago
Or they were razed 'legally' for an eight lane freeway.
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by LarryDarrell 6y ago
Gig work and all that implies would be more tolerable in the US if we had a universal health care system and worked hard to craft policies to make housing affordable (not an investment). Until that world comes to pass, the slow but growing
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by LarryDarrell 6y ago
My wholly unqualified opinion as forever firefox user: They are going to push their VPN, Pocket and Lockwise like never before. They are also going to focus on their incubator hoping for a big win. Firefox the browser will start to stagnate
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by LarryDarrell 6y ago
I can't even imagine how muted the Civil Rights era would have been had the FBI had this power back then.
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by LarryDarrell 6y ago
The optimism comes from a desperate desire not to confront the need for universal healthcare or land reform. As long as real estate is an investment and health care has a middle man, UBI is just a subsidy for those sectors.
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by LarryDarrell 6y ago
I suspect it's because there isn't much advice to give. My answer, having checked a few of your boxes... Your lifetime wages are going to be lower than many of your peers. This is unlikely to change. Adjust your worldview accordin
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by LarryDarrell 6y ago
Add the Oil & Gas Industry to your first list.
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by LarryDarrell 6y ago
I recall Adam Smith not being a fan of landlords.
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by LarryDarrell 7y ago
The company I'm contracting for is flaming out fast. It's sad to see the death spiral in action. It's a shame, because it's the best work I've ever done and I don't know if anyone will ever see it. The software
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by LarryDarrell 7y ago
Health Insurance is not health care. No one likes their health insurance. They like having health insurance given the horrifying alternative. No one (except those on the ACA) gets to really "choose" their insurance either. Your em
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by LarryDarrell 7y ago
That's an argument for improving the federal government, not accepting the status quo as the natural order of the universe.
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by LarryDarrell 7y ago
So time is a flat circle then?

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