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by Matl 3y ago
As a non U.S citizen, sounds like a state with a million residents is represented as much as a state with 10 million residents. Not sure that's fair, be it I get you don't want to be underrepresented based on where you live either
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by Matl 3y ago
> why is Google the scapegoat instead of the entire industry that didn't adopt it? Because on the web Google is 'the industry'. It's not a problem that it was behind a flag, it's a new format after all. The probl
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by Matl 4y ago
I hate how on Hacker News it's always the corporate, proprietary, market that is cast as the underdog. You know the one who get all the press coverage and has VC money behind it.
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by Matl 4y ago
Or Google did.
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by Matl 4y ago
I'd guess you took what OP meant a bit too literally, I'd say that there's so many things to change, campaign for, convince that even if you say convince enough people to vote to change this law, there's already another
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by Matl 4y ago
Why mention it is open source then? What does that add?
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I dunno, maybe the Open part of OpenAI should hint at it. The problem people are having is that OpenAI marketed themselves as supposedly democratizing AI, but it does the opposite.
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by Matl 4y ago
I have family members who lived through it, (not in Poland, but next door), what they admit seems like a mixed bag, be it of course an authoritarian one, but a lot more mixed that what I initially assumed; for one the political system is mu
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by Matl 4y ago
I am your neighbor and a fellow Central/Eastern European. With all due respect but I don't really view Poland as any sort of democratic, progressive place I would like to live in. If it's socialism or the sort of uber conserv
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by Matl 4y ago
I doubt it, I have met many people from such countries and far from hating the West for having liberties, they despite that the West wraps their resource extraction, geopolitical interests and exploitation as delivering liberties for domest
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by Matl 4y ago
Absolutely, as an European I am constantly amazed how deeply the 'socialism bad' mantra is embedded in the American psyche, how can you blame even the most text book failure of capitalism on socialism? Perhaps the problem is the p
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by Matl 4y ago
> IMO It's better to adopt Chromium-based browsers and put pressure on Google to avoid letting it become the sole decision-maker about the web. Google doesn't care about us raging on HN, normal people are not going to 'put
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by Matl 4y ago
'Intellectual property' is definitely a more controversial concept than you make it sound. Definitely more so than say 'physical property' or 'personal property' would be.
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by Matl 4y ago
You keep arguing that the PM has no power, yet I seem to remember a certain one who had economic ideas that caused markets to panic and pension funds to almost implode. It seemed to me like Johnson had quite the effect on how the pandemic w
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by Matl 4y ago
> I don’t think you can call PM “unelected” when the system doesn’t, and has never, required them to get a direct mand Just because a system doesn't require something doesn't mean it is legitimate or democratic. It's a per
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by Matl 4y ago
Yeah, I know. That's nitpicking. What I meant was the number of PMs who didn't have to campaign in a general election, at the very least not for a good while after taking office, I assumed that was clear.
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It is pretty authoritarian, heavy-handed and undemocratic, I just think people generally have trouble with that because Western countries are supposed to not be like that. I mean were it a non-western country with this level of surveillance
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by Matl 4y ago
Not at all what I implied.
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by Matl 4y ago
I agree, but does Apple run a SaaS that has SLA of the likes of GCP say?
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by Matl 4y ago
Discord is attempting to have something more like forums[1], but as am not a heavy Discord user I haven't tried it myself. I used to run a phpBB forum and there was something about being an admin of a forum where people you didn't
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by Matl 4y ago
A great opportunity Mastodon wouldn't otherwise get. Thanks Elon.
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I said I am not American for a reason, I am also familiar with my terms and what you write is somewhat a modern, American-centric distortion of terms as well. You listed what seem like talking points in the so called 'culture war'
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by Matl 4y ago
> As some one who lives under a blasphemy culture, I think American greatly take for granted their freedoms of speech, and it boggles me that this is not a corner stone of the American Left. I am not an American, but my own observation a
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by Matl 4y ago
> I must have missed the part of internet history where people were constantly banned from their emails by capricious administrators for vague ToS violations. I have friends on Mastodon for some 5+ years and this isn't really an iss
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by Matl 4y ago
Is email hard because you need to pick up an 'instance'?
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by Matl 4y ago
Aside from alternative web clients like https://brutaldon.org , CLI ones, desktop ones etc. It has an open API, see https://joinmastodon.org/apps for an incomplete list.
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https://brutaldon.org
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by Matl 4y ago
Ok, so to be precise I did not mean to imply a DE should be a resource hog, leak memory all over the place etc. I simply meant to say that a diff of few tens or even hundreds of MBs of RAM between DEs is realistically insignificant for most
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by Matl 4y ago
Isn't the point of having RAM to fill it in order to cache objects? To me measuring how much RAM a DE uses is strange because I would expect it to consume enough RAM to be snappy but be able to adopt in a constrained system. If however
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> unlike Russia they are far away and not an imminent danger. So better be friends with them, even though we don't like it. The reason we're no longer on OK terms with Russia is because of Ukraine, yet we're actively helpi

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