MichaelCollins

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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> Many people miss the larger point that the scooter troubles have brought to light: this is a preview to what a post-ownership society would look like. It quickly becomes a tragedy of the commons when everyone uses public resources (re
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
How do you explain Germany having stringent drivers licensing requirements, and Germans being skilled and generally lawful drives? Just a coincidence? Do you think Germans would be just as good at driving if they dropped all the licensing
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
What is the point of these being scooters instead of bikes in the first place? Scooters seem strictly inferior and more dangerous than bicycles. The small wheels are much worse on dodgy road surfaces, and without being able to pinch the v
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> 80% accuracy Sentiment analysis is way worse than that in adversarial scenarios, where a human is trying to outwit the machine. My prediction for this whole thing: Elon Musk [again] gets swept up by AI hype, tries to replace human
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> There is also zero reason to limit the term "journalist" to big institutions. The "presscheck.org" verification asks freelance journalists looking for mastadon checkmark to submit links to their published work.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
That's a good example of the way the sensation of importance manufactured by social media is to the detriment of society. If a company has something market-moving to say, let them go to newspapers. When traders are reading social med
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> It's very clear what the intent was behind verification The use of checkmark revocation as a punishment proves that the intent of checkmarks was to reward people with a sensation of being special, not to verify their identity. &
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> For press this is important, so you know you're talking to the right person. That presumes their tweets are important. That's what twitter wants them to feel, the purpose of checkmarks on twitter is to make them feel impor
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
The twitter check was, and was always supposed to be, a way to make people with the check feel special. Where the real journalism is done, their identity is confirmed by their publishers with bylines, not checkmarks. Confirming identity i
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
If you really think Fox are credible, then swap MSNBC into my comment instead, the point stands. Or Graham Hancock and the ancient aliens sphere of influencers. Or Ben Shapiro or Richard Spencer. No matter which way you slice it, the t
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
This seems pathetic, like a bunch of twitter addicted journalists who've walked away from twitter but can't give up their addiction to being special on twitter. The twitter check was never a mark of credibility. Most of Fox News
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Tim Draper still supports Elizabeth Holmes: https://fortune.com/2022/01/05/venture-capital-tim-draper-el... I don't know how. Maybe he's just fucking stupid, or too prideful to admit he was wrong.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Imagine, for the sake of argument, that TikTok was a Russian app, banned by Russia in Russia, and was very popular with republicans.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> It seems however we do it, blacklisting IPs associated with TikTok, messing with DNS, Thanks to Apple and Google having a stranglehold on the apps people can run on their phones, an effective ban on tiktok in America is much easier t
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> In the United States, the age to buy tobacco products is 21 in all states as of 2020. Huh, TIL.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> They read exactly like concerns over television, or cartoons, or comic books, or video games. "They'll rot your brain." Why are you so sure they don't? https://www.psychreg.org/political-speeches-s
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Is it also disheartening to see cigarette regulation framed as a second hand smoke issue, when alcohol causes car crashes? One problem hardly refutes the other. They're both problems. I agree with social media eroding free will and
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Different content, different rules for content, different product.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Janet airlines exists to support the defense of American global hegemony, which is convenient for a very large number of people (particularly Americans and American allies.)
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Agreed, I should be able to take a US Navy ballistic missile submarine for a cruise. How dare they keep me out, I helped pay for those subs! (Is my example any less stupid than the assertion that anybody be allowed to walk into the testing
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Incidentally, I (not a Canadian citizen) once wandered into a Canadian military base without showing any ID or anything. The gate was open and the gate house was deserted. I think they expected the public to wander in though, because they
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Break the law, get charged, then hire a lawyer to answer that question for you. (It won't be fun for you.)
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Yeah, in the same sense that murder is banned. The ban gives you an excuse to punish people who violate the ban, but the ban doesn't stop people from doing it. And if one country keeps their nuclear program, who's going to do t
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> He tried to sway a foreign election to help himself. In a free society, everybody is entitled to advocate for their own interests. Foreigners have every right to voice their opinion on American politics, particularly those foreign
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> What's the case law on this? Many people have been prosecuted for this sort of thing, and it hasn't been declared unconstitutional.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Another major war will be far worse for the climate than a few additional airliner flights a day. Investing in the development of technology that makes a challenge to American global hegemony untenable is a very efficient method of prevent
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
You don't worry about repetitive strain injury from all that chording? I try to avoid that sort of thing as much as possible; even though I use emacs, I do it with evil bindings. Capslock rebound as control is useful, but the bottom
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
If he got busted for flying drones over military bases, then I have no sympathy. If he was only republishing images captured by somebody else who did that and already published them, then he did nothing wrong. It's not clear to me whi
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Many people think Assange "stopped being a journalist" when he seemingly sided with Hillary Clinton's opponent (after Hillary Clinton joked about murdering Assange.) Anyway, anybody who expects a journalist to be unbiased is
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> arcane symbols I have never been able to shake the impression that APL is a troll language, like INTERCAL or brainfuck, except that part of the 'joke' is to insist that there's no joke. APL makes me feel gaslit.

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