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MiddTech
6y ago
Lack of a robust and universally available/adopted mechanism for sharing, standardising and utilising said wheels. In addition, an ecosystem and/or culture that supports such a universal standardisation. This is assuming that stan
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MiddTech
6y ago
Money
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MiddTech
6y ago
Yeah, full protection from repercussions by the american government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_... Unless of course he's violating any (or lots of) the exceptions. https:/&#
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MiddTech
6y ago
I agree it's almost certainly true that it's just a made up term that happened to be what they picked that particular day and it stuck. Its probably a failure of imagination on my part, but how does it promote systemic racism? At
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MiddTech
6y ago
I'm possibly missing something but i can't see an actual rebuttal to the comic ? Perhaps it's my reading of the comic. I'm seeing a comment about software engineering as a profession in relation to other similar "en
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MiddTech
6y ago
I agree with you on that first part , it was a contrived example to illustrate the point, but in practical terms, not so helpful. I also agree with subjectivity as being it's own interesting topic of conversation. Universal imperitive
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MiddTech
7y ago
I'm not arguing that taking a stance is bad per se, i'm arguing that almost anything you might want to take a stance on is subjective. As an example: Reduce harm: depends on perspective (define harm?), timeframe, priorities. Avoid
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MiddTech
7y ago
Problem with that is that "best possible outcome" is all about perspective. I'm not sure if there is a subjective way to quantify such a thing without first taking a stance. Once you take a stance, the only difference between
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7y ago
Makes sense, but how would that be labelled. Any documentation or written/printed representation would need a label (preferably a consistent one). Taiwan, China or just Taiwan? What happens if you need to display a map of a contested a
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MiddTech
7y ago
The new ghost 3.0 release is pretty fancy wrt to the styling and layout defaults. For various subjective reasons, i've not used medium extensively so i can't compare like for like, but from what i have used it's not significa
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MiddTech
7y ago
> It's affecting the quality of the web that you, as a user, are browsing. Any numbers to back this up? (also while I'm asking for numbers how about "There is no doubt that this has affected the revenue for website owners
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MiddTech
8y ago
"This is wrong because i believe it to be so, based on my personal beliefs, therefore you should too" is almost the very definition of a subjective argument. Though i admit i may have entirely missed the objective statement in the
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10y ago
In this vein ^, what are his thoughts on Von Neumann probes?
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MiddTech
11y ago
I'm currently in a group matched by the service and its working fine for me. There was a significant delay between signing up and being matched but i am fairly certain that was due to massive demand when it first opened. The others in
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MiddTech
11y ago
Sounds like a "mastermind" or something approximating one. There is a service for matching people together for masterminds - > https://mastermindjam.com/ Just to be clear, there is no requirement to use a/