OroPla

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by OroPla 1mo ago
The entire internet ad business has never made sense to me. Have you ever clicked any of the links? The landing pages were always confusing and not at all designed for you to engage with them. I used to think, okay, I guess they don't
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by OroPla 1mo ago
Sure, but imagine how funny it would be if you could buy something from Apple and get a refund because you don't want to use their OS.
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by OroPla 1mo ago
I don't want yet another app on my phone. My rule for apps these days is that if it is not available through F-Droid, I won't be using it.
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by OroPla 1mo ago
Solving one captcha is mildly annoying. Being trapped in an infinite captcha loop will really grind your gears and eat away at your spirit. Having my CPU go up for a while is nearly frictionless on the other hand. Worst case I'm stuck
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by OroPla 1mo ago
What you are describing sounds like a weird alternative reality. I never heard of always splitting bills, either. But it's not exactly a homogeneous country. To the point everyone jokes that Bavaria isn't even German, for example.
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by OroPla 1mo ago
As a German that never has encountered PayPal in the wild and doesn't have a Paypal account either, your narration requires elaboration to be believable.
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by OroPla 1mo ago
Twitter doesn't really work without an account. Projects like Nitter solved that. Especially annoying when Twitter is a source for something.
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by OroPla 1mo ago
My steelman read of that would be that there is a difference between paying Apple a premium to make installing Linux hard vs. paying, say, Framework a premium to make installing Linux easy.
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by OroPla 1mo ago
This doesn't change the meaning of the word modern, though. It just uses a different scale. The same way the Moon is "right next to" the Earth. However, when you tie the word "new" or in this case "modern"
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by OroPla 2mo ago
I think about fast enough Internet the way I think about running water and electricity: essential.
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by OroPla 2mo ago
In 1997, there were only a hundred thousand web pages. Not even millions. The one billion mark would not be breached until 2016 according to the results of a quick search.
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by OroPla 2mo ago
In my head he answered "in my day and age we had the black plague, with a 90% death rate". (It was 50%, but who checks these numbers anyway.) Guess we are so used to made up numbers and exaggerations that it's hard to take an
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by OroPla 2mo ago
I do not recall any of that happening, though. Which law are you thinking of and what could the church do beforehand that it couldn't do after? The way I remember it, life for the average person didn't change.
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by OroPla 2mo ago
Let's go with the French Revolution, since you mentioned guillotines. What improvement was made exactly?
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by OroPla 2mo ago
Are you saying that someone experiencing a psychotic breakdown should not get psychiatric care? Try to be charitable in your interpretation.
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by OroPla 2mo ago
So when one part of the Earth decides to make more people another part of the Earth gets less? If this really happened it would incentivize genocide against less developed nations.
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by OroPla 2mo ago
Last time this was done it didn't help at all. Why do you think it would be different this time?
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by OroPla 2mo ago
What kind of phenomenon are we dealing we here with, though? How does it compare to our varieties of: - birds aren't real - Flat Earth - Atlantis (did Plato made it up or not?) - years 800-1000 were completely made up so some guy coul
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by OroPla 2mo ago
If it was clear we wouldn't be having this conversation.
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by OroPla 2mo ago
> the only way to do it is for every person to have the same share That is not a very good idea. Think about it, just breeding more people would give humanity a bigger share. Much better to let every square mile (or some other arbitrary
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by OroPla 2mo ago
Maybe that is why realism is chased so much in video games in the west, while eastern countries rarely are interested.
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by OroPla 2mo ago
I agree that it is incredibly stupid to call something from 1870 "modern". The word modern has a a clear meaning of "just now" / "contemporary". Not two hundred years ago. It shouldn't be attached to
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by OroPla 2mo ago
Reminds me of a story I read recently where they deployed a SWAT team to deliver a letter. I thought it must have been fake, but maybe not.. (It was news because the old building's stairs couldn't support the weight of the SWAT te
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by OroPla 2mo ago
We are not talking jail, we are talking closed institution. The kind of hospital you check in but do not check out from, as many mental illnesses are incurable.
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by OroPla 2mo ago
Alternative view: the human brain did never decrease in size: https://www.unlv.edu/news/release/unlv-research-no-human-bra... I have no idea which position is correct, but both can't be true.
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by OroPla 2mo ago
People using books did in fact lead to cognitive decline since remembering could be offloaded. But that didn't stop the spread of books, was the point I tried to make. Same for social media. The negative effects have been apparent for
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by OroPla 2mo ago
Offloading problems makes it so you do not have to solve them. If you don't have to solve a problem, your brain does not have that work to do. Your brain working less means it has less opportunities to train. The consequence is worse c
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by OroPla 2mo ago
Just recently I read that it is futile to make AI give out scores like that, as they are pretty much completely made up. Can't find the article anymore, though.
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by OroPla 2mo ago
Had the same experience outside of AI recently. With the cli friendly weather reporting site wttr. It reported temperatures that were about 30°C off. Can't trust anything anymore these days.
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by OroPla 2mo ago
ChatGPT can lead you to an answer. It can also lead you in circles never getting anywhere and it's taken some getting used to figuring out on which path you currently are. So for now I'm doing both. A bit search and a bit AI.

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