OzyM

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by OzyM 5y ago
Possibly a very dumb question: what's the benefit of using this over Blender? I've been using Blender for all my 2d animation needs for a while now and I don't see a reason to switch to Expressive Suite. Is one of its main ap
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by OzyM 5y ago
I don't need a Twitter account to read people's tweets, and I contact my representatives through phone/mail. If they decide to spend time in a private platform not everyone will be able to message them on (or spend a lot of t
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by OzyM 5y ago
I disagree, in that I think any privately-owned platform that people voluntarily use, have easy alternatives to, and can leave without consequence has the right to moderate the content on their platform as they see fit. That being said, aft
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by OzyM 5y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I agree that if one company is the only feasible option - a true monopoly - there should be controls on their power. However, I'm not convinced why any social media would fall under this umbrella at
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by OzyM 5y ago
Do you have an answer for my political-platform question? I feel like that'd help me understand where you're drawing the line here. As far as phone companies, my current understanding is that in the U.S., the government is involve
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by OzyM 5y ago
Ulterior motives, anti national -> (personally) this seems like free speech. I don't have to like it to think it should be legal. Blatantly trying to interfere with elections -> if you mean by spreading opinions / propaganda
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by OzyM 5y ago
So there's some popularity point where after people use a platform to talk enough times, the platform is no longer allowed to moderate the speech on it? Why? If I operate the world's biggest single-political-party discussion forum
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by OzyM 5y ago
I feel like there's some room for middle ground here. While I disagree with some of 80,000 hours' conclusions, I do think that a person's job is a major way they have an effect on the world. I have hobbies, friends, family, e
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by OzyM 5y ago
I mean, I disagree with (some of) platforms' content removal, but I don't disagree with their legal right to do so. If Twitter becomes a propaganda machine deleting any tweet it disagrees with, I think that's shitty and if I
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by OzyM 5y ago
Ah, that's fair. I definitely agree it's a problem when trying to cooperate on a program. I think it's probably more a function of inexperience or poor judgement than passion per se, but overzealousness definitely exacerbates
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by OzyM 5y ago
I read the government's requirement of certain executive roles + the requirement of it being an Indian citizen as the government having undue control over a private (foreign) company's executive positions. I'm still not famil
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by OzyM 5y ago
I really don't think this is universal. Sure, some people are definitely like this, but I want to be able to believe I'm building something interesting that will be used after I leave. I would take (and have taken) slightly lower-
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by OzyM 5y ago
How so? Wouldn't working with someone passionate about improving the project be useful, even if you're not equally interested?
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by OzyM 5y ago
Super interesting Wikipedia article, thanks for the link! Some of the restrictions on free speech make me instinctually uncomfortable (i.e. restrictions for the sake of "decency and morality"), but I recognize these are hardly uni
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by OzyM 5y ago
"The IT rules, which became effective end-May, are aimed at regulating content on social media and making firms act more swiftly on legal requests to remove posts and sharing details on the originators of messages. They also require th
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by OzyM 5y ago
I think it all depends on what the goal is. For tractable, straightforward, or routine software development, this seems very true. For middling-difficulty, this seems often true. It's more just the edge cases - problems requiring a l
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by OzyM 5y ago
I don't know enough about carbon capture to agree with the statement that it's directly proportional to land height. Even if it were, trying to calculate an inch of height difference through rotating cover crops and possible inche
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by OzyM 5y ago
This article just further hammers in the comparison between carbon offsets and buying indulgences to me. Even at the higher payment-per-acre point, all current forms of carbon offsets seem both too intractable and ineffectual to make much o
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by OzyM 5y ago
> Maybe the most depressing thing is that the US isn’t even that bad... [the] US does better than many Western European countries like Denmark, Norway and Germany. I'm not exactly sure what the writer's thesis is? They get stuc
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by OzyM 5y ago
If feeding was the only thing keeping you from caring for an animal, you could either adopt an herbivorous pet (most small mammals, maybe?) or adopt an omnivore capable of eating a plant-based diet (dogs?). In either case it seems like a mo
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by OzyM 5y ago
I mean, I think everyone agrees that way too much sugar or eating nondigestible plants is not a good idea. But a vegan diet has been approved for humans at all stages of life, and the vegan dog food I'm aware of meets all AAFCO standar
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by OzyM 5y ago
I think the dog problem has more to do with you killing animals to feed to your dog. As far as I can tell, vegans don't oppose animals in the wild hunting to survive (i.e. a killer whale). However, paying for animals to be killed to fe
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by OzyM 5y ago
I agree it's not an ideal situation, but I honestly think it's better than the alternative. In your example of me personally, this is kind of the tradeoff most small humans (including myself) made for the first ten years of life
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by OzyM 5y ago
I don't really understand why you're being downvoted, this was my understanding as well. There are plenty of vegan dog foods that seem to have a history of success and meet all AAFCO standards. I think as far as vegan cat food, I&
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by OzyM 5y ago
Is this sarcasm? I fail to understand how taking a dog from a loving household into scrounging on the streets is at all an ethical solution.