PixyMisa

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by PixyMisa 4y ago
> I, as an individual, do NOT have to respect your offensive speech. You don't have to respect what I say. You have to respect my right to say it.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
It works even if neither side is arguing in good faith, because in that case the audience can throw them all out.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
If you go to Reddit with the default subreddits, the experience is the same. Nothing but noise. At least Reddit is easier to tune - you can get a great feed by joining a dozen subreddits, instead of following hundreds of individual account
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
Oh, I read that thread. It is at best self-serving, and several of the tweets are simply false-to-fact. Big Tech is extremely political, practically ruled by politics, and those politics - as of 2022 - are almost exclusively left-wing. T
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
Yes, people do fight back against the mob. But Twitter has been on the side of the mob throughout.
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by PixyMisa 4y ago
Moderation is a hard problem, but not as hard as people like to claim. The solution is transparency.
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
> With a 75% majority, the other shareholders could vote to nullify his shares and make them worthless. The SEC would be extremely interested in such an attempt.
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
This is Twitter we're talking about. There's at least seven competing theories that space lizards will attempt an outright takeover.
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
Small loss.
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
The amount of moderation is a completely separate question from whether that moderation is even-handed and the moderators truthful. Nobody wants bots, but those are not the question in moderation discussions.
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
"More tweets" seems specifically designed to show you content you hate. No idea why. If you followed the people you list above it would show you the most extreme left-wing talking points instead.
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
4000 year old dad jokes. This is the content I come here for.
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
No, Trump was impeached for inquiring into Biden withholding aid to Ukraine.
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
Electric heating is a thing that exists. With heat pumps it's quite efficient too. Switching wholesale from existing gas heating is not a trivial exercise though.
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
N-rays (1903) would be a counter-example, but I can't speak as to the overall statistics of any scientific field that far back.
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
Try DuckDuckGo. It has shortcuts for searching - at last count - 13,565 sites.
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
The high-end Alder Lake parts - particularly the 12900K - are terrible energy hogs. But as you move down the stack, efficiency improves a lot while performance remains very competitive with AMD parts in the same price bracket.
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
The leading health problem among the poor in the US is obesity.
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
Stop jailing people for simple possession of drugs. Start jailing people for repeated burglary.
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
Nobody cares much about international law, but it was in no-ones interest to have a dozen smaller, likely unstable, post-Russian states all armed with nuclear missiles.
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
> Communism would be great if people would actually be good. Communism replaces a multitude of small, localised optimisation problems with a single, centralised, completely intractable optimisation problem, and at the same time destroys
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
Three sets of thieves in different clothes.
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
I think you rather missed the point.
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
This is completely normal. As companies grow larger, systems grow more complex. There are more moving parts serving more users, so for any given change you are more likely to encounter unexpected problems and those problems will take long
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
> Isn’t this a bit much? Given the state of American journalism, it is if anything overly kind.
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
Dealing with the GDPR costs money. Blocking the entire EU is free. This started happening even before the GDPR was finalised.
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
Many of whom just happened to be senior executives or board members.
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
Bribe system integrators?
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
It matters for performance and reliability. Go is fine, and means you get a nice standalone binary. Java is fine, but you need Java installed. If it were written in Node.js or PHP, on the other hand, you'd know to stay ten miles away
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by PixyMisa 5y ago
You could try Xapian. Or there's always SQLite itself.

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