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by SllX 8mo ago
The vast majority of the time that I read the news, it’s from a publication I pay for. They get far far more than a box of bandaids over a lifetime. The rest can be worth my time, sometimes, under limited circumstances, but usually it isn
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by SllX 8mo ago
You gotta punch the monkey though! Isn’t that fun?! But no, that is how we got here. Internet ads were novel until they were just irritating.
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by SllX 8mo ago
My stance is exactly what I said: most news is priced correctly for most people at $0.00. If they value it at more than that, they will pay for it.
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by SllX 8mo ago
I subscribe to a couple of these already. :) It’s not micro-transactions though, it’s a feature built off a subscriber-provider relationship.
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by SllX 8mo ago
$2/month or $10/momth is apparently not the actual price then if you’re able to get it for $0/month.
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by SllX 8mo ago
Demanding your friends engage in a financial transaction with a third party is a different vibe. The reality of what would actually happen is this: if I can’t read it, I can’t read it. If I ask and they’re willing to provide it, then I’ll r
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by SllX 8mo ago
Did you go on to write checks in the thousands to the writers or publications that produced them?
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by SllX 8mo ago
> You're not a potential customer, so a non-entity in their concerns. A small correction: I am a potential customer, at least in the general sense. I am someone that subscribes to news publications as I already pointed out. Who I pa
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by SllX 8mo ago
Newspapers were already bundled that way: you got national news, local news, business news, sports, the funny pages, classifieds, wire stories from AP & Reuters, etc. Then they went onto the web and were forced to prioritize, but where
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by SllX 8mo ago
> It's important to note they aren't creating laws against infinite scrolling, but are ruling against addictive design and pointing to infinite scrolling as an example of it. If the EU passes a law that seems general but start
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by SllX 8mo ago
Something to keep in mind is while it’s the same developer, the ownership history of NNW had a few rocky years. At some point Brent Simmons started work on an entirely new RSS reader he was at the time calling Evergreen, intended only for t
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by SllX 8mo ago
It’s on the island, not within the control of the State.
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by SllX 8mo ago
Pick any Gundam series and watch the last 5 or 6 episodes, at least through the Gundam SEED/Destiny era. At least part of the plot will invariably include a space-based superweapon being deployed by one side of the war to end all wars
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by SllX 9mo ago
Sure, and in 1992 it was 46%, and in 2000 it was 71% and in 2013 it was 61%. USD foreign exchange reserves have definitely declined from their peak, but by “declined” we’re talking about going from “overwhelmingly dominant” to “merely domin
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by SllX 9mo ago
> Should the US become an unfriendly power to the rest of the western world, it will find the demand for its currency plummeting, which I don't want to outline is a big issue. Right now this is much more of a maybe, possibly, eventu
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by SllX 9mo ago
Sure, but different agency under a different government (Feds, not City of Oakland). Oakland PD has their own bad reputation to live down to, let’s not commingle them.
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by SllX 9mo ago
I don’t deal with Oakland Police specifically but Oakland itself is a sanctuary city.
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by SllX 9mo ago
> So the world is better when all those guys gave-up or died. I think this line is a bit harsh but otherwise I think we’re pretty much in agreement now unless there’s something else you would like to add on. Cheers!
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by SllX 9mo ago
The “Unix Wars” battle lines were drawn in 1988 with the formation of the X/Open Group and Unix International, the same year Bell Labs put together the 10th Edition’s manual, more or less demarcating its release according to their own
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by SllX 9mo ago
Plan 9 isn’t UNIX. 9front isn’t Plan 9 from Bell Labs.
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by SllX 9mo ago
> So it seems very fair to say then, that features like SIP and the SSV are genuine turns away from Unix per se At the end of the day UNIX is an operating system. A dead operating system that hasn’t seen a release outside of Bell Labs si
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by SllX 9mo ago
Sure, at some as yet to be determined time in the future, gas may be supplanted by electricity, and even replace it entirely. Right now gas is still king in Europe, and most residential energy use is just heating homes. https://e
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by SllX 9mo ago
Laws are negotiable between sovereign states representing the business interests of their nations. The EU, not being a nation itself, may not get that part and may have been feeling a little too invincible as a bloc of nations, but they hav
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by SllX 9mo ago
20 years and counting. The Mercosur deal still needs to pass the EU Parliament, and it’s not scheduled to come up for at least a few months. The EU’s Parliament is also nearly split down the middle on the deal which means there’s still abou
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by SllX 9mo ago
Windows & Devices is still a $14ish Billion/year or so business for Microsoft. I know that doesn’t seem like a lot, but that’s a lot of money they’re apparently not making which would make their most recent 10K filing with the SEC
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by SllX 9mo ago
There is a world where Microsoft could make yet another soulless decision to kill something good they already have on the theory it would save some money, on the mistaken belief that the kernel is the problem with Windows. One would like
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by SllX 9mo ago
If regulations can legitimately be advocated for , they can be advocated against as well. Facebook wouldn’t have any vested interest in the far left, the far right, the far up or the far down in the EU if the EU wasn’t giving them reason
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by SllX 9mo ago
That’s fair. I tunneled in through a linguistic lens.
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by SllX 9mo ago
And Basque, Maltese, Turkish and Georgian. Magyar (Hungarian) and Finnish are both Uralic languages along with Estonian and the Sámi languages, but none of these are related to the Indo-European languages common in the other parts of Europe
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by SllX 9mo ago
Also a little extra distinction: “.txt” is a relic of 8.3 DOS filename conventions. He was not bound by these. If you’ve got the space, of course you’ll go with “.text” over “.txt” because text is the input, HTML is the output, Markdown is

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