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by Veen 4y ago
E.O. Wilson once said of communism, 'Great idea, wrong species.' Whether or not that was true of communism, it seems true of crypto. It has brilliant technical ideas and clever solutions to problems with traditional currencies, bu
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by Veen 4y ago
Why don't you wait to see how the court case is resolved before you throw your dummy? It's entirely possible the court will rule against Wright, setting a precedent that protects developers from this sort of legal action.
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by Veen 4y ago
I'd like to make a crowdfund campaign so I can pay Talenthouse creators to make an advertising campaign with a simple message: "Do Not Work on Spec. Ever. For Anyone." And especially not for shady 'platforms' that a
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by Veen 4y ago
Perhaps an American romance novelist is not the most reliable source of information about British public schools. William Golding, the author of Lord of the Flies, did not attend a public school; he attended the non-residential co-education
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by Veen 4y ago
Yes, while some murderers go to Eton, the vast majority go to school somewhere else.
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by Veen 4y ago
Friendly advice, stop digging and step away from this thread/talk to your PR team. You're not helping yourself or Cloudflare by responding in this way.
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by Veen 4y ago
That response misses the point by a wide margin.
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by Veen 4y ago
Who is stopping you from doing that? Use whichever pronouns you want. Unless of course by ”I prefer” you mean “everyone should,” which is a different matter.
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by Veen 4y ago
What's as worrying, judging by the comments here and in that GitHub thread, is that there is no correlation between technical ability and ethical understanding. Perhaps naively, I'd have thought someone intelligent enough to devel
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by Veen 4y ago
Lack of integrity in general is not news, but it is valuable to know about specific examples. Not least because it undermines Facebook’s PR fluff.
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It was the Tories who launched Tech Nation and awarded them the funding in the first place.
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by Veen 4y ago
I read this article immediately after reading Corey Doctorow's The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok [0]. It's a useful juxtaposition if you're interested in thinking about how Artifact is likely to develop if it gains traction. [
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by Veen 4y ago
Somewhat ironically, this article isn't helpful because it oversimplifies a complex topic. Many factors contribute to "good writing" and they can't be distilled to "ordinary words and simple sentences". For exa
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by Veen 4y ago
Perhaps some sort of beacon emergency services can deploy which would tell self-driving vehicles to avoid an area.
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by Veen 4y ago
Seems an unjustified over generalisation or you’re taking the ‘personal’ in personal information too literally. I use obsidian to manage notes for my job, which is research and writing.
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by Veen 4y ago
It's not really deeply technical, it's just trying to be comprehensive and concise. If you want deeply technical, read Pullum's explanation of passives in Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.
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by Veen 4y ago
But it does say "Never use the passive where you can use the active." That advice is harmful to clear and elegant writing. The passive really has nothing to do with politics and police and misleading people. It's a just a str
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by Veen 4y ago
When I spend several thousand pounds on a laptop, I expect its features, including its privacy features, to maximally benefit me, not some hypothetical refurbisher who I, quite honestly, don't give a shit about.
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by Veen 4y ago
It makes transferring the device to a new owner slightly harder. But it takes two minutes to remove the activation lock. If the trade-off is protecting owner privacy/disincentivizing thieves and forcing sellers to make a two-minute con
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by Veen 4y ago
The 'mere' anti-theft and privacy benefits are way more important to me than the second-hand market. Plus, the difficulty caused by the anti-theft mechanism is straightforward to overcome provided the seller is legitimate.
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by Veen 4y ago
Is the phone number requirement a US-specific thing? I created my account without giving up my phone number. I'm in the UK.
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by Veen 4y ago
Maybe so, but traditional left-wing thinking would put Silicon Valley engineers firmly in the bourgeoisie—a group that pretends to have interests in common with the proletariat, but doesn't really. If it is class war, you guys really a
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by Veen 4y ago
A bit off topic, but a knighthood doesn't make you upper-class. In England, the real upper-classes are landed nobles with hereditary titles (who will look down on any parvenu with a knighthood and a few billion).
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by Veen 4y ago
I wouldn't count among the downtrodden proletariat the extremely well-paid Silicon Valley engineers who sell themselves to rapacious advertising companies. This is one elite individual saying something other elite individuals don'
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by Veen 4y ago
He was brought-up working class. His father's a Jamaican-born mechanic who moved to the UK in the 60s. He wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth. The class-war stuff probably isn't helpful.
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by Veen 4y ago
I find they do not work. I suspect it's because there are two components to continued smoking. The first is the nicotine addiction. The second is the sensory experience. The act of smoking becomes such an ingrained habit it's hard
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by Veen 4y ago
> You don't think having 2x the visual data is better independent of experience? What does "better independent of experience" mean? The experience is the whole point, and its quality is not linearly proportional to the amo
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by Veen 4y ago
Oh really? I've tried --shift-heading in the past and it worked to move headings up a level, but not to the title. I'll have to read the docs more carefully and give it another go. Thank you.
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by Veen 4y ago
I do wish there was an easy way to create Word document titles from H1s in Markdown. It makes sense that they should be converted to top-level headings, but it adds an annoying bit of friction to my workflow.
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by Veen 4y ago
The study says 0.15% of transactions involved addresses that have been identified as illicit. That’s quite different to saying 0.15% of transactions are illicit and very different to saying 0.15% of the value of crypto transactions was illi

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