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by ab5tract 8mo ago
Where can I read this certainty of destroyed biodiversity? That sounds like an extremely unsupported position, considering that the Amazon has the highest rates of biodiversity today. The continued belittling of indigenous forestry practice
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by ab5tract 9mo ago
If you aren’t reaping of sowing, your labor isn’t in the fields anyway. People don’t understand that there are ebbs and flows to a farming life. There is always work to do but no one is out in the fields much unless it’s harvest or seeding
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by ab5tract 9mo ago
Sniping means that bidders may have decided to put in a higher ceiling in order to avoid losing at the last second. If there was never a worry about this, they could bring out (and decide) that ceiling only after being outbid.
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by ab5tract 9mo ago
The postmark must be on or before voting day. I cannot fathom how people have bought into this idea that they can be sent after the preliminary voting has happened.
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by ab5tract 10mo ago
A bedroom produced song versus a major-label, famous-studio song can have insane differences in price. It’s always been a requirement to make it up in volume of spins. I don’t see how this is any different.
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by ab5tract 10mo ago
I assumed 5.0 was referring to using any of the 5.00x series.
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by ab5tract 10mo ago
The statistics speak a far different story, I’m afraid.
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by ab5tract 11mo ago
Right, but a counter point is the etherium fork. Only a handful of people stayed on the “classic” chain after that first DAO turned out to have a massive extraction bug in it.
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by ab5tract 11mo ago
It’s a privately owned company. This leads to an entirely different relationship between employees and the top layer of management. You have to be very misguided to believe that the c suite in most companies is not engaged in n adversarial
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by ab5tract 11mo ago
I’m sorry but there is no way you can demonstrate a universal aesthetic. Your opinion of other people’s tastes does not reflect on their taste — it reflects on yours.
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by ab5tract 11mo ago
Agreed and well said!
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by ab5tract 11mo ago
Yes, this is what we do say when human traffickers are pardoned.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Definitely there has been a shift towards video content. But I think there is a discoverability dynamic at play as well. Finding a blog post that isn’t garbage can be harder than finding a decent video on any given topic. This is clearly a
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by ab5tract 1y ago
My intuition is that if there’s no 2 dollar coin to go with it, there’s no way for it to gain practical traction. In the US, change is already an annoying factor because sales tax is rarely included in eg, 4.99. So no one is jumping up and
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by ab5tract 1y ago
MySpace collapsed in something like 18 months.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
I don’t personally find “why didn’t you do it in X like everyone else?” to be very motivational for explaining my coding choices. But antononcube has thicker skin than me so..
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by ab5tract 1y ago
In that case, when would Raku ever be a better choice than something else? I personally don’t see what advantages Python as a language (not an ecosystem) would have here.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Again, all of this comes from Ted Nelson. He also had philosophical antecedents, but in terms of software it was his dream of Xanadu that was the first hypertext system. However, it’s worth pointing out that every attempt at Xanadu (under t
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by ab5tract 1y ago
All of which were similarly fractional implementations of Xanadu. Ted Nelson coined the term hypertext in the 60s.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Hypertext existed. Plan files existed. FTP already existed. In fact, the only surprising feature of www is that no one bothered to include bidirectional linking, to disastrous consequence.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
He didn’t invent anything either, though. www is just a less-than-half implementation of Xanadu. EDIT: To be clear, I don’t intend that as a knock against Sir Berners-Lee. But the post I’m responding to invokes a false dichotomy.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
And yet this very post positions Typst as a potential alternative to LaTeX. In other words, LaTeX is still in the top position. Personally I think ConTeXt is a far superior tool, though its documentation is always trailing quite a distance
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Governments can equally allow private companies this same capacity.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
TIL that no one has ever been in trouble for driving without insurance.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
You would be truly surprised by how many people are doing exactly the same thing when it comes to releasing their music on streaming platforms.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
This is not true. I’m sorry but the Splice userbase is hardly the size of earth’s music producing population.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
TIL that the lime still wires
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by ab5tract 1y ago
But your example just proves that the trademark avenue is not a genuine moat for Disney. If dozens of trademarks have been given for logos containing Jesus Christ, then there can be dozens of logos containing Steamboat Willie.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
The Wintel coalition was anti-competitive to an extreme degree. It may have faded to the background at this point but they were caught red handed multiple times using their market dominance to utterly destroy innovative alternatives. It doe
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by ab5tract 1y ago
The elegance referred to is grammatical, not typographic.

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