actionablefiber

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by actionablefiber 3y ago
Many types of loans you can take out, where approval and interest are dependent on your credit history and assets, and also your tax burden to the government, are kind of like that too. Really anything where the amount charged varies with y
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
That's what Google+ was, too. People who already had online communities on four websites temporarily added a fifth to hedge their bets until it was clear that G+ was not destined for greatness.
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
Ok, but what do you do then? Fundamentally the issue is that cars are huge visibility blockers. It is completely inconceivable that a cyclist could stop or slow to let a pedestrian cross, and the driver behind them would not see the pedestr
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
> That pedestrian deaths were higher at some point in the past is what's the real story here. I deeply disagree with this take. I am living in a world in which boxes of metal fly around my unprotected flesh at high speeds, and &quot
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
The number was 4,109 in 2009[1]. In 2022 the number is 7,509, per TFA. We are in the middle of an alarming rebound that has significantly outpaced population growth. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/us&
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
> bigger cars often total smaller ones And if you have the misfortune of getting hit by a bigger car while not being in a car yourself, you are likely to be critically injured, permanently disabled, or dead. The way to adapt is to drive
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
> And property owners are people who are quite literally invested in the community, even more so than full-time renters. I don't agree on this point. They are invested in a plot of land, not the people. A house that sits empty for m
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
> Similarly "purchased with cash" with your rent money. The right being acquired by being in the locality. Homeless people can and do vote. One can argue it is difficult to verify someone is telling the truth about residency or
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
I don't think that's a compelling reason. I would be infuriated as a full-time resident to see a legion of absentee landlords and fair-weather vacationers suppress representation of my arguably significantly more legitimate inte
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
> Seems like a way to enable vacationers/landlords vote in local elections. I can't think of any compelling reason to do this.
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
I also find generally that both Apple Maps and Google Maps are extremely unsatisfying to use if you typically travel by bicycle. Google Maps looks like it supports combining public transit and bicycle, since you can select bike as a conne
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
I also love old.reddit.com with RES, but I have no illusion that Reddit likes it too. It seems likely to me that the same factors that motivate Reddit to do away with high-quality, user-oriented third party frontends will also motivate it t
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
It is a gamble. I am a Reddit power user in part because of the superb unobtrusive experience of old.reddit and Apollo. If you shove it full of ads, it’s no longer the experience I got addicted to. At that point I’d rather leave.
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
One possible outcome is that the pie shrinks. If Reddit hurts the user experience and drives away creators and mods, some people will leave with no alternative and simply spend less time on the Internet. In my case, I've replaced my Re
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
Will it, though? For how much I see people here saying AI moderation can solve this, I frankly think AI tools are likely to be an order of magnitude better at playing offense than defense - producing huge volumes of AI-generated spam&#x
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
This would be with interrupting service though wouldn't it? This would be, "I can no longer provide the service you bought, so I will refund you, cancel the subscription you have, and introduce a totally different subscription tha
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
Do you think users will continue to report posts if they see that reporting too often will cause them to be shadowbanned? Conversely if you are in the business of publishing spam to Reddit, wouldn’t it be useful if you could overwhelm the s
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
Seems it should be possible to shut down, refund, and relaunch under a new pricing model? Does Apple forbid that?
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
I moved Apollo to my last page of apps instead of my first. It taught me a lot, very quickly, about how compulsively I was using it, and how little I missed it after the unconscious act of opening it up left my muscle memory.
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
> How does that work with a app like Discord, which is more like a huge group of villages and not one big village? Reddit is/was also arguably a huge group of villages. It still feels that way, if you are only subscribed to sensibly
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
Thank Cory Doctorow[1] for that one. [1] https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
I'm sure the price is negotiable. Off the top of my head, the reasons you'd pay any nonzero amount of money for it are: 1. You avoid all of this drama. Christian makes a post that says, "Reddit offered me a lot of money and I
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
It's common for various counterparties, including software, to ask for much more information than they need and possibly be doing untrustworthy things with it while also providing legitimate value to the end user. I've lied about
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
The issue is those extensions can withhold valuable functionality needlessly. If I download $usefulWikipediaCompanionExtension whose functionality only depends on access to *.wikipedia.org but whose manifest demands permission on all site
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
> And now we get to the issue. This was never a sustainable business model. It depended on Reddit API being free - even at the massive volume Apollo operates at. That is unreasonable. Christian has already shared his correspondence on Re
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
Most Reddit alternatives were founded on the basis of defending "free speech" in direct reaction to Reddit banning places like /r/FatPeopleHate and /r/The_Donald. Their userbase predictably filled up quickly wi
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
I always enthusiastically recommended it to my friends telling them it felt more like a native first-party Apple app than any actual native first-party Apple app.
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
> A business, Apollo, made an offer (lifetime access) to gain marketshare. It worked as Apollo is the defacto Reddit App for iOS. Now they cannot hold true to their offer, so they're forced to refund it. This is the price of the bar
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
I think you have this quite backwards? Moderating is awful, thankless, unpaid work. Why would a mod "need" an awful thankless unpaid job and why would Reddit have a rush of competent, honest, qualified people willing to replace th
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by actionablefiber 3y ago
When you said kickbacks I wasn't expecting the price to be so low.

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