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by altacc 4y ago
I wonder if the judge realises that people don't care about context, just shaping information to fit their current opinions. People don't care about facts unless they fit their confirmation bias. As Epstein purposefully cultivated
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by altacc 4y ago
Cynically, I doubt this decision is driven by the principles of free speech. Like a lot of people & organisations, the Conservative Party is only interested in protecting the freedom of speech that they approve of. I think it is more li
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by altacc 4y ago
I think you've possibly simplified by solving a different problem to what's described in the article. The problem space described is subscription plan & pay per use (with what sounds like might be percentage pricing as well).
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by altacc 4y ago
There's been a lot of talk recently about effects of loneliness and the "loneliness epidemic". What a lot of this lacks, including this article, is a good and correct definition of loneliness. They seem to use the lazy &
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by altacc 4y ago
Indeed. I know quite a few people who turned their passions into jobs and ended up not enjoying their job or passion anymore. Familiarity breeds contempt, or just boredom. I ignore the trite 'Do a job you love and you will never have t
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by altacc 4y ago
I'm in a similar position and took up coding random projects for micro controllers (e.g. Arduino & ESP32) precisely so that I could get a kick out of writing small amounts of functioning code that did stuff in a single evening. I w
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by altacc 4y ago
Over 200 million active monthly users.
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by altacc 4y ago
All of these stats are somewhat meaningless without common definitions. Number of users is not the same as active users. If we compare similarweb’s estimates visits it’s 10.6 million for Gab and 7 billion for Twitter. Maybe it’s just my per
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by altacc 4y ago
Basically shadow banning, which a lot of the “anti-woke” brigade have been complaining about for years and thought Musk would stop. Unsurprisingly, it turns out it’s more complicated to run a social media site than some people might think.
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by altacc 4y ago
It's not the ToS that people don't like about those services. What makes social media sticky is the culture. If people like the culture of a social media platform then they stay. Very few people like the culture of Gab, Parler, Tr
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by altacc 4y ago
Perhaps in theory but in reality companies align on the lowest common denominator. so whilst directly not conspiring they begin to provide the same pay mechanisms, benefits & security (or lack of). Many of these companies also entice wo
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by altacc 4y ago
Perhaps child workers also feel cheated when the sweatshop they work at is closed down when pressure forces a client to stop using that factory but that isn't a valid reason to keep using child labour. Most companies will settle on the
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by altacc 4y ago
The same way fiat finance builds up and then collapses: most people have no idea what's going on or what any of it means. There's a lot of accounting smoke & mirrors to make everything look successful, until it's put to t
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by altacc 4y ago
From the page: "We believe regular people can valuably contribute to identifying and adding helpful context to potentially misleading information." That'll end well! ;) Problem is that on Twitter people aren't "regu
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by altacc 4y ago
Coincidentally the interest on the debt Musk used to purchase Twitter is reported to be about $1 billion a year.
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by altacc 4y ago
Classic free market fallacy. It's only a free market if there are other options available. Those in power control the options available and low regulation free markets enable them align at the lowest common denominator.
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by altacc 4y ago
I had a similar thought as whilst the technology might be similar in some ways the context, the history, the use cases and the driving principles are different. Anyone who has started a development job working on an established architecture
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by altacc 4y ago
> He's lashing out like a toddler who can't have something he wants. I think that is an overly simplistic interpretation. The larger context to consider here is other countries that are loyal/controlled/influenced by
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by altacc 4y ago
Not PP, but in countries where there is employment protection, a company can still officially downsize and make roles redundant and therefore layoff the people in these roles. Those in now redundant roles can technically apply for any new o
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by altacc 4y ago
I've read a bit around this topic and a rather plausible explanation is that in North America, the European settler mentality was that the north was all empty land. Acknowledging the presence of native American towns, cities, farmlands
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by altacc 4y ago
It exists! I looked at that and was sure it was a spoof until I saw the video of it.
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by altacc 4y ago
So realistic that it hogs the middle lane when it could move to the left ;)
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by altacc 4y ago
A lot of amateur photographers used Lightroom and were willing to pay a one off purchase price whereas a monthly cost for something you might hardly use in a month is too expensive. Figma has a high percentage of users who use it regularly
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by altacc 4y ago
The difference is that between centralised banking and cryptocurrency, only one of them is claiming to be decentralised and it isn’t the bank.
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by altacc 4y ago
Most art is the result of numerous trial & error. Most finished works of creativity/art, be it visual, music, poetry or prose, are preceded by numerous sketches, drafts, discarded attempts and edits. Creativity is a process and req
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by altacc 4y ago
Some people put a lot more effort into their photos than I do! Although as they selected people with 100k+ followers I guess taking good photos is basically work for them (or rather their patient partners).
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by altacc 4y ago
There's been some studies over the years that point to the price of a vehicle being an factor in how aggressive & entitled motorists are. I wonder if the causation here might be both ways, with those drivers more likely to buy an e
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by altacc 4y ago
https://archive.ph/dLKkb
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by altacc 4y ago
This is a great idea, because I'll be able to snag a free Apple watch ;) I regularly have phone watches left at our house by my children's friends and if you walk through the school after hours you'll occasionally find one ly
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by altacc 4y ago
I agree. There's something to be said for app/services that decide that medium sized is good enough and they'll stick to doing their one thing well. Flickr springs to mind (although is much past its hey-day). I know people wh

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