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by amatecha 2y ago
At the time of this Universal Declaration of Human Rights being published, the UN had 54 member countries[0]. Not sure what organization in human history is better positioned to author such a declaration. Further, nitpicking around the def
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by amatecha 2y ago
It's a set of guidelines, not a set of promises from the UN. Countries/societies/communities are who implement policies and systems that support and correlate with these extremely-broadly-agreed-upon guidelines. My point is
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by amatecha 2y ago
Unfortunately that link doesn't say anything about profit margins, or revenue/expenses. It only talks strictly about premiums, which is a monthly fee for insurance coverage, and is just one source of revenue for such a company.
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by amatecha 2y ago
Oh yeah, speaking of rights... "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and t
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by amatecha 2y ago
So... if claims (and thus expenses) are reduced but we have the same revenue, we simply need to increase some other expenses: raise C-suite salaries! :) I'm speculating/joking, but wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to
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by amatecha 2y ago
I imagine you can recognize the difference between an extractive, engagement-metric-driven profit-centre like FB or "X" and a forum-like discussion site like Hacker News. There's a reason I used the phrase "mass social
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by amatecha 2y ago
Additional instance of this presentation put on by the same speaker at another conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LArOT95LTJU
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by amatecha 2y ago
I'm 40 and as far as I can tell, I can concentrate just as well now as I did when I was 20. I'm also pretty deliberate with what I do in life, I don't engage in "mass social media" like FB/Twitter/etc. ,
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by amatecha 2y ago
Related: https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/ "You are the victim of a con — one so pernicious that you’ve likely tuned it out despite the fact it’s part of almost every part of your life. It hurts eve
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yeah, in my experience, basically every time too much time is spent planning rather than doing, it has a huge cost in lost time that could have been better spent proving out the foundation of the idea which would immediately inform the next
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by amatecha 2y ago
"Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak prints his own money" -- closed the window. Dunno what I expected, clicking an Instagram link. Turns out there's no way to report content for misinformation, as I've just discovered, so
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by amatecha 2y ago
ahh dang! maybe you've got the URL in an old email somewhere? only thing I could think of... fingers crossed for you!
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by amatecha 2y ago
Dude he gave a fake ID to a Secret Service agent? Dang.
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by amatecha 2y ago
I just use Craigslist. Yeah, that greatly limits the pool, but eBay is scummy and so is FB.
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by amatecha 2y ago
Random "early web Simpsons memory": in 1995 when I was taking a course to learn HTML, I had a great time browsing the web with "super-fast" ISDN (this was amazing at the time), and downloaded the Itchy & Scratchy so
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by amatecha 2y ago
Nice! If you remember the full URL, it's very possible it's on archive.org. My first couple websites are on there, fortunately (or unfortunately, considering how dorky they are hahah)
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by amatecha 2y ago
I was thinking the same about rock climbing vs tower climbing -- I don't find rock climbing very scary because I'm always on a rope. In the YT video above[0] though, that guy doesn't appear to be tied into anything, except a
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by amatecha 2y ago
No relation to the best-selling 90's PC game "Myst", in case anyone was wondering like I was.
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by amatecha 2y ago
Not sure about Toronto, but from my anecdotal observation, people come to Vancouver because it's awesome, not because they couldn't get into the US. At least, I've never heard a single coworker say anything along the lines o
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by amatecha 2y ago
Every major US tech company has Canada-based hubs for sure. So much cheaper.
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by amatecha 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_movement
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yeah, there are surely aspects of the immigration program(s) to criticize, but the racism aspect has been either totally unchanged or decreased over time, from my observation. Though, maybe that's unsurprising considering: "Vanc
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by amatecha 2y ago
Speaking as a Vancouverite: nope. I'm more vocal than ever about calling out any shred of prejudice or hate from anyone around me -- not that I have to do so very often at all. Once or twice a year at most, I'd say. If you are i
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by amatecha 2y ago
You can watch the recording of the presentation at https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-wir-wissen-wo-dein-auto-steht-vo... , including with translated audio tracks (!)
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by amatecha 2y ago
Can I just be blunt here and ask, why the F? No one asked for this. No one wants this. We just want a good, standards-compliant browser that doesn't eat up 8gb of RAM watching a single YouTube video (something that seems to be quite
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by amatecha 2y ago
The last time I was looking at the documentation page for lockdown mode all I could think was "this is how the phones should be by default"
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by amatecha 2y ago
To my knowledge you can't run your own self-contained Bluesky server/network that doesn't go through (or at least partially rely on) services owned/operated by the Bluesky corporation. > A world of full self-hosting i
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yeah, I have geo-tagged images from people having AirDropped photos to me. Occasionally I've noticed a photo somehow says the city it was taken in, much to my surprise -- only to remember this was actually AirDropped to me from someon
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by amatecha 2y ago
(btw thanks for the links!) :)
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yeah, that sorta already exists. If you've ever done remote customer support, they can send a query to remotely-view your screen -- a query which you have to accept or deny. There's really zero reason there couldn't be a si

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