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1. 9091.▲
   by api 7y ago

   So everyone complains about cruft and ugliness and the fact that OSes accumulate legacy crap without bound, but then everyone freaks out when an OS vendor purges some legacy crap and it breaks some things.
2. 9092.▲
   by api 7y ago

   I agree that advertising as a business model incentivizes bad things, but as for censorship the only things I'm aware of advertisers aggressively rejecting are things like Naziism and its relatives. This is because advertisers don&#x27
3. 9093.▲
   by api 7y ago

   Spam and malware destroyed the open experimental Internet.
4. 9094.▲
   by api 7y ago

   I don't think being "tech" is the primary thing that's been exploited here. This is an example of "any indicator or metric will be gamed, no exceptions." For quite some time the standard thesis of VCs has been
5. 9095.▲
   by api 7y ago

   I see the chans today as inseparable from the social silos. There's a two way dynamic in play. The chans are to social media what the gaming discords are to the games they shadow. It's where people go to cook up strategies to play
6. 9096.▲
   by api 7y ago

   Chan culture is one of three things that I personally list as having killed the creative Internet, with the other two being gamified / addictive social media and spam. Chan culture is itself a form of addictive gamified social media to
7. 9097.▲
   by api 7y ago

   I am glad this is being generally realized and people are no longer pretending the status quo is fine. It's the first step toward changing things.
8. 9098.▲
   by api 7y ago

   The point is to make it easy to move data in and hard to move it out.
9. 9099.▲
   by api 7y ago

   So far it seems a less problematic release than Mojave.
10. 9100.▲
    by api 7y ago

    If you manage things right its not that hard. Unfortunately there are not all that many good devops people. Expect to pay them as much as higher end devs. But overall you can save a ton of money hiring some of those and passing on the outra
11. 9101.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Nobody ever got fired for using AWS.
12. 9102.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I did a talk on this phenomenon once. It's a form of Red Queen's Race: admins block stuff, protocols not blocked grow to subsume blocked functionality, repeat. In the end we will have a virtualized Internet 100% encrypted and tunn
13. 9103.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I heard it put this way: neo-paganism is 99% neo 1% pagan.
14. 9104.▲
    by api 7y ago

    It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of coffee that thoughts acquire speed. The teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning.
15. 9105.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I call it the CRASER: CRaziness Amplification by Stimulation of Engagement with Reactivity.
16. 9106.▲
    by api 7y ago

    If the coffee part is true I will soon be able to fold space like the navigators in Dune.
17. 9107.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Like many such approaches I see little discussion here of resistance to sophisticated Sybil attacks.
18. 9108.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Isn't it part of the body's response to sickness? Why does screaming tend to underlie all stabbings?
19. 9109.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Not sure I'd rip off Mohammed Bonesaw, but I guess he didn't do so directly. The vision fund is the truly amazing case of serial capital destruction. Of course it brings to mind something I heard from a PI years ago: if something
20. 9110.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I bet it would work on a printed color picture wrapped around a melon, football, etc.
21. 9111.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I don't mean the religion, I mean the ultraconservative political ideology and its hold on society.
22. 9112.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Reminds me of a thesis I heard a while back about the big outbreak of Islamist terrorism: it's because they are losing. They are becoming frantic and apocalyptic because they are losing their own culture war slowly but surely.
23. 9113.▲
    by api 7y ago

    We seem to have no good solution to this. Capitalism/cowboy development: ship crap fast, break stuff, accrue regulations. Socialism/planned economy: have meetings to plan meetings to discuss requirements forever and nothing ever h
24. 9114.▲
    by api 7y ago

    ... and now we are discussing statewide rent control, which is prop 13 for renters and has the same effect of grandfathering in existing residents and discouraging growth. I often feel like the whole state and local governmental edifice in
25. 9115.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I think it looks comfortable in the Star Trek universe because Star Trek portrays a society that is not run by mobsters, warlords, delusional ideologues, and sociopaths. We are still very much savages. Clinical psychopaths and delusional na
26. 9116.▲
    by api 7y ago

    All of these are addressable engineering challenges if privacy were a priority. It's just that privacy is not a priority. (1) is not that hard, just subscribe to feeds or query cloud services from the device. (2) is harder but could be
27. 9117.▲
    by api 7y ago

    No relationship. Why does the device have to record and send everything to the cloud to provide this experience? I suspect the answer is a mix of "we want to invade privacy" and "it makes the devices cheaper to build since yo
28. 9118.▲
    by api 7y ago

    The tale I heard was that 4chan raided Stormfront and then the latter turned around and invaded 4chan and made it into Stormfront for nerds, but I have no clue if that story is true.
29. 9119.▲
    by api 7y ago

    It would not create a true global flood but it would create tsunamis and weather disruptions that could certainly by mythologized as such. Since humans are egocentric we would naturally assume it was our fault and that we offended the god(s
30. 9120.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I have a different and not mutually exclusive speculation: It's often assumed that only females have a "biological clock." Maybe that's not true. Maybe males start to crave offspring too, and some mistake these feelings