augustuspolius

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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Feels like Reddit is closer to Mastodon than to Twitter. Each Mastodon server is like a subreddit with its own rules, moderation, user base, etc.
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
This maybe a noob question - does Mastodon allow replies? The few profiles referenced in this thread that I visited look like announcement boards, with no way to comment or start a discussion. I am interested in electronic music and followe
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
The messages would still need to be stored somewhere, right? Is SMTP a decentralized protocol in this sense? You can send a message from any client... however most people still use centralized solutions, not their own mail servers. In your
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Sounds like you approach this debate as an exercise in argumentation, not as a discussion of Watts' life or his publications. When I asked OP to name someone, I did mean someone well-known. That makes sense in the context of a discussi
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Why is that a problem? Are you your best you every day or do you fail at some things and still persist at trying? It's natural to know what's best and yet not to be able to follow that to a T. I don't even fully understand th
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
What does fame or being an alcoholic have to do with giving good advice? Watts was smart, insightful, highly versed in philosophy and religion. Does being an alcoholic or a smoker or <choose your transgression> negate that? Edit: it’s
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Also an immediate intentional framing by comparing Watts to Peterson, who the author obviously despises and knows the audience will disapprove of.
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Who is that healthy perfect human we should all be taking life advice from?
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
I used to own a CD collection of his lectures and have very fond memories of listening to him on road trips. Agree that he shares many wonderful ideas in his talks, no need to diminish that by calling ideas “watered down” or “lazy”. He synt
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Right. At least you didn't call me a Nazi. You sound like one of the people who think CRT is "just history" without reading any of the actual books on CRT. How do you define far left in the US? People who advocate for the red
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Paying for a million fake users would be peanuts to a state actor. Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, etc... These users post on average 2 tweets per hour (my personal observation, not a reliable data point). A million users tweeting twice every
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
I don’t think $5/month would stop the biggest offenders: content farms. I have reported dozens of accounts that have posted tens of thousands of tweets in the last few years. Accounts that spam US politicians with things like “I am a d
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Far left in the US is the group that promotes things like: - extreme intersectionality - the original non-diluted Marxism-inspired version of CRT (e.g. punctuality and objectivism in academia are “white values”) - literal dissolution of pol
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Seriously considering #3 a solid idea to even discuss is a delusion. Twitter already has videos (YouTube, Twitch), a feed (Facebook, Google News), images (IG), etc. did it replace any of the above mentioned services or do you think the only
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
It's not that we decided that Elon will fail. It's that there is no agreement on what success looks like. More freedom of speech for some means more abuse and bigotry for others. Both 4chan (no moderation) and HN (moderation) have
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
If only we could all agree that the idea that only one race can be bigoted and racist is in itself racist.
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
User feedback is very unreliable. At a certain scale we tend to trust usage data more. (Eg why should they care more about your individual feedback than what seems like an increased user satisfaction with the platform?) So far I have not en
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Interesting idea, I will try that. I have disabled almost everything I could on YT (feeds, comments, video overlays, recommendations, history), but occasionally still encounter the horrible twisted-face-pointing-finger thumbnails.
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
I have removed all feeds from the homepage, all recommended feeds, all comments, all video overlays with uBO. History is disabled, watch later hidden. I hardly ever use search directly on YT. The easiest way for me not to get consumed by tr
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Personally I don’t think they consider their users stupid. The problem is in the fact that they (teams, PMs, designers, engineers) exist. They have to do something. And these companies keep hiring more and more, staff more and more teams… S
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
There are literally people in the world that can be motivated by something other than money. Some of those people are involved in making business decisions. Imagine that!
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Not sure if you work with designers. They are not some isolated partially insane org in most tech companies. Decisions like that likely start with a PM, get reviewed, then eng reviewed, then they run an experiment and confirm a hypothesis.
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Not everything is a conspiracy to make more money. I don’t know a single person in my bubble who needs more lightning cables. I have a dozen unused lightning cables already laying around. I threw away every pair of headphones that came with
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
In a parallel universe Samsung is spending 10B a year on 3D TV. They are improving software, introducing new stands for their 3D TV sets, acquiring 3D TV production companies. Samsung's CEO Nam is convinced that in the future every hou
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
VR absolutely needs to capture the average FB user and the masses. Zuck is not building the new WoW or an NFT marketplace. His goal is to create a highly social, highly monetizable, work/play platform for the planet. > that should&#
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
The important bit that you are missing is that Meta and its metaverse can survive only if the world they are building will be: 1. addictive enough that a very large chunk of humanity will visit it daily (ideally many times a day) 2. attract
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
> VR is immature but will be a big deal once it lowers in cost What do you mean by that? It's bad now because it's expensive? I think it's bad now because the tech is not ready (bulky, low resolution, low quality graphics,
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
Yes, and if your relatives get kicked in the face - no biggie, that’s why hospitals exist, right?
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
I mean, previous DA’s refusal to act, the whole restorative justice movement, allowing homeless people to occupy the downtown, allowing widespread hard drug street distribution and consumption.. all these policies intend to reduce inequalit
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by augustuspolius 4y ago
In the context of this article it would be useful to see stats on the number of shops closing due to police/DA inaction. It’s a very specific issue.

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