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by bad_username 6y ago
"Violent extremism" in the era of "speech is violence" can mean anything at all.
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by bad_username 6y ago
Power naps are glorious. In China taking a nap after lunch, right at your desk, is common and accepted practice.
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by bad_username 6y ago
> we are polarising, not because of 'freedom of speech' (or putative threats to it,) but because of freedom of association Polarisation is being fueled by social network algorithms and media programming, that optimize for ideol
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by bad_username 6y ago
"Critical thinking, as we’re taught to do it, isn’t helping in the fight against misinformation", argues NYT [1]. I profoundly disagree, but this way of thinking seems to be the modern trend, influenced by postmodernism. [1] htt
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by bad_username 6y ago
An intentionally false statement from an authority on a current event of extreme importance, no matter how noble, is extremely counterproductive, even if we leave aside moral aspects. Indeed, it will cause further statements from the author
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by bad_username 6y ago
> People also prefer people of their own race, gender, age group Citation needed.
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by bad_username 6y ago
Raymond Chen about the infinitely precise engine of the Windows calc. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040525-00/?p=39...
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by bad_username 6y ago
> storage is cheap but the savings go away if you actually do anything with the data. This is the "data back up" use case, where you store heaps of data, and hope to never need to access it. For this use case the conditions see
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by bad_username 6y ago
I grew up in the Soviet Union, and am a redditor since 2013. No, that is not an overstatement.
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by bad_username 6y ago
Advocating for the neutrality of internet infrastructure providers, while rallying against the neutrality of internet communication platforms (1), is pretty inconsistent. 1: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01&#x
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by bad_username 6y ago
I found the 0.0001%. Mint could not reliably connect to my run off the mill BW Brother wireless laser printer. I had to reboot often to get printing. Same problem on 2 different PCs.
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by bad_username 6y ago
> I do wonder if this is related to dwindling editor engagement. It increasingly becomes an uphill battle to be a Wikipedia editor - the neutral editors have to fight through the ideological gatekeeping and activism on the site. Even the
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by bad_username 6y ago
The minute your platform becomes malevolent, and begins to "work" against your values, will you not regret granting it the power of moderating the social discourse?
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by bad_username 6y ago
Please do not automatically jump to assumptions that people who you disagree with are in position of power or never encounter hate. This kind of sweeping generalization is what fuels racism, sexism and other kinds of "identitarianism&
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by bad_username 6y ago
> many hosts have a preconfigured ready-to-rock Wordpress image for less technical users. I used one, and it was kept up to date by the hosting provider, and everything was great until it got hacked. And then the hosting company suspende
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by bad_username 6y ago
> some of the user interface features pioneered by Mac OS such the desktop That is not true. The desktop metaphor, for example, was first introduced at Xerox PARC in 1970, and used commercially in the Xerox Star workstation in 1981.
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by bad_username 6y ago
"I do not imply that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. We should cla
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by bad_username 6y ago
And I just said a silly thing. It's Bluetooth, not Wifi we are talking about.
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by bad_username 6y ago
Your music had probably been buffered.
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by bad_username 6y ago
> Why is size a problem? With size comes power. And one of the powers is Big Tech's significant impact of information flow in the society, and hence the ability to shape dominant discourses.
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by bad_username 6y ago
> what I find awesome about reddit is its ability to connect people and really have group conversations I am a redditor for 7 years and that was true early on. Today it is not. You can connect and have group conversations only if you su
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by bad_username 6y ago
In terms of features and intent HN is similar to Reddit. But HN is miles and miles ahead in the quality of discussion, moderation, and diversity of thought and opinions.
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by bad_username 6y ago
> Every decision they make should be viewed through the lens of, “Is this beneficial to the profit of the company?” Fair. However, we are not they, and should care about more than just Facebook's bottom line.
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by bad_username 6y ago
Feedly is best of both worlds - you can use it as a plain linear feed reader, or let it use AI to sort your stuff by popularity and even discover feeds by keywords. Its price is on the steeper end tho, if you want to go pro.