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by baubino 1y ago
Forcing someone who is not mentally ill into a mental institution is an act of violence. It’s not much different than throwing someone in jail even though they haven’t committed a crime.
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by baubino 1y ago
But…why? This is a discussion forum. We come here to discuss. Also, none of the posts are so long that they warrant a summary (AI or otherwise).
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by baubino 1y ago
“Make money” isn’t the problem. The problem is the expectation for infinite growth.
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by baubino 1y ago
Yep. Just took a look and the top post is just someone writing the n-word over and over.
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by baubino 1y ago
I run a very small operation but when I see people struggle with hiring, it’s often because they haven’t actually figured out what works best for their particular organization. Aside from a few very broad baselines, there aren’t any good ge
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by baubino 1y ago
I learned to do this a few years ago and it is easily one of the most freeing things I’ve ever done. Funny thing is, before I had thought of myself as someone who was just really empathetic and justified my behavior as being concerned about
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by baubino 1y ago
The old school forums also centered around a single topic or interest, which I think helped keep things focused and more civil. Part of the problem with social media is that it wants to be everything for everyone.
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by baubino 1y ago
Making content restrictions easier for parents to implement would help a ton — like being able to block all sites in a browser and create a whitelist of the ones kids are allowed to access. Similar whitelisting should be available and ea
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by baubino 1y ago
Thank you for this. I had no idea. It’s like a completely different (i.e., better) hackernews.
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by baubino 1y ago
The 1900 equivalent then would be if Ford showed up at your house and removed the car’s starter. Making the thing you own functionally useless (while you still own it) seems categorically different to me than repossession in violation of a
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by baubino 1y ago
It does happen, it happened to me — a driver was distracted (because they were texting while driving) and they veered from the traffic flow and I was hit at 40 mph. The EMS worker who responded to the scene told me two things: 1. They almos
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by baubino 1y ago
Yeah, but I think the point is that designers are already using figma. There’s no mass exodus of designers from figma looking for an AI solution to replace it. So figma has a large paying base to which it can introduce AI generated code (wh
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by baubino 2y ago
Unionizing a workplace is insanely difficult. It requires tons of bureaucratic work (to meet the standards set by state labor agencies) while also trying to get a large number of people who probably don’t know each other well, if at all, to
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by baubino 2y ago
> All you have is your ability to stop working. Which, indeed, can exert power –– But if you are poor how long can you really go without work before you starve to death? When union workers strike, they do so collectively, which means t
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by baubino 2y ago
I saw the movie when it came out and had distantly interacted with Morgan while he was making the film (he was an acquaintance of an acquaintance). I don’t recall the movie ever being presented as “scientific” so it’s really interesting see
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by baubino 2y ago
I write a lot (several thousand words per day) and even though I love the convenience of writing and editing on my iphone and ipad, it’s become clear in the last couple of years that if I want to write efficiently, I have to do it on my des
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by baubino 3y ago
The problem is being more concerned with the response than with what one is typing.
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by baubino 3y ago
Funnily, the walled garden often gives people the impression that it is not walled but in fact infinite. I‘m always shocked at how many people don‘t realize how little information is accessible on the internet anymore. Yes, as soon as you
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by baubino 3y ago
Cool landing page, though it really should have some info about the thing you want people to sign up for.
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by baubino 3y ago
Describing Reddit as “a trusted source for news” is wild. There’s a significant difference in both effort and quality between posting links to news sources vs generating good news content or good news-related discussion. This NYT article is
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by baubino 3y ago
I agree but I also know (as a university employee) that the reason they don’t do this is because then they would have to pay for and manage the hosting of hundreds of thousands of articles. From the university’s perspective, managing and ho
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by baubino 3y ago
> Before email, if an executive wanted to talk with his whole organization, he had to get them all in an auditorium. No, before email, the boss would’ve sent a company-wide memo. Email replaced paper-based written communication with digi
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by baubino 3y ago
By “completely different” I mean something that I haven’t encountered before. Something completely outside of and unrelated to my current interests. The old internet allowed for this kind of random discovery. The problem with curated conten
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by baubino 3y ago
Not who you asked but one reason I dislike this kind of highly curated media is that it obscures the possibility of being exposed to something completely different. I used to enjoy meandering through the library stacks and coming across som