betwixthewires

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by betwixthewires 4y ago
> hasn’t been amended in any meaningful way since 1971 Already inserting subjectivity into the discussion to support it's premise. I'm not going to like this article. > It’s always been hard to amend the Constitution. But, i
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
Professionals... A state has an asset. They can assess the population of a certain animal, assess its growth rate, assess the impact it can have, both to human populations and to the ecosystem, and determine how many need to be culled each
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
Its like fish bait. You set these feeders out to get them to hang around an area so that when you're ready to hunt you have an easier time finding them. Hunters don't feed anything near the amount of food mass needed to increase t
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
There's Briar, its peer to peer and pretty great. XMPP/Jabber with OMEMO encryption, it runs on federating servers. Session is a fork of signal that doesn't require phone numbers, there's some cryptocurrency something or
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
Matrix is great, but it leaks a ton of data.
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
Why do these people always frame a reduction in housing prices as a bad thing and a turnaround to upward price pressure as a good thing? This housing market has been crazy for over a decade and progressively so, a cool down is much needed a
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
Why? Isn't the distinction somewhat arbitrary? A lattice or scaffold is indistinguishable from a crysralling structure only due to it's scale, but when a large, rigid ststructure is built it functions on a larger scale as a sort o
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
Well of course they have useful applications in mind. But it does demonstrate something interesting: computation occurs naturally, on the "bare metal" of the universe, and systems can be built that perform computation that do not
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
Well thankfully I'm not, but even if I were I think that's a bit of a stretch. A materialist acknowledging an effect he cannot quantify or directly observe is not much of a materialist.
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
At it's core, the argument for caution can be articulated as "utility and availability of this technology must be limited to incumbent actors in the industry for our protection" and that's very fishy. It's particula
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
If someone wants to crank it to what amounts to a high tech doodle of me doing naughty things to myself I don't see how that's any of my business. There are people in the world how put real legit porn of themselves on the internet
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
Replace pencil and paper with a camera then if it makes you happy, although I don't think the quality of the images make a single bit of difference. Why should only the few have access to such a technology? Because some people will use
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
I think even the phrase "negative externalities" is overstating it. There's a big difference between "I push this button and now the woods behind my house are destroyed" and "I push this button and I have what
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
The response to incentives created by EU legislation were predictable. Are governments not responsible for the outcomes of incentives they create?
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
The EU, home of laws like this and the reason for the cookies popup, where the citizens talk about how they have better privacy than the united states.
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
The amount of time it took you to type this response is longer than it takes to enable third party sources in settings. Most people do it at some point anyway, such as when downloading an app they want from it's website. There's n
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
But that's not "discouraged by the system UX" and what better way to get people to use f-droid than offering incentives to use it? Like your favorite app having better features when installed from there?
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
Lots of people use f-droid. It's as easy as installing f-droid from browser and then checking a box in settings.
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
So put it in f-droid.
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
That's why I don't go to these sites.
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
All this is not very intuitive to me, but my mind's eye is telling me it would appear as accelerating expansion until you reach the horizon, and reaching the event horizon would feel like being in your own observable universe by yourse
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
Brave will not implement manifest v3, so yes it is a good choice for this.
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
I do, after reading the information and reasoning about it for myself. Other people deciding what information I have access to are trying to disempower me from doing that whether I like it or not, and something stinks about such an approach
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
I'd love to see this. I'm a huge fan of the information availability the internet has brought and a firm believer that education is transforming into something we do of our own volition and in our own way, aided by freely availabl
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
No, and it's not just iPhone. The same class of problems is present on Android as well. It's because they keep getting ideas, want to make things more complicated and need to justify budgets. IMO mobile keyboards (and in general m
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
And then there's people like me. I don't do it for fun and I don't do it for profit. I don't breathe code, most of my time is spent present in the moment in my real life. I do it to create things simply because I want th
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
Nice edit. When you upload code to github you give other people the right to fork it... I knew that already. But you license it. You don't give anyone the right to fork it and not abide the license. So if I fork it, I'm still givi
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
So you've got nothing? Because I'm seriously asking that. Read the GPL.
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
So I can't fork code on github legally according to the ToS?
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
So this doesn't negate the license. Microsoft cannot just roll the code into windows for example, closed source and proprietary. They have to abide by the license, regardless what their ToS says. Here's a fun way to see it, suppos

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