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by biddit 5y ago
To those playing catch up and wanting to form an opinion outside of editorialized content, here is the original leak on RMS's comments about Epstein, Minsky, and the definition of rape/assault: https://www.documentcloud
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by biddit 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung colloquially called "Brownshirts"
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by biddit 6y ago
“We need access to your contacts in order for you to choose people to invite” is the message shown when you click on the invite feature. I found it just straight up hostile given that there is no technical reason for needing my contacts to
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by biddit 6y ago
Absolutely agreed. One thing that really concerns me is that the newest generation of web developers really has no idea that web development doesn’t need to be so bloody complex. I’m working on a simple internal enterprise app for managing
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by biddit 6y ago
Both FB and Google corporate donate equally to both parties. https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs... https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs...
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by biddit 6y ago
Apple walling it off would actually be them completely disabling it. They are merely providing the user with the information and option to disable it. Very different from walking off. It’s not equivalent to what Facebook wants.
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by biddit 6y ago
I had an interview a few years ago where they literally hauled out some of their legacy code (unstructured PHP written in the PHP 4 era), and asked me to make a list of what I'd do to clean it up and make it more manageable. No coding
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by biddit 6y ago
> I don't know of any society that has had a social contract or laws to this effect, unless a person is maliciously, intentionally, spreading a disease. Intentionally and maliciously is one thing, but there is a level below that, wh
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by biddit 6y ago
> Would his behavior as been as tolerated or celebrated if he was still around today? Not sure I've seen many (any?) instances of his abusive behavior being celebrated in my 30 years of following him. Certainly some awe over how sc
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by biddit 6y ago
And registration fees too! My annual registration fee in CA was ~$900. In Florida it’s now ~$35. Insurance dropped from $120/mo to $50/mo.
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by biddit 6y ago
That’s an amazing observation. Can you point to roughly where in the video he says this? Thanks!
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by biddit 6y ago
You may find more value digging into why the grandparent (And many others here) didn’t find value from the demo and propositions on your home page, than arguing with us here. One of the most important concepts I learned doing 100’s of pitch
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by biddit 6y ago
That the USA doesn’t do undemocratic things is a bit of primary-school brainwashing if you look our international policy, interventionism, and decidedly undemocratic laws that have been created and enforced in this country since its very in
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by biddit 6y ago
Don’t be silly this doesn’t take away advertising-supported apps whatsoever. They’re just taking away the ability to target users based on activity outside of the app, perhaps reducing the effectiveness of the targeting. Plenty of industrie
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by biddit 6y ago
Why is it silly that Americans and the US government would make a distinction between a US-based company and a Chinese company? The CCP certainly makes this distinction.
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by biddit 6y ago
> Roboblox could not be farther from MUDs This statement is a bit extreme no? That's what I was addressing.
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by biddit 6y ago
I both built and played MUDs from 1994 - 2003. From your comments is seems like you didn't read the article. Of course Roblox is not a text-based MUD. Not even the author is arguing that. Mechanically, it's incredibly similar i
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by biddit 6y ago
How much of that government policy was created in reaction to lobbying by corporations though?
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by biddit 6y ago
Yup. Don’t connect it to the internet.
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by biddit 6y ago
> I don't think hypomania really needs to be treated with anything other than talk therapy I generally agree with this to my experience, with the caveat that their depressive swings are managed well - via medication or other means.
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by biddit 6y ago
I should have clarified in my grandparent question - I'm familiar with Bipolar I/II. It's easy to idealize a hypomanic phase for the creativity that often comes with it. However, it is important to not confuse creativity with
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by biddit 6y ago
Thank you for the educational reference. I should have clarified - I'm quite familiar with Bipolar I/II. I was curious of your rational for treating mania but not hypomania. To what I've personally witnessed, even hypomania
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by biddit 6y ago
>The milder hypomania can be both productive and pleasant for some though. > I agree that full blown mania needs to be treated. Curious - is it your view that hypomanic symptoms don't need to be treated then? If so, why? Edit: fo
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by biddit 6y ago
> Its not fun for anybody except for the manic. I'm not sure what you're basing this statement on, but it's actually anything but "fun" for the person experiencing the manic phase.
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by biddit 7y ago
This stat is disingenuous when used out of context. The bottom 45% still pay SS/payroll taxes, which is quite regressive due to the $127k cap. When you consider that along with consumption and property taxes, their effective rate of
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by biddit 7y ago
I take two issues with your reasoning around capital gains rates. One is on fairness, and one is on the systematic result. With regards to fairness, it is inherently unfair to tax someone making $120k/year working a desk job at a high
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by biddit 7y ago
That is a great approach. I'll take a stab at pruning who I'm connected with and see if the experience improves!
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by biddit 7y ago
I quit completely for several months and came back to it because of your exact line of reasoning - keeping in touch with those at the outskirts of my social circles is valuable to me. However, I'm on the edge of leaving again because m
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by biddit 7y ago
Yes, I will admit that the 13" is crazy light and easy to carry, but not worth the 1lb you save from the 15", per my reasons above.
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by biddit 7y ago
I downsized from a 2016 15” to a 2017 13” a year and regret it. The screen and dual core processor are really insufficient if you’re doing dev work. I recently hopped on a 15” again and was blown away by how much more real estate I had to w

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