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by chasing 5y ago
Large fires that result in great cultural loss still happen... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Universal_Studios_fire
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by chasing 5y ago
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/education-not-income-pr...
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by chasing 5y ago
So 98% S and Z pieces and no squares or long 4x1s. Seems about right!
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by chasing 5y ago
> • Money is overrated. Truly new things rarely need an abundance of money. If that was so, billionaires would have a monopoly on inventing new things, and they don’t. Instead almost all breakthroughs are made by those who lack money, be
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by chasing 5y ago
I don't buy this argument. There has been nothing stopping other companies from releasing HyperCard-style tools for the Mac. And many have. But they have (as far as I'm aware) not dominated nor flourished particularly well. What m
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by chasing 6y ago
The world at large and Austin in particular are going to take a huge cultural hit because of our failure to deal with COVID-19 properly. NFTs aren't going to solve the fact that people who create art and culture are so vital to our civ
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by chasing 6y ago
Maintaining healthy communities is, unfortunately, a human endeavor. Tools can help, but they cannot do it for us.
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by chasing 6y ago
For what it’s worth, I built what I call a “zero screen app” for an art installation a couple of years ago. “Zero screen” meaning “you’re supposed to be experiencing the space around you, so the app has almost nothing on-screen worth lookin
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by chasing 6y ago
There's an interesting debate to be had about all of this, but this Glenn Greenwald article ain't it.
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by chasing 6y ago
Parler wasn't some innocent social media site that happened to have some disgusting content on it. The disgusting content was literally its reason for existing, despite all of the bland "we're just a free speech site" st
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by chasing 6y ago
And those who volunteered to wear seatbelts before they were mandated were safer than those who refused. And saved society money and their friends and family grief by not dying in a preventable way. So wear your seat belt, get your vaccine
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by chasing 6y ago
You're the kind of guy who doesn't wear a seatbelt and speeds through red lights to protest the government telling you what to do? Or are you smart enough to understand why it's important that we have rules that mandate certa
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by chasing 6y ago
It's my civic duty to take it as soon as it's offered to me, even if there's some minuscule chance that there will be an averse side effect. That said, I'll likely be towards the end of the line given my health and occup
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by chasing 6y ago
Alternately, maybe there shouldn't be a payment processor duopoly and businesses should be allowed to act ethically (within the bounds of the law)?
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by chasing 6y ago
If this is the case, I'm really unclear why they're not revenue sharing with users who create the videos. That seems like the real dick move, here
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by chasing 6y ago
People are (fairly) annoyed because that was the deal Google offered when they were uploading videos. And if the change shouldn't shock users, then it certainly shouldn't be shocking to Google... In which case maybe they shouldn&#
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by chasing 6y ago
Because they'll focus their services on people who pay them money? If you were using the service for free for all these years, you were a cost to them. Not a benefit.
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by chasing 6y ago
Punctuation, capital letters, proper spelling, etc. exist for a reason: They're a standardized set of tools for making our writing clearer and easier to read. In a professional setting, they also indicate a level of thoughtfulness and
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by chasing 6y ago
He writes as if any of these things are anything new. I think humanity's actually doing quite well these days. Not perfect, of course, so let's keep working on making things better. But I'd rather be alive now than pretty muc
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by chasing 6y ago
No. But I do believe the number of people who go around thinking everyone else is stupid is going up.
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by chasing 6y ago
There's no such thing as an apolitical organization the size of Coinbase.
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by chasing 6y ago
“Think Like a Norwegian” is one of my favorite Bangles b-sides.
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by chasing 6y ago
Articles like this are pointless. What kind of actual research has been done? What actual understanding of both the Pulfrich effect and how our brains process visual imagery does the author have apart from having read a couple articles onli
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by chasing 6y ago
> But if Apple decide that they don't like you anymore... Epic intentionally broke the rules. Maybe Apple's actions are right, maybe wrong. But don't pretend Apple just out-of-the-blue decided to do this to Epic for no rea
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by chasing 6y ago
The word "intolerant" has an implied "of [x]" — when progressives use the term the implied bit is usually "of minorities," or "of trans people," "of women in tech" or something like that. Wh
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by chasing 6y ago
Obviously government employees shouldn't be using Twitter DMs for unofficial business, but they're more or less required to use Twitter for communications with the public and fundraising. If they don't, they hand way too much
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by chasing 6y ago
Did any of them sign that Harper's Letter? And did I say "frothing racists?" Also, yeah, out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made. People get things wrong sometimes. It sucks and we should use our
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by chasing 6y ago
"coalesce into slanderous mobs" Now, of course "the mob" can get things wrong. We see it all the time — and it's not a progressive or "cancel culture" thing specifically. It's just a side effect of th
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by chasing 6y ago
First, I think you're lumping "the left" together and assuming "the left" believes whatever the most extreme "left" tweets say. Second, Bari Weiss can write whatever she wants. Totally her right. She'
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by chasing 6y ago
> It seems few today are still able to engage with ideas directly... Who has the TIME? I mean, you have to filter what you choose to think about and engage on. The world doesn't need to pause and refute every stupid opinion someone

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