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by cjslep 7y ago
And my perspective is from someone who does research on small-world networks in their spare time. For me it's a matter of having access. I can easily find seminal papers like Kleinberg or Watts-Strogatz. Anything that is more recent an
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by cjslep 7y ago
Having said that, library software providers and journal platforms should be looking at Scihub and learning from it. Users want an easy to use platform with minimal fuss or hoops to jump through. If you bothered to read TFA, you'd ha
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There's a branch of analyzing US politics through the lens of "primitive" and "civilized" brains that stems from Haidt's old ideas ("elephant and the rider"), which I still to this day do not find com
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This kind of poisonous invitation to grandstand might as well be grandstanding in and of itself, and all of these performative paper ethics makes me want to puke.
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by cjslep 7y ago
The trouble with Grey Thinking is that many people are just smart enough to convince themselves they are doing it, but not honest enough when reflecting on themselves to question whether they're making a genuine effort.
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by cjslep 7y ago
> But referring to it with the "living wage" mindset, we set about blaming employers for being evil, instead of fixing the broken housing policy. Not really, maybe you have the connotation between "living wage mindset&quot
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by cjslep 7y ago
I've never heard this. A decade ago "white knighting" had a very different meaning on 4chan. It was used to make fun of Anons that shit on the rampant misogyny and tried to get other Anons to stop being misogynistic, and also
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by cjslep 7y ago
As an American with a hardcore capitalist entrepreneurial father and now living in Switzerland, I chalk it up to some Americans simply not being able to imagine a society that doesn't enshrine "If I don't exploit, someone els
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by cjslep 7y ago
You didn't go far enough: Air pollution linked to overpopulation. Overpopulation linked to high birth rates. High birth rates linked to sex. So in conclusion: Celibacy cures depression and suicide. Of course, why stop there? We could k
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by cjslep 7y ago
Easy: Me.
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I don't think you've addressed my 2 core points: 1. ActivityPub is not a censorship-resistant network. Criticizing it for not being censorship-resistant is obvious, so what is the motivation for the criticism? Evangelizing FreeNet
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by cjslep 7y ago
> admins of popular ActivityPub instances have far too much power to silently censor things from tens of thousands of people. This is a tired line of argument. Centralized systems are no better. ActivityPub is not FreeNet, and if you wan
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by cjslep 7y ago
Federation works with the current physical network hardware topology. Pure peer-to-peer solutions typically rely on some subset of up/down speed symmetry, physical proximity (to skip backbone routers and switches), or equal distributio
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by cjslep 7y ago
I don't think it was literal images/pictures, but the philosophical idea that an image represents (but is itself not) another [authentic] thing . Edit: An example: You make a post on Facebook simply about your $HOBBY. I hit the
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by cjslep 7y ago
As someone who moved to Switzerland from America, Germans and Germany seems easier to integrate with than integrating in Switzerland. To be fair, I'm learning High German and not my local Schwiizertüütsch.
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They're too busy rolling out IPv6 support-in-hardware and gigabit fiber upgrades everywhere nationally and obsoleting data caps, instead of taking software IPv6 shortcuts and enjoying regulatory capture and turning peering agreements i
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No, like "what happens if a tornado hit the powerplant and chucked trees and other debris at various parts of the powerplant".
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by cjslep 7y ago
There merely boring procedure of having election workers count out in the open in front of observers is a more accessible process for laypeople to understand and build trust than printing out the assembler instructions being executed on a t
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It was a tornado risk assessment wind fragility modelling software, used by the nuclear power industry.
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Evil is banal.
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Me, 2015: "This engineering code is some serious fixed FORTRAN" My 80+ year old boss at the time: "Yeah it had to be" Whips out several boxes of punch cards
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by cjslep 7y ago
Sure, today , military-grade plutonium is down-blended in MOX fuels. But your own source backs up the fact that from the 1950's to the 1980's (the time period we are talking about) the USA was the world's leading uranium or
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by cjslep 7y ago
> Once the direct subsidy of nuclear via the military's nuclear weapons buildout went away, new plant construction... went way. This is easily false. When you look at historical nuclear powerplant construction via the NRC, you see a
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by cjslep 7y ago
I'm originally from NC but the piedmont region (Charlotte), not the mountains, and would say "Appa-LA-chin". ("La" rhymes with the "a" in "matt") Making the long-a sound ("la"->&quot
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by cjslep 7y ago
Agree. Very naive. A 10% increase forever versus 10 year temporary stay of prices for some lucky few who manage to opt out. 10 is pretty small compared to forever. I'll take the guaranteed 10% nest egg until retirement, please.
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I don't think everyone is on Twitter, and I'll readily admit your tone makes me think you don't care about the people that are on the Fediverse. > The only reason I would go there is to get complete freedom of speech, an
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> Meaning, if your pod X blocks me from following someone from pod Y, forcing me to run my own pod, then I won't be able to follow my friends back on your pod X. Sounds like a broken system to me. It sounds broken because that'
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by cjslep 7y ago
You want a single-user instance, like was mentioned before. No one else decides for you. By default a person spinning up a new single-user instance is free to follow-request anyone (most users have the software auto-accept follow requests
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Are you looking to break your bubble, or other people's bubble? Your first paragraph is a complaint about the former and your second paragraph about the latter. I read this as goalpost shifting. Fundamentally, the freedom-of-speech arg
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I don't understand how your conclusions were reached from my post. My blog's content is natively shown inline with other content on Pleroma. To a Pleroma user, it and responses seem like all other native posts and interactions. Th

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