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by cjslep 7y ago
This is a tragedy of the commons scenario. Instead of (all numbers illustrative): Group A: 100% group B gets jealous and does: Group A: 25%, Group B: 25%, Piracy: 50% As long as B's shareholders are happy (0->25%) then "who car
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by cjslep 7y ago
This is pure fearmongering. If you truly feel this way, you can put money where your mouth is and do actions to remove your very own words from the digital world (because you own the copyright to them if in the US, under the GDPR in the EU)
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by cjslep 7y ago
> End of free speech is here. No, it's not. There have always been consequences to speech. Before social media, the traditional media would be the method of choice of stirring up people into a mob demanding resignations. It's
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Clearly a waste of time if he wasn't getting paid for it. Imagine all the other wasted efforts of time and money that other people would do if we as a society paid them well enough to have excess time and money to do these sorts of poi
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Ok.
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by cjslep 7y ago
My mortgage's website does this rate limiting... by setting a cookie client side. I just close and reopen an incognito window and voila, no more rate limiting.
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by cjslep 7y ago
It is rooted way way way back to the Puritan ideal of doing the hard work yourself and not needing to rely on anyone else to succeed.
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by cjslep 7y ago
I've been using the word "paltering" or "to palter" to help make this distinction. Once "lying by being truthful" has a concrete name like paltering, it is easier to get others to start to see the differen
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by cjslep 7y ago
This got needlessly personal, really fast. "Slowing the growth" of cancer doesn't shrink the cancer, the cancer is still growing. Slower. It buys time. But it's not a cure. Maybe I can appreciate it, because it took my g
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by cjslep 7y ago
No, it's not fair. I'm a layman, not a doctor. This needless critique of the meaning of the word "cure" doesn't really advance our discussion much except to allow a definition of the word that supposes "laymen&
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by cjslep 7y ago
There is a huge world of difference between "curing cancer" and "reducing rate of growth of tumor cells and reducing uptake of chemotherapy toxins in healthy cells".
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This plus ActivityPub and data that's content addressed would be neat.
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...and except for the fact that the US Passport Card itself (DS-11) requires another ID card, so the same exact problems arise. And those IDs usually require proof of residency and/or a copy of a US birth certificate, which can be prob
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by cjslep 7y ago
You have to make that ID national, free, and easily obtained with very little to no wait time. Otherwise, it's going to disenfranchise those without time and/or money.
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by cjslep 7y ago
Bev Haris' grassroots watchdog movement Black Box Voting also has documented a lot of sketchy behavior as well, such as throwing away paper records of votes. https://blackboxvoting.org/
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Bummer, I was hoping we were going to all memorize quaternion coordinates and visualize travelling around the globe as moving along a 4 dimensional hypersphere.
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by cjslep 7y ago
I don't think slippery slopes are productive to constructive discourse at all, and are merely used as a rhetorical device with the goal of invoking Ethos or Pathos to certain demographics. Aka, "virtue signalling". The "
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by cjslep 7y ago
"Where does it end" arguments are the kind of "winning" internet argument I hate seeing [0]. There's a lot to be said to building up your business in an environment that is a liberal democracy with free movement of
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by cjslep 7y ago
It's in the article. Search for film fogging. It's not significant.
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by cjslep 7y ago
To get our bachelor's degree in Nuclear Engineering at NCSU a bunch of us looked at a continuous pyroprocess involving molten salt, molten cadmnium, EM pumps, and electroplating. The idea is to plate out the Uranium -- and only the ura
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by cjslep 7y ago
Curfew is a city or county ordinance. Charlotte, NC or Mecklenburg County curfew age was 16 and under when I was growing up. Also the 17 year old age restriction for "R" rated movies is a suggestion. I hope Regal Cinemas as a busi
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by cjslep 7y ago
See [0] which is a code generated piece of the ActivityStreams spec. As it is RDF based, it is an open ended set. Not worth doing by hand. [0] https://github.com/go-fed/activity/blob/master/streams/g
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by cjslep 7y ago
Blockchains have a single centralized view of data and this view is distributed worldwide with everyone keeping each other in check. Blockchains are centralized but distributed in this way. Federation protocols have different, decentralized
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by cjslep 7y ago
I haven't been following these proposals and I want generics of some kind in Go (I've had my fill of code generation), but good God does the proposed syntax of using parentheses for yet another thing (in addition to method receive
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by cjslep 7y ago
It's an article about GitLab and Sid, since the title doesn't make it clear.
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Have you taken a dive into radio ECM and ECCM? I highly recommend it, it is fascinating, and is highly complex. Modern ECM is much more involved than "shoot high amplitude noise on all frequencies from a particular direction" and
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I haven't found it tight in my Gemeinde, which also has a bus home that departs 1 minute after the train arrives. I view it as liberating: instead of trying to rush in a grocery store I get an excuse to fill the time and shop slower, t
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Perhaps it's time to repurpose all that time set aside for classical fiction literature to pick up some contemporary non-fiction.
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The stakes become even higher when people attempt to use Social Psychology as either the basis for moral frameworks or in evaluating morality. This can be problematic for a multitude of reasons (bias being the largest), and the biggest offe
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by cjslep 7y ago
Chomsky's book "Manufacturing Consent" is a great look at real world instances of this, for example Vietnam and Central America.

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