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by creato 6y ago
I skimmed your 100 page pdf (parts of it) and did not find anything remotely close to 5% of Iraq's population. That's 2 million people. The highest number I found in your document skimming it was 108k. I don't even think you
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by creato 6y ago
> Iraq lost 5% of its population to America's illegal war. You've posted this a lot in this thread. What are you talking about? Iraq's population has not declined in a single year since 1955: https://www.worldom
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by creato 6y ago
I generally agree with your point, but I disagree that legislation and regulations are the problem. Once you reach high level politics, the fact is that anything but utterly blatant criminal behavior will be a political issue. The solution
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by creato 6y ago
I think this example is why the appearance of a conflict of interest should be the standard for navigating ethical concerns. If a guy owns a company, I don't doubt that he believes it's the best at what they do. The one thing mo
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by creato 6y ago
In addition to vimeo as a sibling commenter mentioned, there are probably at least a dozen services offering video hosting catering to all sizes of customers. > It’s then up to the creator to decide how/if to monetize their content.
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by creato 6y ago
Do we actually trust twitter with any data? I don't use twitter much but I can't think of anything on twitter that isn't already public. The only thing we trust twitter to do is to provide some notion of authentication for we
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by creato 6y ago
Most channels I regularly I watch on youtube don't have a way to donate to them. The premium fee gets distributed in proportion to the channels I watch. And I'm sure I'll get roasted for this but YT isn't free to run eit
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by creato 6y ago
The less conspiratorial take on this is that social media simply exacerbates and foments conflict, period. Maybe some of these involved significant coordinated propaganda efforts, but I doubt they all did. The mistake the western world made
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by creato 6y ago
> the son and, later, brother of Qatar’s emir Don't read this sentence too quickly...
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by creato 6y ago
Wasn't load time already part of the algorithm? I have thought making a site not-slow was step 0 of SEO for quite a long time. Maybe they could have increased the penalty for slowness though.
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by creato 6y ago
That doesn't make much sense. Why would a student, presumably with little money, buy something that seems likely to command a pretty high price, that he has no use for other than to post anonymously on the internet?
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by creato 6y ago
I don't think a replacement is needed. If your communication is important to a lot of people, it shouldn't be just immediately jammed into 280 characters using your thumbs while sitting on the toilet or whatever. Post it on congre
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by creato 6y ago
Often, what people think is "good customer service" really means "allowing me to socially engineer you". I don't think there is any solution to this. "Decentralization" in this context seems equivalent to
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by creato 6y ago
Twitter should have paid millions for a bug like this.
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by creato 6y ago
You are thinking very short term and in a very narrow range of conditions around our current economic situation. We have never seen economic conditions remotely close to what we would see if the population were actually shrinking.
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by creato 6y ago
It is disturbing that people take for granted that this is an economic problem. This thread is full of people lamenting the fact that we could support X times as many people as we do now if we all just sacrifice Y. When I look around the wo
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by creato 6y ago
Did you read the article? It addresses this. "However, this stops being the answer once nearly every country's population is shrinking."
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by creato 6y ago
> This is equally applicable to other x86 vendors. I think it's equally applicable to any processor vendor, x86 has just been around the longest.
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by creato 6y ago
It seems like when websites are just janky and/or non-standard, password managers struggle to understand what fields are username/password fields, or whether it is a login vs. signup vs. password reset form, etc. To me, installing
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by creato 6y ago
I don't know the details of what is going on here but it sounds very sketchy. I vastly prefer an OAuth login to installing a native app, let alone one that appears to have very deep system access, and access to all my passwords at the
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by creato 6y ago
> 2,400 teachers and 1,260 learners have tested positive for COVID-19. It's pretty interesting that almost twice as many teachers as students tested positive. Presumably there are ~20x more students than teachers? It may very well b
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by creato 6y ago
What result do you think google should return for "animal telepathy"? I think there just isn't any reason for "animaltelepathyisimpossible.com" to exist, and so there is nothing for google to find.
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by creato 6y ago
Password managers have a few problems. Sometimes they just don't work well (e.g. banking sites that partially obfuscate your username really confuse them). Sometimes websites make it hard to copy and paste passwords. Apps don't al
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by creato 6y ago
Speaking as a user, I strongly prefer OAuth login whenever possible, so I don't need to manage a new account. I trust the security of big players like Apple, Google, etc. a lot more than random app/website developers. There is som
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by creato 6y ago
I think the programs that fit neatly into Rust's borrow checking patterns are the same ones that fit neatly into C++(11)'s approach to managing object lifetimes (move/value semantics). The question is what happens when progra
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by creato 6y ago
Democracy has existed for hundreds of years without it. Encryption is an interesting development. There has never been a time in history when anything could be truly secured. Safes could always be defeated. Communication was never provably
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by creato 6y ago
> Something as innocuous as `T x;` or `T x = y;` will allocate in C++ I think saying these will allocate is wrong. They can allocate, but only if T allocates and manages memory, which depends on what T does. I am skeptical of the mor
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by creato 6y ago
How does C++ do memory allocations behind your back?
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by creato 6y ago
> It’s just that the money went to a third party instead of the college in the scandalous cases. That's a pretty huge difference. Letting someone donate money in exchange for admission smells bad, but if the donation is larger than
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by creato 6y ago
"Predatory" refers to competing businesses, not customers. The fact that the industry is unprofitable is the main indication that the pricing is predatory. It's unclear to me if this industry would exist at all if it were pro

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