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by ctdonath 6y ago
3D printers make shapes, not substances.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
“Joke” is in bad taste. I remember that day.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Long wanted to see “spark graphs” [Tufte] next to vote totals, indicating the dynamics of up/down votes over time. I’ve had comments generate lots of activity, yet votes balance out to something mundane (like +2) despite wild fluctuati
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Was it the giving away for free? Or prohibiting resellers from installing other browsers?
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Microsoft wasn’t selling the computer. Anyone is free to buy an iPhone, install apps on it, and resell it.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Seems humans are programmed to seek the bad in all things, overlooking how good they have it.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
When discussing enumerated rights, judicial “strict scrutiny” (to wit: bright line) applies. For this case, you must explain why FB gets treated differently just because there are more users. I appreciate the “well duh” but that doesn’t jus
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by ctdonath 6y ago
When discussing enumerated rights, judicial “strict scrutiny” (to wit: bright line) applies.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Is this an insurrection: https://twitter.com/zerosum24/status/1380216557700284422?s=2... ? Happening now, same idea. Of course not, just like the Jan 6 incident wasn’t. An insurrection involves intent to overthrow
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Overwrought criticism. Yes, we’re at that wildly imaginative stage where a small & hard step down a long road of undeveloped technology gives rise to hopes of what the end of that decades-hence goal will achieve. That doesn’t mean we sh
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by ctdonath 6y ago
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by.” - D. Adams
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Freedom of association inherently involves groups of individual people mutually deciding to not associate with particular individuals.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Because a company is a group of real people making decisions together. There is no “legal fiction” deciding to not associate with certain others.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
What insurrection?
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There is no bright line between Facebook and Bob’s Forum.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
The freedom of the press does not include freedom to use another’s press. This is a hard lesson when a private press takes on near-monopoly scale by choice of clientele.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
“Fail-safe systems fail by failing to fail safely.”
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The quote is an important conclusion of the article. Discussing facts which challenge popular notions should not be cancelled.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
YouTube famously rolled view count of Gangnam Style to negative because long int wasn’t big enough.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Pedantic. That not literally everyone lives at a given baseline doesn’t disqualify fact that we’ve raised 90% of everyone from under to over that baseline in a few decades.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
If you improve the lives of others (including by creating employment and reasonably leveraging resources), fair reward to reap a fraction of that improvement. Improve lives of billions, reap billion$.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
You confirm my point.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
If that’s the lens you choose to view history thru.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
I don’t see this as a problem, so long as the poor get richer too. The obsession with “wealth inequality” is jealousy when refusing to acknowledge how much better the poor have it than ever. As the article notes, much of what we take for gr
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Chronically overlooked point: “it is wrong to think of the last two centuries as being one where the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. The poor also got richer.”
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Man: “I shall create life from dirt, to show I am equal with you.” God: “Get your own dirt.”
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by ctdonath 6y ago
It’s a step in that direction others haven’t made yet.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
How often does software run perfectly on the 1st-4th try? FAA gives launch approval knowing full well what can, and does, go wrong. It’s FAA’s job to deny on the slightest justification of risk notice.
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by ctdonath 6y ago
Given the onset of SN15-20, I wonder if SN11 is considered obsolete and was deliberately launched under adverse (yet FAA-approved) conditions. Better to launch and see what happens (fog, rapid turnaround, etc) than just dismantle it in a bo

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