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by cudgy 4y ago
You don’t shower or eat breakfast? Just roll out of bed into a zoom meeting?
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by cudgy 4y ago
What is an average American?
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by cudgy 4y ago
“Crimea's election committee said that 97% of voters backed a union between the largely ethnic-Russian peninsula and the huge neighboring country.” “Residents of Crimea, up to 60% percent of whom are Russian, were given a choice of eit
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by cudgy 4y ago
You are only focusing on government punishing journalists and journalists complying due to fear. This ignores journalists being lazy by accepting and printing leaked stories from government as truth without any verification. Another example
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by cudgy 4y ago
Why does it take time to mislead? I am envious of your faith in western media in much the same way I am envious of highly religious people that are certain what happens upon death: seems comfortable and reassuring, but it is likely not true
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by cudgy 4y ago
Not sure I agree that big tech is government, but now that the government is an agent of big tech with the use of controlling free speech via their portal (could also argue that big tech is an agent of government), it seems to open the door
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by cudgy 4y ago
For consumer use and probably many commercial uses too, I am becoming skeptical about hardware performance improvements and whether users are gaining sufficient benefits from these improvements. Software has become so wasteful of resources
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by cudgy 4y ago
Who cares about the debt? Trust me. The debtors will find your estate and if they don’t, your dead anyway. The main area to record would be asset accounts, valuables held in safe deposit boxes, files, or secret locations holding things like
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by cudgy 4y ago
Decentralized energy is a net benefit to all in my opinion, including the sub-saharan farmer. Fewer silly fossil fuel wars benefit a few people too.
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by cudgy 4y ago
This is a disturbing recent trend unfortunately.
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by cudgy 4y ago
Why not avoid the algorithmic feed from Twitter and only look at what your chosen followed users are posting? Relying on a third party to provide both breadth of information and inoffensive posts is asking too much. Just as in real life, no
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by cudgy 4y ago
For a scientist, you sure do ignore the facts of fallible human nature and basic mathematical set logic theory. These platforms are not newspapers and magazines printed by individual companies with a cultivated set of content creators; they
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by cudgy 4y ago
Fair question. Elon is definitely not the answer to all that ails the planet. Yes, electric cars are not a panacea: they require mining of nasty elements from the ground and (especially the batteries) must be disposed of properly; they stil
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by cudgy 4y ago
Hard for me to say. What type of reward are you expecting to get out of Twitter or social media in general? Maybe you are expecting too much or the wrong types of rewards?
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by cudgy 4y ago
“I more or less refuse to read anything with a question as the title.” Same here. Most of the content titled in this way is essentially vapid click-bait or a list of obvious facts with no real research, conclusions, or novel ideas.
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by cudgy 4y ago
Elon has only been there for 24 hours. It sounds like your not a fan of Elon and nothing he’ll do can change your opinion. Why not hold back the strong judgements and conclusions for at least a few months? Maybe he will surprise you?
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by cudgy 4y ago
“as the infrastructure is paid for exclusively by ads and those can be targeted fairly well, engagement is far more important than platform reputation” This is the key problem for sure, but it applies to all content providers from the large
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by cudgy 4y ago
“… we have more than 25 applications running on free Heroku” No wonder Heroku is getting rid of the free tier with freeloaders like these guys.
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by cudgy 4y ago
There seem to be many lunatics when it comes to this Ukraine affair. Putin’s not the only one.
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by cudgy 4y ago
Overall I personally agree with most all of those decisions. However, my decisions are made based on the product or business practices not my perception of the personality or political beliefs of their founders or significant contributors b
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by cudgy 4y ago
“respecting minorities, promoting equality” Branding people left and right based on these qualities is lazy. There are people from both the left and right that exhibit these qualities. Also, there are racists that are left and right. I woul
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by cudgy 4y ago
Sorry, my statement could have been more clear. I was interested in whether Telegram itself gets a cut of these transactions on their platform outside of the Apple cut. If so, it would seem hypocritical to criticize Apple for doing the same
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by cudgy 4y ago
I assume you’d feel the same way if your cellular networks or internet provider started charging fees for all purchases using their networks. How about a refrigerator monopoly charging for food you put in your refrigerator?
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by cudgy 4y ago
True. Imagine if John Deere was a monopoly and insisted upon 30% of all crops that are harvested using their machines. Or if AT&T insisted on 30% cut of all sales performed on their phone network. Or an innovative prosthetic developed b
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by cudgy 4y ago
This is a valid criticism. The app store provides little, if any, advertising or even ease of discoverability for 99.9% of apps on its app store. Charging 30% or any percentage of sales for that matter within apps when Apple provides little
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by cudgy 4y ago
Does Telegram charge their users a fee to post content on their platform or take a percentage of the fees their users charge on their channels?
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by cudgy 4y ago
Yes, software is typically more complex than a laymen would expect once all of the edge cases and layers of legacy code or “guano” are implemented. However, I doubt that these outside developers are expected to understand everything in a si
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by cudgy 4y ago
Arresting people for going into a local park is considered to be more left wing? Locking down people is considered to be more left wing? The draconian, authoritarian measures taken in Australia surrounding its covid response were truly shoc
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by cudgy 4y ago
Interesting. What technologies do you use that you are fully aware that no assholes were involved in its creation? How does one go about ensuring they follow this no-asshole rule? Many considered Steve Jobs to be an asshole. Do you use an a
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by cudgy 4y ago
It seems to me that the last decade or so provides ample evidence that not allowing everyone to say everything they want is almost certainly anti-correlated with substantial and meaningful debate.

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