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by cyborgx7 7y ago
I never actually stopped to consider why they chose to sell of the TLD. I thought this was just a terrible organizational decision. Call me naive, but it didn't occur to me that it was about the cash infusion. I can't believe they
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
I hope I'll get my real name when this happens. The account that has it now hasn't tweeted in 7 years. They also appear to have been a fake female profile. I don't even get why. My name is pretty clearly male.
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
The evidence suggests that the suspect committed the crime. Oh nevermind, the suspect explicitly stated he did not commit the crime. I don't even think freeing up usernames is necessarily a bad thing, but trusting the stated motivation
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
This is hyperindividulaism driven to an absurd degree. Activism is a good thing. We shouldn't all be limited to apolitically spout facts at eachother, hoping enough people will independently come to the right conclusion and spontanousl
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
I sadly have no solution to offer. I'm not even saying the people making these comments should all solve the problem or immediately quit their jobs. But at least acknowledging the problem would be a start.
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
This comment section is full of people criticising the tone, the writing style and the "injection of personal politics" to avoid facing their compliciteness in fundamentally unethical businesses.
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
Blog post about how to go about implementing this: https://pwmarcz.pl/blog/kaboom/
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Kaboom: Minesweeper you always lose when you guess except when you have to(pwmarcz.pl)
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
I don't think this is being built to follow along a game in progress (though that would be an interesting application) but rather capture a current position and transfer it to a digital representation, for example for computer analysis
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
I think websites experimenting with different ways to style themselves is actually very good. The onus should be on the browser to provide you with tools to override those settings for your preference.
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>that for the sake of shortness This is the part that makes it a sham. You call it that to give it a legitimacy it doesn't have. The entire thing is a project in giving economics as a field a legitimacy it doesn't have.
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
I wonder if management just can't tell what is and isn't important, so they err on spending nothing until it blows up. Then they now this is something they might need to spend money on.
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
pathetic
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
A lot of people complaining that this wouldn't be able to hold the load of the original thing like that. I'd argue that all platforms attempting to be all-encompassing is a big problem right now. Maybe a single instance of a platf
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
As someone who went to school in spain but at home always spoke german and now lives in Germany, the number inversion is the bain of my existance (hyperbole). I can't tell you how many times I have made mistakes because of it when comm
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
I know you are just responding to the argument made by the comment you are responding to. But I would argue that at the end of the day, it doesn't matter how the Nobel family feels about the Prize. The Ecenomics Prize is sham regardles
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
> Nobel Prize in Economics No such thing exists.
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
I don't know. "If our discipline had a Nobel Prize, people would consider it most legitimate" isn't really a genius level plan.
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> but no one treats it any differently than the rest of them Which is precisely the problem, and the intended effect. It's a propaganda effort.
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
>Now we have to qualify any sentence referencing the Economics price each time we say it. They should have to do that, but they don't. Which is precisely the point, and why they didn't name it something else.
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Completely different cases. The peace prize existed since the beginning. The economic "Nobel prize" though was added after the fact by a Bank and should not be considered legitimate.
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
Note: This article lazily does not make the distinction, but the "economics nobel prize" is not a real Nobel prize. It was added years later, sponsored by a bank, and is officially called "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Econo
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
> its as much as we could ever ask for I can ask for a lot more, don't worry.
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
I find that most legitimization attempts for wealth end up being circular if followed to their logical conclusions.
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
I am already on those sites. What I'm saying is that replicating the feature set will never be enough, because then all you have is the same thing but without the people. The benefits of privacy and less monopolistic control are intuit
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
I would probably build something that looks like activityPub/mastodon. Now, how you make it take off for mainstream appeal, I can't tell you. Probably make a client with a new feature the entrenched people don't (or even bett
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
This is why when people say they don't take money from big corporations or rich donors, it's such an important factor. It's not just that you as a political party are incentivized to what they want so they will keep giving yo
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
> some kind of software-readable indication would be required for accessibility purposes. Could be a special HTML tag or attribute. That would make ad blocking much easier. I don't share your pessimism about the feasability of polit
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
That is one of the proposed solutions in that thread. I think somewhat to that effect is what will have to happen. Though it seems like it's possible, in some browsers, for the adblocker with the right permissions to inject itself in t
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
I thought this was being sarcastic at first, but ends up being seemingly entirely genuine.

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