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by dbrueck 3y ago
This whole story is about the fact that the articles you want censored are allowed under Substack's content policy, so I don't think Substack's content policy is a good example for what you're after, no? Like I pointed o
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by dbrueck 3y ago
It depends entirely on your objective. If your goal is to run a site that is your own little corner of the internet where the only views expressed must conform to your precise world view, then that is totally fine and can be very, very effe
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> You're confusing "effectively" with "perfectly." We'll see! :) Can you please share what you think Substack's content policy should be? Just your rough draft of content guidelines that would "eff
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Ok, great, so what specifically is the policy you feel that Substack should put in place? I'm inviting you to take a stab at defining at least the rough draft of one. If you can't - if you can't go any further than nebulous t
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Ok, so play along for a minute: what should Substack's policy about Nazi stuff be, specifically? If you were tasked with defining their policy on just this one subject matter, what would you come up with?
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> It is possible to ban one kind of content Actually, have you done that? If you haven't, you should try because in general it's an extremely difficult problem. The fact that essentially every single platform that has user-gen
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> "shining a light on it" only causes it to spread more aggressively Do you have any evidence of this? Studies often suggest otherwise, e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii&#
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by dbrueck 3y ago
I agree with this stance both because shining light on bad ideas is generally the better approach, but also because the alternative (censoring the "bad" stuff) seems to always break down.
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by dbrueck 3y ago
It'll vary a lot by your background and how much you play around along the way. If you're pretty familiar with most of the concepts and stick to the requirements, you can do the whole thing in 40-50h. OTOH, if you're encounte
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Do you by chance live in a city?
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Yes! Well-written code can be a joy to read, but it represents a subset of the total amount of useful information about what's going on in a program or system. Obviously code can be overly and unhelpfully commented, but poorly commente
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by dbrueck 3y ago
I'm always torn by stuff like this. On the one hand, I think people who have more do have a moral obligation to spread the wealth better (though I tend to feel uneasy with many of the ways we try to use government to force that t
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Actually, not only does it work with live streaming, it's not an uncommon approach in a number of live streaming implementations*. To be clear, I'm not talking about low latency stuff like interactive chat, but e.g. live sports. I
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> plane hijacking wouldn't become a regular weekly occurrence? Except that there were relatively few hijackings prior to the TSA. Airport security of some form, sure, but it was wildly different than the TSA. I've had an infuri
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by dbrueck 3y ago
It's the equivalent of an automatic bookmark in book reader apps. While playing songs in a playlist, there is a tiny bit of state information - primarily what song you're on. As soon as you play something else, that state is disca
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by dbrueck 3y ago
I'm in both camps: Spotify is hands down the best ROI for me in terms of where my streaming dollars go. OTOH, it drives me crazy that customers like myself have been begging them for many years to add basic features like remembering my
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by dbrueck 3y ago
My apologies - I don't really disagree with anything you're saying, but it's just not really relevant to the comment I was replying to (one in which the commenter apparently misunderstood the article).
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> When you cede control to others, you open the possibility of them doing unexpected things. Why is this a surprise to the author? It's not. The author is summarizing things that don't seem to make sense based on current info -
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by dbrueck 3y ago
At the introduction I thought the article was trolling. In the middle I thought it was instead just an interesting way to present info about bows and arrows. By the end I realized the author is serious and the premise is silly. If getting e
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Haha, I did this for Wordle - same result!
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> glue language ... at that point it's basically c/c++ already with python acting like unreal blueprints or something Yeah, I mean that's pretty much the main role of a game engine's scripting language - gluing the lo
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Being aware of and adjusting your sphere of concern vs sphere of influence (see e.g. Covey & 7 Habits) can help you survive in a way that at least feels more ethical than, say, quiet quitting. Ultimately though I got fed up and stoppe
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Came here to say this!
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Oh, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Many parts of on-demand video streaming are largely commoditized at this point. Add in support for linear (live) streaming and ad insertion and things start to get really interesting. :)
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> You can go a step further I see what you did there.
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> The lazy rich kid to you, may be the perfect candidate to a VP hiring for an influential role. If the candidate is perfect because of the skills, work ethic, etc. then they by definition have merit, so that's not the type we'
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> Elite schools transmute money into merit. Eh, I don't know. Those schools transmute money into networks for sure, but the degree they do it for merit seems drastically less, perhaps it's even initially a negative at first. I
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by dbrueck 3y ago
I agree with the 'stop arguing over elite schools' bit. To me, elite schools look like a huge waste of money and I urge anyone considering an elite school to study the law of diminishing returns. To other people, going to such a s
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by dbrueck 3y ago
I think naked kwargs can be abused, but there are many legitimate use cases for them. For example, we interface with a message bus that uses JSON for transport. There are several different ways to enqueue a message onto the bus, and it woul
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by dbrueck 3y ago
I didn't post that comment, but I'd suggest it's not necessarily a rational worry at all. It's just human nature that if you tell somebody that something can run out, then some part of their brain will worry about it run

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