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by drb91 8y ago
> It's not obvious to me that higher voter turnout leads to better governance. Higher than what? Anyway, I think you’re projecting a lot of rationality where there’s just apathy. In any case, low voter turnout tends to harm the demo
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by drb91 8y ago
In retrospect, the amazing part wasn’t the science so much as americans working for something other than profit. Naturally, it was a proxy war instead. If only we could get our current batch of war hawks to push for research instead of bomb
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by drb91 8y ago
I guess that was kind of my point: the terms don’t map well to any concrete economic description.
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by drb91 8y ago
Yea, sounds like you have a culture mismatch, I wouldn’t play either if I had pet phrases I couldn’t say.
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by drb91 8y ago
If you’re asking seriously... tmux has a unique interface which is probably not worth learning merely for the purpose of managing multiple active sessions. You also can’t wire it to accept proper GUI commands with the mac command key. Tabs
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by drb91 8y ago
I always thought it aligned with cold war alliances, in which case brazil would be third world. Not a terribly meaningful phrase on the whole.... china’s doing well these days, but you’re only going to feel that if you happen to be in the m
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by drb91 8y ago
This seems contradictory. People from third world countries have a thicker skin but don’t play games because the abuse controls aren’t strong enough? I can understand some part of this. Shit talking is not automatically abusive. But if you’
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by drb91 8y ago
A) I’m not sure how geography plays into this. Perhaps you were making a cultural claim? B) You only need to take the issue as seriously as you take gaming. However, for the companies involved, figuring out what is preventing >50% of the
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by drb91 8y ago
I think the main draw of Mastadon is that it's an intentional experience, with blessed clients, discovery, etc etc. I'm unlikely to read anyone's blog if it's not put in front of me somehow. Furthermore, all I need to
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by drb91 8y ago
Why do people keep calling him a genius? His main distinction is his money and DESIRE to build interesting things. Nowhere is his staggering, extraordinary intelligence evident. I’d love to be demonstrated wrong, but this genius fetishism s
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by drb91 8y ago
> Ostentatious: characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice Seems like a mansion to me.
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by drb91 8y ago
Well, it could, but I see zero reason to think so. More likely is people never leave twitter or facebook in the first place.
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by drb91 8y ago
I can't read the article. Why is this interesting?
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What does this solve?
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I don’t think XMPP has a concept of standard federated authentication, let alone social media controls you might expect. It seems like a subset of the required functionality.
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I always interpreted a “walled garden” as a wall you don’t want, not a carte blanche critique of walls. What’s the appeal of a single massive instance over a federated set of them for end users?
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by drb91 8y ago
I’m confused. Are you arguing we deserve the right to say or do whatever we want in public? Not even the first amendment protects that, let alone on private property like walmart or youtube.
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> Do you feel like people should be excluded because of their race? Their gender? Their age? Their sexual orientation? Their religion? Isn't that last one a choice according to a lot of people? For private, special interest groups..
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by drb91 8y ago
Why bother speculating about whether this is about age or skills when it’s inherently a case of judgement? There’s no way to come to a deductive conclusion. Why the confidence? Where is it coming from? Seems a lot like age bigotry to me.
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by drb91 8y ago
> You need to be aware of, and have to confront things you don't like. I’d agree anywhere but twitter/mastadon. Terrible platform for any kind of coherent conversation. Use it for shit that DOESN’T matter, and please god get yo
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by drb91 8y ago
Actually this serves as a pretty good pitch for mastadon. Being able to choose the flavor of admin jerk is better than having no choice at all.
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by drb91 8y ago
Funny, I've found it seems to struggle with any references that cross language boundaries.... except with typescript, for some reason. EDIT: Sorry, I meant 'file' boundary, not 'language' boundary.
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by drb91 8y ago
So what are the alternatives to ads? They’re going to continue to die until there’s a real alternative.
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Do you have any alternatives planned for monetization of ads? I would highly prefer to simply pay the content provider itself.
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Right, but Google pushes its closed brother. Why does chromium give them a pass?
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by drb91 8y ago
Like releasing Chromium is enough? Seems like a double standard to me.
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by drb91 8y ago
Microsoft is a huge company. You’re going to see different reactions to Azure, VSCode, .NET, and their voice assistant/spyware program.
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by drb91 8y ago
Hmm, really? I just installed firefox—the only prompt it gives you is the prompt it always gives when setting a new default web browser.
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Google made their own mess by making a corporate motto to not be evil. That was never gonna work well.
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This is an easy argument to make when there's conveniently no way for consumers to decide how they want to pay. Realistically, humans are just lazy about finding decent ways of monetizing their time. I can't say I'll shed any

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