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by dwb 2y ago
I don't get how this follows; no-one needs to be a secret anything, and the aim isn't even personal. Targeting "ideas rooted in fascism and bigotry" means to oppose the discursive ideas and concepts as they are put forth
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by dwb 2y ago
> Safari is just a piece of junk ? I'm absolutely for Apple opening up to allow other browsers, but for me Safari is at least fine. I use it for preference on macOS too, it's very resource-efficient.
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by dwb 2y ago
There's no way I'd trust any company like this with all these credentials (however they spin it) for such a marginal convenience improvement – maybe – that I have to carry around another device for. I extremely don't get it.
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by dwb 2y ago
“Shorter wavelength execution” is the kind of twaddle only someone that far from actually building things could spout. Contemptible!
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by dwb 2y ago
Plausible. I was thinking over the longer-term.
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by dwb 2y ago
We already rely on chains of trust going back to the original source, and will still. I find these alarmist posts a bit mystifying – before photography, anyone could fake a quote of anyone, and human civilisation got quite far. We had a bit
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by dwb 2y ago
I rest my case. Cartoonish levels of “hard”-science-nerd arrogance.
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by dwb 2y ago
What qualifications do you have that might add weight to your implied dismissal of more-or-less an entire field?
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by dwb 3y ago
How about stress and its related problems at least partly due to bosses pushing for ever faster, faster, faster shipping, why aren't you going faster? What can we do? This is the most important thing in the world!
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by dwb 3y ago
Be as up-front and bullshit-free as it's possible to be, and then more. Make your website simple, fast, and accessible.
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by dwb 3y ago
I agree that codes of conduct generally promote egalitarianism. I like egalitarianism. I disagree that means that you just have to take everything that anyone throws at you. That's an absurd claim that I'm happy to leave here with
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by dwb 3y ago
They're interesting, as far as that goes. I'm sure the technology will improve and will start to be used by musicians and yes, if used well, people won't notice. If the result is fine, it will be acceptable by most. I'm
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by dwb 3y ago
Again, technically impressive, but extremely mediocre outputs. I listened to all the samples and they're just nothing. A competent modern electronic musician would do a better job, or at the very least get a vastly more interesting res
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by dwb 3y ago
The conversation is about trust in software systems, not some code of conduct grievance you want to wedge in here.
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by dwb 3y ago
I have never seen a code of conduct that would prevent a polite rejection of whatever new suggestion or help to a project.
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by dwb 3y ago
It is hard, but I think corporate open source users and entrepreneurial software developers have a moral responsibility to do more than I see being done in the areas that I listed. To be crystal clear, in this case where I don't think
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by dwb 3y ago
Yes, exactly this. I certainly don't claim to have any big answers, but at the same time I think these problems with trust were very clear very early on.
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by dwb 3y ago
I'm under no illusions that this is a totally new thought, but for me first with cryptocurrencies, then "AI", and now this, the fundamental issue that the biggest problems come back to is one of trust. Cryptocurrencies try to
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by dwb 3y ago
"Expanding horizons" being a job of the internet is the viewpoint of a particular kind of optimist. I very much doubt it's what most ordinary people want, certainly as something that is thrust upon them. For me, if I want to
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by dwb 3y ago
It wasn’t disturbing, it was tiresome.
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by dwb 3y ago
You sounded way more confident and definitive than someone just doing some fun speculation.
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by dwb 3y ago
Do you have any particular evidence or qualifications that would help convince me that this could actually be an exhaustive list of options? What do you estimate their relative probability to be?
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by dwb 3y ago
No-one’s come up with an obviously-correct, completed, broad-appeal social network design so far. Twitter’s approach worked to some extent, for a little while, but is clearly now utterly broken. Anyone who’s ever spent any time on an intern
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by dwb 3y ago
I don't care about any of this, I think how the system works is bad. It produces outcomes that are bad (in this case, absurd inequality), and I don't think that was inevitable. Moreover I don't think we (as a species, at leas
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by dwb 3y ago
I don't care about the private space industry, and Elon Musk didn't found Tesla or contribute any "ideas". It's a shame that you seem to have to resort to childish insults like "Elon derangement syndrome".
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by dwb 3y ago
You’re getting angry standing up for Elon Musk, of all people? I really don’t think an alternate timeline without his “ideas” would be any worse off. As for “implementation”, even if you do value the companies he’s headed or invested in, th
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by dwb 3y ago
Cool, yep, I'm also in favour of a 100% inheritance tax and abolishing monarchies.
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by dwb 3y ago
A lot of us would dispute that anyone that rich "earned" their money. $1bn is an absurdly disproportionate compensation for any one person's work, whatever they do. It may be legal, but it isn't right.
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by dwb 3y ago
I don't have an opinion on this matter as I don't think I'm qualified (though I am interested in capability-based systems), but your comment is unclear to me: have you had significant experience in a capability-based system?
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by dwb 3y ago
Why?

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