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by fleddr 4y ago
Are you saying that young people do not vote because they don't have time? Whilst the very topic we're discussing argues they're on their phone the entire damn day? As to older people being numerous in terms of voting, that&#
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It's the circle of life. Teenagers are idiots. They think they know everything but know little to nothing. They loudly reject and rebel against the legacy world. Around their 30s, they dial it back significantly. Understand they were w
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Or how NOT to spend it. Before the smartphone, a significant amount of time per day was spent on nothing. Could be staring out the window during a commute, an actual break at work, waiting for somebody or something. We mostly lost that. Zer
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The piece sounds like a petty personal revenge, where it's hard to detect any rational point. She grew up in a family abusing screen time, centering the TV above anything and anyone. That was very bad, as she readily admits. How then d
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I think it's Zeitgeist. The narrative of their lifetime is 9/11, the 2008 financial crisis, Trump and deep polarization, COVID, another war, cost of living crisis, and a middle class existence increasingly out of reach. The future
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by fleddr 4y ago
In the workplace, I've seen a few people crash into a burnout and it was always your list in reverse order. It starts with work being rather meaningless or just spinning wheels. It takes an enormous amount of effort to achieve little p
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I simply consider it a type of harmless overconsumption, an expensive status-driven hobby not backed by rationalism. It comes in many shapes and forms. Coffee snobs. People that buy a Rolex. Or have a 100K audio setup to match their superna
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by fleddr 4y ago
The supposed post-Twitter situation is entirely imaginary and typical of Twitter culture: hysterical, performative, not really rooted in any fact whatsoever. But for the sake of argument, let's go along with the idea that a major shift
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by fleddr 4y ago
I don't find this parody funny at all because the site doesn't work without JS plus it's taking over my scrollbar. Not at all smooth in Firefox 3.11 with everything except HTML disabled.
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I'm not passing judgement on your friendships, as you have none.
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You will never get an answer. Biological sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression and even gender roles are thrown into a pile to play 5D chess. Fact remains, there is no third sex. Intersex is not a third sex and sexual anomalies al
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by fleddr 4y ago
That's a remote acquaintance, not a friend.
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As it comes to friendships, people mistake time for priority. Yes, I get it, people are busy. But they still have time. The average citizen spends several hours per day passively consuming entertainment. You may even have spare moments at w
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In my 20s: absolutely yes. I had few responsibilities and tons of energy. Great pay, interesting challenges, becoming guru-level at some niche, working on something very visible, along with other very driven people. Why not? In my current 4
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by fleddr 4y ago
I always found the idea to be bizarre. The group of people for which a browser is truly horrendously slow would be on something like a low-end Windows laptop. From mid-end and upwards it's fine (or good enough) and for Mac users pretty
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by fleddr 4y ago
Reasoned from an employer, the economic optimum consist of two parts: 1) The time you work is spent doing meaningful things. 2) The amount of hours equals the point where if you'd add hours, the negatives outweigh the positives. In tha
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by fleddr 4y ago
And this is why we need to cherish the web. I see no reason why a yoga app can't be done on the web. I do know that apps tend to convert better, if only we could bridge that gap. It's in particular troubling how much of this madne
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by fleddr 4y ago
False. The best language is logo turtle: http://blog.core-ed.org/files/2014/08/logo_turtle-21.png
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I honestly didn't even realize that I had principles. I find them too abstract.
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This man really has to be protected against himself. It's foolish to incriminate yourself publicly, but there's more to it. When you watch CT (Crypto Twitter), retail getting wrecked in pump and dumps is an every day event. This o
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by fleddr 4y ago
I'm not fighting, only offering an opinion. We simply disagree at a fundamental level. My first and main point is that 80% of software developers, the silent majority of so-called "bread programmers", do not grasp these conce
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by fleddr 4y ago
Well done. Your comment shows actual FP best practices and their immediate, significant advantages. And you did so succinctly.
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I can think of a few reasons. First, it's a potential privacy issue. It effectively is a single place where all dirt is concentrated, open for all to see. In case violators leak personal info, willingly or not, their mistake might be u
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by fleddr 4y ago
Thanks for the support. I used to live all the best practices, but over time learned that the number one enemy in a codebase is complexity. 90% of software development is maintenance. People doing maintenance are lowly productive because th
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I couldn't agree more. I feel that some thought leaders debating intellectual concepts in computer programming have no idea how real world software development takes place these days. Developers are under enormous time pressure to deli
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I'm sure this is a wonderful intellectual exercise in computer science and math, but if this is to be the advertisement in favor of functional programming, I wouldn't consider myself a customer. You start out with code that will n
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The type of collaboration I was referring to is across bubbles, not inside a bubble. Collaborating within a niche bubble can be done anywhere, on countless platforms. Cross community collaboration is underwhelming in the fediverse compared
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The point of a free market participant is to escape it.
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Great take. A large section of our economy (say 50%) is supply driven, not demand driven. Just busy work.
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Sorry, but this is way too much of a good news show. Federated systems make collaboration much harder, not easier, in comparison to centralized platforms. This is one of the biggest complaints regarding Mastodon. "No matter how great a

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