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by garbagetime 4y ago
Whether that rule has since been deleted is of course interesting, but it is not directly relevant to my point, which is that PG did violate Twitter's rules (but, to be clear, the rule was indeed deleted). Yes, I am aware that PG did n
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by garbagetime 4y ago
I think you made a mistake when you read the quotation. PG broke the rule when he promoted a prohibited 3rd-party social media platform.
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by garbagetime 4y ago
The situation is very simple. 1. PG broke one of Twitter's rules: > At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms, such as linking out (i.e. using URL
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by garbagetime 4y ago
Sure (please note that this is a quotation from the policy as it was when PG was suspended, and that the policy has since been changed): > At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd
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by garbagetime 4y ago
Have I been advocating following Twitter's rules? No. I've simply been explaining what those rules were (they have since been reverted) and how PG broke them.
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by garbagetime 4y ago
He promoted prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms
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by garbagetime 4y ago
And the Tweet was not deleted, which suggests that the suspension was reversed rather than merely lifted. I suspect it's simply a case of Twitter changing its policy in real time.
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by garbagetime 4y ago
I strongly dislike it (and I believe Elon has now changed it), but that's another conversation.
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by garbagetime 4y ago
You're mistaken about the situation. PG did violate Twitter's rules (although I believe Elon has since had a change-of-heart about the rule he broke). Specifically, its rules on the promotion of alternative social platforms poli
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by garbagetime 4y ago
Sure, at least in my experience, that's what the phrase usually refers to. But that's not what Elon and I are using it to refer to.
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by garbagetime 4y ago
You have misunderstood what Elon and I are referring to by 'ban evasion'. You may disagree with the policy of banning the promotion of alternative social platforms, but that is the rule. Trying to break that rule while not getti
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by garbagetime 4y ago
Note that Twitter's TOS are only one of the three components of the Twitter User Agreement. There are also the Twitter Rules and Policies. This is what Twitter's Rules and Policies page says: > At both the Tweet level and the a
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by garbagetime 4y ago
You are wrong about what PG said. In fact, his Tweet included an explanation of where to find a link to his Mastodon account. Elon has made it clear that these blatant attempts at ban evasion are not allowed.
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by garbagetime 4y ago
Do you think that meeting someone at his book signing equates to meeting him?
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by garbagetime 4y ago
> "realizing that others don't notice near as much as you do" Not a necessary truth
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by garbagetime 4y ago
I don't see the value in articles like these that don't even attempt to convince you what they are saying is true. Sure, I've heard this claim 1,000,000 times on sites such as Hacker News and Reddit - but I've yet to fin
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by garbagetime 4y ago
I got it in my third guess, but my first guess was correct apart from the suits.
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by garbagetime 4y ago
I think seven days a week would be more productive, but it's culturally impossible in the West (thank God).
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by garbagetime 4y ago
Site down? I'm keen to see if it catches my alts.
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by garbagetime 4y ago
It was somewhat difficult to engage with your comment because it felt kind of like it was strawmanning. But I think the reality is you just misunderstood the original comment. The original comment was saying that it was good that people wer
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by garbagetime 4y ago
I don't think you have a good point. There are two separate things at play here. The first is having an organisation that can't be trusted hold "your" coins for a long period of time. It is a bad idea because you could h
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by garbagetime 4y ago
This just doesn't make much sense. HTML files are much better than txt files because HTML allows for hyperlinks.
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by garbagetime 4y ago
If you're a politically inclined person you'll want to know what your government is doing so that, for example, you can organise against it when what it is doing is terrible. You will also likely want to know about changes to laws
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by garbagetime 4y ago
Yes, I read the New York Times and a couple of local news journals every day. I do not think it would be a good idea to just read the titles of articles. I would recommend reading several articles in full each day (it will only take 15 or s
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by garbagetime 4y ago
The key word for looking into this is Tikanga ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikanga_M%C4%81ori ). It has become a common belief that it is the duty of New Zealand schools under the Treaty of Waitangi to integrate Maori
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by garbagetime 4y ago
This seems like a possibility. Train an AI to identify and measure features in satellite imagery (water bodies, trees, lawns, buildings, etc.) Allow a user to search for areas of size x m^2, that have water bodies of at least y m^2, foreste
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by garbagetime 4y ago
None of the things you mentioned are necessary conditions for good music.
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by garbagetime 4y ago
https://new.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/lly7po/do_you_use_em... FTFY
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by garbagetime 4y ago
You speak of "blatant parody humour using impersonantion". That seems a confused phrase. If an account is blatantly a parody, then it is not committing impersonation, because if someone knows that an account is a parody of a perso
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by garbagetime 4y ago
I think that people should be free to express any view and to criticise any person. That doesn't mean that I think people should be able to say whatever they want in whatever way they want. I think we should be able to stop people from

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