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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I think the idea of "stable neighborhoods" is complex and misses the point. If supply goes up, existing homeowner value goes down, the amount landlords can ask goes down. I don't see any reason it is more complicated than tha
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I am not sure why a non profit in the style of Wikipedia could not work. Wikipedia seems to be scaling fine, even to other languages (correct me if I'm wrong).
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The core problem with decentralization is anonymity at scale. Creating an account per decentralized unit is a high cost. Fighting abuse of a platform on the scale of decentralized units rather than the platform as a whole is a very high cos
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Hacker news is a platform ultimately subsidized by a billionaire. A billionaire is choosing to be a responsible owner/patron of this platform, but ultimately this platform answers to him. HN is a "good king" platform, our kin
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The money is being extracted through limiting housing supply and lack of infrastructure investments that support high density (efficient) housing. Increasing housing supply means decreasing homeowner capital and harming the major investment
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
> and very few people actually want to pay for it. I think this is a core assumption that I'm not sure I believe in. Works for the public deserve public (distinct from government) funding. There are many things that say "if you
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Paternalism is just a different word for oppression. It encodes the power relationship, but with the implication of care. Ask the Uighers, Tibetans, and the Hong Kongers, or even the Taiwanese what they think of china's "Paternali
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I agree with your criticism and should have called out Malaysia's multiculturalism instead of going with the (wrong) implication expressed by where I asked that question; that in Malaysia ethnicity = nationality. FWIW, my experience of
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
You're thinking about in terms of reddit vs 3rd party apps. Instead think of it as a labor movement where reddit are the owners and mods/posters are the laborers, and the 3rd party app creators are the union leaders. This isn&#x27
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I thought about moving to an Asian country as a white person. I asked myself: What does it mean to be Korean? What does it mean to be Taiwanese? What does it mean to be Malaysian? In most Asian countries ethnicity not a wildly different con
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Thanks, I read that. I was essentially looking for someone to post this: Q: How do you address the concerns of users who feel that Reddit has become increasingly profit-driven and less focused on community engagement? Spez: We’ll
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
This is a selfish ask, but is anyone motivated enough to read through the AMA answers and share a summary of the interesting points?
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Frequently people will ask for a very specific thing, not understanding the greater context of what they are asking for. If they knew the greater context, then they would be asking different questions. I suspect this question is one of thos
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All of my best engineering happened when I didn't have a single meeting with my manager for 6 months. That being said if you manage to get that one good unicorn manager (that 1 in 50) who knows how to actually manage, they are fantasti
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> The fact that he found refuge in Russia is a great tragedy. This really is the core of it. If it were anywhere but Russia, I would probably hail him as a hero who made a great sacrifice, but instead despite my general distrust and disl
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If you want these types of things, then it's likely only going to be through somebody creating an extension to modify the HN interface. I think client side modification is probably better (albeit inefficient) engineering anyway.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruscism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putinism
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With the downfall of Reddit, the best thing to do might be to beg the powers that be to opensource HN (is it already open source?) with all of the anti-abuse and moderating considerations gutted out. Reddit itself is basically a syndicator
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Do you feel that if someone really knew you, they wouldn't like you? Do you feel like you are different? Have you felt that there is definitely something wrong with you your whole life? If those resonate with you, check out Childhood
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> Your rhetoric doesn't change the facts. Once you understand someone is delusional, there is no point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_genocide_of_Ukr... 7 countries voted that it is, and prominen
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
Tech blogs are the standard way tech companies advertise to engineers. You must understand a tech blog is not meant for you to "tell" tech blogs exist for you to "show." If you think of your blog as an advertisement wi
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
I will concede that where you put your point of origin determines how you measure the damage. What I won't concede is that if you measure relative power between Russia and the US, Snowden's actions reduced US power and increased R
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I love him. He is showing how labor needs to fight. There's a reason labor is losing power to owners and it's because they aren't having fights like Christian. Christian is showing how to give our children a future.
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Yeah. The wikipedia approach to an online platform seems ideal. Wikipedia is pretty fantastic. Signal is pretty great. I'm pretty happy with NPR. Archive.org makes me happy. Appeal to people with money (the professional class) and then
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No. But I do think he's a war criminal who irreparably damaged this country in countless ways and not subjecting himself to the ICC is a denial of everything America says it represents. Bush did more damage to America than Russia could
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I think that is weirdly pedantic and an abuse of the word neutrality. Would it help if I said " taking a position of neutrality implicitly supports the more powerful and therefore neutrality supports oppression?"
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This will have to be in parts. Apologies for the very abstract thinking: Words are indirect references to ideas, so making sure the idea referenced by the same word is the same is a valuable thing to do. A problem in modern discourse is tha
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by hayst4ck 3y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/02/edward-snowd... Certainly it's debatable whether swearing an oath to Russia is the same as swearing an oath to Putin. I don't believe there'
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I personally think this is ridiculous. It's not one person doing something bad, it's an entire powerful organization that pays for the livelihood of the people who work those whistleblower channels. I have a hard time believing co
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There are two facts you have to reconcile with: 1. Snowden materially damaged the US government. 2. Snowden swore an oath of allegiance to the entity who most desires to damage the US government. I cannot blame someone for having t

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