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by ineptech 4y ago
I generally agree, but Mastodon is getting a lot of dev attention right now due to the Twitter problems, and while FOSS tends to improve slower and more incrementally, it also tends to only improve (as opposed to user-hostile pivots and s
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by ineptech 4y ago
Fair enough about the not dredging up comments thing, I shouldn't have piped up, but you're taking this as waaay more of an attack than it was. The more nicely-phrased version might've been something like "If you'r
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by ineptech 4y ago
I was referring to this[0]. I said you've felt that way for a long time, not that you post about it frequently. All I'm accusing you of is having held this position strongly and for a long time. If you say the people trying to
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by ineptech 4y ago
This is egregiously false. The author wrote a lengthy rebuttal of neoreaction[0]. The only sense in which he is sympathetic to Yarvin is that he reads his essays and argues against the ideas in them, as opposed to quoting the two worst se
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by ineptech 4y ago
Are Chrome accounts separate from Google accounts generally, i.e. will the passwords go poof if your gmail account gets banned for mysterious reasons?
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by ineptech 4y ago
> I also suspect that, much like RVs or the apartments units in the Nagakin Capsule Tower, repairability and modifiability have been compromised in the design. I think it makes more sense if you think of it as a bottom of the barrel opti
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by ineptech 4y ago
That evolutionary instinct came from a time when humans lived in communal support networks and new parents had help from extended family, and does not translate well to a world where Mom has to work 9-5 in an office a few months after birth
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by ineptech 4y ago
I think part of this is spot on - the loss of control of our data is intimately tied to the fact that many of the use cases we want require a server, and most people don't have one - but the solution described in step 6, non-profit lik
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by ineptech 4y ago
Wow, this has gotten bad fast. I did some reading on the water shortage in the Southwest the last time I saw a story about it on the FP, and came away with the idea that this is a classic coordination trap, and the only solutions are a) ev
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by ineptech 4y ago
You've misunderstood me, no one is being excluded and there's no real name policy. Use a pseudonym, make two accounts, make ten or a hundred if you like. What you can't do is use the app to prove that you really are John Sm
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by ineptech 4y ago
The whole point of vouching for someone is so they can prove they are who they say they are. If you don't want to do that, then don't do that. Or, if you have two identities, I suppose you'd have two accounts. Anyway, thing
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by ineptech 4y ago
> You seem to be under the impression that real life access is the indicator of closeness of relationship. No, just the hardest part to fake. You can copy my photo, hack my email, mimic my prose style, and steal my credit card, but you
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by ineptech 4y ago
I mean, nothing would stop you from making a fake identity, and friending other anonymous people, and posting spicy memes. But you can do that on mastodon today, right? This is for the cases where you want to prove your identity. If mo
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by ineptech 4y ago
If you don't want people to know that you're friends with Dave, don't friend Dave, or don't use it at all. This isn't supposed to replace pseudo-anonymous networks like Twitter, this is more like Facebook without a
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by ineptech 4y ago
You wouldn't be first-tier friends with people you only know from the internet. You'd be first-tier friends with neighbors and cousins and the other parents at your kids' school. Then when I prove (keybase style) that I, HN
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by ineptech 4y ago
You only "friend" people in real life who you trust not to act maliciously. If you unwisely trust someone who is malicious, you encounter various problems, just like in real life. But it would be very difficult for a malicious p
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by ineptech 4y ago
I imagine that some subset of users (1/10th?) would need to aggregate and serve their own and first-tier friends' content from a cheap VPS, and the Kardashians and Elons of the world might need a CDN of some kind, but if it's
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by ineptech 4y ago
Fleeting idea that could be combined with that: a web-of-trust social network where you can only "friend" people in real life, by tapping phones. When you do so, the app might say, "The person you just met claims to be Joe Sc
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by ineptech 4y ago
> If you don't want to discuss specific numbers, then don't state specific numbers, say that "More people do X than Y" without trying to get specific about how many people do either. No. It was a fleeting thought in a
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by ineptech 4y ago
I'm sorry dude, I definitely meant at least 200k, not no more than 200k. Source: I am the world's leading expert in what I meant. I honestly can't see how that can be misunderstood, either. You said SC2 gets 25k views,
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by ineptech 4y ago
When I said LoL events get 200k views, do you understand that was correct? Because, in context, I meant, "at least that much and often more," not the opposite? If you had understood my comment, you wouldn't have had to look
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by ineptech 4y ago
> Then why did you bring it up? I brought up the NFL in response to you saying, "As I write this, there are [not many] people watching SC2 [on twitch]." I meant that casually checking Twitch can give a false impression of some
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by ineptech 4y ago
That seems unnecessarily combative, considering how minor the thing we're discussing is. But since I'm being called out, a) I meant regular LoL events get at least 200k views; I was emphasizing how high it is compared to SC2,
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by ineptech 4y ago
I admittedly did no research, I am just (accurately, I think) passing on the view of the community, which is that Blizzard has all but abandoned the game. How sure are you of those numbers, in particular how sure are you that they're
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by ineptech 4y ago
How many people are watching American football on Twitch? Does that mean it's dead? You can't just pick one metric and decide that's the important one. LoL might be technically older than SC2, but surely you would agree that
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by ineptech 4y ago
Honest answer since you seem new to this debate: there are tons of studies about IQ and race, most of them are heavily disputed, researching them is difficult because the field is so controversial, they're difficult to compare because
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by ineptech 4y ago
There's a much similar way to get to the same destination as the author: > If it can't surprise you, it's not intelligent > If it can surprise you, it can do so negatively Ergo, the only way to keep your AI from produci
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by ineptech 4y ago
LoL events get 100-200k streaming viewers because Riot pours money in to promoting them. SC2 tournaments look amateurish in comparison because they are self-sustaining, i.e. funded by the sponsors and viewers with no support from Blizzard
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by ineptech 4y ago
It seems like basic laser printers ought to be sort of commoditized by this point, shouldn't they? For my modest needs, laser printers were good enough 15 years ago. What's the printer equivalent of, like, a $12 Logitech mouse?
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by ineptech 4y ago
Possibly too basic for you, but I was hugely impressed with https://www.nlpdemystified.org/course (found on HN a week or two back). Each chapter has a large jupyter notebook with lots of annotated sample code. Also there&#

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