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by jaekash 6y ago
I think Google is screwing up massively with letting these things rot on the vine, but I still prefer google docs/drive to sharepoint/office365 even - word on desktop is okay but the web based version is utter crap compared to Goo
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by jaekash 6y ago
Wow that button is like a portal straight to hell, well done I guess. Most soul destroying thing I have yet encountered.
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Flagged to fix the title. This is the letter that supposedly called it junk science: https://medium.com/@CoalitionForCriticalTechnology/abolish-t... The central claim that the title of the original paper would suggest
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by jaekash 6y ago
> It is not like "russian hackers" is behind the riots in the US or bad covid advice. Yeah, the article is so vague that it can just fit whatever bias the reader has but I also suspect that the most likely biases that will be f
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by jaekash 6y ago
Well I mean they could but they would have to provide actual data (similar to what I cited) to back it up. Just because people can make absurd claims is not a good reason to entertain them.
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by jaekash 6y ago
No, this is not an example of the tragedy of the commons. It is simply a negative externality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality#Negative And I guess it is an example of market failure in the technical sense bu
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by jaekash 6y ago
> There is a war happening. We are immersed in an evolving, ongoing conflict: an Information World War in which state actors, terrorists, and ideological extremists leverage the social infrastructure underpinning everyday life to sow dis
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by jaekash 6y ago
> They suppose that the shutdown could have saved $10 trillion worth of lives. I suppose it could have cost $10 trillion worth of lives. Not sure what the calculus of suppose is exactly, once I have figured that out I can take this to th
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by jaekash 6y ago
> I disagree with the parent that they're poorly integrated. They're probably better-integrated than most other options out there. IMO the real problem with Atlassian products is that individually they are not good. Confluence
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by jaekash 6y ago
What is the downside to overestimating China's power?
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by jaekash 6y ago
Ripoff of https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/work/Q68471881 also just use scholia and enrich wikidata.
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by jaekash 6y ago
Atlassian products is a collection of poorly integrated and maintained applications each with serious issues which Atlassian refuses to fix. Atlassian is basically where things go to die.
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Well on a scale of coolness Bitbucket hits rock bottom, just like all things from Atlassian.
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> My chances to know beforehand what customers want is 50/50.* It probably is not 50/50 for literally any idea, it is maybe 50/50 for well considered ideas, but even then I doubt it. I am pretty sure there are things which
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by jaekash 6y ago
Can companies not also choose to not respect your choice on their popups? Seems like the rationale for preferring popups over this is not very sound to me.
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by jaekash 6y ago
> So Flatpaks also install under /var? That's horrible Why?
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by jaekash 6y ago
> It's been very much not secondary to the PR effort behind it. I disagree, have not seen container mentioned in PR materials for flatpak even once. I actually was not sure they were using that for sandboxing, I just knew they did s
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by jaekash 6y ago
Pretty sure this interpretation would amount to compelled speech. They are not entitled to facebook or their employer broadcasting their messages. They can use their own resources to organize.
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by jaekash 6y ago
Reducing social benefit programs, i.e. reducing their entitlement to the fruit of the labour of others. But yeah, imagine this HDD belonged to my sibling that I have supported financially, but I cannot keep supporting them financially to th
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by jaekash 6y ago
> - General preference for non-ad supported business model. I don't see how google meet is ad supported, but even if it was, there are paid options, so you are welcome to pay for it.
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by jaekash 6y ago
> This accomplishment is truly remarkable in that it shows that we can develop systems that teach themselves to do non-trivial tasks from a blank slate, and eventually become better than humans at doing the task. "non-trivial"
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by jaekash 6y ago
Well yes, your bank did create the credit, at your request, and the money they created went to you which you gave to others. So you were instrumental in the process, but without the bank that can do fractional reserve banking none of this w
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by jaekash 6y ago
> Because all credit is also money creation! (Broad money). Anyone with a pen can create money by writing an IOU. This is one of the things the goldbugs don't seem to understand properly. I cannot do fractional reserve banking. And