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by jerojero 4y ago
Well at least Brandon Sanderson is really transparent with his progress and seems to be capable of writing consistently, he doesn't seem to be the kind of "i'm waiting for inspiration to come" author. So if you get into
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If they're real and they're visiting us like this. I wonder why they don't make any kind of contact, it's a little scary and disheartening to think of? Are we not worthy or what are they waiting for?
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The price of my rent has gone up way higher than the rate of inflation. But what can I do? This place is close to my job and my friends, though now they are moving out. Seriously feel like just because prices are going up then a lot of inst
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I think one of the points in favor of sortition is precisely that, at least most of the designs that I've seen, tend to call for ad-hoc assemblies to discuss particular issues. To participate in these you tend to be paid and they tend
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It really depends on which experiment you look at, but the one that I know best which was the one done in Chile managed to capture a fair few demographic categories. You can be as granular as you want it really depends if you have the means
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Yes, I think Switzerland does a very good job with their referendums. But Switzerland has a history of democratic and political participation that most countries do not have. Switzerland's politics is extremely complex and it has many,
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Why do you say sortition for decision making would have more people opting out? What's the basis for this? But also, I think you might be underestimating the amount of people required to get actual representative samples of our populat
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That's not really something I agree with? I find sortition to be one of the most democratic form of participation. Modern political systems in the west, that is to say, liberal democracy through representative voting is entirely oligar
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Although I'm all for exploring different avenues of democratic decision making and liquid democracy is definitely something I'm interested in and so this article is really valuable information; for a while now I've been much
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I've never found touchscreens on laptops useful. In fact, I find them a bit annoying because sometimes you touch the screen when moving around. I really don't see the benefit of them unless it's one of those laptops that you
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Are you aware of the work being done in Europe for citizens assemblies? It seems quite interesting. I definitely agree with you in that right now the biggest problem seems to be one of governance, our political systems can't make good
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I really appreciate all the work Valve is putting into Linux. My first experience with linux was when I was only 15 years old, this was 15 years ago. It was usable and it gave new life to the laptop I had gotten from my grandma that didn&#x
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Renting cars when you need them, buses, trains? How do you think old people who can't drive anymore get around in Europe? Cars are obviously useful for the country side, but that's not really the issue. The issue is that cities in
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At this point just get rid of regular Youtube and replace it with Youtube Kids. Though being honest, showing advertisement to kids is already very morally questionable. Not that youtube cares what is moral anyway since they constantly enabl
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It might just be me but I've been experiencing problems here in Australia as well. Timeline not loading properly. I think they reduced the number of servers a week or so ago as part of the cost-saving measures. It probably doesn't
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It's actually a lot more difficult to quantify the total emissions of electric car than it might seem at first glance. For one, the electricity might easily be generated through carbon so this doesn't offset emissions as much as d
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I'm describing a problem, the fact that the books are free and that this problem causes a minor inconvenience doesn't make it not a problem. It's important to be aware of these things.
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Something that has always bothered me about z-lib and libgen and so on is the impossibility of being able to tell quality from the different uploads. Sometimes the epubs are very good, with a good cover and metadata as well as chapters and
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My first encounter with Linux was a video I saw on youtube when I was 13 years old where they had the song "here comes the hotsteppper" and a bunch of window effects done with compiz fusion. I couldn't believe this was possib
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I had to stop using Netflix because they cracked down hard on password sharing, although it was only my family. I ended up without access to Netflix and reducing my familys plan to the middle tier as they don't need 4k or 4 screen if i
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It's quite expensive, but I guess it's more intended to be used professionally rather than just archiving the whole internet. As in, just archive what you really want. Though who knows? It's not really a non-profit as far a
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Is it the system, or is it the access to technology and education? Tools like the internet allow pretty much anyone to learn so much about how to make music and not only that but being able to publish your music very easily as well as formi
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Well there was an issue with other account posting information about school teachers being groomers and pointing people to their names, pictures, etc. That account is still online, well and doing it. As others have pointed out, as long as t
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I think Elon Musk motto has become "Free Speech only if I like it". What has changed from two weeks ago to now that suddenly this has become an issue? The fact that Elon Musk now perceives he was affected by it. The security threa
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This doesn't happen on Android. Why would it happen in iOS? Discoverability and the ease of access that the playstore/appstore provides is enough to pretty much always want to have your app up there. The main difference is that th
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I hope he goes to jail.
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I don't like the "blame engineers" part. I think the problem goes much deeper, engineers in most cases are just doing their job. Not that they couldn't do things better, they can, but it seems to me like this is actually
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I think this shows us that "technological innovation" solutions are not always the right answer to our problems. I've had these fake-patties and they're good, I've gone to burger king and it's more than good en
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What's the point of the blue checkmark then? Wasn't the whole "paid verify" fiesta about "bringing democracy to the verification system". I mean, of course I'm being a little facetious. Everyone and their
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This is great! Just a few thoughts: It could be good to add a `X` a kind of close button to the pop up when you click on a match. It's not entirely intuitive where to click to close it if you're on mobile. On that line, when you d

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