joew42k

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by joew42k 8y ago
It's no surprise that the internet is full of "meta debate" and "social shaming" - arguing about the terms of debate and who can participate, and not over any core issues. For debates to be productive, all sides ne
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by joew42k 8y ago
If you're working 12 hrs a day, 6 days a week, and your manager is calling you a slacker, then quit.
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by joew42k 8y ago
You may think your hyper growth startup needs 100% of your time, but that pressure is all in your head. Whether you work yourself to the point of exhaustion, or you take it at a reasonable pace, your chance of succeeding is still the same (
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by joew42k 8y ago
No, "making money" and "hustling" can never be a hobby.
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by joew42k 8y ago
> Again, you're not refuting anything that anybody here actually thinks. And you aren't refuting what I said. How is this any different than a book publisher deciding what books to publish? Are you saying youtube and other webs
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by joew42k 8y ago
1. https://xkcd.com/605/ Hard drives are dropping in price. That doesn't mean they will ever be zero. 1a. Youtube has other expenses besides hard drives. Bandwith. Server infrastructure. Employee salaries. To name
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by joew42k 8y ago
I agree with you. They shouldn't. I'm playing devils advocate to make a point. You can't expect websites to treat all opinions as equal. Even 4chan has moderators. Youtube only differs from other websites in scale. They are m
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by joew42k 8y ago
It totally does. Why is such a big chunk of our culture is hosted by a private company?
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by joew42k 8y ago
> the problem is people thinking that censorship is something only a government can do, It's not. Private companies can attempt to silence people. But Youtube isn't preventing the creators from hosting content elsewhere. They
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by joew42k 8y ago
1. Hosting videos costs Youtube money. It's probably a tiny amount per video. But that doesn't mean they can host every video forever. 2. They have a commercial reason to cancel these videos. Maybe they think the use of these drug
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by joew42k 8y ago
Websites have always been allowed to decide which facts to allow on their site. Right now, if I visited an anti-vaxxer forum, and posted "vaccines don't cause autism" in the comments, I'm sure it would be removed. So why
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by joew42k 8y ago
Not until we can have independent audits of the pigeons and the freedom to distribute forked pigeon breeds.
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by joew42k 8y ago
You can decide to not watch youtube. TV stations decide what shows they want to air, and which ones they don't. And nobody calls it censorship. Youtube feels like public infrastructure. But legally, it's no different than a TV sta
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by joew42k 8y ago
My advice would be to use https://indieweb.org/POSSE That approach might be more agreeable with your label-mates. I wouldn't put covers in the videos at all. You're right, that's a legal minefield. Just use o
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by joew42k 8y ago
Youtube is a private company and can do whatever they want with their own website. Nobody's stopping makers of these videos from hosting the videos themselves. This is not censorship in the way we have traditionally understood. It only
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by joew42k 8y ago
The linked article is not criticizing SimCity. This is an architecture student who made something unusual with it, and finds a hidden meaning in his project. Nobody is saying that SimCity teaches bad lessons (at least not in this article).
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by joew42k 8y ago
> Because we don't all share an origin, destination We practically used to, until cars encouraged development to spread out. > You have to completely rethink density and development patterns to get to a point where most origins a
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by joew42k 8y ago
I fear you are encouraging people not to vote, without suggesting some alternative form of civic participation. Which means the politicians you dislike have even more free reign to subvert the will of the people.
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by joew42k 8y ago
I'm a devoted listener to the author's radio show, (and the radio station it's broadcast on. Anyone in the NYC metro area should check out WFMU!) It's hard to find tech industry criticism that's reasoned and fair. I