josinalvo

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by josinalvo 7y ago
It is not exploitative at all to give people access to wikipedia (or even facebook) without giving them general internet access. I can accept that it would be better for the health of the internet as a whole to give people full access or no
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by josinalvo 7y ago
> you need to dig a bit to find them Should not be a problem, seems user has been digging for Exile since he was 12
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by josinalvo 7y ago
What negative externalities do you have in mind?
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by josinalvo 7y ago
each possible digit, not each possible ID. You seem to be calculating some combinatorial explosion, where there probably is none
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by josinalvo 7y ago
To provide a link to next week's video/ the next of a series inside the previous?
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by josinalvo 7y ago
sverige: none of your links work. You seem to have copied only substrings for all of them
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by josinalvo 7y ago
> right minded and compassionately motivated Don't confuse the two. Breaking down a working system that was evil without creating a replacement, without gradual transition, can (and did) result in a more evil system. They were motiv
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by josinalvo 7y ago
the real question is: can you prevent any suffering at all? can you ever have net positive regulation? i am fully agnostic about what might be the answer
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by josinalvo 7y ago
fyi: paypal refused to allow me to change my password, venmo refused to accept my non-US account and patreon(1) refused my non-US credit card. As expected, I did spend much more than one dollar in time trying to send you money. What I did n
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by josinalvo 7y ago
> Boris Johnson fiasco Could you provide some context? > who are the people who called the police when they heard shouting and screaming next door? We need to find and expose them". Could you provide some links? (sorry, not doub
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by josinalvo 7y ago
> what are Republicans, and how can we understand and empathize with them more?" after the last election. Tons. > very gentle and good-hearted. That has not been my impression. Just one data point.
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by josinalvo 7y ago
Not so much "writing should be free", but "I dont trust and consume a specific source enough to justify subscription" with the adendum that "ads are evil". At least for me. Edit: having read the "hand lick
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by josinalvo 7y ago
> Instagram is probably the single piece of technology I would wish away the instant I got a magic wand. more than facebook or youtube? Why? (my main problem with youtube, btw, is the weird addictive videos they have, but I would not van
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by josinalvo 7y ago
do you happen to know how the gender gap works in Japan? is it still the case that women try more and men die more? By what ratios?
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by josinalvo 7y ago
Not a great idea to be out at work all day :P
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by josinalvo 7y ago
Indeed there is an extra confirmation step, and it freezes some processes (specifically, those that alter the screen, like red shifters)
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by josinalvo 7y ago
I did not root my phone yet, and I install apps with f-droid just fine. The only thing I had to do, if I recall correctly, was enabling third party apps instalation
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by josinalvo 7y ago
newpipe is a foss program that does this for free
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by josinalvo 7y ago
All I am saying is there are 2 different questions: * Is the method good? (FR with celebrity, maybe not. A hat, surely not) * Is the method legal? (IANAL, but the relevant question seems to be if they are using it as evidence or just for le
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by josinalvo 7y ago
No, but it is my understanding that to even detain a person you need to meet some standard of evidence. I am saying: let the police use whatever lead generating method they can, as long as they are not using it as evidence to detain, search
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by josinalvo 7y ago
I disagree that this is, per se, a violation of due process As long as the matches are not being used as evidence on trials or as evidence to get warrants, the police can generate their list of leads by consulting a hamster, or by taking na
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by josinalvo 7y ago
that is a version of the story I never heard before! Can you share some links?
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by josinalvo 7y ago
I would wager most guns get fired a very small amount of times. If you take those away, of the rest, I'd wager the overwhelming majority is used for sports and hunting. So, not sure about that. You might have the right claim, but the &
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by josinalvo 7y ago
> metals (I have silver wedding rings I got printed there) was it to save money? or for some unique design?
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by josinalvo 8y ago
I applaud your effort, but unfortunately agree with GP. The methaphor really does not work
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by josinalvo 8y ago
the question is never to beat those more gifted, and always how to approach their level. They serve as a pointer to the right direction, not as a realistic goal
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by josinalvo 8y ago
>> wouldn't even be higher than the third page of the interview list." Does this mean the first two pages are filled with even better people? Or that the selection process for a government job is somehow favoring people who
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by josinalvo 8y ago
> Politics is not about foisting your vision onto everyone else, despite the current rhetoric in the US. The only paragraph I agree with. But I agree strongly! Politics is about consensus and horse-trading, and they are much superior to
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by josinalvo 8y ago
> tech bro this does not seem to have been said with anomosity, so I take a risk I would not take with more angry interlocutors. tech bro is casually sexist, right? Could we avoid that, at least when talking between nice people?
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by josinalvo 8y ago
do you have/could you share population data for your users? like median earnings, median debt, nature of debt and such? I am just curious and have no particular reason for asking, but it would be interesting

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