kethinov

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by kethinov 4y ago
And every single one talks about UO like it's dead when it's not. The original still exists and there are tons of excellent free servers now too. In addition to the ones mentioned by others elsewhere in the thread one of the best
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by kethinov 4y ago
My operating assumptions here go something like this: - Living in a sparsely populated area that is near a chip fab presents X health risks due to its specific kind of industrial pollution. - Living in a densely populated city without a chi
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by kethinov 4y ago
I'm not saying living near a chip fab doesn't present the risks you outlined. What I'm saying is it's very likely there are comparable risks living basically anywhere that isn't very sparsely populated, so I think y
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by kethinov 4y ago
As wtallis noted though, that scary map you linked is an incomplete dataset. Not only does it not include chip fabs, but it also doesn't appear to account for other sources of air pollution. If it was a more general map of air pollutio
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by kethinov 4y ago
Isn't this just an argument to avoid living in cities? Basically any large concentration of people is going to result in businesses existing that produce air pollution. Everything in life is trade-offs. It sure would be nice to live in
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by kethinov 4y ago
UOForever is quite active.
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by kethinov 4y ago
It frustrates me that Jack seems to have genuine interest in this topic but seems to be totally averse to discussing Mastodon. It's hard to believe he's unaware of Mastodon, so we have to believe he thinks it's not the soluti
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by kethinov 4y ago
That argument essentially boils down to "democracy is illegitimate because sometimes majorities vote for awful things." There are many formulations of that argument. It gets repeated over and over. But I've never seen a satis
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by kethinov 4y ago
As long as I'm still free to try to persuade the 51% that I was right in the last election I lost and I have a chance to win next time, then it sounds like a perfectly good system to me. Just because sometimes you lose in a democracy d
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by kethinov 4y ago
Now we just need to wrap this in Electron so we can run it on desktop! ;)
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by kethinov 4y ago
Check out the new UO Overdrive free server. They recreated that PVP but with a much more modern client and user experience in general which I think is worth checking out if you enjoyed that kind of PVP in those days.
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by kethinov 4y ago
It's not gone. If you don't like the weird settings on the official servers, you can still play on high quality free servers with healthy populations, like UO Forever. These servers tend to have more old school settings to keep th
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by kethinov 4y ago
When the federal government taxes people, it's not collecting money, it's deleting money. That makes the money of people who are taxed less inherently more valuable. In this regard, if the federal government were to tax people — e
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by kethinov 5y ago
At this point the enthusiasts need to start getting very specific about how blockchains or cryptocurrency is making the world a better place if they want people to stop calling for it to be banned globally, because the explicit harms caused
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by kethinov 5y ago
The article is about how the term decentralization has become a generic buzzword for good and in fact could describe a range of technologies that are either good or bad, hence we should be immediately skeptical whenever we see the term dece
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by kethinov 5y ago
Because that is an ideological argument (government controlling currency is bad) masquerading as a technogical argument: https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/crypto-absurd.html
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by kethinov 5y ago
This is on point. I've been saying for years that while decentralization is good in many contexts, it's not necessarily good in every context. This is why I'm bullish on Matrix and Mastodon but remain skeptical of cryptocurre
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by kethinov 5y ago
Ditto. The sudden inability to mount Google Drive to a folder instead of a separate volume in macOS finally got me to get off my ass and migrate to a self-hosted Nextcloud, something which honestly was pretty far down on my to-do list, so i
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by kethinov 5y ago
The first YouTube video I ever uploaded was of a song I made in Mario Paint: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wnuOAkXBhgc (a cover of the Zelda theme song)
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by kethinov 5y ago
What I'm saying is given the frequency that consensus positions that large institutions support get overturned, I think it is wise to treat heterodox opinions more charitably. OP's blog post could be wrong, but it should be refute
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by kethinov 5y ago
Sometimes large institutions with lots of smart people can analyze and get comfortable with positions on issues that turn out to be completely wrong a decade or so later. Happens all the time. I'm not sure whether or not I agree that i
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by kethinov 5y ago
I expected Linux to pose a serious threat to Windows and Macs eventually. The rise of OS X and the later polishing up of Windows into something acceptable took me by surprise at the turn of the century. One of the biggest reasons for the mi
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by kethinov 5y ago
Weirdly, the thing I remember most about my time in California was how hard it was to avoid being constantly exposed to second-hand smoke anywhere I walked in the city. It really hit me when a friend visited from out of town and said someth
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by kethinov 5y ago
This caught him off guard because the progressive camp has since split into two groups: one that favored Hillary in 2016 and accuses the other of being class reductionists and the other that favored Bernie and accuses the first group of bei
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by kethinov 5y ago
From the reporting I've seen, the issue here is not that these are the kinds of people with strong opinions that are fun to bounce ideas off of, these are the kind of people with strong opinions who if you disagree with will escalate t
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by kethinov 5y ago
It's not a loan, it's an income share agreement. Someone facing bankruptcy is unlikely to be making enough income to be subject to ISA repayment which only comes into effect if the student is earning above the threshold for it. I
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by kethinov 6y ago
Condescending is opposing giving low income people more money and better working conditions because of some abstract philosophical argument used to justify redefining self-interest in a totally bizarre way. People in this thread are all lik
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by kethinov 6y ago
Unions have a long track record of working well to raise wages and improve working conditions. But I suppose that's not easy to know if the only info a person consumes about the topic is right-wing propaganda.
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by kethinov 6y ago
"Offer to take their money" is an odd way to phrase "literally offering them higher wages."
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by kethinov 6y ago
You say "leave them alone" like fighting to improve people's lives is somehow victimizing them. It's truly amazing how right-wing anti-union propaganda has brain wormed into so many people.

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