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by kixiQu 5y ago
In their free time, a huge number of people -- and especially the next generation -- play Minecraft.
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Look, I'll say this as an admitted domain hoarder myself, but: The thing that sucks about namespaces is that there's no way to win. If people can own them without an ongoing cost, they'll go unused (think of people squatting
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see also: https://web.archive.org/web/20210201092129/https://kickscond... > Grape-Nuts Media Lab announces a new partnership with the brilliant duo behind the beloved Kicks Condor intellectual propert
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https://maya.land/blogroll.opml <-- You can open this in your browser and look around at what I follow, the neocities and altweb sections in particular being relevant. The cool web isn't dead :) and I'm not eve
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"We're on YouTube a lot. But of course. The modern container for personalities. A lot of our characters are blended from vlogs and streams. For whatever reason, we pull a lot from the amateur cigar-smoking community." One cue
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In case anyone wants to sniff around for some, there's some left in personal sites, often with an explicitly nostalgic vibe: https://yesterweb.org/webring/members.html https://www.kickscondor.com <
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Or, to others, a nightmare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
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I would have guessed that this would be the case, absolutely. It's not like the cloud makes everything better for e waste; for my home use SSDs are a giant pain because I need to monitor them for wear and replace them and etc etc , but
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"[Woody Guthrie's] 30 days at [the Bonneville Power Administration (the relevant hydroelectric institution)] is considered one of the single most productive bursts in his fruitful songwriting career." https://www.b
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One thing to add: saying "as the cloud expands its impact expands" just might not be accurate when looking at businesses moving inefficiently run on-prem workloads onto it. I'm no economist, but what a thing displaces matt
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Just in case anyone who isn't from the PNW is wondering at the energy and number of replies OP has gotten about this: Water quality and the salmon-centered river/stream ecosystem is, like, the local environmental thing everyone
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* The Jevons paradox seems really relevant but there's no analysis done. The predecessors to the cloud seem important to look at if you're being honest about analysis of efficiency, but... * "While in technical parlance the “
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Honestly, more than anyone's particular gaffes or speech patterns -- public figures that have been in the public eye for decades are on tape from when they were younger. With both the current and former president, it's almost shoc
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If you look up "chambray shirt" they'll likely be familiar to you
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There are no English words of non-French origin for many of these; it's not a marketing tactic: it's just the only way to denote e.g. boucle fabric or chenille yarn.
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Yeah, but it sucks when someone reaches out, you go for the paragraphs, and then you get a sentence or two back. You can try and make it engaging, but that doesn't mean both parties are looking to be engaged.
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> I also found it strange they ignored one of the largest arguments that Moxie made. They didn't, at all, and I find it strange you're claiming that. After > It’s also fair that in a multi-server federated model, users nat
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That isn't an accurate summary, because he's refuting a number of the points. fake "we" to summarize, I'm not affiliated: * yes it's harder to build * harder to evolve, which is why we invested in a spec proces
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See also the response from the people who are working on the federated protocols: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom
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This is the kind of thing where everyone thinks the right behavior is really obvious, but those expectations conflict, being drawn from the assumption that one's own preferences and habits are normal, and techie narcissism inflates the
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I mean, I think we have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time in terms of "multiple things/actors can be bad", but https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/reproductive-abu...
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doesn't increase eating disorder incidence for undergrad women "who had not engaged in dietary self-monitoring in the past year and who were at low-risk for an eating disorder" and who were willing to sign up for this
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The tooling and assets available for this mode of development are really good -- and GB Studio, the mentioned one, can export for the browser, so distribution can be really convenient as well.
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I'd bet he was thinking of this whole back and forth (blog posts, conference talk) with Matrix: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom
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And from your link I'm seeing "risk factors" included being over sixty five years old, which isn't typically fair to itself call a "co-morbidity".
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If I were in a union, I don't need them to negotiate on pay at all -- I'd want them to negotiate for better transparency about the ways that people get managed out / fired, because at the company where I work, that's all
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This is fair in that there's a lot we'll need to learn about how our system works and fails under pressure from this all. Maximizing efficiency in peacetime leaves you ill-prepared for war, as it were.
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Good thing high school students never live in multigenerational households, right? Or otherwise have family members at high risk?
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Every regulation (that isn't globally applied/enforced (so all of them)) creates a regulatory deterrent (where it is applied/enforced), independently of its benefit. This is what I said, and this is also implicit in your co
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It is not necessary for the labor and environmental laws to be such that they "can't survive a cost benefit analysis" for them to create a force pushing manufacturing towards places without those laws. Any regulation will h

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