kodapoda

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by kodapoda 3y ago
You could approach visiting Berghain the same way you do with KitKatClub. I don't recommend it, but you could. Treat it as a costume party - match the expectations, dress up appropriately, come with a friendly group.
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by kodapoda 3y ago
This is an exaggeration. All communities have something that make them a community, and not just an everchanging group of random people. Is being into techno a random or superficial reason for being a part of the techno community? Is lookin
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by kodapoda 3y ago
I see your point, but a community venue and constantly wounding up and starting anew also don't mix. It's an unfortunate outcome of the scale and the system we live in. If Berghain was a XII century monastery in an inaccessible pl
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by kodapoda 3y ago
Are you able to read what you type or is it one or the other for you? > By what argument? Oh right: none floated here. > There's nothing wrong with turning right on red. The fact that you are unable top pay attention to your own
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by kodapoda 3y ago
I don't fully follow the anecdata in this article. They mention that Berghain had to raise its cover charge to "deal with rising costs" (understandable, considering the inflation), not that they have fewer patrons.
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by kodapoda 3y ago
I am reminded that we are on a tech forum :) Do they need to capitalize, scale, open franchise clubs all over the world? Techno clubs are not about that at their best. Door policy is discrimination only in the sense that the very few people
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by kodapoda 3y ago
I don't mean "exclusive" as in a "VIP club" a-la some Miami venues. Exclusive meaning really hard to get into.
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by kodapoda 3y ago
This is conflating two separate concerns: a private company can do whatever it wants with its own user handles. Sell them, seize them, delete them. Impersonation, on the other hand, can be challenged in the court of law. Twitter will certai
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by kodapoda 3y ago
You can go out to hundreds of bars in Berlin without any door policy whatsoever. Legendary bars, cool bars, gay bars, etc. It's not like the whole of Berlin is segregated. But this approach just wouldn't benefit some popular dance
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by kodapoda 3y ago
Exactly, I feel like people who complain about this have never experienced anything close to what you describe. Strict door policy benefits the club goers. If you want to go pick up girls with some sweaty dudes looking for a fight - that&#x
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by kodapoda 3y ago
You need to know how to look and set the right expectations if you want to experience the most highly regarded techno club in the world. If you show up there with a group of drunk mates wearing sweatshirts or office attire - don't expe
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by kodapoda 3y ago
That maybe true - I don't know much about the legal system. However, my guess is that the implications of being able to lock down vs seize and sell user handles in private companies are more far reaching than some of the recent cases t
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by kodapoda 3y ago
I just assume that this would only be resolved at the Supreme Court level. Any local court decision would be challenged by Twitter. Re: @Microsoft. I am not convinced that’s the case. If I build a public website with user handles it doesn’t
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by kodapoda 3y ago
Sure, not arbitrary placeholders, but they are not owned by users in any legal sense. At least not until the Supreme Court decides otherwise.
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by kodapoda 3y ago
Berlin clubs are a scene, it's highly recommended to do prep work before going out. Personally, I would love for these clubs to be more accessible, but understand that Berghain has a very specific reputation that it works hard to maint
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by kodapoda 3y ago
So glad Musk personally banned the account that was tracking his flights. This country would have transformed into a communist dystopia if it was allowed to operate any longer.
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by kodapoda 3y ago
Highly doubt there is any basis for a lawsuit. It's a private company, if they want to take away someone's handle, they are free to do that. Pay-to-play public square—Musk's ultimate dream.
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by kodapoda 3y ago
It's resilient due to the wide prior adoption. For example, I rarely see Threads or Mastodon embeds in new articles, it's still mostly Twitter. Changing that will take years.
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by kodapoda 3y ago
This might be true for very few very selective clubs like Berghain, certainly not true for all Berlin clubs. In the case of Berghain, it obviously doesn't suffer from losing customers—your comment confirms this point.
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by kodapoda 3y ago
By this argument there is nothing wrong with texting while driving. Or drinking. Why did we make it illegal for all people to drive under influence instead of just punishing those who become inattentive? You are talking about attention as i
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by kodapoda 3y ago
That's... what this suggested legislation is about. Not banning driving, but making it illegal to turn right on red, presumably punishing drivers who do. Maybe I am misunderstanding your argument.
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by kodapoda 3y ago
My frustration about engaging with this argument is in agreement with you—sorry if I wasn't clear. The parent commenter made it seem like FTX only defrauded some abstract rich people, which, according to them, would somehow make it mor
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by kodapoda 3y ago
Even further: debatable unproven good doesn't cancel out the immediate unmistakable bad. Sponsoring a regulation with stolen money is also self-serving (political influence), plus we don't have any data available to say that the r
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by kodapoda 3y ago
I have a growing concern that by engaging with this argument we are making it more acceptable. It's not OK to steal from "rich people". It's not OK to blame everything on the 1%. Online platforms are filled with garbage
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by kodapoda 3y ago
> His actions made perfect sense from his utilitarian Effective Altruist worldview. He was stealing from rich people, and giving the money to what he saw as "worthy causes." Clearly this is a false assumption. He was not steali
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by kodapoda 3y ago
The only future for that I can think of is state or large institution owned stablecoins. But that is so far removed from absolutely everything crypto and web3 promised, I wouldn't even put that in the same category. No public ledger, n
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by kodapoda 3y ago
I don't have much insight into MBA programs. But suspect that they give substance to a pre-existing world view, effectively provide tools for justifying (and even reinforcing) bad practices. This is a generalization, of course, but if
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by kodapoda 3y ago
This is a toddler argument. Driving is a time-consuming chore in most cases, so people zone out, get distracted, don't pay attention to things that are harder to notice and are much more vulnerable than the vehicle itself. We depend on
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by kodapoda 3y ago
I would argue that HTMLX is far less backend agnostic than something like React. In most cases, a React SPA just consumes an API. You could switch to an entirely different backend with no impact on the users. How easy would it be to migra
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by kodapoda 3y ago
Are you complaining that they didn't mention someone's death in the first sentence? If you are curious, they do have a link to an article with more stats in the third paragraph ( https://www.cbsnews.com/news/un

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