konjin

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by konjin 6y ago
>Sort of like how radical Athenian-style direct democracy doesn't work, maybe radically giving everyone near-unchecked access to nationwide broadcasting doesn't work, either. Ah yes, because Switzerland is such a hell hole.
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by konjin 6y ago
And of course they use a measure of toxic which means "is a republican". Go on the front page of reddit and count how many posts from subs like /r/insanepoeplefacebook, /r/publicfreakout, /r/idiotsinc
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by konjin 6y ago
Hey slander. If we only had micro lawsuits for shit like this.
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by konjin 6y ago
Huh, that's better than what I was expecting. I'll need to dig into the apis, but I don't see a reason why this can't work with those rules. I got hit with some ridiculous money laundering laws when I made more than $1k
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by konjin 6y ago
I read Plato's Republic in three weeks at 14. It was a lot more interesting than anything else at school because it actually talked to you instead of talking at you. If you're going to start anywhere you might as well start there
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by konjin 6y ago
Rose tinted glasses are a thing: http://web.archive.org/web/20070508231740/http://reddit.com/
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by konjin 6y ago
Since you'll own the platform, I did run a mailing list in the 00s that used to charge people $1 per email they sent out. It made the quality of the mailing list astronomical, but it died because it just couldn't scale with the pa
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by konjin 6y ago
>Reddit before user-moderated subreddits was far more pleasant You mean before 2008? Because that's when you could create your own subreddits, and the system was promptly gamed by qgyh2 to make all of them.
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by konjin 6y ago
I started a subreddit like that. Shortly there after I made it private and only let myself have posting rights because I didn't feel like dealing with actual Nazis posting news about Jews ruling the world from the 30s, or hysterical li
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by konjin 6y ago
That is amazing. I've just replaced the bookmarks I had after 15 seconds. The UI is better on mobile than all reddit incarnations.
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by konjin 6y ago
I use terminal exclusively and my vim config is basically 10 lines. Looking at peoples really complex init scripts is like looking at olympic athletes, cool for relaxation, maybe getting one or two things out of them, but if you're a r
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by konjin 6y ago
Sure, how do you want to do that bet?
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by konjin 6y ago
Why is the maths wrong?
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by konjin 6y ago
It isn't. Your base load stations close and you are left only with the intermittent reweables and natural gas. South Australia is the only energy market in that place right now and the prices paid there would destroy any industrial eco
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by konjin 6y ago
By ignoring most costs. Saying renewables are cheap when it's sunny or windy is like saying coal is cheap at the mine. For some reason people realize that distance in space is a problem. But distance in time is something that we can&#x
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by konjin 6y ago
The only effort that matters is the move to nuclear power. We are so far away from doing anything meaningful about climate change that any projects, including solar, we are pushing for today are meaningless. Enjoy the 30 good years left whe
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by konjin 6y ago
That's nice, but if someone has a right they can't exercise they are still more privileged than someone who doesn't have that right. Not to mention that the target of those laws were, now considered white, immigrants rather t
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by konjin 6y ago
>but it should definitely be much cheaper since you can lean on the client's compute rather than solely your own servers. The only part you offload is the rendering of the final html/css. Your servers still need to serve the ra
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by konjin 6y ago
Server side rendered content is better in nearly all cases. From some reason people think that offloading html/css rendering to users is somehow faster. It really isn't. My home site is faster to access half way across the world s
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by konjin 6y ago
Rich blacks could vote in more states after independence than poor whites. And that remained the case for 50 years. Leading to the hilarious case where the first recognized black slave in the US was owned by a black man. Regardless, offices
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by konjin 6y ago
The right to be drafted and die yes. The rich could literally bribe their way out of conscription.
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by konjin 6y ago
You forgot landed and rich. Which is understandable since the point of history classes in the US is to divide the working class along whatever lines they can, currently race and gender. Previously ethnicity, religion, language, etc
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by konjin 6y ago
Expertise is just experience. Which only applies in situations which you have seen before. Or put another way: that one is a good plumber does not mean one is a good heart surgeon. Yet for some reason we assume that is the case in intellect
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by konjin 6y ago
Considering capitalism is on track to deliver the end of industrial civilization by the start of the 21st century no reasonable people can argue for it. But reasonable people once thought burning witches was a way to end droughts, so maybe
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by konjin 6y ago
You assume wrong, but there's more to life than living.
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by konjin 6y ago
Where's the world where open source devs get paid?
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by konjin 6y ago
That I can outpace the cursor on a windows desktop in word 365 on a 30 page document and need to stop for a good second for it to catch up with nothing else open on a 8 gb, 4 core, 3GHz machine is so outrageous I don't know how anyone
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by konjin 6y ago
From whom? Imagine how much better the world would be if we harvested your orgnans and gave them to a dozen people who would die without them. Yes it might be bad for you personally, like the author who starves, but think of the bigger pict
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by konjin 6y ago
>For technology to be truly sustainable, it must be globally available and independent. The open distribution of sustainable technology, knowledge and data provides the basis for an ecological and economical global economy. This secures
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by konjin 6y ago
Interesting people. I hadn't seen anyone arguing misotheism as an actual description of reality and (possibly eventual) omnicide as the only moral position to take on life before I ran into them online.

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