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by metrokoi 6y ago
>At the beginning of my career, I would never, ever, post anything technical on the internet. I thought that if someone was brave enough to post a blog post or take part in a tech discussion, they always know what they are doing. I could
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by metrokoi 6y ago
The greatest sin in building or maintaining anything is fixing something that ain't broken.
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by metrokoi 6y ago
Why not simply append surface web Google results to whatever "personal" web pages are returned? Or heavily prioritize "personal" web results. If what you are searching for has been written about on one of those pages you
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by metrokoi 6y ago
This absolutely makes sense to me. It explains why it affects anyone, not just overweight people or people who do not exercise. Our mouths evolved to masticate much larger amounts of low calorie and high fiber food. If this theory is correc
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by metrokoi 6y ago
This is so frustrating. Surely millions or billions of humans having terrible sleep is not just some genetic abnormality, and we did not evolve to have terrible sleep only fixed by modern technology. There must be some underlying issue that
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by metrokoi 6y ago
Deliberately targeting growing competitors using things like predatory pricing [0] is not the same as growing and diversifying. [0] https://www.aei.org/technology-and-innovation/who-should-ant...
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by metrokoi 6y ago
Theoretically a marketing article can contain valuable information and good insights, but I've personally never come across one. It's always surface-level discussion and the bare minimum to get web traffic.
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by metrokoi 6y ago
I have been on the internet too long today to have an immediately cynical view of it. On second viewing I did appreciate this one as it sticks to the theme of asking questions: >What would constitute a “perfect” day for you? Why do we al
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by metrokoi 6y ago
What in the world is the point of this? These aren't questions to make a couple ask each other, it's just forcing them to say mean things to each other. For example: > O.K., fine, I’m adding your dishwasher issue to my list of
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by metrokoi 6y ago
Naming the product "Currents" definitely gives the impression that it is at least partially meant for discussing current events. There are so many other messaging and discussion platforms for organizations, it seems like Google is
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by metrokoi 6y ago
Well, we are now talking about the entire US government instead of just US police. Certainly a state has a greater pool of resources to draw upon for war if it chooses to do so, but comparing a state with groups of mercenaries or vigilantes
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by metrokoi 6y ago
Everyone but programming instructors tend to be resistant to solutions such as this. Sadly, I only see this being used for programming courses at least for the time being, which is a shame because I can see the features such as draft iterat
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by metrokoi 6y ago
>The user antennas are likely to be quite expensive at first (several thousand dollars). Cost reduction of the user antennas is the biggest hurdle Starlink currently faces. Nobody knows yet how much SpaceX will charge for the antenna or
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by metrokoi 6y ago
I would rather have a group of people trained on how to apprehend criminals with the minimum force necessary and with rules and regulations to follow than have untrained, armed citizens going to retrieve their goods. Would the farmer have t
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by metrokoi 6y ago
>Many Trump supporters, and racists, are extremely well-armed in the USA. Yet they are not bestowed with the power of self-policing, and are still subject to a higher authority which regulates what is and isn't acceptable defense of
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by metrokoi 6y ago
The privilege surrounding discussions of defunding police in western social media and forums is incredibly overwhelming. We won the lottery in being born in (relatively) extremely stable societies, and have no idea what it is like to live i
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by metrokoi 6y ago
What happens when a burglar is shot by a home owner and there is a dispute on whether or not it was justified? Almost every single act of self defense would be heavily disputed. You would have "vigilantes" dispensing what they see
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by metrokoi 6y ago
> But, for instance, while private citizens may have guns for self-defense, they're unlikely to have tear gas, rubber bullets, armored vehicles, Stingrays, etc. So the civilian watch would effectively only have lethal force to stop
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by metrokoi 6y ago
Rural communities where there is basically no crime is no comparison to cities with an abundance of crime targets. Also they still have police, it just takes the police a while to get there. A entity with authority to carry out laws; a pers
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by metrokoi 6y ago
Arming the populace? Having a bunch of untrained people police their own neighborhoods sounds like a recipe for disaster. Trump supporters and racists would be watching neighborhoods with lethal weapons. I'm not saying that Trump suppo
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by metrokoi 6y ago
>When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the font of least resistance.” Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the black
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by metrokoi 6y ago
The point of proving identity would be to curtail the bot problem. If someone can fake identification in order to get an account created, then it's trivial to just make up a fake name and picture of a person. Forcing people to not be a
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by metrokoi 6y ago
If people chose not to vote, I don't think their opinion matters too much. Excluding people ineligible to vote and people who didn't vote out of protest, although a better choice would have been to write in a vote.
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by metrokoi 6y ago
What would be required to prove your identity? Would you be able to tweet anonymously, or must you tweet under that identity? There are some issues with that, for example people without government identification would not be allowed to twee
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by metrokoi 6y ago
It is an interesting solution if nothing else. What about capping the number of users or followers to 100 or 1000 other people? That is closer to how humans interacted for the vast majority of history since the development of language. If y
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by metrokoi 6y ago
Almost no one is ever happy with fact-checking, it often just leads to more disputes about whether or not the fact-checking is correct or warranted. To me it seems much more efficient to simply teach people not to take anything posted on so
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by metrokoi 6y ago
I've always been hesitant to write book reviews or synopses because I believe I have nothing new to add, but this is a novel idea that also benefits the reader by increasing retention. I believe I will start doing this; thank you for t
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by metrokoi 6y ago
Alternatively, disable cookies on Medium.com by clicking the lock next to the URL, clicking "cookies", and finally "block". Desktop of course, but I'm sure there's a way to disable cookies for individual sites
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by metrokoi 6y ago
Academic journals have a barrier to entry and the content is already judged, the journals decide what information they publish. It is not a random collection of every single article submitted, so you are already starting out with above-aver
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by metrokoi 6y ago
Excellent idea, soon this will be a requirement for using the web in any productive way, considering the ratio of good information to junk info is getting worse rapidly. We already do this in a way; only visiting certain sites that we like

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