miyoji

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by miyoji 3mo ago
> They don't have free will, and I don't mean in any especially philosophical / theological sense Then you should not use that term. "Agency" or "intentionality" are much clearer alternatives that aren&
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by miyoji 3mo ago
60% is a 50% bigger number than 40%, so I don't understand your point at all. Generally, in American winner-take-all politics, 60% is considered a massive landslide.
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by miyoji 3mo ago
> That goes against my personal experience. Anecdotal experience doesn't matter. Mine contradicts yours, but my anecdotal experience also isn't strong evidence. There are countless polls showing that the American public's
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by miyoji 3mo ago
This was my favorite bit of meta-commentary: it doesn't matter how poorly you play, you never lose!
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by miyoji 3mo ago
> Sure, but how much art do we need for that? A lot more than we have now. > One (or a few) sculpture can satisfy the needs of a large community. I cannot disagree more. You may as well say that no one should tell stories anymore beca
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by miyoji 3mo ago
> By this logic a person who were comfortable with mouse should never grow to like VIM. Quite the opposite, my argument is that habits are changeable. > Fundamentally a computer is something that execute instructions. It is pretty poo
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by miyoji 3mo ago
I think this is unhealthy self-handicapping. Your "flow" is just habits, things you've taught yourself to do. You weren't born with the ability to use either a keyboard or a mouse, there is no "natural" or &quo
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by miyoji 3mo ago
I don't care if it's on GitHub at all, it's not hard to work with any arbitrary git remote. CVS would be a weird choice, but it wouldn't be a dealbreaker on its own. Fossil or some other modern alternative VCS wouldn&#x2
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by miyoji 3mo ago
> This feels backwards—if the service gets worse, simply cancel your subscription. It's not backwards. I've canceled many subscriptions because software has gotten worse. I occasionally check back in with those services to see
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by miyoji 3mo ago
Okay, well I don't want most of the updates I get for most of the software I've paid for. I often cancel subscriptions due to unwanted updates. Spotify was a good app once upon a time, but it sucks now. If I could pay to use the o
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by miyoji 3mo ago
Not quite as lazy as ""Everyone I disagree with is Hitler" is such a lazy way of thinking"
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by miyoji 3mo ago
> This is like the textbook definition of an ad hominem. No, it isn't at all. Ad hominem is only in effect and fallacious when the logic turns on the personal attack. "You're wrong because you're stupid" is ad ho
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by miyoji 3mo ago
It depends on what job you're talking about. I've definitely been shitty at several that I've had in my life, if you're talking about those I would simply agree with you.
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by miyoji 3mo ago
I have never once in my life cared about where a programming language kept its source and I think if anyone is using that as a basis for decision-making, they are truly a moron.
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by miyoji 3mo ago
> Linus attacked bad software "Nvidia, fuck you!" [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4SWxWIOVBM
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by miyoji 4mo ago
> There is no numbers, no statistics, just your anecdote here. Which is ok, but that's why two people immediately called your opinion out as being extreme. No one else provided any, either. If you have strong evidence that exposure
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by miyoji 4mo ago
> You should think this through. The logical endpoint is that all age based content restrictions are "authoritarian". I do think that. It's rude to assume that I haven't thought my position through. > So it should
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by miyoji 4mo ago
> one of them is not appropriate for elementary schools because it includes essays debating which sexual acts are appropriate for feminists to perform and other adult topics. Why is it "authoritarianism" to say that a book like
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by miyoji 4mo ago
> crypto used more energy than banks (which proved to be false, but whatever) The true accusation was that crypto used more energy than banks per transaction . Your framing is very dishonest.
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by miyoji 4mo ago
> The founder is very good. He builds a plan that, on paper, is flawless and airtight: manufacture a more efficient oven using new technology. Selling it is easy. Want to work more efficiently? Buy our oven. End of pitch. Are you kidding
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by miyoji 4mo ago
Free-market libertarianism is a disease for which evidence is no cure.
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by miyoji 4mo ago
Collusion is not a market force and is actually highly illegal and corrupting of markets, so this doesn't seem relevant at all.
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by miyoji 4mo ago
You saw a faked screenshot, but the meme is definitely referencing the direction that the industry is going and mocking this kind of artificial scarcity.
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by miyoji 4mo ago
> I simply have not encountered such proof that hold up to my standards of proof of such an extraordinary claim. And you never will. This is pretty much my point!
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by miyoji 4mo ago
People aren't convinced by rational arguments. Someone who does not believe in god will not be convinced to believe by a proof of god's existence, and someone with faith will not become an atheist because someone debunks the proof
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by miyoji 4mo ago
It's too early in the morning for this much sophistry.
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by miyoji 4mo ago
> Until that has been demonstrated, you cannot just say "this guy behaves this way so that is what his company does". No, actually, I can say that. I just did. I'll do it again: I think Mullvad is a bad company if they hav
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by miyoji 4mo ago
1. You can't separate it out that cleanly, your beliefs bleed into what you do, no matter who you are or what you believe, and vice versa. I also don't think people start companies that are in contradiction with their values, an
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by miyoji 4mo ago
Why don't we just eat the entire elephant and abolish the Presidency?
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by miyoji 4mo ago
Just close them. You're never going to read them. If you really think there's something you need, export the browser state to an archive file, then delete in 10 years after you've never consulted it once. (Disclaimer: I'

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