monadic2

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by monadic2 6y ago
> Imagine a service that is objectively good -- maybe a non-profit organization creates a free app to help connect homeless people with food, shelter, and potential employment opportunities. Businesses can then use the app to post jobs,
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by monadic2 6y ago
> While that may sound reasonable initially, that means that nearly all of the amazing services we have would be impossible from a business perspective. Is that not the point of pursuing this train of thought? You aren't going to ge
483.
by monadic2 6y ago
Why is that a problem? That seems like a decent argument this is necessary to resolve passing liability onto the customer.
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by monadic2 6y ago
30% cut for distribution seems ridiculously high—why not 3% or 0.3% or, best of all, a flat fee? Costs aren't even proportionate to the transaction amount. They don't even allow proper microtransactions which might make the fee ma
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by monadic2 6y ago
I would be surprised if the feds were not directed to make arrests and charge as harshly as possible.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Is it not visible for you in the displays settings? You DO need all the monitors to have the same DPI or you’d have a window rendered half in one dpi and half in another when dragging across a display boundary.
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by monadic2 6y ago
I agree with all your points, however I’ve found the mac is extremely variable DPI friendly. I think the games with custom UIs (Europa Universalis IV comes to mind) are the only things that haven’t adapted and it’s hardly a problem if you s
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by monadic2 6y ago
Funny, I only go on facebook to try and pierce my friends’ open political apathy.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Rich people have always paid for the news, including and especially lying directly to the public.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Yes I saw that and thought I was missing something because the article is very consistent in using “Venezuelans” rather than “a small minority of Venezuelans in major metro areas”. Granted I should have acknowledged this in my original comm
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by monadic2 6y ago
Which Venezuelans does this refer to? Kind of weird that this is completely missing any kind of quotation, interview, or source.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Click... in the VTY? I understand this is possible, I just did not realize people relied the functionality—it’s so easy to internalize truths like “people use the terminal to avoid using the mouse”.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Ahh, the drug dealer model.
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by monadic2 6y ago
How do you figure? You could also argue this restricts the switch market by only allowing capital-infused creators.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Shameful, honestly.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Apparently not lol
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by monadic2 6y ago
Why not just quit? You’re 100% a re-hirable asset under better management.
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by monadic2 6y ago
LSD is volatile; there's a reason you store it away from moisture and light. I find this narrative unlikely. Even the moisture in the air will reduce the potency very rapidly.
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by monadic2 6y ago
I mean they could be honest and still outperform the rest of the market. If what you say is true, the EPA metric is meaningless and they should report observed efficiency for a certain traffic pattern. Why lie about it?
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by monadic2 6y ago
Depends who you ask.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Oddly I have both tmobile and comcast and was chatting on the phone around the same time—maybe it’s region specific?
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by monadic2 6y ago
Gotta raise those royalty rates!
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by monadic2 6y ago
Err, I'm still having issues grasping the problem—why not just enforce portable installation and locally writable files? There's no reason user-facing apps need to be installed to anything other than a subdirectory of home, there&
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by monadic2 6y ago
Well, it’s a problem the floss community will have to deal with sooner or later—it feels pretty awkwardly papered over with snap.
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by monadic2 6y ago
This is difficult when police literally have a union. If the union were acting in good faith they would be eager to learn & fire. Instead we get the “blue wall of silence” & turn otherwise “good” cops into ones indistinguishable fro
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by monadic2 6y ago
I just wish they separated out the functionality of app portability, app sandboxing, and app installation. It’s much less debuggable and comprehensible packaged together. Kind of reminds me of systemd, actually.
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by monadic2 6y ago
> ML is already starting to change society. It already has—look at how much companies try to shunt you through a robot before you speak to a human despite their being mostly useless compared to humans. It’s clear this revolution we both
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by monadic2 6y ago
Given the current management, I wouldn’t discount politicking as motivation (to what end I have no clue).
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by monadic2 6y ago
Boredom is not a privilege except through material circumstances, it’s literally a form of suffering. That it is a microcosm for the suffering of the material world has literally thousands of years of discussion worth examining. Perhaps thi
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by monadic2 6y ago
Do you have any examples of high-quality qualitative reporting? I can somewhat see your point but it seems endemic and hardly specific to this post, to Matt Taibbi, or journalism/punditry in any given time and place.

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