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by mundo 6y ago
It's an insulting term for scruffy looking people who are presumed to be homeless or drug-using. The reason it's contentious is that one person uses it, someone else objects to it, people take sides along left-vs-right lines, and
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by mundo 6y ago
You don't need a conspiracy theory to explain why the majority won a vote.
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by mundo 6y ago
> Why does it matter if a few volunteer mods manage a ton of subs? I asked this in the last two HN threads on this topic, and was downvoted but not answered. It seems like a lot of people intuitively feel like 'power mods' are
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by mundo 6y ago
Downvoters, I wasn't being snarky, this is a genuine question. This whole subthread is baffling to me. I read through the thread[0] from yesterday as well, and I see a lot of people who seem to intuitively assume this is really bad,
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by mundo 6y ago
Could you summarize it? All I see in that thread is people complaining about a popular user they don't like.
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by mundo 6y ago
And dang has mod privileges on every single HN thread. Could you spell out exactly why this is supposed to be worrisome, instead of just hinting at it?
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by mundo 6y ago
This seems a) completely irrelevant to the topic, and b) almost completely irrelevant, full stop. Why is anyone supposed to care that a mod on /r/EarthPorn is also a mod on /r/Movies? Is /u/Cyxie pushing a si
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by mundo 6y ago
My company (large-ish un-sexy software company you've never heard of) gave the software managers clear direction on this: "It's not realistic for people with school-aged children to be fully productive right now. Do not dem
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by mundo 6y ago
Thanks for writing this. All of the stuff about urbit being a cult or a scam that comes up every time it's discussed here seems orthogonal to what actual urbit enthusiasts care about, which is just that it performs a use case we actua
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by mundo 6y ago
Oh, I'd forgotten about Tlon. Well, I looked it up, and what he claims to retain is "a few thousand stars" and a "non-voting minority in tlon". I guess the latter could be valuable monetarily (in some hypothetical
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by mundo 6y ago
1) There aren't shares to own. He owns some urbit identities, which will be worth real money IFF urbit is ever actually popular, which doesn't seem very likely at the moment. 2) You're calling a real live human being racist.
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by mundo 6y ago
> Obviously, the main problem is that AFAIK none of those apps have been written yet... edit - other than the thing being launched today, which actually looks pretty cool. Time to install it again and see if I can dig up any working urb
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by mundo 6y ago
The person who wrote it is locally famous.
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by mundo 6y ago
Why would they change the name? Who would it fool? I mean, Yarvin left; that's a pretty substantive change. Anyone who isn't mollified by it isn't going to be mollified by a superficial one.
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by mundo 6y ago
In a word, no. Single urbit identities can be gotten for free (just show some interest and ask for one), but the only people selling them are people who bought them as investments.
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by mundo 6y ago
Here's my attempt: if a smartphone is a thing that's designed to facilitate the development of secure, robust, powerful client-side software, Urbit is the server-side equivalent. It is (or, aspires to be) the thing in which you c
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by mundo 6y ago
There's a parallel here, between the medical field requiring 8+ years of schooling to put in stitches, and the days (not so distant) when most software companies wouldn't hire you to write an online mortgage interest calculator un
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by mundo 7y ago
Scroll down to section 6 - it amends CDA 230 to strip protections from companies that don't follow the "best practices" (which might not involve backdoors, but are presumed to based on past statements by the commisioners-to-b
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by mundo 7y ago
Yes, why is this not titled "Microsoft acquires npm"?
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by mundo 7y ago
It's a legitimate concern, but not a legitimate response to repeated failures-to-replicate. The "Criticism" subhead on her wiki page has a good overview. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Dweck#Critici
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by mundo 7y ago
And in cases that aren't so clear? One of the three cited in the press release was instagrambusinesshelp.com - that doesn't sound remotely malicious to me.
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by mundo 7y ago
I phrased it vaguely because I meant it that way. Is there one specific thing keeping Bitcoin from being widely used? No, there are a bunch of challenges. Why do you think I should've listed them? Don't you pretty much know wh
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by mundo 7y ago
My Dad was (I was 6 and would tag along), in 1980-84 or so. It was a group of ~20 other guys, probably the only other Atari 800 owners in a 50-mile radius. They would get together once a month to show off new peripherals, pore over type-i
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by mundo 7y ago
Well known narcissism-obsessed psychiatry blogger "The Last Psychiatrist" has discussed this a lot, most relevantly in https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/01/can_narcissism_be_cu... and https:/&#x
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by mundo 7y ago
Alice: "You can't buy stuff with it." Bob: "That's technically false! The truth is you mostly can't buy stuff with it." Whatever; the point stands. Separate from that, you might put some thought in to w
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by mundo 7y ago
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."
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by mundo 7y ago
Equivocating over the technical definition of "money" won't obscure the plain fact that it's been out for a decade and you can't buy stuff with it. More generally, the whole point of BTC was supposed to be that it w
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by mundo 7y ago
Playable free at https://archive.org/details/msdos_Master_of_Orion_1993 if, like me, you got halfway through the article before the urge presented itself.
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by mundo 7y ago
Anecdata: I made a game like this (where enough functionality is playable to find out if you like it, and there's a one-time IAP to unlock the full game) and got a ton of complaints about it. All of them were about IAP generally, not
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by mundo 7y ago
I don't know the brand, I got it from a local mattress store in town and it wasn't branded beyond the name of the store (not a chain). But neither was it made locally, I think they're mostly made in SE Asia. I assume there

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