myfartsarefoul

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by myfartsarefoul 5y ago
But why not? They can still charge for it and have a FOSS dev model. Nobody who wants this without paying for it is going to have trouble getting it.
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by myfartsarefoul 5y ago
Don’t forget ‘houseless’ or ‘transient’ to describe homeless. Or ‘bodies with vaginas’ to describe women. Or ‘latinx’ to describe latinos. Pretty sure all of these are exonyms. The linguistic contortions we have to perform to describe thin
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by myfartsarefoul 5y ago
Does anyone else feel like Quanta is mostly a hype machine? I hear about seemingly earth shattering research there and never hear about it again.
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by myfartsarefoul 5y ago
I think a worse problem is the advertisement-based revenue stream and the analytics enabled by modern technology. They have to keep the audience’s attention, or their revenue dries up. So they try to maximize engagement, which often steers
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by myfartsarefoul 5y ago
I like people that can take something right in front of everyone’s eyes and figure something out that completely changes the way people think about the world. Thales and Herodotus come to mind.
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by myfartsarefoul 5y ago
When they try to change the way they’re viewed instead of bringing up relevant facts, you know that they know that they don’t have a leg to stand on. I say we do to Facebook what JFK wanted to do to the CIA. Imagine social media without a p
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by myfartsarefoul 5y ago
Are the battle outcomes fair comparisons? What if they had great warriors but poor decision makers? Could they have fought poorly matched battles for the sake of conserving resources, etc? I don’t care about Sparta one way or another. But s
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by myfartsarefoul 5y ago
Are the battle outcomes fair comparisons? What if they had great warriors but poor decision makers? Could they have fought poorly matched battles for the sake of conserving resources, etc? I don’t care about Sparta one way or another. But s