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by naravara 4y ago
> If I could get rid of the celebrities, the thought leaders, the self marketers, the low content hate, and the bots, and only be left with the above in a moderated environment I'd welcome this global town square. Sadly many of thos
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by naravara 4y ago
When people talk about the town square in this sense they're sort of groping at the concept of a "public sphere" that Habermas talked about.
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We do enforce fire codes though, including things like occupancy limits.
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TBH the issue is not that I can't stand to hear racist stuff, it's that there's well understood incentives to fear monger that have tangibly eroded social trust across the board and degraded the actual real life public square
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by naravara 4y ago
> "Public Square" online is a fallacy. A public square is typically thought of where someone grabs the attention of all passerby and is voicing their thoughts. I disagree that it's a fallacy, the issue is that platforms ha
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What if bots and nations state actors can flood the platform with so much incorrect speech that correct speech cannot be heard?
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I've basically stopped using Facebook as a social network anymore, almost none of my friends post to it and much of what I see is shilling. But it's also functionally replaced CraigsList for me to sell things or give them away as
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by naravara 4y ago
Apple has clearly had difficulties scaling its company to maintain this sort of integration though. They're not bad enough to materially harm it, but you can see the seams. Nothing hides problems like success so I suspect, if Apple doe
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Whoever ends up growing the food and maintaining the breathing machines on Mars will be the angry mobs trying to eat you.
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I prefer the bluetooth ones for convenience, but the option to go wired would be nice. Especially since some VOIP and conference software does weird stuff with latency compensation when you're on bluetooth.
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Interesting. I had heard caribou herds basically choose migration routes to avoid them so that makes sense.
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My impression is that mosquitoes seem to thrive best in degraded ecosystems where there aren't enough birds and fish and other small insects to snack on them and keep the population low. But even then, they're so small that I don&
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I have to imagine a non-trivial number of them survive in areas with human settlements. Maybe they start getting more active when it warms up.
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In my perfect world we would decouple content libraries from the technologies, services, interfaces, etc. that go into serving the content. The former is largely a curation and legal-rights negotiation task. The latter is a technical and in
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> Nobody has the right to obtain copyrighted entertainment products. Unlike, say, having access to food or water, or even education, there's no coherent moral framework that says that you are obligated to the latest TV shows or movi
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That might just be lack of inputs for Jobs compared to Rogan. Like we have tons of Rogan speaking in a podcast setting. We have very few Jobs interviews in comparison and the ones we do have take place over a much longer stretch of his life
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by naravara 4y ago
Ground meat in a sauce is actually the only situation where it is easily distinguishable for me. The texture doesn’t feel right. It ends up rubbery, kind of like overcooked fish. And it doesn’t impart the same kind of umami depth of flavor.
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by naravara 4y ago
The Atlantic's political desk is a little bit crap, but a lot of the politically adjacent stuff like arts and culture or city planning are fantastic.
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Journalists are less likely to do this than various activist groups. Spend 5 minutes on any politically extreme subreddit or forum and you'll see tons of posts that are just compilations of insane tweets from random accounts, some blue
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> Yudhishtira, known for never straying from the dharmic path, refuses to leave a dog behind (that has been with them on their long journey) and get entrance to heaven - with the connotation that he refuses to leave the path of righteous
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by naravara 4y ago
It's anachronistic to draw a hard distinction between "hunting" and "spiritual reasons." Ancient people wouldn't have differentiated ritual and how they did daily things from how they expressed their spirituali
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by naravara 4y ago
India did. It was acceded by the Maharaja. Afghanistan’s opinions on the Durand line are, likewise, irrelevant. And in any case, these countries are perfectly capable of sorting these disputes out amongst themselves, the same way they had t
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by naravara 4y ago
Not really, it's not nearly as complicated as all that. The Governments of India and Pakistan formally inherited the relevant obligations and ownership rights from the British Raj, which itself assumed control over the same from the Ea
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Investors in high-growth companies like to see rapidly expanding headcounts. And when you're growing fast there's a real impetus to fill seats FAST and there's not much discipline around making sure you're hiring well. S
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Somewhere amid all the layers of abstraction people have forgotten that a browser is running code on my machine. And the implication that I have a moral obligation to run whatever arbitrary code you want to throw my way in exactly the way
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I think an institution of monarchy fundamentally can’t survive tabloid journalism. Someone like QEII, who preceded it, could have the advantage of adapting to it as it developed. But people like William were targets since childhood. Every y
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I thought most of our fossil fuels come from a time before fungi evolved the ability to digest lignin and other plant tissues. Thus piles and piles or wood and other detritus would end up undergoing very inefficient/incomplete combusti
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Would one be able to achieve a similar effect by simply opening the windows on a regular basis? (Assuming all the other principles around good air-flow and ventilation were following in the building layout.)
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I’d say on a population level exercise (as in more active, less sedentary lifestyles) will be a large factor. Though on an individual level you are right that diet will be the big thing. Though population level there is also a lot of food p
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For most people weight creeps up on them slowly. Losing a lot of weight quickly does require radical changes to diet, but not putting on the pounds in the first place is generally going to be a matter of burning an extra few hundred calorie

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