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by naravara 5y ago
I had the same observation. And I suspect the answer may be "yes." These are the only people remaining with the skillsets and inclination to maintain a personal website. The rest, if the mood strikes them to start a blog, will go
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by naravara 5y ago
> That's a strange take on Socrates, it makes him sound like he died (intended to die?) for our sins like some kind of Jesus figure. I doubt he'd agree with it. Much of the Christian narrative about Jesus and the nature of divi
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by naravara 5y ago
With many political matters, though, people inherently have to hold positions by virtue of the fact that the issues affect their material interests. You need to remain open in spite of that, but there are also limits to how open one can be
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by naravara 5y ago
With renewables it's more fixed capital instead of a direct supply of literal energy in the form of fuel. That's less of an immediate dependency than it is with oil. Capital does depreciate over time, but ebbs and flows of interna
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by naravara 5y ago
The pattern with these sorts of Web 2.0 companies is grimly familiar now. They start promising more access and reach for small creators. They get a lot of small creators in the door with the ease of use and cutting out of the old middle-men
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by naravara 5y ago
I don't think it's that simple. The real problem is that people want nice, handmade trinkets at cheap Chinese goods prices. Which is why the cheap Chinese good manufacturers spam their generic AliExpress-tier wares into places lik
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by naravara 5y ago
An additional dumb question. If all the expense was undertaken to build all the piping to functionally turn the tube into a heat source for buildings, how long would it take to sap the stored heat from the soil to the point where the temper
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by naravara 5y ago
If stuff is being used from a stationary position it should ideally be wired. I’m sympathetic to the notion that wires look cluttered and nobody resents how thick and ungainly Ethernet cables are more than me, but defaulting to WiFi is just
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by naravara 5y ago
Surely you realize how much of a stretch that is. If you wanted to say broadcast television or radio you might have a point but analogizing an algorithmic feed tuned to stoke outrage to families spending time together is just a farcically b
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by naravara 5y ago
Facebook is a major contributor to the pointless cultural war obsession and the erosion of pro-social norms though.
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by naravara 5y ago
> I'm sorry but every bedroom DOES need a window. Packing people into as many small artificially lit rooms as we can fit on a lot is not a great idea. There's a middle ground here. Boarding houses were often just little hostels
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by naravara 5y ago
They need not, but manufacturers and home builders are obnoxiously fad focused.
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by naravara 5y ago
There are more commercial versions available but they do tend to compete at the higher end of the market. Induction is a specific choice you have to make here and people who make uncommon choices tend to be in higher budgets. It will probab
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by naravara 5y ago
Ventilation is so underrated. There is not only the obvious benefit in reducing electricity usage, but it helps with noise (AC doesn’t run as often), dust (free flowing air keeps it from collecting in air-flow deadzones), mildew (as with du
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by naravara 5y ago
A galactic scaled version of Crusader Kings would probably do the best job of simulating the focus of the books. It would need a pretty deep new negotiation/trade discussion mechanic though.
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by naravara 5y ago
That’s just Spotify. Many years ago they had a little tool that actually reported what demographic slots it pegged you at based on your listening preferences. The top two hits for me were 1.) early 20s, college educated, White, woman 2.) 60
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by naravara 5y ago
Part of this might just be account switching issues though. If I’m watching for myself I can usually find what I want quickly. The problem comes when I’m trying to browse with my wife to find something we can both live with. At best it give
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by naravara 5y ago
Humans can also game systems to promote their garbage if they care to. Spammers can hire a click farm to privilege garbage results. Spammers and scammers seem to see enough returns to invest in ways to game the internet’s openness. There wo
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by naravara 5y ago
DDG is already a comparable privacy first search engine. Apple would just need to buy them in they cared, but instead they just promote them.
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by naravara 5y ago
I think there’s actually two dimensions to this problem and the article and your comment only address one of them. The other dimension is that, in the past, if you searched for stuff your results were likely to be a blog or a forum thread.
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by naravara 5y ago
Same. What I did start getting, though, was a whole lot more robocalls and spam emails that correlated strongly with my bursts of job application activity. I'm guessing Taleo and some of the other companies that provide these platforms
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by naravara 5y ago
I think one of the challenges this first wave of federated platforms have is that they are coming in late and still trying to mimic the interaction paradigms of centralized, ad-driven platforms like Facebook and Twitter. But those platforms
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by naravara 5y ago
The other option is for developed countries to just get comfortable with focusing on better distribution of the wealth they have and give up on maintaining growth ad infinitum.
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by naravara 5y ago
Why do you say that? There’s a million differences between the populations of those three countries. For one thing, Muslim family law in India is actually a fair bit more conservative than in Pak/Bang.
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by naravara 5y ago
Straight line extrapolations of present trends indefinitely into the future are rarely reliable. Plus the demographics are generally driven more by poverty and access to family planning resources moreso than the religious/demographic w
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by naravara 5y ago
He does mention one emperor in the middle of a chain of them who prefers the older, “more true” style. It stands to reason that if such skilled craftspeople were available for him they would have also been available for the ones immediately
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by naravara 5y ago
That’s certainly dumb but doesn’t strike me as dumbed down. More like some cynic trying to do a bad parody of Carl Sagan.
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by naravara 5y ago
I’m on board with that, but what feels gross about this is the author does it for fun and gets ripped off by hucksters piggybacking off it for money. And, presumably, much of that stuff is trashy shovelware. This isn’t an honorable way to m
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by naravara 5y ago
> Marie Kondo tells you where every towel goes and then all your stress goes away. That’s very much not what she does. Her entire method is based on teaching people to let go of things they know they don’t need but are holding on to for
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by naravara 5y ago
Successful blogs I follow do sponsored RSS feeds. It’s perfectly feasible to work ads into RSS content. What’s not doable is targeted ads, but I’d rather those all go away anyway.

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