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by natural219 5y ago
You absolutely don't need some crypto-based financial scheme to run decentralized web applications. Just some kind of open standard & a set of motivations and incentives to keep the system running and improving. American ideas of d
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by natural219 5y ago
The fact that people buy into any of these excuses (Russian manipulation, Covid misinformation) as anything but an excuse to shut down competition and consolidate control is utterly beyond me. Read literally a single history book, people.
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by natural219 5y ago
> but it may not always be as convenient as some would like. This is the entire rub, though. Exactly how convenient it is should be a matter of primal importance to the root relationships between citizen, state, and countrymen that the
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by natural219 5y ago
Well put. I wonder if conservatives would have better purchase framing this as more of a 14th amendment thing (private bar owners throwing out customers whose "kind they don't want around here") rather than a 1st amendment th
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by natural219 5y ago
the internet is not a newspaper. you can't simply switch off of Facebook the way you would drop a publication you dislike. the network effects keep everyone trapped in. i can't believe we're still having this asinine back-and
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by natural219 5y ago
right. my view is post-internet, since i grew up in a time when the internet already existed and already had long-evolved and widely-understood cultural patterns around its use and misuse as a very slight alteration of a substrate in which
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by natural219 5y ago
He literally addresses your first point a few paragraphs into the meat of the statement. Do you have any kind of rebuttal or historical backing besides "nuh uh"? [1] https://i.imgur.com/WuvtYIy.png
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by natural219 5y ago
So, I'm highly attracted to the marketing (I work in the "personal server" market, mostly reselling NAS devices). Overall I'm a bit disappointed with the price per capability ($450 + $100 every year after that for a 1TB
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by natural219 5y ago
This all sounds well and dandy, except the best data we have for covid-19 shows a .2% - .3% infection fatality rate, about 2x or 3x worse than the seasonal flu, which is still -- as we learned in May 2020 -- highly gated to people with seve
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by natural219 5y ago
Garbage nonsense from a known partisan hack. Flagged.
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by natural219 5y ago
This sounds fantastic, and I also see 0% of anything like this being implemented at scale in the US public school system, no matter what label it goes under. The different biases and values of the various regions of the US are simply beyond
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by natural219 5y ago
it's been looked at several times, and a vast majority of the convincing evidence seems to fall in favor of the camp that overall mitigations do nearly nothing compared to control samples of places with no/fewer restrictions http
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by natural219 5y ago
Don't know why this is getting downvoted; it's an interesting question, if a simple top-level one. I'm not sure myself why the DoD can't just build its own "cloud" with a $10 billion dollar budget, instead of p
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by natural219 5y ago
Utility and maintenance are mostly labor costs, not asset costs.
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by natural219 5y ago
Toilet paper is cheap? News to me, lol
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by natural219 5y ago
This is really helpful; thank you
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by natural219 5y ago
I’d also be curious about this. Say for the use case of running a small private chat server hosted on a home network; does either of these seem better suited, or are they just different architectures that can handle mostly similar things?
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by natural219 5y ago
Restricting access to information because you feel that its potential audience is too ignorant seems a little counter-productive to me :/. Wouldn't the idea be to provide them with more information?
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by natural219 5y ago
> When you deal in mass distribution, the dynamics and responsibilities are different than when you're in conversation/process with other domain experts. Why? Is the implicit assumption here that people are too stupid or irresp
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by natural219 5y ago
Very cool! There’s lots of great business ideas that could use something like this.
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by natural219 5y ago
I'll just say; both of these seem like buckets of good priorities. I too wish some aspects of the onboarding were simpler, but I also am very very excited about Spaces, and have a number of communities I'm stoked to onboard once t
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by natural219 5y ago
You just seem to be making many negative claims with little substance behind them.
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by natural219 5y ago
Ahh, I haven’t used it before. Appreciate the feedback, probably makes Matrix a less attractive option for this case then.
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by natural219 5y ago
Trust me, I get that; the main argument is that, in protocol wars, there's strength in numbers; IRC is a waning protocol, Matrix is a waxing protocol. I'm not saying people must change what's working for them already; my only
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by natural219 5y ago
What are you even talking about lol
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by natural219 5y ago
If you’re going to switch a bunch of servers anyway, why not start over by partnering with someone like Matrix.org? Dead simple to create an IRC<->matrix bridge for people who just love the old protocol, and decentralization efforts a
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by natural219 5y ago
Just take the aggregate of papers published on those four sites? That's certainly a rather crude methodology :p.
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by natural219 5y ago
Still not sure where 0.5% IFR is derived from; the best data I've seen puts it at 0.25% - 0.4%.
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by natural219 5y ago
Hey man; really love the project. I’ve frequently wanted something like this. Will probably look at this when mentoring fresh frontend devs. Great work!
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by natural219 5y ago
I admit, I'm mostly confused as to why this article was written. The kickstarter goal is $10,000, and they've only raised $60,000 so far. Is this really the biggest scam to be writing about? If it reached millions I could imagine

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