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by nebabyte 9y ago
So the videos are still accessible and can simply be shared offline? Just use a URL shortener and print up links to pass around. Sneakernet still can't be tracked
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by nebabyte 9y ago
It's this mode of thinking that tbh kills democracies, both internally and externally. The idea that just because you're struggling, your problems are someone else's problems. We see it here (and elsewhere) with people contin
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by nebabyte 9y ago
They can. Revolution is an option too. "Decisions" do not begin and end with a paper ballot; ultimately, everyone is human and can be ousted from power or killed by an angry mob. "The army" that would defend him are coun
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by nebabyte 9y ago
We need to introduce some sort of minority action in democracy. The smaller pluralities should not be powerless against the majority... The problem there I suppose would be neutral arbitration. sigh
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by nebabyte 9y ago
"The West" is not exclusively the US. Plenty of countries pay attention to global politics without "spending billions of dollars fighting wars, shedding lots of their own blood", it's not fair to lump them in with u
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Good call. This is the country for which loopholes exist that basically allow any processed food product to claim being 'made with 100% chicken' [though not 100% of this product is that '100% chicken'] or 'Made with
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Devil's advocate: "Growth" (Though of course I only set it up because it's so fun to knock down. Uber's 'growth' is of economically-minded bellweather users happy to jump ship to save a few bucks, and they
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Reading the sibling comment to this one, it doesn't sound at all like what happened. But alright
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Honestly, if there were a way for their ads to be displayed there without that being seen as a faux pas (e.g. some fundamental shift in the ad network model that just makes it seem like a consequence of the browsing user's interactions
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Eh dunno, sounded pretty fluffy to me. Dressing up the move to Square as some 'community' thing when it's likely simple pragmatism, and so on. (Though nowhere near as apparently rage-inducing the other guy found it lol.)
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Destroyed, to the tune of 70M? Surely they could just issue a 'mea culpa' at that point and recommit to their previous direction? In spite of how the web acts, users can be incredibly forgiving as far as 'voting with their wa
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Could always stop at the point you no longer consider them to be a problem...?
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by nebabyte 9y ago
I mean it absolutely sounds like a great trade opportunity, if the numbers pan out.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> The post instantly electrified Chinese netizens, who always love to flaunt their centuries-long passion for diversifying food resources. > The proposed solution was as follows: “Denmark can invent an 'eater's visa'
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by nebabyte 9y ago
If that is your idea of value, there exist plenty of scifi writers/artists with concepts like this, except more practical, better thought out, or so on So perhaps instead of 'pointing' you should take your own advice?
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Yes. The underlying systemic issues do not get addressed or solved by "well let's just get to the next tech revolution first", that is simply a lazy idyllic 'solution' for those who don't think through their pr
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Not 'made out to be', is today. A baseless argument for 'plausibility' about something you weren't around to experience 50 ("(? whenever)") years ago is one thing, but doesn't support taking a simil
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> "We're not arguing for censorship, we're just arguing for - take it off the page" I actually facepalmed at this. These people know that impression drives reality. They're basically saying "so hey, we fou
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Getting that data "back" implied that it was yours to begin with...? You at no point anted up the resources or effort to maintain that data, that was all them. You freely volunteered it to them in the name of 'convenience&#x2
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Man, that just makes my average-to-good decision to not use that out-of-my-control login route brilliant! 100% for it, I'm always happy to see people freely sacrificing their control in the name of 'convenience' get fucked by
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> That scores within 7% of Readability’s output on a selection of its own test cases "on a selection of" its own test cases = lol > Fathom is a data-flow language like Prolog, so data conveniently “turns up” when there are a
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by nebabyte 9y ago
I don't get this seeming holy-war argument for what CSS 'should' and 'shouldn't' be used for that somehow attempts to discount the contrasting opinions those print designers (and their ecosystem) likely have. C
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by nebabyte 9y ago
'Angry' will be me once they start publishing metrics on how optimized JS (or what, webASM or something?) beats out native. Oh, I'm sure it's being done already. At this point I'm just back in my comfort zone. Let t
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by nebabyte 9y ago
- drop in the bucket - they won't actually care - your taxpayer dollars will already have done (likely continue to be doing) more than enough for them in the opposite direction - effectively amounts to neutralizing you the way signing
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by nebabyte 9y ago
...yes, welcome to the point?
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> no policy is immutable, after all - congress can preclude future congresses from revisiting issues - policies can become so entrenched as 'precedent' that they're seen as the 'right way' to do things our entire
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by nebabyte 9y ago
I've been correlating this sort of anecdata with countries that meet other metrics I'd ideally have met on nomadlist (its 'internet metrics' don't really go into granularities like cost, net freedoms, or so on), I&#
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by nebabyte 9y ago
That could definitely do with a revival.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> folks buy into the system because everyone deep down thinks they're gonna become a millionaire this way Such a perfect summary of why many of the flawed practices of our day persist.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> and reporters smelling blood in the water This. Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by people jumping on the 'gleeful schadenfreude and' bandwagon Besides, you know the drill, if it's "in righ

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