non-cotton

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by non-cotton 5y ago
Do you want a happy life, or a worthwhile life? I think they're probably correlated, but I don't think you can guarantee one without risking the other. In that light, optimizing for happiness seems like the wrong move.
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by non-cotton 5y ago
This conversation plays out every time the topic of taking notes comes up, especially if roam research and friends are involved. It's "the Dropbox thing", but instead of being too cool and smart and skeptical to buy into a ne
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by non-cotton 6y ago
Discord isn't on your side. They're an unprofitable (so far) VC-backed company whose only customer-facing product is a well-designed chat client. They're clearly trying to build a platform for PR- and ad-friendly discourse.
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by non-cotton 6y ago
I guess I should have said: what's the advantage of democracy over some more authoritarian scheme, if not a higher degree of "power to the people" as you put it? If diffusion of power isn't fundamentally worthwhile (and
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by non-cotton 6y ago
Isn't diffusion of power more-or-less the point of democracy?
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by non-cotton 6y ago
Sure, but that wouldn't have prevented the "cancer" from moving to decentralized networks. If anything it'd probably accelerate the process. I think the important point is that most operators of nodes on a federated netw
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by non-cotton 6y ago
I thought the article made a reasonably convincing case that decentralized networks provide better tools for good actors to control the spread of disinformation. What does it mean to "remove the cancer before it decentralizes" in
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by non-cotton 6y ago
Could site owners freely decide who's allowed to post to their site without 230? Seems to me the ability to ban unwanted users would enable a decent degree of moderation without direct control over what's posted. It wouldn't
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by non-cotton 6y ago
Is there a set of earphones that's repairable? Not full-size cans, but earphones? Most of the ones I've had have that have failed did so at the cable connection. Without the cable I'd imagine these will last longer than your
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by non-cotton 6y ago
I think this has a lot to do with the platforms vs. publishers issue, and the Section 230 dustup we're about to see. IMO any platform whose owners have enough editorial control for these engagment-hacking techniques to be useful (the a