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by notthemessiah 1y ago
This is factually wrong, and disproven by the fact there are now fully independent federated instances such as BlackSky and soon to be NorthSky. Furthermore, they have independent codebases which are fully compatible. Compare to ActivityPub
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by notthemessiah 1y ago
Do you have any specific criticism? Or are you just bloviating?
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by notthemessiah 1y ago
Individualism has been failing Americans, while the quality of life has improved dramatically in less individualist cultures, in many ways surpassing Americans (health care, housing, education, upward mobility, etc), so it shouldn't be
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by notthemessiah 1y ago
How are payment processors gatekeeping free speech good? You probably also thought it was good when Visa and Mastercard stopped payments to investigative journalists who were publishing classified materials.
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Payment processors pressure Valve into banning porn games with themes of incest(bsky.app)
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by notthemessiah 1y ago
@steamdb.info‬: Steam has added a new rule disallowing games that violate the rules and standards set forth by payment processors and card networks, or internet network providers. This is possibly related to PayPal because people in certain
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by notthemessiah 2y ago
> SF ... created laws that were empathetic to robbers and thieves. You're right in that SF does way too much to accommodate robber barons, tech moguls, heavily-subsidized Silicon Valley industries, and housing speculators.
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by notthemessiah 2y ago
San Francisco doesn't even have free Narcan, which many US cities do. And of course syringes will flood the streets when you don't have safe injection sites. SF needs to learn from Portugal on how to address the drug crises. Also,
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by notthemessiah 2y ago
Respectfully, if you really believed this, you wouldn't be hiding behind a throwaway account.
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by notthemessiah 2y ago
El Salvador is a gang-infested shithole because US interventionists backed those who would later lead gangs to stop a left-wing revolution. The Salvadoran government often targeted civilians, and massacred peaceful protestors. Then after th
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by notthemessiah 2y ago
Clinton kind of finished the job which killed what remained of US industry, but we cannot ignore the role that Carter played to deregulate many industries (though some of the deregulation was good), as well as Carter's appointment of P
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by notthemessiah 2y ago
I think we are paying too much attention to the political opening of China and not enough to the economic factors affecting the US Dollar at the time. We are right to blame Nixon, not for opening up China, but for closing the doors to Fort
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by notthemessiah 2y ago
He ended inflation by causing a brutal recession through extreme interest rate hikes, which resulted in an irreversible shift in economic paradigms which caused the US to abandon its industrial lead as we faced recession, idle capital accum
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by notthemessiah 2y ago
Yes. Stagflation originated with the Nixon Shock, when he ended the Bretton Woods system and US Dollar-gold convertibility, because France and other countries wanted to pull their gold out of Fort Knox because we had the exorbitant privileg
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by notthemessiah 2y ago
> According to the cybernetician, the purpose of a system is what it does. This is a basic dictum. It stands for bald fact, which makes a better starting point in seeking understanding than the familiar attributions of good intention, pr
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by notthemessiah 2y ago
Brandshield has been deleting and rewriting their non-statement deflecting responsibility repeatedly while hiding all the comments calling out their cascade of BS. Here is their current statement blaming iwantmyname and link to the hidden r
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by notthemessiah 2y ago
The net result of this has enabled nuclear powers to engage in asymmetric wars against countries that don't have nukes, or to engage in proxy wars between nuclear superpowers. Meanwhile, we heave come perilously close to nuclear armage
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by notthemessiah 2y ago
He's going to be spending his golden years in Mattersville
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by notthemessiah 2y ago
Tvix aims to be a modulary implementation of Nix, which could create a bridge between Nix and Guix, according to a claim by its author: "It should be possible to write an evaluator that plugs in the Guile language (for compatibility wi
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
As far as I can tell, there seems to effort to discredit USRTK citing how some major prior donors to USRTK (such as Organic Consumers Association) have become antivax organizations pushing conspiracy theories, but it seems the most this has
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
I wish I knew more about how one would stop instances full of malicious spam bots from flooding the services, but as for DMs, my understanding is the fact that everything is public through the AT protocol is probably why it doesn't yet
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
Maybe Big Pharma should spend less money on advertising (and stock buybacks) than they spend on research https://www.csrxp.org/icymi-new-study-finds-big-pharma-spent...
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
Americans have an extreme fetish about lawns (it's a matter of social status), and in temperate climates, they want lawns to stay green throughout the winter, so instead of "leaving the leaves", they often rake or use leafblo
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
I know this place as the namesake and longtime hosting location of the HOPE Conference. I will forever remember it.
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
Theano existed, but it didn't use autodiff at the time, most loss functions had preprogrammed derivative functions. Python first had native autodiff in June of 2013 with the ad package, but previously had bindings to Fortran and C++ li
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
Most of those are open source, and while initially developed at a private company, most are run by non-profits (such as the Rust Foundation for Rust). Also, the language itself is not usually the main product at those companies.
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
Julia was ahead of the game with automatic differentiation which took a few years for Python to get support. And it's still ahead of the game with integrating machine learning with scientific modeling. Macros and multiple dispatch are
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
Even ignoring the historical value, it's easier to hack into a server and edit a file than it is to forge a legal document and break into an archive. Suddenly, you're the legitimate heir to a castle.
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
Israel's early support of Hamas is no secret, they saw Hamas as a religious Islamist counterweight to the secular leftist PLO and explicitly funded them to divide Palestinian opinion. [1] Also no longer a secret is the fact that Netany
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by notthemessiah 3y ago
While there are elements of truth to this, the reality is more nuanced. They have been promoting Hamas over moderate elements, and have looked the other way as Qatar has provided money in briefcases to Hamas. Israel ignored warnings from th

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