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by oska 5y ago
> the most liberal, Bernie Democrat, socially progressive, perfect-family moral beacon of all my San Francisco peeps. Except for the part about working for Zuck This would just indicate to me that he's a fraud and all his political
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by oska 5y ago
FB is a toxic, sociopathic company, led by a sociopath. Full stop. Talking about its 'incredibly smart business choices' is like talking about the 'smart moves' a serial killer took to avoid capture for years & years
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by oska 5y ago
This is so disingenuous. From day one, Facebook have done all in their power to make themselves a monopoly while simultaneously trying to avoid all of the legal restrictions that normally apply to a utility service.
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by oska 5y ago
I appreciate a lot of what you're saying in this comment but I disagree with this sentiment: > not the Ads - that's fine In my strongly held opinion, push advertising is not fine and it's the root cause of all the proble
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by oska 5y ago
Book recommendation if you found this article interesting (and haven't already read the book, a classic) : Eric Newby, The Last Grain Race https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Grain_Race
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by oska 5y ago
Well, at least her mother is well grounded.
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by oska 5y ago
> there are $65 mi available in liquidity on LN According to a fairly reliable source [1] it's actually $320 million (on the network + sidechains). [1] https://twitter.com/DocumentingBTC/status/139252761698
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by oska 5y ago
> Gates’ fortune came at the expense of the rest of us This is the essential truth about Gates and Microsoft. Microsoft did not advance computing; it suffocated it and made it into a grey, boring, feudal kingdom, at least through the 90s
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by oska 5y ago
Good comment and I picked up on similar things, including pulling up at the "professor didn't find me interesting enough to talk to after they asked me what I did" anecdote. She seems quite status-minded, which yes, is a fair
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by oska 6y ago
See also this piece from 2020, which lists a selection of honkaku and shin honkaku available in English translation : https://crimereads.com/the-honkaku-and-shin-honkaku-mysterie...
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Honkaku : Japanese whodunnits that play fair by the reader(theguardian.com)
34 points by oska 6y ago|6 comments
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by oska 6y ago
I've found your contributions in this thread interesting but I don't get this: > As Naomi Wu says, Chinese is the 21st-century command line. Care to explain it further? (By the way, I searched for the quote to try to read it i
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by oska 6y ago
Talk about 'governance' and 'enforcement' is a huge red flag. Free Software is a collaborative process, not a governed one. This attempt at subversion of the GNU Project is pathetic, and will go nowhere. Most (sensible
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by oska 6y ago
I imagine it's intentional irony, given that that message was composed by the solar server administrator.
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by oska 6y ago
You've displayed bad faith right through this thread. Might be a good time to review the Guidelines.
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by oska 6y ago
The point they are making is that nothing in the physical world is going to be truly binary. Even when we try to represent abstract binaryness in specially designed ways, such as we continually do with computing equipment, there are always
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by oska 6y ago
I had a look at your referenced twitter thread but it's written in a style that I abhor. Lots of exclamation marks and patronising of the reader. A "I am the enlightened expert come to inform you" posture that is very off-put
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by oska 6y ago
Four quick (and final) points in response: 1) Your reply contains arrogance and a patronising sneer at myself. This is against this site's guidelines. 2) A quick perusal of your comment history shows more of the same attitude and also
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by oska 6y ago
This article [1] (which I found because someone else linked to it in this thread), explains the situation well. Google & FB do not just link. > Part of the issue here is Google and Facebook don’t just collect a list of interesting
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by oska 6y ago
That's an unfair summary of the situation. They push ads against 3rd party content shown on their site.
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by oska 6y ago
I actually don't see a problem with this in the context of an ad-pushing platform . Facebook gets all its engagement from 1) users' feeds and 2) imported 3rd party content. Why should they receive all the profits from pushing ads
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by oska 6y ago
We liked the articles when they were free and we could push ads alongside them and we don't want to share the profits we make from this ad-pushing, sorry . That's a much more true summary of their position I think. Facebook, exac
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At last, the regime that enabled Amazon's monopoly power is crumbling(theguardian.com)
2 points by oska 6y ago|0 comments
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by oska 6y ago
Reporting from Australia I think the general feeling here about the AZ vaccine is positive, as we feel fortunate to have access to a vaccine that is robust (doesn't require an extreme cold chain) and, most importantly, that we can manu
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by oska 6y ago
> Non-EU countries in Europe are getting them. At least one EU country will soon be getting them. Hungary has approved [1] and also ordered [2] the Russian vaccine. Hungary has also approved [3] but not yet ordered the Chinese vaccine. [
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by oska 6y ago
I agree with your take. And I'm not saying that all people who work with IT are going to be protective of their privacy. Just saying that they are more likely to have an informed understanding of the mechanics of computer monitoring&
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by oska 6y ago
> Beyond the HackerNews crowd, most people don't care about privacy. I really do not agree with this often-made assertion. The main difference between the HN crowd and the general public is that we are more likely to understand how,
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by oska 6y ago
> and just update open street map instead I think this is the right approach. Why do free ground-proofing for a for-profit company? (Who is also so unresponsive). Better to submit fixes to a community project.
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by oska 6y ago
Bill Gates' "brilliance' was his extreme paranoia - always looking for a disruptor to his rent-seeking monopolies that pretty much stifled most creativity in the PC space for the better part of two decades. But he's cert
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by oska 6y ago
Informative article about what this means in respect to George Orwell's works: https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2021/jan/01/geor...

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