pauselaugh

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by pauselaugh 3y ago
it's a fixation on the extremes, no? the people making jokes like "I'm surprised everyone wasn't wearing sunglasses already, their future is so bright" (ok, it was me, right now) are those who had witnessed some for
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by pauselaugh 3y ago
in customer experience design the user's perception is objective reality. so it's not "i have no data but here's my bias," it's "anecdote IS the singular of data, not only that, but data doesn't matte
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by pauselaugh 3y ago
Nano is a great example against your point as well. Its design flaw is the ORV system requiring someone who just wants the elevator pitch and their life to be wildly more efficient via using digital currency that's faster, safer, cheap
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by pauselaugh 3y ago
the two core, dare i say intrinsic, values of cryptocurrency are 1) immutable, public ledger requiring no single point of authority and 2) that authority having zero bias or regulatory oversight on any transaction outside of its protocol. 1
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by pauselaugh 3y ago
astrange had the right context but characterized it not-so-correctly. Modern agriculture's origin involved power structures where farmers were forced to be unable to be self-reliant, and would instead trade their crops at a market to g
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by pauselaugh 12y ago
Uh, no. A user probably already has email, thus it usually isn't required. Unlike openID
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by pauselaugh 12y ago
What a non-article. RSS can never die, obviously, it is a technology. What dies is it as a/the standard. It simply isn't anymore, there are other ways to do what RSS does, similar to RSS except, whoops, it isn't RSS.
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by pauselaugh 12y ago
Not at all. Look up Effective Altruism. We need to stop the apologia for people who do minor tweaks to existing properties and have a "dilemma" about if they should profit over it.
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by pauselaugh 12y ago
Bullshit. Culture does not consist entirely of repeated derivatives, that's the thing we call "being a poser," and that is more specifically the shitty part of culture where someone takes a good idea claims it as their own. C
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by pauselaugh 12y ago
"I didn’t feel good about keeping it private, since it was heavily based off of someone else’s work." Isn't that the opposite? Shouldn't you have kept it private since it was based off of someone else's work?