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by philipov 3y ago
Isn't enshittification simply the business cycle? It's describing in detail the why of the bust portion of the cycle.
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by philipov 3y ago
So you think that even IRC and text messages on your phone are social media? Can't agree. Being a chat room is not enough. The social in "social media" stands for social network , not just any kind of social interaction at a
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by philipov 3y ago
Social Media is a word that means less than the sum of its parts. It is not just the word Media modified by being Social; it was invented to describe algorithmic feeds like Facebook and Twitter. Discord is not social media. Discord is a for
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by philipov 3y ago
Hypocrisy doesn't require one to believe what they say and utter it in good faith but fall short of those ideals in practice. Equivocating about football teams doesn't change that one is trying to impose standards on another witho
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by philipov 3y ago
I heard the project repository suffers from a detached head.
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by philipov 3y ago
Take the drink, and let it sit there full to indicate you don't want more.
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by philipov 3y ago
> If men would behave decently the world would be decent. Which in turn reminds me of Federalist No. 51: "If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls o
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by philipov 3y ago
I would go back even farther, all the way to the end of the Second Punic War. Scipio Africanus was the one who expanded the practice of client-patron relationships to a geopolitical scale to build an independent power base. He was also the
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by philipov 3y ago
Both you and the person you're replying to are correct. These are not mutually exclusive factors. (Well, except the part about egypt: that was assimilated after Anthony and Cleopatra's defeat, not after Pompey's defeat. Caesa
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by philipov 3y ago
To all those people that have nothing to hide, please provide me with your bank account numbers and mother's maiden name.
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by philipov 3y ago
The cause of what? We don't know much about the cause of the republic because any records of that were lost in the first sack of Rome. As for the cause of the fall of the republic, Julius Caesar did not cause those factors to exist,
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by philipov 3y ago
That's the book that Mike Duncan wrote following up his work on the History of Rome podcast. The first of the two books he wrote while running the Revolutions podcast, with the second being a biography of Lafayette.
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by philipov 3y ago
Check out the History of Rome podcast by Mike Duncan if you haven't already. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Rome_(podcast)
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by philipov 3y ago
And you know what's a bigger cost savings than open office? No office!
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by philipov 3y ago
I wonder if loyalty to employers is like Stockholm Syndrome, a way of coping with emotional trauma.
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by philipov 3y ago
> Amazon is just a lose federation of mostly autonomous orgs. Great, that will come in handy when it comes time to break them into separate companies.
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by philipov 3y ago
Someone who's reached their last year of high school. Seriously though, senior just means you're older and have more years of experience. Make sure you help your kouhai when they're in trouble.
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by philipov 3y ago
We know who copyright is meant to protect, and it's not artists: it's Disney's shareholders. Pay writers and actors a fair cut, and then maybe people will take seriously that copyright is for artists.
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by philipov 3y ago
Can SEO algos read it if you put the date in an image?
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by philipov 3y ago
When I do the search on bing, it doesn't just give no results, it also says "Some results have been removed" with a link to their content policy page.
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by philipov 3y ago
While I agree with the sentiment here, Penrose has come up with a model that does make testable hypotheses about what happened before the big bang with his Conformal Cyclic Cosmology. Now, I think that as a matter of fact, the predictions h
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by philipov 3y ago
Well, we knew that to be true already because of quantum foam, and the Higgs field having a nonzero rest energy.
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by philipov 3y ago
I think they think the big bang means the moment the cosmic microwave background was created, and are confusing the big bang with recombination (which made the universe transparent). Why else would they suggest that inflation happened befor
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by philipov 3y ago
That's what you get for believing anything they say.
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by philipov 3y ago
The economy is not zero sum, but power is, and money is power.
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by philipov 3y ago
"nervousness; insomnia; dehydration; stomach irritation; fatigue." It's not just headaches. Fatigue in particular can be severe. If I don't drink coffee, I can barely stay awake at all.
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by philipov 3y ago
I would hesitate to downplay the long-term effects of heavy caffeine use.
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by philipov 3y ago
So, all I have to do is copy-paste it into a text editor with remove-all-formatting to circumvent that?
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by philipov 3y ago
Waste is entirely a matter of perspective. Calling it waste implies there's a practical solution that's better, when it may be completely unreasonable to posit such a hypothetical. This approach is essentially an evolutionary stra
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by philipov 3y ago
Are you suggesting he's remembered for breaking the rule of being remembered for the rules you break, thus proving the rule?

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