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by pibaker 7mo ago
> This tool is inspired by Kagi Small Web To me the way Kagi curates its small web directory always feel contradictory to the spirit of independent web publishing because it seems like you have to submit entries through GitHub — a highly
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by pibaker 7mo ago
I hope platforms like these find a way to attract people outside tech circles. I looked at around a dozen recommended sites and only two of them isn't the personal website of someone who works in tech and writes mostly about tech, whic
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by pibaker 7mo ago
> get rid of internet on the highway Does not sound too bad once you have seen the number of drivers scrolling their phones while driving lately.
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by pibaker 7mo ago
It is not affordable if it is located somewhere with no job.
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by pibaker 7mo ago
Over 60% of Americans are homeowners. In any functioning democracy, they ought to be the people in power.
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by pibaker 7mo ago
I can't find any source suggesting this was actually a thing in the 30s and 40s. All I can find is the Zimmerman telegram from a hundred years ago which the Mexicans weren't exactly enthusiastic about. In any case, I doubt there i
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by pibaker 7mo ago
No country capable of landing a single troop on the lower 48 is scared of undisciplined men with AR-15s. In fact I am not sure if any country can get a troop transport near the US coast without being nuked to the ground first.
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by pibaker 7mo ago
To think about this from another angle, imagine yourself as a worker selling your labor in exchange for money. Would you voluntarily negotiate a pay cut just because you can charge a fraction of what you do and still swim in cash, or would
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by pibaker 7mo ago
Except Squarespace does not just sell hosting. Their main business is selling a CMS and website builder that is supposed to be easy enough for complete noobs to use. You and I know how to build and host websites, ok, but it had likely taken
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by pibaker 7mo ago
Realistically, most people don't have the expertise of setting up HTTPS enabled web hosting on nginx (maybe Caddy will be easier.) There is just so much prerequisite knowledge for a non technical person to know. What they do instead is
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by pibaker 7mo ago
> you can most likely afford to buy a farm if you really want that lifestyle Revealed preference wins all the time. See also the massive rural to urban migration in literally every country since 18th century Britain to present day Asia.
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by pibaker 7mo ago
> a free information era Not all information is out there for free, monetarily and in terms of personal liberty. News articles frequently quote "sources inside" some three letter agencies or major corporations who will face con
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by pibaker 7mo ago
I don't like the state of journalism either but you realize this is a vicious cycle, no? People not paying for news (by buying newspaper, or more importantly paying for classified ads) leading to low quality online reporting leading to
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by pibaker 7mo ago
> That's a very narrow view of the world. But not one that would surprise anyone familiar with WalterBright's antics on this website…
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by pibaker 7mo ago
> Cheaters are by definition anomalies So are very good players, very bad players, players with weird hardware issues, players who just got one in a million lucky… When you have enough randomly distributed variables, by the law of big nu
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by pibaker 7mo ago
> IOW if a flood comes, both the king and the peasant start digging. By the same reasoning, India, Bangladesh and China — all ancient civilizations threatened by great rivers — should have developed similar egalitarian cultures but the r
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by pibaker 7mo ago
Should every incident report be written twice, once for normal people and once for the developmentally challenged then?
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by pibaker 7mo ago
This is not true. Browsers can and do delegate handling non HTTP URLs to the OS just like any other software. The most common ones are mailto URLs which usually launches your system's email client. And if you click on a tel URL on your
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by pibaker 7mo ago
A public ledger is antithetical to "high trust" anyway. A high trust society is one where you give hitchhikers rides without questioning too much about their motivations. If you have to do a criminal background check — which is ju
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by pibaker 7mo ago
Pointing out that a man who has achieved financial freedom decades ago may have different priorities than present and future wage slaves isn't attacking the man.
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by pibaker 7mo ago
Maybe the imprints aren't on your text, but on your soul, my dear friend :)
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by pibaker 7mo ago
Maybe instead of processing food to add more protein into it — even Starbucks sells "protein drinks" now — they should process food to have more fiber instead.
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by pibaker 7mo ago
> I disagree heartily with Biden and the deeper US intelligence communities assessments, like you do. Maybe if they were actually competent they wouldn't have made the mistake then? > Biden did not lose, Kamala Harris lost. Harri
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by pibaker 7mo ago
Biden held back arms support for Ukraine on dubious "we don't wanna test Russia's red line" grounds, gave unlimited support a wannabe despot's (Netanyahu's) wars of aggression even as he tried to backstab democ
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by pibaker 7mo ago
I find it amusing that the person who brought up the word "middleman" is implicitly pointing at big internet companies, and here you are telling me Facebook or WhatsApp are not middleman.
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by pibaker 7mo ago
Non big tech solutions don't need billion dollar's worth of marketing. In fact I don't recall ever seeing an ad for tiktok and yet it is humongous. Non big tech solutions need solid UI and UX that does not assume your average
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by pibaker 7mo ago
> Right after initialization you'll be prompted to export the private key and store it somewhere safe, e.g. your password manager Having seen enough story in the vein of "if only I still have my bitcoin wallet from 2014" a
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by pibaker 7mo ago
I don't know GP's situation. But in the case of the linked article, given anthropic's tie to the Bay Area "rationalist" community, one possible reason why the author has a roommate is he bought in to the rationalist
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by pibaker 7mo ago
There is a prevalent view of economy that insists businesses sell their products at the minimum price they can still make a profit at (but not lower or you are dumping.) A Marxist view of economy, if I must. Whenever I meet one of these peo
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by pibaker 8mo ago
Do you seriously think bombing a major Russian ally that has been materially supporting Russian war efforts is somehow a pro Russia move? Every drone Iran has launched at Bahrain and the UAE could have been sold to Russia and used against U

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