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by pjc50 2mo ago
Not only that, part of the point of the whole "atproto" business is to allow alternate frontends and backends. The official mobile app is kind of bad. A number of people have migrated to Blacksky (alternate backend) following a mo
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> You can only change your own habits Rather like smoking, I can only change my own habits (have never smoked) but that won't prevent me from being harmed by other people's habits. Even if I don't use Facebook, I can be ha
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Same physics that drives wind turbines to be as large as possible, I believe.
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Work environments usually already have strict controls on financial accounts for very obvious reasons. This does result in stupid "why do I need director approval to buy a stapler?" stories, but the alternative risks all sorts o
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The reverse is happening in many places: since agents don't view ads or pay, and do steal content, there's a huge demand to block them. Cloudflare now offer this as a service.
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In which jurisdiction? They're usually hard to trace in the first place, let alone get the attention of actual police.
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You know what's really oversupplied in this subthread? One sentence contrarianism. (not that I haven't done it myself occasionally, but guys you really are not helping anyone here including yourselves)
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Two separate things. People should be allowed to be anonymous for free, especially in an environment where anonymous harassment is free and legal, up to and including collusion with law enforcement "SWATing").
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> The decline of Germany as the leading scientific powerhouse in the first half if the 20th century Go on? WW1 and its consequences?
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Balanced out by a group of people who call everything they don't like "socialism". It's a very poor discourse environment.
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Aren't all the Iran announcements/bombings on weekends while the peace deals are announced before the markets open again? Or is that too much of a meme?
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Impeachment requires a Democrat majority. (for some reason this attracted a downvote? Obviously Republicans are never going to impeach a Republican President? I cannot imagine why you would think they would?)
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Last time we discussed US collapse I wrote about the Chinese empire: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211339 I would also deploy Adam Smith's "there is a lot of ruin in a nation". The US can withstand a
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Scale does matter, though. The little thing that elevates restaurant (and especially "street food", for some reason) is usually garnishes. Small amounts of fresh ingredients are a big pain for home cooking because they require dis
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by pjc50 2mo ago
I would also note that "SMM requires a context switch across all cores" is also imposing a pretty heavy performance penalty when invoked.
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Oh yes, same for Warcraft, Ultima etc. Multiplayer games necessarily exist in a "dialogue" with their players. There's a tendency for players to optimize the fun out of games, as well. Someone discovers a dominant strategy, a
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by pjc50 2mo ago
There's a specific category of people who get weird about this on social media. Shorthand for it is "burrito taxi discourse". There's usually a long list of excuses, some of which may have validity, some of which are a b
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Yes, but then you have to account for tax, pay, shipping, wastage, theft, and (most importantly) rent on both kitchen and storefront. The homeowner does not charge themselves rent for their own kitchen, nor for their time.
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Yes. Some communities are weirdly against giving credit or keeping the credit (e.g. cropping off signatures from artwork), which I've never understood. It costs nothing.
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This is very old, though. The Roman era experienced monetary inflation through "coin clipping", which was literally shaving bits of silver off coins and remelting it together. This is why modern era coins often have milled tamper-
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I remember from the MUD era there was a paper (possibly by Richard Bartle) on the "MUD lifecycle", and how they tended to last on average two years before the operators got bored / burned out / the community left /
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Possibly "bad ideas are cheap". A lot of people got tired of "ideas guys" who never build anything themselves. The best case of a raw idea is an uncut diamond, it will inevitably require work.
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This is better for you as an individual, but worse for society as a whole. As you've noticed, monetization is the weak spot. AI will not escape being ruined by monetization, but it might be harder to notice when it arrives.
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Eh, part of what made early-internet so good was exactly that it did allow copying by users ; the DRM era was later. But it's a very good example of why not to allow for profit copying, because that absolutely will crowd out the ori
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Rust is much less likely to have heap leaks.
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Also an analogy with the globalization of manufacturing era. People have I think been prone to assuming that the West has a "magic ingredient" which entitles it to revenues from skilled work forever. A presumption that people over
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It would be good to have real insights into how Poland is doing well just now, but (gestures at thread) it seems to be a lot of people bringing out their pet solutions. Is the boom related to the removal of PiS in 2023? Is it linked to Ukra
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by pjc50 3mo ago
Propaganda and bribery. Things like the Hungarian funding of CPAC and the NRA holding a July 4 celebration in Russia some years ago. The weak spot was the conservative prediction to fascism - worship of force and masculinity - which was eas
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The end is usually considered to have been the Suez crisis; after exiting India, the UK failed to invade a Middle Eastern country in order to control a narrow waterway. If you want parallels to the present. Brexit is a particularly 21st cen
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"Empire" is really just a large hereditary monarchy with the ability to subordinate nearby ethnic groups into a unified political/military command. They can be remarkably stable. China managed two to three thousand years, dep

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