prohobo

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by prohobo 4y ago
Fundamentally yes, except that nudge theory is about manipulating collective action (or inaction) in populations. Promoters of this theory also envision themselves as trying to help, not fleece people of their money.
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by prohobo 4y ago
This is clearly a case of racism against racists, because we hate racist races. Perfectly understandable.
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by prohobo 4y ago
I've always found the "hey Twitter friends, I wrote a guide, buy it for $90 now!" stuff super unethical anyways. First of all, the information they sell that way is 100% available for free somewhere else or is useless. They&#
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by prohobo 4y ago
IMO, Clubhouse was a good idea for the zeitgeist (lockdowns) and had a lot of novelty value, but ultimately wasn't what people really wanted. What they really wanted was Twitter Spaces because that's the actual public town square
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by prohobo 4y ago
Everyone says this: work out, eat good, sleep well, let go of bullshit and get the girl. The problem is that while it often works, no one seems to understand why it does - or why it doesn't work for a lot of people. Taking care of your
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by prohobo 4y ago
Is it absurd to think that maybe the Carina Nebula's shape has visibly shifted a bit since the last photo?
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by prohobo 4y ago
I have no idea. Certainly more than the cost of a pizza. There are 21 million, and if split evenly among the world population each person would get ~0.002625. It depends on a lot of factors; like how important it might become for people to
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by prohobo 4y ago
I disagree. To me it's like saying passwords are broken because most people choose "password123". Or like saying dollar bills are bad because they can rip. Safety rails should be made of course, but if you aren't even ma
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by prohobo 4y ago
My guess: from a speculative standpoint Bitcoin is finite and the only real competitor to fiat. There's also a large amount of sustained hype. It's unlikely to flatline unless something really major happens. Blockchains like Ether
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by prohobo 4y ago
I'd just like to ask: when was the last time Microsoft hasn't done something evil with one of their products? Windows XP? I don't understand why you're essentially resetting their reputation in regards to GitHub.
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by prohobo 4y ago
It simply takes the advantage away from Microsoft. That's not wishful thinking, that's strategy. Small changes in a situation like this can make a big difference in outcome.
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by prohobo 4y ago
The new platform itself could literally rate limit requests to download source code. For example: 100 repos per day. Or, the platform could make it part of their terms of use that licenses must be respected even for machine learning. It cou
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by prohobo 4y ago
Rate limiting Microsoft's ability to exploit FOSS, and moving to platforms that won't/can't implement abusive practices that cause these kinds of mass exoduses in the first place. I think if Microsoft was figuratively an
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by prohobo 4y ago
Ethics and scrutiny of downstream effects of technological innovation - something we as a society continue to pretend is not important, even as it destabilizes the entire god damn planet.
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by prohobo 4y ago
There's a lot going on here, and I'm sure a lot of people have this problem. When I was growing up guys would talk like this in high school, and it was sort of understood that it's normal and they'd grow out of it. Excep
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by prohobo 4y ago
Well, it's more like individual curation vs corporate curation. It's not necessarily good for discoverability, but with filters like "remove top 1k sites" it can be.
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by prohobo 4y ago
I love that C++ developers only want to work with C++ and Python, while nearly everyone else is doing web stuff.
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by prohobo 4y ago
I disagree, I think we just got caught up in a whirlwind in 2015 that people still haven't recovered from. There actually hasn't been any real trend away from current tech since about 2015. People are still using the same TypeScri
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by prohobo 4y ago
People are working on auditing services for smart contracts and web3 apps, but it's slow going. Considering the behavior of the current community I totally understand your skepticism toward the technology itself. It hasn't really
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by prohobo 4y ago
Web3 (smart contracts) can (as in right now) reduce the level of trust required to persuade people to use certain services (or at least parts of them). For example: crowdfunding platforms. I can write a smart contract that reasonably and se
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by prohobo 4y ago
It's not a good basis for a relationship. In traditional courtship couples woo each other and show attractive characteristics besides the way they look - in fact your behaviour changes the way you look to others. That's why &quo
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by prohobo 4y ago
Power and compatibility doesn't correlate from visual attractiveness, especially in photos where many otherwise attractive people are simply not photogenic. Yes the market (because that's exactly what it is now, which is what sets
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by prohobo 4y ago
Go further: services will offer features in exchange for more data. Your worth could be tied to how private you are with your data... ie. more data hoarding = more valuable target. This creates an incentive structure for users to hoard thei
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by prohobo 4y ago
This looks quite promising. I'm not sure I understand it very well yet, but essentially it's meant to replace custodial API backends with a decentralized network that's capable of sharing data with participating apps through
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by prohobo 4y ago
They're aren't all neutral, many of them are working on private blockchain technologies. For example, anyone working for Meta is on the crypto payroll - just not the Bitcoin/Ethereum/etc ones. My pointed questions are: 1
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by prohobo 4y ago
"...and urge you to consider our objective and independent expert judgments to guide your legislative priorities, which we remain happy to discuss anytime." So they have no real demands, just "listen to us about crypto, and n
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by prohobo 4y ago
Cypherpunks, crypto evangelists, ecovillages, Lord Richard Stallman, pirates, etc. All of these movements are pretty closely related - meant to be a parallel structure to the hypercommoditized mainstream. They also have major problems, whic
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by prohobo 4y ago
It's often the work you're currently doing that colors everything else in your life, from personal experience. I don't think it's fair to suggest, but I would quit and take a break then get started on something new. My p
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by prohobo 4y ago
Really? I see 40+ people as diversity hires for the most part. They're there so no one can say the company is ageist. The "good" devs become managers or magically disappear. Magically as in they get banished to some other rea
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by prohobo 4y ago
I heard the keyboard is good, but do you mean the newer T-series chiclet keyboards?

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