rglullis

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by rglullis 2mo ago
Because the web as an application platform sucked back then.
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by rglullis 2mo ago
Not all inneficiencies are bad. If the cost to build ridiculously redundant systems is low enough, the system overall is more robust to black swan events than any central planner could ever be.
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by rglullis 2mo ago
You are talking about their choices over distribution channels. I'm talking about who gets to benefit about the features offered by these platforms.
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by rglullis 2mo ago
Or instead of buying Keybase, they could fund https://keyoxide.org/ ?
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by rglullis 2mo ago
Then we are in agreement: native apps are only made to the benefit of the companies, not the users.
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by rglullis 2mo ago
I'm not sure I follow. Do you think that someone using the Twitter app is more or less tracked than someone using their mobile web browser?
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by rglullis 2mo ago
We really lost the plot, then. None of the user-facing and user-benefiting features of the social media apps need native-specific capabilities.
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by rglullis 2mo ago
For the system , there is not a lot of difference whether you are the slave or the slave driver. But oh boy would the system be in in trouble if it had more free people around...
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by rglullis 2mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166002
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by rglullis 2mo ago
There is no "decision" being made if your flowchart always says "only stop at designed bus stops". "Judging" something presupposes the ability to override established rules and even reaching different conclusio
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by rglullis 2mo ago
> Ah, so basically you want more rules. Cathy Newman, is that you?
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by rglullis 2mo ago
Because I have not been able to convince my wife to move to Greece. Also, the fact that I am not integrated does not mean that I am unhappy here.
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by rglullis 2mo ago
Oh, it's not a "culture shock" kind of thing. I actually had no issue whatsoever going to a Sauna or even going swimming on the FKK hours. Like I said, I studied in a German school so I kinda knew these things are just a natu
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by rglullis 2mo ago
It's not a matter of not knowing the language. I grew up in Brazil but studied in a German school from grades 6-12. I used to watch Deutsche Welle more than I'd watch canned US sitcoms on cable. I can understand a joke, and I can
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by rglullis 2mo ago
Nah, there is a very strong reason to support the "Berlin ist eine Insel" saying. Are you forgetting the fact that Berlin was literally isolated from the rest of Western Germany and controlled by 4 other countries until some dec
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by rglullis 2mo ago
Your view of current immigrants is not that different from the Germans in the 70s who thought that the Turks and Vietnamese looking for jobs in Germany would go back to their homes after a while. Some of them did, but enough of them stayed
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by rglullis 2mo ago
If we split between second-generation (i.e, both parents born in Germany) as "native" and everyone else (i.e, anyone with at least one parent not born in Germany) as "immigrants", I'd guess that number would skew he
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by rglullis 2mo ago
I'm not claiming that I know all of Germany or all Germans, I am just refuting GP's guesses. Also, she wasn't the only German that I've met and it wasn't the case that I only met native Germans through her personal
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by rglullis 2mo ago
Maybe, but a quick AI-assisted research says that Bremen has an even higher rate of births from non-German mothers than Berlin, and the data does not make the distinction between citizenship and immigration status.
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by rglullis 2mo ago
You take that back, right now!
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by rglullis 2mo ago
That's a pithy description of it all. If I hadn't met my (Greek) wife in 2015, I've probably would have left long ago. And to come of think of it, I think there is another aspect that influences this: Germans are not having a
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by rglullis 2mo ago
1) I am certified C1 German - studied in high school for 6 years. Granted, I don't like speaking German and will use English when possible, but it's not a matter of not being able to connect with them. 2) Shortly after moving in
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by rglullis 2mo ago
I was going to respond with "Protestantism", but then I realized that I also lived in the US for ~5 years and I had no problem to adapt there. Mind you, I wouldn't go back to live in the US unless you were paying me a lot o
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by rglullis 2mo ago
I'm living in Berlin for 13/45 of my life, but I don't think I will ever feel integrated. As much as I tried to get around and adapt to the local culture, I quickly found myself only connecting with non-Germans, most of them
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by rglullis 2mo ago
> Rules are made so not everybody needs to judge every situation correctly themselves. Rules are not the problem. Trying to apply one set of rules to every context is. > People might overlook consequences or are not informed enough to
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by rglullis 2mo ago
Oh, I understand it alright. But understanding it doesn't mean I like it. After 13 years living in Berlin, I've come to terms with the fact that most aspects of German culture are things I need to tolerate, but never embrace.
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by rglullis 2mo ago
> it would set an example No, it wouldn't. This type of logic only holds if we consider that drivers are automatons who can not analyze risks by themselves. Give the drivers autonomy to judge whether it's safe or not to deviat
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by rglullis 2mo ago
But it just goes to show how idiotic this culture of strict adherence to rules can be. I've been more than once been forced to sit on a bus for 10+ minutes, with the bus literally stopped by the sidewalk, and the driver still wouldn&#x
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by rglullis 2mo ago
How?! Hover is just a proxy between the customer and the real TLD owner. It could very well be that the TLD system saw that the domain was about to expire and decided to jack up the price then. Maybe Hover could've bought the domain th
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by rglullis 2mo ago
I don't know if there is a specific number. But I noticed that after I flagged that article it was removed from the front page.

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