rhizome

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541.
by rhizome 6y ago
Rivalrous goods are an inapt analogy.
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by rhizome 6y ago
Every idea is vulnerable to the monster understatedly known as "business rules." If you want to change how these companies operate, how they treat users, or, really, how the company makes money in a user-driven economy, you have t
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by rhizome 6y ago
> The company I work for recently got acquired and the entire culture changed There is only one thing to do after your company is acquired: get out of the company that got acquired. Full stop: get out. You can do this one of two ways: v
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by rhizome 6y ago
The mistake was in creating something planet-scale before having anti-abuse systems in place. In this regard, Amazon is very much not alone.
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by rhizome 6y ago
You'd think somewhere they'd expand what "HITB" means.
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by rhizome 6y ago
It's a good idea to add -w/--no-overwrite (or --output TEMPLATE with autonumber) to that command line so you don't clobber your existing files, for safety. EDIT: YT does not send a 0byte file for deleteds, only a "video
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by rhizome 6y ago
Yeah, which I'm sure is a capitulation to rightsholders that is not required by law.
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by rhizome 6y ago
Or: morality is a set of value judgements about facts (or not, as the case may be).
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by rhizome 6y ago
> If the US is such an awful country You're reading quite a bit into a simple observation, shouldn't you be criticizing those who didn't ask for clarification instead?
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by rhizome 6y ago
Read any day's front page here, the US is specified by name plenty.
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by rhizome 6y ago
There is also such a thing as Muphry's Law.
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by rhizome 6y ago
> It isn't so much because he's white but more of not poor. It says a lot that you don't acknowledge any systemic connection between these. Sure, rich people with their idea-implants can be referenced collectively. Societ
553.
by rhizome 6y ago
Everyday DevOps strays further from SysAdmin's light.
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by rhizome 6y ago
Are you under the impression that humans are leaving those messages?
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by rhizome 6y ago
Note that nobody is confused about which "the nation" this refers to.
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by rhizome 6y ago
> or we will reach the day where corporations are more powerful than national governments It's been true for decades that multinational corporations can push governments around by threatening to move their HQ or manufacturing or li
557.
by rhizome 6y ago
The web is full of red circles with exclamation points.
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by rhizome 6y ago
Or, you know, explain what's going on in the UI.
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by rhizome 6y ago
You have discovered: Spinoza's "Ethics," which, in an essay bouncing between the Bible (where I stopped reading every word) and Aristotle and Plato, is notably missing. That said, she doesn't say that she acted on it (an
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by rhizome 6y ago
The distinction is between a publisher deciding what content they want to publish and an outside party enforcing a standard. Should TV Guide have to publish porn because I want it to?
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by rhizome 6y ago
Where do you draw the line between censorship (as you define it) and editorial policy?
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by rhizome 6y ago
If you want to call something self-censorship then do so, but it's not capital-C Censorship. Hopefully you understand the distinction. :P
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by rhizome 6y ago
Milo was wiped off the map of public consciousness, which is good evidence for the effectiveness of deplatforming in itself.
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by rhizome 6y ago
This isn't censorship, and saying that it is censorship is a bad-faith tell or a sign of naivete. Furthermore, these people are already angry and distrustful, so how much of a movement's psychoses should the commercial world be
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by rhizome 6y ago
There have been reasonable minimum salary requirements for H1Bs for a few years now: https://redbus2us.com/h1b-minimum-wage-or-lca-prevailing-wag... $45/hr|$90K would be too low nowadays. GP's experience could hav
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by rhizome 6y ago
It's not uncommon for those types of problems to be contract law violations. "Reliance" is a thing, random url: https://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=1778
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by rhizome 6y ago
Is it really cynicism more than a nirvana fallacy?
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by rhizome 6y ago
Forever. Site owners will shit purple Twinkies and put the developers under a copyright cosh if the feature is released or not removed.
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by rhizome 6y ago
PDF with an image on one page, then the plain text of the page flowed over following pages.
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by rhizome 6y ago
Why do you imply that Alfie Kohn's ideology is the only useful one?

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