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by romwell 4y ago
>This is an extremely valid point and I know many potential Mastodon users that have been turned off because of it. It would be like tying your identity to a specific subreddit. I said this last time Mastodon was discussed here, and was
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by romwell 4y ago
>None of that was enough to stop email. Free is a very good price. You missed some steps in your inventory listing though: 0)Able to communicate with anyone else with an account, regardless of which server they have signed up with? [ Nop
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by romwell 4y ago
>There's never really going to be such a thing as a thriving small social network. You are saying this on Hackernews , out of all places... which is an example of one.
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by romwell 4y ago
>The author doesn't seem to realize that it's not necessary for Mastodon to reach the same scale as Twitter or Facebook. We might be headed for a more pluralistic future, with a large chunk of people on Mastodon, another big co
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by romwell 4y ago
...or know what Ruth Ginsburg Bader has anything to do with it all. The RGB color model and representation of images in it is already technical. Anyone who knows what it means also wouldn't need to be told the following quip: >Also
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by romwell 4y ago
The OP is based tho frfr Ahem I really do think that the author of the article has a good point.
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by romwell 4y ago
>And every city that defunds turns into a hell scape. [citation needed] Last time I checked, that wasn't the case[1]. [1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-jersey-city-disband...
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by romwell 4y ago
No, I'm not missing your point - I agree with it. My comment was meant to point that that to the extent that tenure could be gutted from research universities , it has already been done so. Gutting it further would bring immediate r
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by romwell 4y ago
What a tool. (This comment gives the news as much insight as this news deserves).
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by romwell 4y ago
>You can “expect” all you like, but doing so won’t make it better. The best way to solve this problem would, as you say, to have people do better. But that is not happening, and the problem still needs solving as soon as possible. Yes. A
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by romwell 4y ago
>The solution is fixing the software No. The solution is fixing the system that allows these people to act with impunity. No matter how "fixed" the software is, they'll find ways to misuse it.
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by romwell 4y ago
>The calculous[sic] is fairly simple. Tenure track and then have an easy work life but less money, or go to industry and make lots of money but work more. You have no clue what you are talking about. Going from academia into industry, th
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by romwell 4y ago
>Tenure was meant to protect the academic freedom, and pursuit of the long-term scientific research. Today, most academics chase money, grants, trends, citations and status. These two statements are written as if there's an implicat
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by romwell 4y ago
>You could definitely sustain (1a) without the incentive (or carrot) of tenure. This is how most community colleges work. Spoiler: this is how most universities work. They have teaching jobs that are either filled with adjuncts, or are
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by romwell 4y ago
>> A lot of people want to have their cake and eat it too: No tenure AND low wages. It won't work out. Sure you can. That's what the current system of adjuncts is like. >The problem is that you lose the people who are the
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by romwell 4y ago
> For one thing, tenure can be replaced by higher salaries. Do you imply the universities will magically get more money somehow? >Who knows, maybe these universities will get more bang for their bucks that way. Scott Aarsonson knows.
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by romwell 4y ago
> A horrifying example of ~peculiar glitches~ incompetent people with monopoly on violence causing real harm :( The people who authorize the raids aren't supposed to blindly rely on tech without being aware of its limitations. A p
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by romwell 4y ago
>I really wonder what goes through people's heads when they build these things that are universally hated. Oh, they aren't universally hated. Most of reddit users have only seen the "new" interface, so they don&#x
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by romwell 4y ago
> old-reddit isn't mobile-engineered Eh. I exclusively use https://old.reddit.com/ on both Desktop and Mobile, and never felt inconvenienced. Our cell phones are large enough today to use 2008-era websites without
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by romwell 4y ago
This is scarily impressive.
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by romwell 4y ago
>Now that Google has killed the app, I can’t capture those photos! The app worked fine a month ago, why not let me use it, as it worked offline‽ Laughs/cries in Picasa
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by romwell 4y ago
>The article feels like blogspam riding on the hypetrain of people disliking when google discontinues products like Stadia. Stadia and CodeJam are more than enough. Perhaps there wouldn't be "blogspam" like this if Google
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by romwell 4y ago
>You are just experiencing a very common phenomena where drugs impact some people differently. Yes, I am experiencing a very common phenomena where drugs impact the people with the condition the drug is prescribed for differently than
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by romwell 4y ago
>Amphetamines and methamphetamine are closely related. So are ethanol (vodka) and methanol (poisonous fuel). The difference is exactly the same - one methyl group (CH3). If you think that it's a small difference, try drinking methan
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by romwell 4y ago
> Should we make children take meth because they don't like the system they're in? >take meth Ah yes, the good old "Adderall is meth" ridiculousness. Sure, Adderall is amphetamine, and meth is meth amphetamine, ju
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by romwell 4y ago
>The diagnosing is hogwash No. Hogwash is what your comment is. Please stop spreading this falsehood. My name is Roman Kogan, and I have ADHD[1]. [1] https://romankogan.net/adhd
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by romwell 4y ago
>Take a double dose of your prescription and report back whether you feel it (sort of kidding, I have ADHD[1]. Taking 2x dosage of Adderall[3] makes me.. calmer and sleepy, and that's about it. As does too much coffee[2]. So much fo
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by romwell 4y ago
"Adderall addicts" Thanks for reminding me which medication[1] I forgot to take... again. My ADHD[3] must've made me very addicted to Adderall, huh. Perhaps consider that people with ADHD tend to thrive in creative profess
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by romwell 4y ago
>Standing up a C2 line is a pain because of the DEA approvals and quotas Why the hell do we have a quota on medication?
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by romwell 4y ago
The tooling they wrote to make this kind of thing is absolutely insane too.

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