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by saghm 1mo ago
I am the one who said it, and I am sure. You can go back through my comment history to find me getting into arguments many times against the idea of ID verification for internet use.
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by saghm 1mo ago
I think the point is that if I have to use some system to tell the government "this is me", that's pretty much equivalent to the ID. It doesn't matter that they have the info already, it's that I now need to send th
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by saghm 1mo ago
Yeah, it sounds like this is just a disagreement about what the word "next" means. I agree with you that "next" just means "the one about to come", and if the underlying model works by using some prediction mec
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by saghm 1mo ago
I feel like that's basically what they're trying to say; we should be using the legal system to punish them now to disincentivize us getting to the "machine swarm killing us all" stage.
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by saghm 1mo ago
> I can have a formal bet that prices can go lower Is this a typo? Have you actually made a formal bet on a prediction market or something to put your money where your mouth is, or are you just saying that you could ? There's a lot
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by saghm 1mo ago
Yeah, I'm not sure I find either your or the parent comment's experience totally reflective of my own, but I definitely agree that I don't think the "purpose of life" is a very well-agreed upon thing. People have de
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by saghm 1mo ago
This was honestly the same thought I had from the quote in the article from the dev who was enthusiastic about developing for a 400x240 monochrome screen. There's nothing wrong with developing something for your own happiness without c
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by saghm 1mo ago
Honestly I'm reading a lot more signal from your perspective that a poor person is someone who has to settle for "only" spending a couple hundred dollars on a console.
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by saghm 1mo ago
This is a sacrifice we just have to be willing to make as a society if we want to project kids from the horror of using the internet
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by saghm 1mo ago
I read this up until the monospaced use of the term `localStorage`, which for me (Firefox on Android) got rendered with a white background but did not invert the font, making it unreadable without highlighting it. I don't think I'
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by saghm 1mo ago
I think you might be misunderstanding what I mean by the word "bubble". It's quite literally impossible to talk to a representative sample of people the size of the internet, so judging purely by people you've interacted
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by saghm 1mo ago
It's not clear to me what argument you thought I was making. To reiterate, I was saying that I had never heard someone say "free software platform" and not mean "libre", so I found it a bit odd to refer to paint.net
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by saghm 1mo ago
They didn't explicitly say they were trying to speak for all of humanity. I'm responding to the specific interpretation of it directly because as the comment you were responding to pointed out, it was ambiguous.
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by saghm 1mo ago
Which is what, exactly? As far as I can tell, it seems more about what he wants to not allow. At the end of the day I respect an author's choice whether to close source to something even if I disagree with it, but it feels a little e
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by saghm 1mo ago
At the risk of opening up the usual can of worms, I feel like the terminology "free software platform" is not something I've seen used in the sense that you're describing paint.net as "free". I genuinely got co
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by saghm 1mo ago
For a lot of humans, having a large number of people criticize you heavily has an emotional toll independent of the technical merits of their claims
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by saghm 1mo ago
> Al haters are basically a very small minority and almost all of them are online. It isn't a large number. Without even getting into the AI part of this claim, how can you have any confidence about a claim like this when there are
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by saghm 1mo ago
Humans are a bunch of individuals though with an incredible amount of diversity. If their claim is biological, it would be helpful to pin down more precisely what they mean, because right now it's pretty vague. I'm dubious that th
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by saghm 1mo ago
Yes, that's the point, making something hard means that sometimes it will not happen. Only comparing to the cases where it does happen is missing the entire point.
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by saghm 1mo ago
I don't understand why you think the only possible ways to make mergers harder need to be "analogous". If they put a hard cap on the size of companies allowed to merge, that would make it harder, without making it harder to b
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by saghm 1mo ago
Maybe if a large company is anticompetitive and the parts would not survive on their own, we should be letting those pieces fail
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by saghm 1mo ago
Do you really think it's impossible to pass legislation that makes something that's currently easy hard without making the reverse any harder as well?
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by saghm 1mo ago
No, they're advocating for more scrutiny of whether the omelet is going to be very bad for everyone who isn't part of the omelet (yes, this metaphor is weird, but I didn't introduce it)
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by saghm 1mo ago
> I’m also using magit (after a tour in various GUI) but for me it is to git what vi is to ex. Direct interaction instead of a command prompt. I'm not sure I understand how "I use a specific text editor with a specialized inter
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by saghm 1mo ago
I don't think this framing makes much sense; playing piano isn't a "tool" that you use to achieve some other task, it's literally the goal itself. Using git is not the goal, it's the tool I use to do something
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by saghm 1mo ago
That sounds like an incredibly leaky abstraction to me, and pretty much exactly what I meant by the UX not being very good.
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by saghm 1mo ago
Yeah, it's unrealistic to think that everyone will be happy and there will be no complaints, but the median view of most products I've used at workplaces has been close to neutral. The sentiment towards Github and Gitlab seems a l
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by saghm 1mo ago
That's reasonable. I mostly just found the framing to be unfair rather than the criticism itself; it feels kind of disingenuous to try to draw a connection between performance of git and performance of a webpage IMO
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by saghm 1mo ago
I have basically the same reaction to this framing: if I had to list the five largest threats to our functioning democracy in the US right now, social media use by teenagers would not make the list.
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by saghm 1mo ago
Can you give me a a terse summary of what "checkout" means that doesn't involve needing to either list or ignore several very different types operations?

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