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by salt-thrower 5y ago
And how do "we" change the profitability equation? If it were more profitable to do more social good, then more companies would be doing more social good. It seems like we agree on that. Why, then, isn't it profitable to do r
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
In other words, relying purely on profit motives for beneficial innovation is a dead end.
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
I'm sure the data that FB and Google are delivering is far more expensive than rendering HTML would be. I am skeptical that server side rendering was a big enough bottleneck for them for that to be their primary motivation. I'm al
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
This reads like a Reddit comment. Let's try to be better than that here.
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
Personally, I've subscribed to several RSS feeds for local/state news outlets in my area. That helps me stay more in touch with local stuff. Then I just do a quick scan of AP News for international stuff.
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
I did software dev at a marketing firm for about a year, and it was pretty soul sucking, so I know what you mean. I won't work at one again unless it's literally my only option.
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
Yeah, Fextralife saved my ass multiple times while working through the dark souls series. It's a shame that type of community resource isn't more popular.
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
To play the devil's advocate, if the US were to allow Ukraine to enter NATO, that would be just as "aggressive" from Russia's point of view as Russia projecting its influence further into Eastern Europe would be from a U
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
Source on that last bit? How close to reality did that plan really get?
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
I think that's an overly harsh take. I've fallen prey to the pattern the author describes many times, and I inevitably end up making updates like that because I feel bad that work isn't getting done, which fuels a procrastina
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
I think that's part of the (dark) joke - "freedom" being the reason that the United States always gives before destabilizing a region and propping up corrupt dictators or puppet democracies which are anything but "free.&
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
Same here. I joined FB when I was 13 (over a decade ago) - I had no clue what I was signing up for.
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
Consent during a sex act and consent to an image that you created continuing to exist after you knowingly release it into the wild are two different things. (Not including revenge porn or other nonconsensual recordings, obviously). An actor
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
Morally, it would make sense for content creators (the creator and owner of an image, say an Onlyfans model who took a selfie) to be able to flag a picture for removal if they decide they don't want it to be shared anymore. Technologic
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
Tons of people and organizations have been building blockchain-based solutions for [vague use case] since like 2010. Announcing that someone is building something on top of the bitcoin protocol is like saying someone is building the next wa
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
They aren't beggars. They're a well-respected software foundation. Being a nonprofit doesn't mean you're forced to beg for money from every source imaginable. If this move was done out of desperation, then they're d
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
> Can't blame Mozilla for openly scraping the bottom of the barrel with their marketing. Yes I can. It makes them look cheap and corny, and weakens their credibility. > Dogecoin IS a meme and has/had a multi-billion dollar c
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
Easier to make fun of crypto because at least oil has obvious real-world utility, and (unfortunately) still props up our economy. Crypto is like a sideshow. It's also a hot new topic which makes it fun to argue about. That's not t
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
If he left out "fuck you and fuck this," the rest of the tweet is still incendiary enough to send the message without the edginess. Might have come across better that way. Regardless, it's sad to watch Mozilla debase themselv
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
The only catch is it doesn't have intuitive pronunciation. "Pip gee?" Why not just "Planet-Incinerating Grifter," or PIG. Then it also applies to Big Oil executives :)
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
I needed to read this. I grew up on dark motivation and physically cringed at the idea of being motivated by happiness and positivity (I was quite an edgy teenager as I'm sure you can guess!) Now in my late 20's, the pandemic plus
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
And another relevant question, is it actually happening more or are we just noticing it more and calling attention to it? The concept of a hermit is very, very old. Some percentage of humans have always opted out of communal culture for a m
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
He has a youtube channel so he probably does need to impress people.
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
It's been really sad to grow up and watch the cool techie optimism of the 2000's internet get sucked dry by profit motives and left to rot. The change has occurred pretty much entirely within my adult lifetime (I'm only 27 an
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
How is that "literal nanny state?" We're talking about removing a home assistant's ability to tell you to do something lethally stupid. Basic consumer safety measures are a staple of a healthy society; just because a dev
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
I for one wouldn't assume that "Alexa, give me a challenge to do" would be pulling from the open, uncensored internet. I would assume that Amazon had some kind of curation method that would remove the possibility of Alexa tel
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
I recall the NYT being a mouthpiece for Bush administration propaganda leading up to the Iraq war. It later came out that they squashed articles which would have cast a critical light on the claim that Iraq had WMD capabilities, in favor of
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
I like the idea of having different degrees of "death by coconut." 1st degree: you were struck and killed by a falling coconut. 2nd degree: you shot and killed yourself trying to open a coconut with a gun. 3rd degree: someone else
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
An IQ test is just another form of standardized test, isn't it?
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
That's awful, and probably the most egregious example I've heard of a cargo cult gone wrong. The longer I'm in this field the more disappointed I am by the influence that trendy groupthink has. I know no field is immune to it

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