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by sdfmxiid1 9y ago
I have considered myself fairly libertarian, and have voted for libertarians in various positions for years. I think this is a bit like saying "I have a question for Republicans" or "I have a question for Democrats"--you
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by sdfmxiid1 9y ago
So, as tenured faculty I don't know about NSF advocating for careers in STEM. Maybe that's a good thing maybe its a bad thing. What I do see driving this ultimately is something broader and more systemic, which is universities bei
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by sdfmxiid1 9y ago
The problem is that the "elites" often selectively push for aspects of deregulatory strategy that benefit them, without pushing for the rest. Or, they advocate for some distorted version of it that no longer is deregulatory. And t
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by sdfmxiid1 9y ago
The issue of control with newsfeeds and RSS has been on my mind a lot the last year or so. RSS and Atom are great as a protocol, but where things break down for me is in discovery, filtering, and selection of content. There's a few tra
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by sdfmxiid1 9y ago
The coverage of the Netflix ratings format switch has always been frustrating to me because what people are complaining about (you're not the only one; https://www.polygon.com/2017/4/7/15212718/netfl
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by sdfmxiid1 9y ago
I had a similar reaction. It strikes me a bit as part of the rampant survivorship bias that happens all the time in contemporary society. As in, I worked hard and things worked out, therefore if you work hard things will work out, and if yo
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by sdfmxiid1 9y ago
I'm having flashbacks here, but what I remember at that time was concern that if Google paid Sun, they'd be setting a precedent that way. There was a sigh of relief when they didn't, at least from some, because, regardless of