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by seneca 4y ago
> Back in the day when live concerts were "cheap" it was partially because live concerts were used as a way to promote the sale of vinyl and CD's where artists made most of their money. This is backward. Albums were where
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by seneca 4y ago
> Allowing those with financial privilege access at the expense of those without us fundamentally antithetical to music and art. No, it's really not. There have never been many peasants going to the opera houses of the world. And it
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by seneca 4y ago
It is absolutely saying "we know better than you". It's comparing a differing preference to contaminating shared food. It's attempting to paint that opinion, which actually happens to be the most common one, as despicabl
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by seneca 4y ago
> You can look at a number of different countries in Europe to see how even small towns can still be built with a natural density curve to allow choice rather than the car-centric sprawl that we have here. I think this is the model Ameri
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by seneca 4y ago
> Well if you like sneezing of buffets, that’s very strange and anti-social and frankly your preference shouldn’t factor in any decision making because your tendencies are unhealthy in many ways. Responses like this are the most importan
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by seneca 4y ago
Given that it's Google, are you sure they do true end to end encryption. I would be shocked if they don't have access to the contents of your messages.
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by seneca 4y ago
This is going to seriously harm their user base. I've used signal for years, but will have to drop it with change. People aren't interested in maintaining several different messaging apps.
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by seneca 4y ago
That's essentially pointless though. They may earmark your $10 for the core mission, but that just means another $10 that wasn't specified doesn't have to be used for the core, and gets used for their political initiatives. I
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by seneca 4y ago
Yeah, exactly this. This is an unwitting article about how people are desperate to deify celebrities. I've always been a bit bewildered by the phenomenon. It almost seems like internalized marketing.
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by seneca 4y ago
> Obviously this is a prelude to making meat a scarce product, cows being dangerous to the environment apparently, so people will be forced to eat artificial, human-designed, frankenfoods. It's already beginning. This is what the fa
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by seneca 4y ago
It was on purpose. It started as "Diversity and Inclusion", and anyone who questioned it was shouted down as racist. Once any opposition was squashed, they slip in the "Equity", which was really the point the whole time.
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by seneca 4y ago
This is a large chunk of "The Elephant in the Brain", though it's present as an example of the wider thesis. The overall topic of the book is that people basically always lie about their motivations, including to themselves.
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by seneca 4y ago
The major credit card companies are just as bad, if not worse. Payment processors are one of the major systems that need to be treated as a utility. They've become far too comfortable using their position to enforce ideology.
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by seneca 4y ago
The movement in this space has been an overall negative in my opinion. These closed gardens aren't searchable, they're expensive, they don't work on open protocols, and in Discord's case they are extremely invasive about
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by seneca 4y ago
The term gerrymandering, let alone the practice, goes back to 1812. No one alive lived in a time that it didn't exist or has even met anyone who did. It's an unsavory practice, but it's not some new thing contributing to the
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by seneca 4y ago
> By who? A handful of internet nutjobs, surely. No one in a position of power or influence ever claimed that the election results were fraudulent This is 100% revisionist history, and a typical ploy to try to excuse bad behavior. '
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by seneca 4y ago
There are always people who are out of touch with the current market (and I don't mean that condescendingly. There's not much value in knowing these things for many people in the space). That doesn't mean things they aren&#x2
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by seneca 4y ago
It's one of the most prominent vendors in the tech space. It's pretty safe to assume people know who Datadog is on a software forum. Not always well loved, but definitely well known.
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by seneca 4y ago
> also just ban nazi sites, troll farms, etc. because you choose not to do business with them. This is literally the opposite of neutral. I don't get this constant need for mental gymnastics. Just say you believe in censorship.
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by seneca 4y ago
> Reminds me a LOT of Evangelicals in the 2000s - I know that comparison has been made frequently but that's the last group that made a serious censorship push. It's the exact same pattern: Zealots trying to use censorship to s
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by seneca 4y ago
It's interesting watching the responses roll in here. What CF is laying out here was essentially the standard viewpoint of western society until something like 10 years ago. "I disagree with what you say, but I'll protect you
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by seneca 4y ago
MailChimp has been bleeding talent for years. They've had bad move after bad move, and then got acquired by Intuit. Their longtime CEO just stepped down. It's essentially just a brand owned by a megacorp at this point.
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by seneca 4y ago
It's a conscious choice to slack off and coast, plus an excuse.
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by seneca 4y ago
As the person responding to you said, this is a conversation. It's not here for you to dictate the proper direction of. It's for people who are curious to share ideas back and forth. I personally find the responses significantly m
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by seneca 4y ago
This is thinly disguised advertising.
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by seneca 4y ago
By this logic every company is a monopoly, as they have a monopoly on their own product.
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by seneca 4y ago
"Copi" strikes me as quite a terrible name for a fish. It sounds very "cutesy".
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by seneca 4y ago
> Funny how they never target any politicians, huh? They do. Here are a couple recent examples: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional
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by seneca 4y ago
Heh, as much as I hate painting with that wide of a brush it does seem accurate. Something about Google breeds hubris and self aggrandizement.
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by seneca 4y ago
> Am I the only one who finds that type of phrasing distasteful? Generally, I'm with you. In this case, I'm only half with you (the phrasing around Go and Docker could use some humility), but he really did build Hugo and Cobra.

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