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by slily 3y ago
You're actually 100 years behind it.
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by slily 3y ago
Sure, I do not have a Facebook account for similar reasons despite hearing that a lot of valuable information and networks are on that platform. Ten years ago I might have complained about it loudly, but nowadays I tend to think about thing
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by slily 3y ago
From one bandwagon to the other it seems... Doesn't sound like they learned their lesson. Unless they're pivoting to embedding multi-modal shitpost generators. That might actually be popular. I also remember the last time they sac
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by slily 3y ago
I can't help but contrast this response with the dismissive reactions towards censorship and the Twitter Files. Turns out, it actually is an important source of information. Are we about to see op-eds about how it needs to be public or
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by slily 3y ago
Public transit is also not a legitimate option in "less-populated areas" in my experience, see my cousin comment. But my interpretation is that Guilbeault, kind of like Trudeau, is a weird ideologue who sometimes spouts stupid unr
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by slily 3y ago
I lived in a rural area of Canada as recently as last year, and believe me I tried to use public transit. Once again, if you support it, try it yourself. Not in the middle of whatever city you inhabit. Go out into the sticks, spend a winter
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by slily 3y ago
No idea why this is getting flagged, I guess some people don't realize that Canada has real winters. You have to be masochistic to suicidal to rely on cycling between December and March, sometimes longer than that depending on the weat
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by slily 3y ago
Some places I've lived in the US made me wish to return to Canada, others made me thankful I didn't. If you've never lived there long-term of course it won't feel like home. I know it's tempting to make excuses for
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by slily 3y ago
I agree, and I'm not one to believe that a CEO should be paid peanuts for the level of responsibility and time commitment it takes to be in that position, but that's assuming the CEO is actually taking responsibility for the perfo
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by slily 3y ago
Does anyone still get fooled by rags that call anyone who's not into 1984 "far right" in a lazy attempt to discredit people with genuine concerns?
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by slily 3y ago
Obviously your post has nothing to do with Twitter being for-profit before the acquisition and Musk prioritizing profit less than his predecessors, but I'll bite. By complying with government regulations when displaying content in thei
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by slily 3y ago
Good to know a publicly-traded company known to censor content to be more advertiser-friendly and with notoriously predatory content discovery algorithms designed to elicit emotions to keep users coming is apparently not-for-profit if it ha
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by slily 3y ago
I agree this one goes into more detail than is useful for future reference, most of the explanation would be better off in a PR description. But in general I would rather people go into too much detail than the more common variant of not pr
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by slily 3y ago
People can post all kinds of illegal things online and no one is suggesting that content should be approved before it can be visible on the Internet. It doesn't have to be strictly enforced to act as a deterrent. How effective of a det
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by slily 3y ago
> Support of Gamergate, racial supremacist groups, the redpill/incel movement, or any other hate group - including, and especially, hate groups that have gained political power such as the Donald Trump administration - is a direct c
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by slily 3y ago
They don't "require photos of woman", passport-style portrait photos are standard period. It's really no different from LinkedIn being the standard in Western countries where you're suspicious if you don't have
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by slily 3y ago
Does it take anyone longer than a game or two to remember the rules of chess? I even taught chess to adults as a child and they caught on within a few moves. Which I guess explains why it remains more popular than FOTM overcomplicated board
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by slily 3y ago
So he missed the dotcom bubble and lived through a... housing market bubble? The tech bubble popping now is obviously going to hit closer to home. Case in point: this hysterical blog post. Perusing at his past posts it's a lot of far-l
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by slily 3y ago
Sounds like the author was unaware that he was riding an economic bubble.
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by slily 3y ago
I agree and I use public transit almost exclusively. I want better infrastructure for alternative modes of transportation, but every time the subject comes up it gets tangled up with ideological evangelism and comes across as condescending
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by slily 3y ago
Those two products have nothing to do with each other, so the mention of Apple Vision Pro looks like clickbait, and the article is an obvious puff piece that makes Teenage Engineering sound like a much bigger deal than it is in reality. Is
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by slily 3y ago
If you only listen to music that is on streaming services, then of course you would think that they have "basically all music", since everything else is forgotten. I pirated music before Spotify was available, which exposed me to
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by slily 3y ago
I've dealt with at least four different US banks so far, with a credit score ranging from "zero" (no history) to 750+, and none has engaged in predatory behavior. Some less scrupulous loaners that target people trying to pay
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by slily 3y ago
I doubt you've lived in other countries long enough to compare those systems based on what you're saying about banking, there's virtually no difference anywhere I've been and I still have a number of foreign bank account
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by slily 3y ago
Multilingual support sucks almost universally, and that is understandable when most of the innovation comes from countries with low rates of bilingualism, but it is becoming increasingly problematic as platforms like YouTube default to tran
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by slily 3y ago
I felt that way when I was fresh out of school, now I find that my life is greatly improved by spending less time on (or thinking about) computers outside of work and more outdoors, doing some kind of physical activity.
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by slily 3y ago
If Singapore's economic and social policies were successful, surely people would want to move there? Perhaps skepticism is warranted from teh evil republicanz - the subject of this submission, decriminalization of drug use, was touted
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by slily 3y ago
I agree in principle, but in my experience quality is not nearly prioritized highly enough. There is not enough understanding of quality attributes beyond the most visible ones like compute performance and stability (i.e. lack of bugs). And
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by slily 3y ago
I was actually thought how to build quality software (which is not limited to "having no bugs") in college, but I do not have the time or resources to apply this knowledge consistently in a corporate setting because of the pressur
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by slily 3y ago
I'll stick with my gas utilities, walls thicker than paper and wonderful lack of anything "smart" thank you very much.

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