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by sparkie 6y ago
Yeah, I wouldn't touch an Apple product either. I get your point that people expect differently from Google, but Google brought that upon themselves by marketing Android as an open source alternative to iOS. Now they've got the ma
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by sparkie 6y ago
We went quickly from "Why shouldn't they charge for a great product?" to "they deliberately toasted competing solutions by creating a white-list with only their own." Admittedly, some other solutions were shitty and
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by sparkie 6y ago
Idea: put a monetary cost on publishing information. Receiving spam should be profitable. Disinformation campaigns will be costly. If the information is useful and worth reading, the viewer will pay back the publisher, an amount which cover
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by sparkie 6y ago
And how do you challenge an opinion? By giving your own. In other words, we just need more speech, not more restrictions on speech. -- reply to below because I'm restricted and at comment limit (ironic, eh?) > Isn't that exactl
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by sparkie 6y ago
> dangerously factually incorrect information Here's the problem. Who is doing the fact checking? Who fact checks the fact checkers? The world isn't black and white. State press releases are not facts. There is no authority tha
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by sparkie 6y ago
It's more than just "entice". Google has crippled apps which don't use FCM since Oreo by limiting their ability to run alternatives which have a blocking socket waiting for new information. Only choice is to use FCM or
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by sparkie 6y ago
The problem is they've forced people to use the product by hindering their ability to run background services without it. Since Oreo, background services are turned to idle unless they receive high priority push notifications from FCM.
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by sparkie 6y ago
The noob probably won't even be aware of the collisions if they're a new emacs user. The org-mode keybindings will override the cua-mode bindings. Afaik, it's only shift+arrow keys. A noob can pick up emacs, type M-x cua-mode
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by sparkie 6y ago
If you are fit for the job role, then no. The employer is misleading themselves by thinking that a silly interview question is a good measure of a person's ability to fill a role. GP is in fact, doing the employer a favour by bypassing
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by sparkie 6y ago
There are a few key binding collisions, but otherwise they can be used together.
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by sparkie 6y ago
M-x cua-mode should work out of the box
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by sparkie 6y ago
> 5. when I have to use the web, this is first through a text browser through tor (I use a modified version of elinks, but I guess lynx would do just as well). This makes sure I only download the html page I want to look at, while runnin
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by sparkie 6y ago
The system that exists is unequal protection. The police are protected by a culture of the State looking after itself and its public servants. There is supposed to be an independent body which investigates police crimes, but the two are han
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by sparkie 6y ago
I'm pretty sure there's some kind of bot which automatically downvotes every comment I make shortly after posting. I'm also rate limited to 5 comments per 3 hours due to wrongthink. Has been that way for a couple of years.
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by sparkie 6y ago
Syntax is kind of overrated, but familiarity can matter if you have a specific target audience. You will usually get some who are resistant to learning if the syntax is significantly different from what they're familiar with - but it i
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by sparkie 6y ago
> The whole police immunity for murder and violence needs to stop. The punishment for crimes committed by police officers should be harsher than the punishment for the same crimes committed by regular citizens. And the law should be actu
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by sparkie 6y ago
> Now if you think your 'right' to put your own body at risk, you've failed to understand how contagious the virus is and how much you put others at risk by thinking you matter more. This will only prolong the quarantine,
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by sparkie 6y ago
> Those notions cannot survive because infinite growth is not possible. Think about climate change. The earth is finite. We are absolutely nowhere near running out of resources on earth, and every time we dig deeper we find more. By the
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by sparkie 6y ago
> But vast majority of population does not have cash saved up, they do not care about money losing its value as long as they are able to get more money today and buy the stuff they need. Of course they care. Those that care most are the
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by sparkie 6y ago
There's an argument that can be had that lockdown measures will be much more deadly than COVID in the long run. Increased suicides due to disemployment, poverty, more cancers and other illnesses gone untreated because of health service
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by sparkie 6y ago
> Except machines make a lot of stuff. Technology makes low skilled labor obsolete, and it becomes difficult to fight unemployment with unskilled labor. It becomes a servant economy. Ludditism has been proven wrong multiple times. New in
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by sparkie 6y ago
They are 100% down to negligence of the owner and not the "skill" of some hacker. The key point for Bitcoin though, is that you should not only secure your keys from physical theft, by utilizing a seed phrase (backed up) and a pas
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by sparkie 6y ago
Value is subjective. There is no "valuable for society." There is value for individuals, and nobody is more capable of making the decisions about what is valuable than those individuals themselves. Attempting to have some entity d
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by sparkie 6y ago
Correlation studies which focus on one thing also conveniently ignore other variables, such as population density. People comparing Sweden to Britain are comparing apples and oranges. Also, in the case of Italy, there is the issue of increa
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by sparkie 6y ago
> Currency that can't be inflated in times of a liquidity crisis is inferior. Inferior to whom? The problem of MMT is it thinks that the collective is more important than the individual. Individuals who save money for a rainy day do
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by sparkie 6y ago
Maybe the "spending" use-case doesn't need the hardness properties that Bitcoin has, but the "saving" use-case does. I don't like the idea of undermining the latter to promote the former, when it's not obv
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by sparkie 6y ago
> What else do you think is going to happen, everyone will just give up on Bitcoin and make it become worthless, rather than accept inflation? Precisely. Bitcoin with inflation is just fiat money, but less efficient. If there is a cabal
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by sparkie 6y ago
> Let's just say there is consensus over what the Bitcoin blockchain is, versus whatever the "Bitcoin Cash" or "Bitcoin ABC" blockchain is. The consensus is the chain which has the most accumulated work. And also
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by sparkie 6y ago
There's more to money than spending. Saving is a valid use case for money. Turns out that Bitcoin is a best fit too. The daily tx limit doesn't really concern this use case too much. The spending use case is much more impacted by
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by sparkie 6y ago
purse.io is closing shop. Amazon has made it impractical for the service to continue running.

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