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by spurgu 4y ago
As I said, not defending them. They are likely doing dozens of other things as well. But using phone numbers is a quite effective method of hindering spam/bot account creation - in most countries in Europe at least getting a prepaid SI
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by spurgu 4y ago
Not defending them but I think a major reason why Twitter (and for example Gmail nowadays) is asking for phone numbers is to decrease spam accounts (which is of course a good thing in itself).
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by spurgu 4y ago
That was my point.
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by spurgu 4y ago
Or giving an edge to the small player in the field with a better product trying to get it to the masses.
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by spurgu 4y ago
Only siths deal in extremes. No company is 100% evil. But given you are the guy who brought up the "racist bridge" analogy I'm not surprised.
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by spurgu 4y ago
This is why I brought up the atomic bomb as an example - nuclear fission has excellent non-warfare use cases. Creating a "racist bomb" would be a stupid example.
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by spurgu 4y ago
So you're saying the engineer who designed it is innocent and the manager who actually put the trainwreck into production is to blame? If so then I agree with you completely. Ideas require free flow of ideas, concepts, experiments. If
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by spurgu 4y ago
"Standing on the shoulders of giants". Very few things in recent centuries have been invented from scratch.
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by spurgu 4y ago
> As an engineer, you are responsible for your inventions. Disagree. Feel free to design whatever you want. The person actually building and putting it to use would be the one at fault.
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by spurgu 4y ago
> “I keep having the same unsolved question: if my rifle claimed people’s lives, then can it be that I… a Christian and an Orthodox believer, was to blame for their deaths?” Yes/no/whatever. Someone else would've created s
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by spurgu 4y ago
Yeah this is quite common with fintech (stock brokers and crypto IME) KYC nowadays I've noticed.
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by spurgu 4y ago
Yeah same. He might want to prove his existing knowledge (natural, to show the guest that he understands what he's talking about) but doesn't go about trying to outsmart people.
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by spurgu 4y ago
Yeah his style of letting guests freestyle is different than constantly challenging them on every point. It's not better or worse. If that doesn't float your boat you can watch Carmack interviews by other people.
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by spurgu 4y ago
Who cares about braking, the cone acts as an airbag!
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by spurgu 4y ago
Ok sorry about that then, I suppose you can read it both ways: > Russia knowing that the US is already committed to help Taiwan but don't want to piss off their allies China too much 1. Russia knows the US is committed to help Taiwa
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by spurgu 4y ago
What? The US is allied with China? Since when? And by what measures is Russia less able than the West to sustain the conflict in Ukraine? Many European countries have already complained that they aren't able to supply more weapons and
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by spurgu 4y ago
Yeah has to be it.
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by spurgu 4y ago
True. I have a hard time coming up with a dish that doesn't work (or is improved) by onions, and how many dishes would completely suck without them.
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by spurgu 4y ago
> That really depends on where you are, infrastructure, and economies of scale. Yup. For example in Finland it costs between 1-3€/m3 depending on where you are in the country. Then again it's "the land of a thousand lake
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by spurgu 4y ago
Doesn't play a sound for me until I focus the tab (using Brave).
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by spurgu 4y ago
I've tried various add-ons as well as modifying omni.ja (requires re-zipping it on Linux because zip is compiled with different flags on Mac making the omni.ja not work with FF). This issue requires action from Mozilla, there are no us
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by spurgu 4y ago
> Isn't Hacker News technically a forum too, just a bit more bespoke & for lack of better words, reddit-y? I think the main distinction between "forums" and "Reddit/HN/FB/Twitter" is that when
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by spurgu 4y ago
Recent HN discussion (2 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31619076
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by spurgu 4y ago
Similar initiative for preserving ancient forests in Finland, originally founded by legendary Finnish environmental activist Pentti Linkola: https://luonnonperintosaatio.fi/en/ https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by spurgu 4y ago
> In some collecting forums, there are threads that are over a decade old — and still active, each with a wealth of information about one very specific subject. Yes! This is why it's so sad to see these being taken over by Facebook
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by spurgu 4y ago
I personally hate infinite scrolling and would choose pagination over it for most things. Infinite scroll is essentially just pagination but with auto-loading the next page, without numbering...
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by spurgu 4y ago
And not being able to call people twats. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1224
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by spurgu 4y ago
Lemmy is a huge no-no for this reason: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1224 Hardcoded censoring of certain words is outright insane (to me at least).
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by spurgu 4y ago
Simply getting annoyed by websites I've browsed over the years.
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by spurgu 4y ago
This is good news on the nuclear front: https://earth.org/gas-and-nuclear-turn-green-eu-taxonomy/

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