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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> But why is this classified as a deficiency and a disorder? In other words, why is directed attention considered the normal human experience? "In other words"... no, those are separate things. "Normal" means being
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
The was at least also TLS on top of that, yes?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> If we keep fighting about the same issues, we can’t move on to solve new problems. Why? I wouldn't think that everything new has a hard dependency on things that are stuck.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> But librarians and archivists and citizens should use this current crisis to demand more than short-term solutions. A new distributed digital preservation infrastructure is needed for digital government information. Probably the libr
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
It's, um, interesting how they decided to make the site logo stick in the top corner. Kinda like a phone screen notch, but worse.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> What, if you learn about something at school it is automatically true? It's a decent indication that people thought it was true.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Not even for mindless entertainment?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
So everything has to get reviewed, and people are speculating about what that might mean?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
I think the groups saying each of those things are the same groups that have been saying those same things for quite a while already.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> The Republican party controls both houses and the presidency, having already stacked the supreme court, so they get to do whatever they want and there is no balance of powers. - No, the supreme court is the same size it's always
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> I don't see how it is fair to say "thought humans didn’t use". Did you not learn about "vestigal organs" in grade school? Maybe consensus has changed lately, but that at least used to be a thing.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Was open-sourcing Linux a cynical, offensive move to devalue commercial Unix No, because as Stallman had pointed out Linux isn't GNU. One of the differences between the "open source" crowd and the "free software&q
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Is this like how middle management reportedly wouldn't be caught dead dressing like the janitor, but super rich people supposedly dress like the janitor in order to not look like middle management?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> 4. Sudden, Vague Meetings These aren't actually that rare.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> there are far more people at the top end of the Bell Curve ... Do bell curves actually work that way?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> It's probably time we start looking a bit harder for "natural" or alternate treatments. Is the idea that a different label would lead to higher compliance rates?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
No, it means that over a third of people DGAF. They neither do want it nor don't want it. (It's like NULL values in SQL, only much worse because it's in real life.)
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> You could consider spoiling your ballot instead? No. Either vote for one of the third party candidates (doesn't much matter which one), or vote write-in for a fictional character or "none of the above" or something.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> mistakenly classified as NEOs. Is it not an Object that approaches to Near the Earth?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
I've seen a lot of fairly explicit discussions around "this timeline will require cutting these corners and cost this much time to fix later or else it will cause these problems", and also some relatively internal discussions
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Maybe the laws of thermodynamics?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> /We/ are doing our part. The administration needs to be held accountable. ... By the electorate, who clearly aren't doing their part if things like this keep happening.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
It may be apocryphal, but it's not all that wrong. Those "about five" computers even have names: AWS, Azure, GCP, ...
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> pretend to offer some form of probabilistic chance to win a prize, but bias winning to some identifiable characteristic. e.g. race, age, "beauty" Do a facial recognition lookup against the RealID database (I'm sure so
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Billing codes for doctors.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> I mean there is the introduction of a chemical into the blood stream that acts on neurons. This does not happen with screens and speakers. What are the actual mechanics behind how scary movies make people jumpy? Or behind news articl
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> cause a biochemical reaction in the brain? That's rather meaningless. I don't think there's much of anything you can look at, or do, or think about, without brain activity being somehow involved. What with the brain be
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
This only really makes sense to say, if the wildfire are a result of climate policy. Which this article doesn't seem to be claiming. Also I don't think the stuff that burns in these would have otherwise ended up buried/foss
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Some things already exist on other sites, and are worth pointing people to. Also, Twitter isn't a great format for longer posts. And trying to prevent people from leaving your site is itself a user-hostile dark pattern. Btw, what ads
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
The problem isn't what the things are , it's what they aren't .

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