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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Ah, that is much clearer, thanks.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
I still don't see how satire is supposed to detect anything other than who gets that it's satire, and who takes it at face value -- which is not even possible until you, uhhh, read or saw the satire. So that point of yours, it's lost on me
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
You are mistaking organization with authority, and go on about strawmen, none of which address a peep of what I said -- after accusing ME of non-sense rhetoric? The nerve.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
> "I for one am opposed to authority. It is the egg of misery and oppression." I agree with that, but with the distinction of natural and force authority, as e.g. Erich Fried or Noam Chomsky make it. If a little kid runs on the street,
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
yuppies and humour don't mix. people who can't laugh at themselves will never be funny.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
When someone talks, with a straight face, about - "building great products" - "solving interesting problems" - "changing the world" and/or "transforming the way people view/do X" It's pretty obvious they're just repeating what they learned
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
one billion active? are you sure? I have two accounts and one of them was a joke account from the get go, the other I haven't used in months. But that's 2 "active" profiles in the stats right there, I constantly get email for them.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
That still leaves the question about what features are there? It's not like you can search for people with common names, or organize your own profile in any meaningful way, or search it. You can add stuff to the stream and that's that. I re
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Wait, what? You lost me at "Satire is useful to detect people". To me it seems like a passive-aggressive jab at those who complained about working at facebook, and left. "It's just a joke" is just a lame way of saying something, without any
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Here's to principles and attention spans worth talking about :)
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
But the thing is, a standardized protocol is open source, in that if you have the specs, you can implement it. Not just an API to a black box, but the whole workings of that box. So either I misunderstood a lot about app.net, or you misunde
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Especially since it's already been done: http://friendica.com/ ^ And that is hardly the only project, and it could use improvements like everything, but it's one that surprised me when I first heard of it, because it really does a lot and
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Oh, but there's several shades of grey. Take running friendica or diaspora on your own webspace, for example. You're a customer to your webhost, but the software is free. Well, it does have the cost of being kinda slow or hard to set up res
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Open platforms are nice, but open standards are nicer. So yeah, open platforms win, for a while. But they're still more part of the problem than of the solution.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
The list is free? It better be, seeing how it mostly consists of nicks and cutesy taglines :P "Silicon valley" is not "technology". It's great you like SV so much, but that doesn't make it whatever you want it to be. even if we restricted i
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
I know. Which is kind the point. Looking at some incredibly vapid articles, and the enthusiastic responses they get, I'd say to each their own.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
"Right now, the App.net ecosystem is 10,000+ of the tech's finest minds" that made me smile, then I realized you're serious, which kinda gave me a shudder. unless "tech" is code for "marketing scripts" or something? sure you can NOT be talk
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
crickets chirping, once again :/
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Learn from the best, screw the rest.. "Looking back through the last page or two, I see that I have made it appear as though my motives in writing were wholly public-spirited. I don't want to leave that as the final impression. All writers
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
The singularity may not be coming, however, there are still huge questions and challenges looming ahead. Individual humans don't seem to be able to resist the thirst for power, and society as a whole seems too passive to stop them... We jus
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
http://programming-motherfucker.com/become.html
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
I saw this documentary yesterday (which had a VERY interesting sequence about those rat neurons flying planes, interviewing one of their "fathers" ^^). It is about the future, AI and transhumanism, called TechnoCalyps, which despite the tit
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Two quotes from George Orwell spring to mind: "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a c
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
That's why I like using #222 for text, it leaves #000 for the <strong> tag.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Which is what black is: You can't see it, since it returns no light.
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
> I don't think you understand just how toxic some parts of the community are. Oh, I do.. which is why I know you're talking about editors, not coders/designers, i.e. the ones it actually concerns. But even if it was true for all of Wik
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
"If you think Wikipedia is perfect, you're delusional -- no site is perfect." Who said it is? That's a strawman if I ever saw one. "So rather than constant critism, put your money where your mouth is and build your own mock up." No mockup i
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Here are some quotes from James Nachtwey: "I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve to remind us that history's deepest tragedies concern not the
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Thanks for that. I never lost faith in Wikipedia, but now I'm actually excited again, yay. Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? :)
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by thinkingisfun 14y ago
Enthusiasm doesn't constitute arguments though. Quoth Wikipedia: "Key components of games are goals, rules, challenge, and interaction." If you can't loose, and hooking up random input to the game solves it after a while, how can you consid

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