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by vehemenz 3y ago
I've never used Instagram, but I noticed all of the blue checks on Threads were famous people. Pay-to-play verification would kind of ruin it. Meta could have really built on their advantage over Twitter's blunders.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Twitter did before, based on their own internal criteria. The system was flawed, but having a flawed system is better than no system at all, as we are seeing now.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
It's a separate app like Twitter, mostly text with some photos instead of all photos. The list of people you follow is also different (important).
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by vehemenz 3y ago
I'd be surprised if it was more than $20k. Maybe in the $3-10k range? Seems to be the going rate. .Nets usually aren't that valuable, but I suppose if you have the network of Meta you can _make_ anything valuable.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Marketers and influencers have a lot of pull, though. Journalists might follow if that's where the money is. When the journalists leave Twitter, it's over. Though personally I think Twitter was done once they got rid of verificati
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Twitter had verification based on the account's noteworthiness, and now it doesn't. That was one of the main features of Twitter, and now Threads.net has it.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
It looks like threads are indexable at least, unlike Twitter (lol). Try a few "site:threads.net" searches on Google.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
It's no worse than obsessively refreshing Hacker News on your PinePhone.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Yes, but they have meaningful verification (apparently), while Twitter doesn't.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
I don’t think there’s any guarantee that such a distinction should be evident, let alone obvious in human brains. Modern computers are for general purpose computing, whereas brains and analog computers are highly specialized.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
This looks very similar to SteerMouse. Does it do the same thing?
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by vehemenz 3y ago
> Are there examples I may have missed that take this approach and are better for it? Substack isn't a social network. Discussion is just a function of a post's comments, which can always be disabled. If you don't like a b
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by vehemenz 3y ago
I don't think it's possible to have it both ways. A commitment to free speech means you get more garbage and conspiracy theories, but in exchange you get more intellectual conversations for adults, something you increasingly can&#
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by vehemenz 3y ago
There are a lot of wannabes on Substack. There are wannabe "journalists" who don't leave the house and wannabe philosophers who don't study philosophy. There are lots of tech and VC types like PG who are nowhere near as
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Given its ambiguity, "white" is not always a racial descriptor. We all know what the parent comment means; it's up to us to respond charitably.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
I'd agree that age by itself isn't a problem. It's the correlates. Younger people are more likely to be using the mobile app, where the engagement is lower quality. They are less likely to have completed their formal educatio
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by vehemenz 3y ago
I like Stage Manager, but I can't get it to play nicely with multiple screens and Rectangle.app. Its behavior is too unpredictable, and I'm not sure how to make it work. Do you have any tips?
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by vehemenz 3y ago
When is the last time you used macOS? Command+Tab also switches to the previous window instantly. It only brings up the switcher when you hold it longer.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
I'd love some insight, too. I was just trying to disable the delay this morning. Even with the "Reduce Motion" option checked, the delay is too long.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
The nice thing about macOS is that there are several equally effective paradigms for window management. For example, you use trackpad gestures for Mission Control as your primary switcher, whereas I use Command+Tab and only use Mission Cont
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by vehemenz 3y ago
I had newsgroups access over twenty years ago with my university, and even then it felt like a ghost town.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
I think the toothpaste is out of the tube on creating good communities like the Reddit of yesteryear. Between lowering the barrier to entry (and average age) with phones, astroturfing and bots, and the overall impossibility of moderation, I
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by vehemenz 3y ago
For things like this a userscript is better solution than a full-on extension. It is definitely worth it though, especially for mobile.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
> you are Don't you mean "your?"
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by vehemenz 3y ago
My savings rate is about 50%. I think this is accurate for any reasonably-paid job in tech.
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by vehemenz 3y ago
I second this. Helgoland was incredible. More physicists need to be taking relational quantum mechanics seriously. Not so much because it's true—whatever that would mean—but because so many physicists struggle with the intuition and fi
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by vehemenz 3y ago
Agreed. The technologies will have their uses, like entertainment, training, education, and therapy, but it will never meet mass adoption for practical reasons like price, safety, and power consumption. I'd be curious to know why so ma
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by vehemenz 3y ago
> If you could have UI overlayed on the world around you, it would be huge, and would change how people use computers, like the smartphone did. Is this really a game-changer? Technology adoption is all about tradeoffs. We already have lo
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by vehemenz 3y ago
It's not even a matter of adaptation in some cases. Written tests have been around for a long time, even during the era of word processors and computers. Whether instructors wanted to use has been a matter of pedagogy. Some of my philo
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by vehemenz 3y ago
This is great news. Credit to Microsoft for finding new ways to improve its good will with developers. Now if Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube could stop reminding me of the app. I know there's an app. I don't use it because I'm

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