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by vehemenz 5y ago
I agree. Spotify is pushing features that benefit their bottom line but that most people don't want. Even if you wanted to try Spotify as your main podcast client, some podcasts were never on Spotify because Spotify wouldn't pony
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by vehemenz 5y ago
That's fair, but it's worth acknowledging that many of the criticisms—especially the legitimate ones—come from the intellectual left. Especially given that most of us do not live in the right-wing extremist media ecosystem.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
If I understood what he meant, and you didn't, what accounts for our difference in understanding? The "author" is David French—not exactly an obscure figure.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Since you invoked "US right", I'll assume you're not American. Criticism of "cancel culture" is not limited to the right wing. If you think it is, then you haven't done your homework.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
My dad grew up in Boston in the 50s. The word for auto tuners and hotrodders back then was "hacker". Jay Leno and Tom and Ray Magliozzi are probably the most famous hackers from that time. Maybe there was a general sense of "
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by vehemenz 5y ago
It is apples and oranges, but I think that's kind of the point. Unlike Rails or even PHP, the JavaScript ecosystem is all over the place. If you choose the most popular tools available, there are many decisions to make. Not everyone wa
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by vehemenz 5y ago
According to the author, the couple acquired the money within 5 years. So yes, this is a wealthy person building with very few constraints. I mean it's still somewhat interesting vicariously. Kind of like the New York Times' house
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Agreed. It is obnoxiously large doesn't scale correctly. The text is too big on a standard 4K monitor or phone. The author used viewport-relative units for body text and (guessing) only tested on a laptop screen. This fixes it: [data-p
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by vehemenz 5y ago
If some states weren't captured by utility monopolies, then solar users would be legally allowed to disconnect from the power grid, potentially solving the first issue. It's amazing to me that this is illegal anywhere.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Adguard for Safari does the trick for Safari on both iOS and macOS. I've tried others, and they don't seem to do much. Adguard works as well as uBO 90% of the time. I only see a difference when visiting actual malicious sites, lik
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Agreed—especially because Textual is also popular IRC software for macOS.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
The observations here are astute, and I appreciate the novel computing angle. I mostly agree with the conclusion. I would add though that it is possible to construct a taxonomical, biological account of race, given our understanding of popu
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by vehemenz 5y ago
I solved it on the first try! (after cheating with localStorage)
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Agreed. For comparison, the /r/aznidentity subreddit (Americans with Asian ancestry) has half as many members but has much more extremist content. Insofar as Indians are using Reddit, they aren't in /r/india.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
This is a good point, but we need to be mindful of the consequences. Opening the walled garden effectively hands the web over to Google, despite any immediate benefits there might be for users. In the current situation, iPhone users can at
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by vehemenz 5y ago
I have access to most of the good journals through my institution, but this is more convenient than the typical process, which involves logging in to a proxy and going through one or more gateway sites to find the actual PDF download.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
I think Paw and Sketch are better than Postman and Figma, respectively. But I see your point. You're basically right, but at least we have much more cross-compatibility now. Not something we could say about Macs of yore. Pros and cons.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Exactly. Then your entire system is at the mercy of Google. Furthermore, why would Apple want an adtech black box on its devices?
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Office, Sketch, Paw, TablePlus Just named five I use daily...
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by vehemenz 5y ago
This was my conclusion as well. Use a good vent fan and crack a window. Unlike many commenters here, most aren't willing to spend $20k to replace their appliances for vague health reasons. For example, natural gas powers my furnace, wa
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Probably many reasons. One reason is that SMS was already ubiquitous, and it doesn't require an additional data plan the way 3rd-party apps do. Why did the rest of the world adopt WhatsApp and alternatives? I don't think they were
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by vehemenz 5y ago
I mean, it's the standard in the US. It doesn't really matter whether you can imagine it or not.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
The title is actually "Wtf is web3". Quick PSA for anyone who likes using the word "exist(s)" or "there are/is" indiscriminately. In English, use like this serves as shorthand or as a recommendation about
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by vehemenz 5y ago
On the other hand, it's making me feel pretty good about my thinking speed. ;)
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Actually, I think that is completely normal. When writing with pen and paper, it's so slow that you can't help but think ahead. You're thinking in parallel because you have time before you write the next clause or sentence. Y
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by vehemenz 5y ago
I don't think anyone calling Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme means it literally. They are just calling it a racket. And sure, the folks at the high level are racketeering, but that's not the majority of Bitcoin users/investors.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
What? MacOS does scale. MacOS was doing this correctly years before Windows! First of all, DPI is not the metric we're interested in. That is a unit for print quality, and it has no relevance for an OS, for Photoshop, or anything we do
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Even weirder than I thought. I look forward to hearing that from Zoomer college students any time soon then.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
I agree with the author. The cut scenes would have provided better character development for both Morpheus and Cypher, as well as some more motivating additional doubt for Neo and perhaps a better payoff when he realizes he is the One. Howe
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Thank you for the clarification. I am not a neuroscientist, but might normal stimuli produce similar responses in the brain to chemical ingestion? If that were the case, we would still have a pathology that needs treatment. Despite what we

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