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by viridian 4y ago
I think that we as a society decided that our solution to people with addictive personalities is to let natural selection take its course. There's way too much money to to made in the misery to try to apply those brakes.
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by viridian 4y ago
Most points of plot are hearsay, and Hacker News isn't a court of law. If I tell you that while working at unnamed multi-national finance company we wrote software used for what I would consider incredibly immoral, but not illegal (in
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by viridian 4y ago
> This comment is not anti-science, mind you. I find it funny that you feel the need to say this, but I also 100% get it. In my experience, there's no one more skeptical of scientific publications than people actively doing research
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by viridian 4y ago
As much as I agree with you, I also don't think it really behooves any of us who possess or transact in these to go singing their praises without thought given to the audience. The speculators are a net negative to the utility of these
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by viridian 4y ago
> even assuming any given developer has >1 project checked out at once. One? Oh lord you don't want to look at my work machine then. Probably a couple dozen projects pulled down, and once added, they aren't getting removed u
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by viridian 4y ago
For some cultural context: If I had to sum up Pleroma's core audiences, it's right wing anime posters, Japanese instances that are 2ch-esque and don't really leave their language bubble, privacy and selfhosting folks, terfs,
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by viridian 4y ago
The newest features I know of are a built in language auto translator, more fine tuned administrative controls geared towards specific members of other instances (something that's already fairly robust for both platforms), default inst
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by viridian 4y ago
I just checked twitter's network log on a single tweet by John Carmack. - 131 network calls - 280 kilobytes of data received - 4500ms total network time Thankfully, the vast majority of other websites aren't nearly this bad, but
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by viridian 4y ago
For those scared of all the links, here's a simple summary from someone who runs a server with an instance of one of these applications. * ActivityPub is just an open, flexible protocol for sharing content * The fediverse is a nice, hu
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by viridian 4y ago
Yeah, most typically (but not always) with cross platform stuff: - windows/linux win/super key = apple ctrl key, OS level commands - windows/linux ctrl = apple cmd key, primary application level commands - windows/linux
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by viridian 4y ago
I'm surprised at how many people view this as legitimately torturous. I'd happily do the same for twice as long and for half the money. Hell, Henry David Thoreau did this in the woods, on purpose, for two years, with only a brief
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by viridian 4y ago
Saying that theobromine and caffeine are pesticidal isn't particularly informative. Most secondary plant metabolites are likely to be pesticides, since there's a tremendous benefit to discouraging small animals from eating your li
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by viridian 4y ago
Easier if you go the SaaS heavy, all in one route. It's a hellscape if you want to DIY it end to end though, which OP's article covers very well. What he doesn't spend any time on is how long it takes to get a proper "He
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by viridian 4y ago
> Once you get to a certain size I think you can attract a team who can build out rather than buy in, and in so doing reduce costs. I don't think this true for the vast majority of applications. It's probably true for the Youtu
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by viridian 4y ago
I really doubt they care, the juice just isn't worth the squeeze for them. Its an incredibly difficult crime to prosecute for, even if the people were operating in the US, which they almost certainly are not. They really only care abou
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by viridian 4y ago
$80 an hour is a salary of $166,400
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by viridian 4y ago
Moreover, Marx's famous slogan summarizing socialism was "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". Harrison Bergeron is clearly set in a world where "From each" is not taken based on the
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by viridian 4y ago
The biggest problem I've seen with this in implementation is that rolling the technical part of any organization under operations is usually disastrous, because ops will generally aim to keep their footprint as small as possible, and d
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by viridian 4y ago
My current job, during the interview, didn't ask me to write a single line of code, but instead asked me to walk through (in great detail) how I'd go about building a GPS related feature for an application that they own. The appli
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by viridian 4y ago
Ain't no rule says a robot can't play basketball.
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by viridian 4y ago
I'm happy to take your word for the fact that it's reasonably split, I don't have a dog in this particular race. The strange thing to me then, is that with regards to this Hacker News thread, it is fairly split in sentiment i
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by viridian 4y ago
Hall isn't who I'm talking about, more the general cultural movement around defining things as, and avoiding, ultra processed foods. It resembles a lot of other niche, contradictory diet movements I've seen, all backed by at
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by viridian 4y ago
Thanks. Edited such that my post isn't so targeted, at least. If it's still insufficient and gets taken down, it happens. I think my post is far less interesting than the observed behavior I mention.
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by viridian 4y ago
New comments start out at the top and sink within a few minutes, only a select few will have that problem. Ctrl+f gives false positives for name mentions, and searching the html is just as easy. Benefits of having spent so much time dealing
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by viridian 4y ago
Some interesting meta observations for the few people who read my comment in this already enormous thread. I noticed that opinions on the issue seemed split rather 50/50 until I started seeing the same couple of names over and over on
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by viridian 4y ago
From what I've read on this exact topic w.r.t. robotics, there are a few select places you could probably replace humans with a robot using current technology, and achieve almost perfect results. Kickers in American football, free thro
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by viridian 4y ago
This really seems like touchy-feely, granola-mom type thinking, sprayed with a thin veneer of empiricism to sway the skeptics who don't look too closely. Your two sources, as well as the Canadian heart and stroke center (the top google
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by viridian 4y ago
It is unaccounted. I know two people total who have ever drawn in self defense, neither reported the incident, they just got the fuck out of the area. I myself have never actually had to draw but I have had to back up deescalate with a man
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by viridian 4y ago
I disagree, especially in the case of email, as someone who has done the onerous work of running a mail server. You are at a huge market disadvantage, both as a provider, and as a client, if you are not on gmail. Google preferences gmail
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by viridian 4y ago
> We could say the same about any small town local government in the Bible Belt. This isn't remotely true. Your rural local government - a) generally has to serve the interests of its constituents, ie the fuckup mayor or do nothing

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