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by wallfacer120 4y ago
lol
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by wallfacer120 4y ago
You seem to think that there's something really inherently evil in customer data. As if this hasn't been something that businesses have done since the dawn of business.
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by wallfacer120 4y ago
Its not the platform that you dislike, its the people on the platform. Every single new platform you go to, there you and they will be.
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by wallfacer120 4y ago
" I am arguing under the assumption that people want the best possible outcome for themselves and are forced to act based on that" Well, if you are arguing under the assumption that your argument is correct then I guess I can&#x27
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by wallfacer120 4y ago
"Even as a software engineer, yeah you can do without it currently because of how good the job market is but playing the social media game right can offer a huge career boost" I do not believe that something offering a potential u
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by wallfacer120 4y ago
If you are forced to treat your social media metrics as the center of your life because your friends say that you have to, then I submit that the issue is your choice of friends.
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by wallfacer120 4y ago
How has social media made this worse?
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by wallfacer120 4y ago
I strongly disagree with this kind of techno-pessimism. Social media is a grind if you treat it as a grind. Your friend count is a high score only if you treat it as a high score. Your reddit karma is only important if you treat it as
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by wallfacer120 4y ago
I think you should consider the possibility that they are not "sucking" at headlines here, but intentionally misleading their audience.
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by wallfacer120 5y ago
I think the idea is that you basically have a giant pit of lava under your neighborhood or whatever, and which you then put a bunch of these things over to generate electricity from the heat. Other energy sources (wind, solar, coal, shakewe
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by wallfacer120 5y ago
What is it that you think this proves?
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by wallfacer120 5y ago
Ah, so it made him look uncool. It was something that comedians could make jokes about. Because that's how you judge presidents.
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by wallfacer120 5y ago
What is it that you think this proves?
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by wallfacer120 5y ago
How is the 79 oil crisis an example of Carter getting "played" exactly?
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by wallfacer120 5y ago
Because voters reason like language models, not like symbolic ais.
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by wallfacer120 5y ago
Jimmy Carter rocked -- the image of him as weak or mealy-mouthed is the complete opposite of correct. Read about how he dealt with the Iranian hostage crisis, he had iron principles and nerves of steel. Reagan, on the other hand, got utterl
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by wallfacer120 5y ago
Better than Beeple.
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by wallfacer120 5y ago
Thank you for this very useful answer!
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by wallfacer120 5y ago
I strongly suspect there is an preference-oscillation in coding languages that is similar to the one found in broader culture between serif and sans-serif fonts. Can't fix on what it would be though?
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by wallfacer120 5y ago
Oh man, another rant that boils down to "big evil corporations are KILLING open source software by not supporting it in the specific ways and in the specific amounts that I want."
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by wallfacer120 5y ago
I think the negative reaction to the word toot has little to do with the relative uncoolness of the mastadon, I think the issue is that toot has a scatological association.
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by wallfacer120 5y ago
What is your tool of choice for intercepting outgoing requests like this?
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by wallfacer120 5y ago
How is Mastadon beyond the control of its sponsor corporation or the government?
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by wallfacer120 5y ago
Yeah they should have picked a cool word like "tweet."
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by wallfacer120 5y ago
People get very excited by the word decentralized - I think its because it gives the feeling of BOTH being part of a group and not being controlled or restricted.
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by wallfacer120 5y ago
"For people who can, it's just fairy tales, so what's the point of instilling a false sense of understanding?" I think this statement is worth examining a little bit. This statement implies that, unless you are going to
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by wallfacer120 5y ago
I don't share the conviction of many in these comments that "is", and "is modeled by" are clearly different concepts, or that distinction is the source of hubris or ignorance about science. Moreover, I don't se
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by wallfacer120 5y ago
For those popular science communicators that you mentioned, do you feel that they are misinforming their audience by oversimplifying? Or by leaving them with genuinely wrong ideas?
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by wallfacer120 5y ago
"Yeah, put down your phones and pick up your needle and thread, ladies. Good luck with that. Maybe the 19th century wasn't so bad." I am glad that you recognized that idea that modern clothing should be "repairable"
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by wallfacer120 5y ago
This an extremely obvious side effect and this regulation will directly and very negatively affect the quality of life of Europe's poorest citizens. I'm glad you brought it up.

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