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by wikitopian 4y ago
If you believe either the Russian or Ukrainian estimates of casualties in the active conflict, then you've failed the basic critical thinking skills challenge. Humans are not all scientists. Heck, even scientists who specialize in the
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Okay. I looked at Russia. They have different biases, motives, and perspectives than you do. They understand events through a different prism than you do. Journalism isn't a hard science. All kinds of seemingly obvious stuff isn't
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The conceit that there's some objective "not fake news" out there to which "fake news" doesn't measure up is fake news. News reporting is integrally and inextricably laden with bias, motive, and perspective. Th
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by wikitopian 4y ago
At no point in the past thirty years has the Mercator Projection been discussed without a disclaimer that it's very distorted.
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Then we incentivize and encourage homestead ownership. YIMBY does the opposite of that, and is favored by landlords and tenants.
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It was designed by engineers to be quantum resistant without enough deference to mathematicians who could see that it was not resistant to more conventional approaches.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
The evil Russians want you to be skeptical of your government's secret police!
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by wikitopian 4y ago
If you're not managing your files and editing your text in the terminal, ...you're a Windows user. PS: Chromebook's terminal emulator is top notch, even supports animated gifs and wallpapers.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
The open source user interface is, was, and always will be the web page. Desktop Linux is another attempt to ape monolithic corporate desktops. And most of the people using Desktop Linux just have a web browser (and maybe an xterm) maximize
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Chromebooks are perfect, and it's unfortunate that the open source community remains in denial, still clutching their moribund "Linux Desktop" instead of stealing ChromeOS and putting a solid distro directly under it.
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by wikitopian 4y ago
We need to admit our mistake here and ask MySpace Tom to take us back.
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This boost only really pertains to people on vegetarian diets.
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You'll get to test your hypothesis that middle class families are the real problem with urban life when they quietly ghost on urban zones subjected to these cool ideas of yours. Let's just sit back and see how it plays out.
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Cocaine is great stuff, with a lot of medical uses, safe enough to include in popular soft drinks. But when you introduce a delivery system that short circuits your brain's reward circuitry, it's incredibly dangerous and destructi
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Let's surround single family urban homes with high density apartment complexes and low income housing, and then act big mad when those people paying all the taxes and propping up the local public schools up and leave. All of these tren
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by wikitopian 4y ago
It's disappointing to me that there's not a manufacturer leaning into a market for people who don't want big screens and spyware in their ride. In every thread, I see a lot of people who share my concerns, but they don't
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Marc was wrong to promote YIMBY, and should be roasted for opposing neighborhoods defending and defining their character and culture. Nothing wrong with wanting a say in your neighborhood's development. We should let everybody who owns
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French Lick, Indiana is a tiny town in the middle of nowhere that some billionaire invested his fortune in renovating a historic hotel, building up a resort casino, and fleshing out the downtown into a charming experience. There's even
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by wikitopian 4y ago
I dislike this framing because it frames thinking and planning ahead as next-level intelligence when it's patience and wisdom masquerading as smartness. A better spin would be, "Stupid? Use this one weird trick (thinking, planning
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by wikitopian 4y ago
The only problem with NIMBY is that there is not enough NIMBY. Poor and working class people should also have strong voices in the character and development of their neighborhoods -- not just the wealthy. Marc Andreessen should be able to h
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Open source is a monetization strategy for corporations operated by and for mature adults who are attempting to profit. While there surely remain some humble hobbyists involved in the process, tech executives should stop hiding behind cultu
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by wikitopian 4y ago
Whether an Indian is in India or Indiana, his participation in the economy shouldn't be contingent upon his discarding his ancient culture in exchange for a tacky workplace monoculture that was concocted last thursday. While sharing ph
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by wikitopian 4y ago
One of the best features of homesourcing, one that everybody is thinking about but nobody is discussing, is that it completely sidesteps the need to arrive at a universal, global workplace monoculture. People can be truly diverse, including
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If intelligence were universally desirable then a stroll through the forest would be akin to a disney feature, with all of the rest of the animals being as intelligent as us. They're not. It's not like they haven't had enough
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by wikitopian 4y ago
The grid will be just fine. An advanced economy can install bigger wires and burn more natural gas. Battery technology is already diversifying around mineral mining constraints. The problem I see is with lifestyles. There's a ceiling o
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Oh thank God. There aren't nearly enough ways to write javascript.
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Every medium of expression has a finite band of creative potentialities which are pioneered and explored, then exhausted. Expecting new artists to achieve what the Rolling Stones achieved with their music is as asinine as expecting me to ac