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by wwweston 4y ago
Violence is better avoided. Most people also believe violence is situationally justified in service of other values, and this is an arena in which the truth of the situation matters very much. This is why we have court proceedings where we
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by wwweston 4y ago
The Internet is people. Those who tread on the values, interests, or safety of enough people will find certain kinds of cooperation are withdrawn. Technical solutions to this problem are difficult if not impossible, and it's quite poss
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by wwweston 4y ago
> Tesla has created more shareholder value over the past few years Given the PE, seems to me the shareholders have created the shareholder value.
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> Elon will probably run Twitter the way a "reasonable executive" would. Take your originally intended actions and obscure responsibility for them until risks of accountability are sufficiently mitigated?
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by wwweston 4y ago
Any potential displays of buyer's regret are ultimately framed by the much more weighty evidence that he made an offer in the first place . Certainly no one forced him to do that. "He didn't really want it" just doesn&#
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by wwweston 4y ago
Let's posit that he didn't buy twitter for the potential profits on twitter revenues, since there are any number of equal/better options for that, some of which he's already involved in. Perhaps he bought it because he&#
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by wwweston 4y ago
That sounds like the move of someone who wants specifically-selected very loyal people designing systems which would tell you what's actually happening on the platform.
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by wwweston 4y ago
These things stand out to me: (1) Dead-simple deployment story across a wide variety of needs. You want to throw your app's filetree in a directory on $10/mo hosting via SFTP? Easy peasy. You want turnkey autoscaling cloud deploym
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by wwweston 4y ago
> This will lead to a housing market that will grind to a halt and expect that whole sector will hemorrhage jobs. Construction should be an industry that people care about and policymakers watch out for. But making housing purchases de
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by wwweston 4y ago
Thatcher's advancement an individual self-interest oriented worldview is certainly advantageous/correct for her to say politically. But the name for the 'system level' of a collection of interacting individual humans wou
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by wwweston 4y ago
Macromedia / Adobe Fireworks, which stopped working on Macs with Catalina. By the time I'd used Fireworks alongside Photoshop and Illustrator in the mid-2000s, it started seeming ludicrous to me that Photoshop was anywhere near as
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by wwweston 4y ago
> due to the relative value of each use and the cost of conversion Presumably, the relative value will change at some point if demand for office space falls off a cliff. I also suspect there are public policy factors that could be brou
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I'm not sure about this either. My guess is that there are two factors at work: 1) raising rates and otherwise making money more expensive encourages capital to do something else with their money than speculate on real estate cheaply,
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by wwweston 4y ago
AFAICT a lot of the negativity comes from developers who want to work at a component UI Kit level you can find in native dev but don't find libs/kits that accommodate this well. I don't think this is a failure of CSS -- I thi
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by wwweston 4y ago
Responses to 2020 (or subsequent) Wildfires in California & the US West by HOGWARTS HOUSE: GRYFFINDOR: Hop on Nimbus 2000, cast "Aguamenti" a heroic and potentially effective number of times until suffering the effects of smok
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by wwweston 4y ago
> You're conflating two different things: (i) toying with DNA/RNA, and (ii) gain of function research into human viruses. If you've got some kind of model where these are in fact two entirely distinct things, that would ex
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by wwweston 4y ago
What makes you think it's easy to distinguish "studying viruses in general" from "making viruses more deadly"? I'm happy to listen to expert virologists tell me about how they could advance the field without
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Your comment dovetails with my primary point: how an app serializes or renders data is entirely trivial compared to planning for network availability issues when it comes to app function and user experience. GP asks: "is it ever accept
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by wwweston 4y ago
> you start making the assumption that the client's internet is fast. The most common trajectory for react and other SPA framework apps is to also make this assumption, waving away the weight of libraries and front-end business lo
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by wwweston 4y ago
"What bothers me is, nothing does." - Dixie Flatline in William Gibson's _Neuromancer_, 1984 Wonder if Jobs had read that by 1985.
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Well, that used to be untrue — for a long time, the future was a lot like the past on human lifetime scales. But now we have technical and consequently cultural and even environmental changes that make it likely the future will be unlike th
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Was this where that set of stairs that went down into the ground outside North-ish of the ESC went?
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by wwweston 4y ago
I don't use Spotify much (afaict they've done more to damage artist economics than outright piracy), but at least they have a paid/premium layer of service that one can pay for and focus on specific desired content without ad
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by wwweston 4y ago
Discovered fswatch recently, it's proved very useful, my favorite use being replacing a few situations where I was using sshfs with fswatch+rsync: no network lag on save/load, can even work offline, but everything still makes it
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by wwweston 4y ago
> Why does it not present hell in any other use case, such as computers, phones It absolutely causes problems on computers and phones. Windows updates are famous for interrupting/losing work at this point. MacOS upgrades are less
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by wwweston 4y ago
> Even in 2022, most manufacturer haven't still figured out how to do firmware update without using USB drives. This... makes sense to me? Physical access and automotive service go hand-in-hand. Over-the-air presents update hell and
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Having dipped into the humanities and social sciences (but ultimately graduated with a Math degree), I'd say that the potential difficulties are different rather than absolute. You often have to do a TON of reading and synthesis in H o
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Which texture hacks have you played with besides xanthan gum?
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There's a couple of services I subscribed to in the last year as an experiment and YouTube premium is one of them, probably the most successful. Love not having ads, love being able to play in the background on mobile even more. Now if
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Nobody would pause for a moment on studies investigating the cultural impact of messaging in movies or TV; in fact we talk about it regularly. Games and the culture of discussion around them have started to have a huge impact. This is worth

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