xigma

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by xigma 8y ago
Those don't fill the same void at all, you need tons of code to do something useful with those, all of which needs to be downloaded, compiled and executed. Show me the library using WASM/WebGL that loads as quickly as SVG or Canva
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by xigma 8y ago
Flash had a 3D API (Stage3D) seven years ago, which was quite similar to WebGL. It wasn't used much, because Flash was already on its way out.
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by xigma 8y ago
The problem is, the right tool does not exist on the Web. WebGL doesn't have very good support, especially on mobile. That's why one would choose to use SVG. Also, just to get it to do something requires a lot more expertise and c
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by xigma 8y ago
It's unbelievably slow. I'm confident it's not the developer's fault. It serves as a good warning. It just goes to show that Web technology still has a long way to go. SVG (and to a lesser extent Canvas) are trainwrecks
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by xigma 8y ago
Do the workers own the means of production, at least in terms of government propaganda? No? Then it's not socialism.
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by xigma 8y ago
The black market rate is the floating exchange rate. There isn't really much of an actual non-floating exchange going on. Forced black market trading makes the currency less valuable.
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by xigma 8y ago
Prey animals must have a right to get eaten by predators, just as the predator must have the right to prey on them. They both have evolved to balance each other out, after all. Alternatively, prey animals would have to have the right to bir
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by xigma 8y ago
Not according to my grandfather, whose axe had its blade and handle replaced three times each.
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by xigma 8y ago
If a river becomes a legal person, the government can prosecute it for crossing some threshold. The sentence will be forced labor in a dam for 100 years. The duration may sound harsh, but rivers outlive humans by a long margin.
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by xigma 8y ago
Thanks for the info, I'm still unclear on this (my original question): If I'm on one instance, and some person is on another instance, if that person gets kicked out of that instance (for a poor joke, let's say), do I lose ac
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by xigma 8y ago
Did you miss out on this part of the article? "There are more than 10,000 chemicals added directly or indirectly to foods in the US and food makers use an estimated 1,000 without notifying the FDA. In a policy statement as recent as M
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by xigma 8y ago
Let the market decide. Psychologically, "grown in a lab" is problematic. When people imagine that, they think of Frankenstein. When they imagine actual cattle, they think of green pastures. Neither fantasy is reflecting reality, b
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by xigma 8y ago
That's not really answering my questions. I understand that different Mastodon instances have different moderation. I don't understand how that ties into the usage of the service as a Twitter clone. Who decides how content is re
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by xigma 8y ago
Everything I hate about Twitter is getting content pushed into my timeline that I don't care about. I unfollow everyone who becomes overly political or comments on every outrage-du-jour. These people are inviting the bullshit. They&#
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by xigma 8y ago
> Not allowing awfulness to spread could be more efficient than helplessly trying to refute it. Didn't you just basically say that what is "awful" is subjective? You're basically saying "maybe echo chambers are
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by xigma 8y ago
Is this really such a big problem, especially for the average user, to make it a key feature of the platform? Sure, occasionally an otherwise obscure person might find themselves at the end of an unexpected shitstorm, but otherwise it gener
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by xigma 8y ago
E-Mail doesn't have moderation (besides Spamfilters). It's unclear to me how this all ties in, if I follow someone and they get banned from their instance, how does it affect me? How does it affect their content? Not saying there
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by xigma 8y ago
What I expect of a "better" Twitter: - A timeline that shows what people I follow say, in chronological order - no censorship, unless requested and enforced by authorities in my jurisdiction - no notifications, no @messages (unl
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by xigma 8y ago
Honest question, what do you believe is "the most popular distro"? Professionally, I have never seen a BTRFS deployment, nor any of the distros commonly at the top of Distrowatch (Manjaro, Mint, Elementary...). With the fragmentat
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by xigma 8y ago
> Basically this is a problem because a bunch of existing incumbents are probably going to go bankrupt, or at least have to write down a lot of capital equipment and invest in new technologies. That's not how it works. In Germany, t
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by xigma 8y ago
It's spreading because the market is oversatured with renewables because of government subsidies. A sound investor would stop (or go bankrupt) when the negatives outweigh the positives.
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by xigma 8y ago
You "currently" have a drought, but otherwise you have plenty of water, so a desalination plant isn't a wise investment (yet). Also keep in mind that these are energy spikes that cause negative prices, whereas most industrial
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by xigma 8y ago
If the average voter buys into the government narrative of out-of-control private enterprise and the requirement of all these regulations, that's the government influencing the people . The government in itself is a special interest g
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by xigma 8y ago
Everybody is lobbying for their interest, not just corporations. Corporations may finance a party, but they're not casting the votes. There's an endless number of special interest groups, large and small, corporate or public. If
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by xigma 8y ago
Frankly, I can barely tell the difference between pre-2008 and post-2008. It's nothing compared to the Great Recession, just look at some archival footage of the time. Also, the blame is once again put on "corporations" and &
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by xigma 8y ago
What's your sample size? One? Objectively speaking, if you spend five to six figures on a degree with a 10% chance of landing a job through it, that's not an attractive proposition. "Futile" may be the wrong word, a bett
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by xigma 8y ago
The thing is, when you are young and idealistic, you will say to yourself things like "I don't care about the money!", which is probably what these people told themselves. These people are disillusioned and so will the futur
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by xigma 8y ago
The point is not that "the market fixes everything", the point is these are still market forces. Even in a completely free market, you can get screwed over .
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by xigma 8y ago
From a theoretical standpoint, virtually any source of carbon could be used, you could even make it out of the carbon already in the atmosphere: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-carbon/scie...
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by xigma 8y ago
Some questionable assumptions there: - cheaper to operate An enormous amount of electricity would be required to actually replace all combustion engines in just regular cars, plus a lot of investment into infrastructure to charge all these

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