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by zanny 8y ago
google.com isn't a public place, it also isn't a particularly valuable plot of "land" aside the private goliath built upon it. The fact people go to Google gives them their power to extort business for ranking. But thats
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by zanny 8y ago
> The private market does a great job of evaluating risk Like it did in 2007? One in a million voices might have even thought to bring up how spoiled the housing loan market was, but the markets kept singing the tune of growth until hund
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by zanny 8y ago
The fact that many universities have tenured masters of their domain still having to, even with as many grad students as can fill a lecture hall, oversee 100 level courses that would fit in better at middle school than university is ridicul
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by zanny 8y ago
I feel like so many of the incentives in modern society are rigged to approach the "problem" of what to do with your people from the wrong end. You put them through public school to... train them to work in factories. Because that
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by zanny 8y ago
We have seen demonstrable evidence throughout history that "regulation" alone does not constitute the competitiveness of the market or the cost of housing. It is in large part a straw man formulated by the GoP to deregulate megaco
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by zanny 8y ago
Webauthn is creeping along gradually. Things like fingerprints and browser accounts should eventually be added to it as auth mechanisms and it will be glorious the day you just go to a website already signed in via your public keys that are
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by zanny 8y ago
Because renewables are regional. They make exceedingly good sense in places like the US midwest or most of Europe where you can build solar / wind and have substantial availability. Solar, by contrast, is much less performant if you li
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by zanny 8y ago
Even if one of them were elected president - which, again, faces staunch resistance by the olgiarch controlled DNC - a vast majority of congress is bought and paid for by globalist interests. The Occupy Wall Street movement was probably the
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by zanny 8y ago
I would also like some flying pigs and entropy reversed with my order of complete fantasy. Im not saying its wrong, but us muggles worth less than countries have no real, meaningful say in the future at this, and to be fair also at most oth
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by zanny 8y ago
The ultimate secret sauce of ActivityPub is that its killer app is every app that uses it. Its about having the same fundamental building blocks - because really, youtube, instagram, snap, tiktok, facebook, twitter, etc are all doing the sa
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by zanny 8y ago
We already have Twitter as a utility, its called ActivityPub and dozens of products and thousands of independent instances are now using it. If Twitters higher ups were serious about "being a utility' they would federate on what i
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by zanny 8y ago
The threats of climate change to humanity are more about the ecological collapse from temperature rise that will destroy our food supply and leave most of starving. We can already see it happening with dramatically reduced insect population
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by zanny 8y ago
What train systems, priced for volume and built in areas that aren't restricted from growing in response to the available transit, have failed to cause economic growth where they were built? All the examples I've ever heard have b
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by zanny 8y ago
Are those population figures taken from the 60s when the trains were being built, or from now half a century later after the profound force multiplier of having high speed rail on that scale have enabled substantial density and growth along
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by zanny 8y ago
> then to top it off they cannot be volume adjusted because you cannot just reroute a train That is not in any way how you plan trains. You don't build them for variable load. The baseline load becomes what the trains can supply, an
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by zanny 8y ago
> When will enough be enough? In the general sense, when governments adopt legislation to outlaw employee hostile practices. Like it has always been, for all of history. When factories exploded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,
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by zanny 8y ago
Are there any good frameworks of just stylized components? In my experience building Bootstrap / Bulma without their not-grid grids and layout systems breaks all the component styles or makes them act really wonky. Like trying to grid-
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by zanny 8y ago
People are blank slates forged by the society around them. Nobody is inherently evil, not even a socio or psychopath. People are made evil, ignorant, anti-intellectual in the ways they come to interpret and interact with the world. Its more
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by zanny 8y ago
You don't evolve for the sake of it, thats not how natural selection works. Evolution, espeically in the short order time spans it takes for things like humans to evolve from our last common ancestor with chimps, requires strong enviro
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by zanny 8y ago
When I was in high school I was playing World of Warcraft arena competitively and got top .5% (the highest general rank) in seasons 1-4, later on multiple characters in multiple brackets. As I approached college I realized that I had done s
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by zanny 8y ago
I don't think at all that a two year study with a tiny subset of a populace would be adequate to produce the desired effect, and I don't think framing it as "find jobs" is sensible either. But a lot of the UBI movement l
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by zanny 8y ago
Because minimum wage increases inflate basic goods so much that raising minimum wage is pointless. For the exact same reasons minimum wage works, UBI works. You raise the floor and things inflate less than the floor is raised. UBI has an ad
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by zanny 8y ago
If theres any level of government you as a citizen have influence over its your dang local government. If your local government is inept, organize to replace it. There is no local government in the country that serves over a couple million
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by zanny 8y ago
ToS's (online, at least) aren't legally enforceable. If they were actually legally binding companies would be sueing users for violating them all the time. Theres a reason the extent of ToS enforcement is just account closure, its
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by zanny 8y ago
I recently started making a personal reddit clone mostly to learn Grid properly but I'm having no problem making custom controls (checkboxes, search bars, forms, etc) that look "professional" with just a consistent color pale
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by zanny 8y ago
Until recently Reddit wasn't hosting any images or video on their own servers. That was a recent "innovation". They could also feasibly curtail the custom styling on subreddits to reduce the space burned on hosted images ther
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by zanny 8y ago
There is a bright future where individual users can trivially (like one click deployment trivial) spin up a Mastodon and Matrix container and have their own social network and IM server running in minutes that federates with all the others
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by zanny 8y ago
Synapse, the reference impl server, was always pretty slow. It got a lot faster with its Python 3 transition and there is a Go server in development that I think the core team means to focus on once 1.0 is out. There are also native clients
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by zanny 8y ago
Riot is already a pretty servicable Signal / WhatsApp alternative. You can start conversations by username or email in one on one rooms that you can encrypt and they show up as separate entries besides the groupchats in Riots UI.
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by zanny 8y ago
I was recently researching the save-data header for one of my sites to not start caching video files on metered connections. Its still a nascent thing only found in Blink browsers but at least its something.

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