zero_deg_kevin

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by zero_deg_kevin 6y ago
Thanks for the summary. I deleted my Medium account because I kept getting sucked into Medium.
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by zero_deg_kevin 6y ago
I’m not mad, but I stopped using it when it became clear that Medium was just another content farm play. Perhaps I could have more directly asked for a summary, but some very patient soul knew what I was after and replied. Thanks, internet
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by zero_deg_kevin 6y ago
Had to log in to read; didn’t read.
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by zero_deg_kevin 6y ago
With Everyday High Prices, these TLDs make “domain investing” uneconomical. This way, premium domain revenue is captured by the registrar and not a third-party speculator.
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by zero_deg_kevin 6y ago
It’s better to not be caught committing fraud than to be caught.
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by zero_deg_kevin 6y ago
No hubris here at all. But seriously, fuck this protocol and fuck every other BigCorp-sponsored protocol to remake the Internet. We the People Who Implement Protocols are too busy keeping the lights on to chase incremental, nice-to-have imp
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by zero_deg_kevin 6y ago
I always thought the F1 kinetic energy recovery systems (KERS) were a pretty neat mechanical solution. Probably way too heavy for bikes & low-torque humans, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy_recov
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by zero_deg_kevin 6y ago
I’ll fly it as soon as we’ve fixed the legal/regulatory issues that led to its initial certification. Until the process is fixed, I refuse to accept its conclusions.
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by zero_deg_kevin 6y ago
We have a site in Denver, CO USA like that now: the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Reserve. It’s one of many such sites in the US. The US manufactured triggers for nuclear weapons there, leaving portions contaminated for millennia. They did
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by zero_deg_kevin 6y ago
I expect this will go like Watergate—-it’ll be unclear and confusing for the people who lived through it, but clearer to subsequent generations with the aid of historical perspective. I’m not hopeful at all about the US (RE: SARS-Cov2 or ot
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by zero_deg_kevin 6y ago
I’d call it a disease of experience, first and foremost. The US missed the worst of SARS-Cov1 and MERS, which were catastrophic in some parts of the world. East-Asian Democratic countries had public debates about what are and are not reason
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by zero_deg_kevin 6y ago
This is how Twitter Tumblr’s itself out of the app stores.
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by zero_deg_kevin 6y ago
"This feels like it's just to shame everyone based on very few eccentrics." I must have missed that paragraph. Where in the article was that?
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by zero_deg_kevin 6y ago
Any ideas on how to get them to stick around after their kids are born? Asking for a friend.
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by zero_deg_kevin 6y ago
People popping up out of the woodwork to argue passionately for an out-of-favor technology reeks of a dying industry trying to revive itself with public relations. Is there any reason to believe that this isn’t just an industry group with a
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by zero_deg_kevin 6y ago
Also, make sure the person you're talking to is interested in the explanation. People with lots of specialized knowledge tend to also have the habit of reflexively explaining things that nobody asked about.
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by zero_deg_kevin 6y ago
I’m assuming your intent was to prove my point.
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by zero_deg_kevin 6y ago
No there are not good alternatives. Linux only makes sense as a desktop operating system if your top priority is telling people online that you use Linux as your desktop operating system.
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by zero_deg_kevin 6y ago
Yes, very chilling indeed. Media personalities alienating their audiences and advertisers is exactly like state censorship resulting in imprisonment.
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by zero_deg_kevin 6y ago
It's also hideous--in detail and in aggregate. It's like a Pontiac Aztek with blue accents and less range.