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by zeruch 4y ago
That's likely as accurate as one could be here.
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by zeruch 4y ago
"can't tell what you're arguing." I can; it's essentially a passive-aggressive conniption about an issue that doesn't exist that he has constructed to suit a political narrative glued permanently in his head ab
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by zeruch 4y ago
"that heavily punishes presence of advertisements in a result." while that is pleasing to read at face value, it has two fundamental problems: 1. it's orthogonal to relevance of content (semi-solvable algorithmically I suspec
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by zeruch 4y ago
...and I guess I should add, I still use Krita as a result of the continued overall baffle-crash of GIMPs UI and general behavior, regardless of the fact that GIMP does have a great feature-set in the abstract.
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by zeruch 4y ago
"if GIMP hadn't been so resistant to input from artists and designers, Krita wouldn't need to exist at all" Thats not far off at all actually.
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by zeruch 4y ago
I was about to write about 80% of what you wrote, so Im glad I parsed the comments first (and GIMP & Krita were going to be my examples, as well as the AWS-ification of things like Elastic) but to me the real crux is "open source a
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by zeruch 4y ago
"which belies the source perspective of this article as a highly libertarian perspective of the world, not an objective one. " That is the long running IWF position, as its been a very Neo-Con oriented group since its inception. H
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by zeruch 4y ago
While I don't think that the impending ban is unconstitutional, I do find it a bit over-ambitious and likely to change between now and then because of some of the very logistical/material concerns mentioned, the arguments presente
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by zeruch 4y ago
"Musk was butthurt and lashed out. That does not equal "completely deranged individual" " When you have the kind of audience and pull he has, unless you are totally daft to it (which he shows no sign of) then yes it&#x27
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by zeruch 4y ago
At the abstract level the two are not mutually exclusive.
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by zeruch 4y ago
Oh they are unrelated, but he will leverage the Mudge moment for all it can be.
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by zeruch 4y ago
Yeah, I think we're in lockstep here. I'm no fan of Musk (he's truly worked very hard to be the most provacatively pustulent punkass of tech) but that doesn't mean that Twitter leadership is any better. Just not as well
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by zeruch 4y ago
"It feels hopeless that surveillance capitalism will ever be able to be reigned in. " It will likely by some combination of: 1. starts to impact the 1% (e.g. Congresswoman Feinstein didn't care about privacy a whole lot until
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by zeruch 4y ago
I met Mudge once in my career early on (I was at VA Linux systems circa 1999ish) and I found him intense, an apex intellect, but absolutely affable and self-aware. He never struck me then, or in any interview or write up since, that he&#x27
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by zeruch 4y ago
I'll give this a go. I was an active Last.fm user for years and still miss that kind of interaction; a DeviantArt but for music listeners...
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by zeruch 4y ago
I'm over 35 and I don't think things were "better" before social media, but I do think there are aspects that aren't improving with being digitized/VR'd/monetized. And they are things that I suspect
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by zeruch 4y ago
That may be one of the best lessons that can be taught, period.
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by zeruch 4y ago
That was about the last time I had even heard it mentioned. I still remember trying to play with it circa the early 2000s and thinking it had potential, but never coming up (at the time) with anything I wanted to solve with it.
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by zeruch 4y ago
It's like a bad variation of the Butlerian Jihad of the Herbert 'Dune' universe.
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by zeruch 4y ago
This seems to align a lot with the grease the groove concept (I heard it mentioned earliest by the kettlebell dude, Pavel Tsatsouline, but not sure if he's coined that phrase or not).
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by zeruch 4y ago
...never use GoDaddy. They are a shambolic organization, and their reputation is both well earned, and insufficient to really describe how abysmal they are. And even though the root of their gobshite culture, founder Bob Parsons, is long
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by zeruch 4y ago
" so we're done." Thank $DEITY_OF_CHOICE
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by zeruch 4y ago
"Plenty" is not a good measure, and often seems more based on role and type of firm than just related to a lack of drive. I've observed whole teams that are effectively 'dead weight' and ones where there is all kill
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by zeruch 4y ago
The irony of you saying I'm cherry picking, then doing it yourself looking for an out isn't lost on me. Given you picked the one area where the US started it's agency as an actual consumer-safety oriented one (a rarity), and
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by zeruch 4y ago
It is fairly true (yeah, it's more complicated than a simple flat comparison, but in general, yes the EU and elsewhere does a better job and takes a more proactive approach). Also, nice throwaway account. California is not the US (and
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by zeruch 4y ago
I like how this was down-voted, even when the evidence is staggeringly in its favor. We consistently wait for hazard to materialize before we implement post-event safeguards, instead of putting up health parameters and expect commercial ent
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by zeruch 4y ago
" It's not likely we will have such protections in the US." It is generally safe in the US to assume consumer protections don't exist until an incident forces an industry change, or a regulatory event materializes. The U
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by zeruch 4y ago
I never got a distinctly good answer on that, but the rubric was that the number one pick was not willing to relocate to corporate HQ and was content performing quite well in their lane (a rare case of astute self-awareness, but he was ulti
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by zeruch 4y ago
"private industry can produce far more efficiently than government" and yet often chooses not to, because profit does not efficiently produce gains to customers as much as "stockholders" today, and healthcare is far from
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by zeruch 4y ago
"What do they bring to the table? Why not promote leaders from within?" Both carry risks: the former can cataclysmically change internal culture and make a cascade of errors rapidly (usually during the idiotic 'empire buildin

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