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by zo1 2y ago
The rules are designed as such so that "well meaning" and well-thinking individuals such as yourself can provide an aura of protection over their actions, and "technically" be right. But in practice, the debate is defini
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We haven't. Even simple ones like poverty, hunger, homelessness that are just a matter of admin and money. We've been captured by self-perpetuating and effectively immortal institutions (NGO's and arguably governments) that w
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by zo1 2y ago
"Misgendering and having some rather "blunt" debates" was my example, and that doc absolutely targets it even though arguably misgendering and having blunt debates on the trans issue is not "directly attacking “othe
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by zo1 2y ago
I'm not saying that at all.
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by zo1 2y ago
It's written in their own documents/policies: https://web.archive.org/web/20230407140923/https:/help.twitt... The entire doc has an "aura" of being fair, and "protecting" the wea
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by zo1 2y ago
I will not use calls for violence as an example for this argument I'm making. I specifically left it vague so we could all apply our own minds on it. But if i had to pick one it would be the Trans issue. Misgendering and having some ra
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by zo1 2y ago
This is a very anti-Musk thread and generally anti-Musk crowd. Pro-Musk comments should be expected to be downvoted, unfortunately. It's days like these one has to be brave and burn some magical internet karma points in order to presen
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by zo1 2y ago
And if those "Terms of Service" heavily aligns with left-wing ideology? Do we then finally concede that Twitter did, in fact, target or disproportionately affect non-left-wing users? Is our next point of discussion about whether w
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by zo1 2y ago
South Africa. Where the highest tax bracket is 45%, one below it is 41% where the bulk of the individuals in our HN field would fall under. https://www.sars.gov.za/tax-rates/income-tax/rates-of-tax-fo... And yes i
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by zo1 2y ago
Not to be confrontational, but this example is super tiny in the grand scheme of things. Government at this point practically owns us. They take almost 50% of our labor via taxes (under the "noble" euphemism of paying for our fair
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by zo1 2y ago
Tbf, this is like a goldmine for the lawyers right now, on both sides! It's not clear, it's ambiguous, needs to be litigate and decided and contracts are challenged, and damages occurred all round, etc. Hundreds of millions in fee
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by zo1 2y ago
Isn't there a legal/lawyer equivalent to saying the wrong thing to cops. E.g. If you as a person lie or mislead during questioning and that adds weight to your being guilty during trial. So lawyers trying to pawn this off and use
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by zo1 2y ago
Because that means your data is highly denormalized and has plenty of duplicates. But in all likelihood it means no one knows wtf this table actually represents and you should be firing people. I've seen this play out. Usually the many
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by zo1 2y ago
Same here. If your entities are modelled mostly correctly you really don't have to worry about migrations that much. It's a bit of a red herring and convenient "problem" pushed by the NoSQL camp. On a relatively neat and
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by zo1 2y ago
The problem is maybe not so much the splitting and putting extra columns in a separate table. It's that you even have a table that large that it necessitates such a thing. Worst case you have a main table and a detail table that has a
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by zo1 2y ago
The feedback loop with Google is they got better and better at indexing everything, so more "indexable" content got created to take advantage of it. There was probably some sort of tipping point where normal human behavior and con
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by zo1 2y ago
This is why I miss resistive screens on phones where you had to actually use your fingernail or stylus and it bloody worked so well. Instead, everyone wanted to get rid of buttons for screen real estate and make phones "sexy" and
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by zo1 2y ago
I literally have the opposite experience as a dev. The new interface is horrible, and it's not just the layout. They subtly somehow changed the borders and their color. I now officially can't delineate and know which part of the U
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by zo1 2y ago
My anecdotal evidence to this effect: The OpenAPI playground. I keep it open as my main chat-interface to their product for random queries and curiosity, etc. It's handy enough to load up the page, write a query, and get a result. That
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by zo1 2y ago
Last time I looked at it, they fell prey to the region-locking-franchise nonsense. Something like each country had a registered office that would manage their namespace of codes with some sort of segregation or grouping. Ofc what inevitably
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by zo1 2y ago
Protip: Don't do either. And definitely don't do the first. Explicit is always better than implicit defaults that get used instead when you give it a wrong value that you think is correct. What you should do is throw your hands up
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by zo1 2y ago
Honestly, I think plain old sanity needs to prevail on some level to counteract the direction the US (and lots of the Western world) have been heading. And currently, sanity is taking the really weird form of Donald Trump and a lot of peopl
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by zo1 2y ago
I'm more worried about how divisive the race will be if they nominate her (black vs white). It'll allow the media machine to paint numerous "oh it's because she's black, isn't it" kind of rhetoric as a sme
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by zo1 2y ago
Ahh, good old ambiguous laws strike again. You read it and might think guests applies to non paying customers. I read it and see it only applying to their guests, i.e. patrons of their restaurant. 3rd person might interpret as simply meanin
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by zo1 2y ago
I'm sure he has his motivations that he has internally justified and made sense of. Saying he has mental health issues because he supports Donald Trump because somehow Trump is pro oil and that'll massively hurt the EV industry so
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by zo1 2y ago
Some of these services go even further. One time, our IT department was being sales-bombed with a service that would remove our actual login credentials to servers, and then "for security" we'd access said servers using a MIT
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by zo1 2y ago
I see it's not just the Software development ecosystem that got affected by the cult of Hipsterism. If I was Alex Jones, I'd go further and blame this on a decade of DEI and fluoride in the water. /s
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by zo1 2y ago
Specific questions make for chaotic and detailed answers that don't speak to the bigger issues, because it fragments the pool opinions and allows the question crafter to push a narrative. This is precisely the kind of "scientific&
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by zo1 2y ago
Mono-repos are now coming back with a "hipster" shine to them, with fancy in-repo build systems and what not. What's funny about this example is that it's arguably not even that much of a time-difference between the two
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by zo1 2y ago
It's my data. I can choose to have it tracked and kept by whoever I want. Instead of ranting about privacy maybe you should work on privacy enabling tech solutions to user-needs that clearly some people have.

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