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by dak89 1y ago
I think he should have given you credit, you were clearly first and he responded to your tweet so he must have seen it! But he might have just forgotten he had the conversation with you about this, while still being more likely to "red
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by dak89 1y ago
I can't remember exactly what the now flagged comment said, but there is something odd and affected about adopting the slang/jargon of people a generation younger than you.
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by dak89 1y ago
His tone is so histrionic. I'm glad the influence of people like this is now somewhat lower than 5 years ago.
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by dak89 2y ago
Yes, that's also a very plausible explanation
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by dak89 2y ago
He does some bad things but he would not get away with anything as extreme overturning an election based on a pretext like this, nor with widespread voter fraud. Eventually he will lose an election, just like Law and Justice in Poland. Judg
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by dak89 2y ago
That’s different, the austrian example was about actual mistakes in the way votes were counted, cast, who were allowed to vote etc. Not the same as «we blame foreign bots» and someone may have broken campaign finance laws.
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by dak89 2y ago
If these forces are so powerful, why don’t both sides use them and cancel each other out? It seems like people only invoke these explanations when their side loses, when they win it’s because the voters accepted true and good arguments.
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by dak89 2y ago
Yes, I think we agree!
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by dak89 2y ago
A couple of other possible explanations: 1) People voted who don't normally vote, the main reason Trump has often overperformed polls. 2) Pollsters wanted to avoid a preference cascade. I think 1 is the most likely reason. It's im
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by dak89 2y ago
He seems like a bad guy. If you thought he would manage to kill democracy you're wrong. Especially with the EU support for civil society and the possibility of sanctions if he did something really undemocratic, like demanding a rerun o
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by dak89 2y ago
This is exactly right. While I think it would be suboptimal you could imagine "rerun the elections if the winner breaks campaign finance law or gets support from abroad" as an established norm in western democracies, but that&#x27
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by dak89 2y ago
Good news: I heard on a podcast with someone from System76 that they plan to support Fedora with an official Cosmic spin!
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Hard limits coming to Vercel Spend Management(twitter.com)
3 points by dak89 3y ago|0 comments
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X Is Profitable or Nearly Profitable(nextbigfuture.com)
4 points by dak89 3y ago|1 comments
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by dak89 5y ago
Same thing happened to me, I kept contacting him every six months or so for a couple of years and did not get a response for years after an advertised feature of the paid subcription did not work for me.. I asked for a fix or a refund, neve